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WASH Technical Manager

World Vision
📍 LilongweCDI🗓️ 5 days ago

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Lilongwe
CDI

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With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories! Employee Contract Type: Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term) Job Description: Job Summary Provides overall WASH Technical Sector technical leadership for the national office. Leads National Office (NO) Technical Sector technical approach development, ensuring alignment with regional and global Technical Sector strategies, to include advocacy, monitoring and evaluation, and integration with other sectors and functional areas. Provides guidance to field staff for quality Technical Sector programme implementation. Determines NO Technical Sector capacity gaps and develops capacity building plan with regional assistance. Seeks opportunities for Technical Sector implementation research, and communicates learnings from programming. Maps donors, understands their technical expectations, pre-positions the NO for grants bids and leads the design and development of proposals. Maintains strong and regular external engagement with Technical Sector stakeholders in the country. Maintains situation awareness of potential emergencies and ensures readiness for sector responsivity Technical Leadership and Management Provide leadership in the designing and adaptation of the WASH sector under Integrated Health and WASH Technical Program Advise on implementation of approved WASH project models Accountable to assess and track quality of implementation and alignment to standards, government policies and TP/DIP plans. Conduct activities to assess quality in the field, solicit community and stakeholder feedback In collaboration with the finance unit, ensure planning and budgeting, project funding, expenditures and process are aligned and operating smoothly Monitoring, Accountability and Innovation Work with the MEAL function to ensure quality programming, innovative designs, monitoring, evaluation, reflection, learning and reporting of all projects in the WASH program Promote research, documentation and scaling up of best practices Ensure the development of the WASH capacity to focus strategically on initiatives which generate high quality programing leading to measurable and sustainable development Ensure proper management and stewardship of donor and organizational resources Ensure that findings and recommendations from various accountability mechanisms such as Peer Review, Operational and Finance Audits, Program evaluations, Program Capability Review, are acted upon in a timely and effective manner Develop departmental risk register, ensure its implementation to mitigate risks and ensure accountability Monitor the implementation of WASH audit recommendations Donor Engagement and Fund Raising Raise local resources for WASH Develop proposals for WASH grants Track accountability to WASH specific grants Provide support to RAM in responding to appropriate request for applications for bilateral and multilateral sources in coordination with relevant SOs and management of grant funded program Collaboration and Advocacy Develop and maintain a national level Stakeholder Register, (that include Strategic Government Departments, Development Partners, Private Sector, Faith Based Organizations, Civil Society Organizations) Networking with national WASH stakeholders Representing NO at sector-related forums Attending regional, national and local meetings as appropriate Staff Capacity Development and Performance Management Model a high standard of personal Christian leadership, ministry and integrity through lifestyle and work relationships that support spiritual development of the team. In close collaboration with P&C, ensure right program staff are recruited, retained, and provided with intentional opportunities, mentored and coached for development. Assess and plan for staff capacities/competencies. Engage appropriate SMEs for identified training gaps Facilitate capacity building of staff on technical modules, through trainings, workshops, OJT, technical backstopping etc. Staff supervision and guidance to ensure overall quality and comprehensive management of technical program Applicant Types Accepted: Local Applicants Only

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