Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Tanzania
Winrock International is seeking to fill the position of Chief of Party for an USAID-funded Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project.
The organisation provides solutions to some of the world’s most complex social, agricultural and environmental challenges.
Responsibilities
- Provide overall technical leadership to strengthen sanitation and hygiene markets in Tanzania and scale sustainable models of water service delivery
- Facilitate and strengthen alliances with and between water governance institutions and organisations at provincial and national levels
- Foster innovation and investment in water service delivery models and mutually accountable partnerships among private sector, county-level institutions and communities
- Establish and oversee a framework of building the service delivery and governance capacity of key water institutions, including basin water boards and WUAs
- Apply adaptive management and learning approach to iteratively evaluate programme results and impact
- Institute adjustments to replicate and scale successful activities and course correct activities that are not yielding desired results
- Provide technical and administrative direction to project staff, consultants and partners, including identifying and responding to training and mentorship needs
- Work in close partnership with donor to ensure alignment of project with donor’s strategic goals and objectives, and application of programme wide learning and collaboration
- Coordinate and collaborate with host government programmes and other donor projects to leverage resources and maximise results
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Business, International Development, Public Administration/Policy, Water Resources Management, and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), or a relevant field
- 15 years, minimum, of experience in donor-funded project management
- Seven years, minimum, of COP-level experience for complex ($20M USD and above) USAID-funded projects
- Understanding of policy, economics, and market issues in the water and sanitation sectors, preferably in the Tanzania and/or east Africa context
- Proven ability to develop and communicate a common vision among diverse public and private partners and the ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience in integrating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) into water security and livelihoods programming
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