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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Technical leadership and management

• Provide effective leadership and management oversight to ensure the project is delivered with high quality and within the specified time.

• Lead the coordination efforts among implementing partners to ensure efficient and timely project planning, implementation, and project delivery, ensuring that activities are aligned with the project objectives.

• Foster innovation in climate mitigation and resilience efforts by supporting the adoption of best practices within the catchment region, leveraging our experience and comparative advantage.

• Take overall responsibility for the implementation of the project budget, providing leadership and transparency, while keeping stakeholders and partners informed, ensuring corrective actions are promptly addressed.

• Guarantee that all donor reports pertaining to project activities are submitted in strict compliance with donor and government requirements as well as internal WaterAid requirements.

• Oversee project work planning, performance management, and strategic communications, including with Ministry of Water and Environment, key stakeholders, and development partners.

• Maintain effective communications regarding project matters with the Ministry of Water and Environment, who serves as the National Implementing Entity and has overall responsibility for overseeing and managing the project.

• Liaise with and maintain effective working relations with senior Government officials, stakeholders, international organisations, private sector partners, NGOs, civil society, executing partners and community members.

• Be accountable for the overall performance of the project, including the compilation and delivery of annual work plans.

• Enhance the capacity of executing partners in essential technical approaches relevant to climate mitigation and resilience.

• Coordinate the activities of the Steering Committee and ensure agreed-upon actions are effectively followed up.

• Ensure appropriate direction and prioritisation of tasks for staff under her/his leadership.

• Programme Quality and Learning

• Ensure that the relevant project monitoring plans and systems for identifying and tracking the indicators and forms to support monitoring and inform learning are established and implemented.

• Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of climate resilience programmes at the community level.

• Work with implementing partners to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.

• Contribute towards the creation of an organisational learning culture that promotes the use of data, evidence and analysis and understands its link to quality and accountable programming.

• Other Tasks

• Comply with WaterAid’s policies and practice with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

• Ensure the security, health and wellbeing of project staff and that staff management and other processes and policies and systems reflect WaterAid principles of equity and fairness.

• Undertake other duties commensurate with the grade.