State Programme Consultants at WaterAid

The key responsibilities for this role include:

•     Take responsibility for providing required support to the state partners and stakeholders to achieve WaterAid’s strategic priorities and activities in the state programme plan.
•     Ensure that all strategic country themes are harmoniously integrated into partner and stakeholder programmes.
•     Support implementing partners in the development and implementation of annual plans in line with multi-year plans and budgets and the country strategy.
•     In collaboration with the leadership of partner organisations, identify key process weaknesses and capacity gaps with potential to hinder effective delivery of quality programmes. Suggest remedial action to the Programme Support Coordinator for implementation.
•     Track the progress of state partners’ activities to agreed annual plans. Advise partner organisations’ leadership on programme performance trends and implications for the achievement of plans/targets.
•     Support the timely collation of field data required by the Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Compliance Unit to enforce implementation standards and timely delivery of programme work by partners.

Minimum requirements:

• The ideal candidate will at a minimum possess a university degree in the physical or social sciences (or other relevant field).
• Possession of a Masters degree in any of these areas will be an added advantage.
• You will also possess at least four years post-graduation experience, and at least three of the years of experience must be in an NGO type development programme management setting.
• Demonstrable experience of project report writing and managing relationships with multiple levels of development project stakeholders, including community-level stakeholders; donors; government officials etc, will be expected.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector approaches will be an advantage.