Country Coordinator, Water & Climate Resilience Project at WaterAid

As a Country Coordinator, Water and Climate Resilience Project you will drive the Accelerator programmes-linking the work done at the country level with the global work of the Accelerator and reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer.

At a first stage, you will be directly managing and guiding in-country colleagues and consultants that the Accelerator will hire and work in co-ordination with country partners to guide stakeholder engagement and reach formal agreements with governments.

You will be responsible for internal and external co-ordination and will be the main point of contact between an in-country team and the Accelerator Secretariat, to align them with the Accelerator's core mission, capture their needs and help match them with the right experts from the Accelerator's network of partners, and to provide oversight over progress on-the-ground and keep the Resilient Water Accelerator Leadership and Steering Committee informed on key milestones.

Key Deliverables include;

• Manage and guide Accelerator staff, partners and consultants in our country programmes in Lagos.
• Work with key RWA country partners, including WaterAid Country Programme Staff to ensure that goals and targets of RWA are achieved.
• Drawing on your technical knowledge you will act as the main link between in-country teams and the Accelerator's Secretariat, and co-chair the Programme Working Group (consisting of country and regional experts from across partner organizations)
• Manage the Programme Working Group and engage with members regularly to get guidance on the Accelerator's programmatic approach and government engagement efforts.
• Capture the needs of in-country teams and match them with the right set of expertise

To be successful, you will need to be/have:

• Experience managing in-country programmes related to the environment, climate, water, WASH and/or development while being stationed in-country or at the regional/ global level.
• A University degree in Environmental/Public Health, Social Sciences, Development studies or related fields
• Relevant experience and knowledge of the intersection of water and climate change issues at both the policy and programmes level.
• Experience leading government engagement efforts - preferably on climate and water.
• Ability to manage a distributed team and effectively report upwards on progress/key risks.
• Fluent in spoken and written English. Fluency in languages other than English (particularly Bengali, Portuguese, French, and Spanish).
• Passionate about climate adaptation and water security, and driven to make a difference in the lives of vulnerable communities.
• Strong team player.
• Experience working in or closely with one of the Accelerator's priority countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Nigeria).
• Knowledge of project management tools or design software.
• Fully committed to WaterAid's vision, mission and values and a way of working that demonstrates this, with the ability to communicate this enthusiasm to others.