Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, January 09 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About the Role:
In this role you’ll:
Strategic Leadership for Country Programmes and Region
• Accelerate the momentum of delivering transformative and influential programmes across the East Africa region in line with WaterAid global, regional, and country strategies.
• Lead East Africa teams to deliver the shifts and ambition within their new country strategies.
• Be effective and influential in the region and elevate the importance of WASH in the agendas of the key stakeholders.
• Lead donor awareness and strategy-led donor engagement to generate income growth in line with the regional growth ambition and plans.
• Contribute to the development of a strong WASH sector especially within the region and with relevant global agencies, institutions, and platforms. Ensuring WaterAid’s vision, mission, values, and aims are communicated in a positive and compelling way.
• Lead on the development of strategic collaboration and relationships at national, regional, and continental level to influence policies and practices of others and learn from their experiences.

Effective Management of Country Programmes and Region
• Build, lead and manage high performing and diverse teams by creating an environment that enables staff to maximise their potential. Be an empowering leader and nurture staff wellbeing and safety. Foster a culture of openness, ability to speak up and accountability to all stakeholders.
• Ensure the successful delivery of multiyear plans through setting realistic targets, monitoring progress and budgets, providing assurance in terms of quality of programme delivery, capacity development, effective learning and knowledge management and programme monitoring and evaluation.
• Effectively coach and support direct reports in areas such as people development, country programme, advocacy, funding strategies and multiyear plans, budgeting, planning and reporting processes.
• Provide the direction and prioritisation of resources within the regional team to effectively support the country programmes.
• Promote the effective use of resources and good financial management through effective and robust monitoring and reporting mechanisms; support country programmes to proactively identify and secure funding opportunities.
• Lead East Africa teams in line with the organisational principles and values
• Promote a culture of learning and listening that strives for improved practice between country programmes, within the regions and across WaterAid.

Strategic contribution to wider organisation leadership
• Contribute fully as a member of the departmental Senior Management Team and global leadership team to support organisational effectiveness and development; engage at the global level on various strategic, thematic, and learning priorities as appropriate
• Represent country programme perspectives to the wider organisation and communicating strategic and operational issues of the region to the wider organisation.
• Facilitate and promote effective communication between and among WaterAid’s members, regional team, and country programmes.
• Develop thorough understanding of the external environment in which WaterAid operates, identify opportunities, and manage risk including ensuring appropriate health and safety and security procedures are in place.

About You
• Degree, professional qualification in a relevant subject (i.e., development studies, social sciences, community health / health education or civil engineering) or equivalent experience.
• Substantial track record of successfully working at a senior level across different contexts with strategic leadership and management responsibilities in international development
• In-depth understanding of the East Africa context (social, political, policy and institutional environment)
• Proven track record of building and leading high performing, diverse and virtual teams, skilled in cross cultural management.
• Current experience of development policy and practice with key stakeholders in the region (i.e., governments, donors, regional and continental bodies and networks).
• Track record of policy influencing at regional and/or continental levels
• Strong experience of working with and strengthening networks at regional and/or continental levels
• Proven experience of donor engagement, strategy driven income growth, financial management and fundraising skills
• Ability to develop organisational strategies and translate this into plans and budgets

Desirable
• Post-graduate degree in Development Studies, social sciences or management
• Experience of working for an international NGO
• Experience in and understanding of WASH sector will be a strong advantage
• Understanding of implementing projects through partner organisations
• Specific experience in one of WaterAid’s key thematic areas – Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, Urban, Sanitation, Human Rights, Gender and Equality, Water Resource Management.
• Experience of institutional strengthening within NGO or government environment

Knowledge and Skills
Essential
• Ability to plan own work, set priorities and complete them under pressure or when faced with competing demands
• Excellent communication skills with spoken and written language fluency in English
• A strong commitment to improve lives of the most marginalized through targeted development work
• Empowering leadership style, with the ability to get the best out of people, build trust, inclusion and work collaboratively within and across teams
• Delivery focused, holding self and others to account.
• Able to take appropriate decisions when due, confronting and resolving difficult situations where needed
• Committed to continuous personal development, with the ability to coach others and maximise their potential
• High competency in working digitally for word-processing, spreadsheet packages and communication.
• Other language prevalent in the region



Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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