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Date Posted: Monday, May 20 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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WASH Project Provincial Coordinator Position Summary
The WASH Project Provincial Coordinator will be based in Kasama, Northern Province and is expected to oversee and coordinate all WASH project activities, including managing WASH technical staff. She/he will report to the Project Manager.
The purpose of the position is to ensure the coordination of the different WASH project activities to be delivered in the Province, organize and monitor the works of the different WASH technical staff, ensuring timely and high quality delivery, in compliance with the project’s workplan and overall objectives. The Provincial Coordinator is also the main interface between the provincial team and the core technical team (Lusaka based). Specific scope of work is the following:
• Ensure the timely and high-quality delivery of the works conducted by the WASH technical team in the province, in compliance with the workplan and budget, ensuring coherence and mutual synergies across the different components
• Control budget expenditure as per plan, guaranteeing full compliance with the project’s financial, administrative and procurement guidelines
• Provide backstopping and oversight to the technical WASH team, ensuring challenges and bottlenecks are identified and addressed. Perform as benchmark for quality control, including for the soft and the hard aspects of the WASH intervention, and both for water supply and sanitation
• Regularly report to the core team (Lusaka based), highlighting progress, challenges and opportunities. Implement guidance received from core team in the province, whilst tailoring it to the local context
• Lead the overall implementation of the project’s activities, ensuring its coordination with the key WASH stakeholders in the province (Provincial and Local authorities, Commercial Utility, private sector, NGOs), and their engagement and buy in
• Ensure progress is monitored and results progressively evaluated against the project’s monitoring and evaluation framework. Introduce corrective measures as needed.
• Step in as needed to complement, add-value and bridge gaps in the performance of the technical team; acting as trainer, coacher and facilitator for the WASH team and for external counterparts
• Oversee that all project’s activities pay special attention to the needs of women, girls and other vulnerable groups
• Furthermore, the WASH Project Provincial Coordinator is expected to:
• Consistently monitor and critically assess progress, pro-actively providing input to adjust/improve the outcomes whenever relevant
• Actively contribute to project’s evaluation and learning activities
• Ensure the project’s visibility and profiling in line with its branding guidelines
• Comply with SNV’s administrative and financial procedures for project planning, implementation, reporting, monitoring and evaluation Comply with SNV’s Code of Conduct

Qualifications
Candidate profile

1. Advanced degree in a related field (e.g. civil or environmental engineering, public health or related)
2. At least 4 years of experience as WASH project manager
3. At least 7 years of experience working in the WASH sector in Zambia
4. Demonstrated knowledge of rural WASH challenges preferably in the Northern and Muchinga Provinces context
5. Sound understanding of the technical aspects underlying high quality WASH service provision
6. Expertise in strengthening the capacities of WASH service providers at different levels, both hard (technical) and soft (management) skills
7. Experience in mobilizing and building capacities of community groups, CSOs and of leading them towards the achievement of key targets
8. Sound understanding of the relevant WASH government stakeholders at local and national levels, existing policies, regulations and programmes and national commitments and targets
9. Ability to recognize and address equity and equality issues in WASH service provision
10. Experience in timely managing, delivering and monitoring WASH related activities, including facilitating meetings at multiple levels and preparing/delivering trainings and workshops
11. Advanced communication and negotiation skills with different types of stakeholders, from Commercial Utilities to local masons, CSOs, Traditional and Local Authorities
12. Ability to successfully lead teams towards high quality results
13. Good monitoring and reporting skills
14. Ability to communicate in Bemba. Knowledge of Namwanga is valued.
15. Good computer skills (Ms. Word, Ms. Excel, Ms. Power Point, Internet and Outlook)

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 48

Level of Education:

Job application procedure
• Additional Information
• Duty station: Kasama, with regular travelling to other project locations (Mpika, Chinsali, Nakonde, Lunte and Mungwi)
• Contract duration: 1 year contract with the possibility of extension for the duration of the project
• Job opening is conditional to approval from project donor
• Closing Date: 24th May 2024
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