Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Coordinator | - 2015

The Water Trust (TWT) provides sustainable investments in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to combat disease and poverty in the developing world and allow people to live empowered lives of dignity. Currently, TWTs geographic focus is western Uganda. TWT implements community driven projects, the majority of which are village partnerships that consist of a hand dug well, TWT-facilitated Community Led Total Sanitation and monitoring and evaluation of these developments are implemented in collaboration with the local government, village and TWT. TWT believes in gathering quantitative and qualitative data for analysis as using our data for the continued improvement of program design and implementation. Additionally, TWT implements pilot studies aimed to improve the long-term management of the water sources. TWT recently underwent an extensive strategic planning process to evaluate external and internal strengths, weaknesses and differentiators of our organization, partnering orgs and the WASH sector overall. TWT is now ready to leverage our strengths to match the need on the ground and is looking for a long-term leader to take us to help take us there.

Position:Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Coordinator with an emphasis on sanitation and hygiene promotion
Reports to:Program Area Manager (PAM) with dotted line to the Director of Programs in New York, NY

Supervises:Dotted line reporting of Technical & Social Team Leads and Monitoring & Evaluation officer.

Based In:Masindi with travel to all TWT locations in Uganda.

Salary: TWT offers competitive benefits packages based on experience and education.

Hours: Provisionally 40 hours per week – Mon to Fri (though these are often longer and include weekends depending upon workload).

Main Purpose of the Job:

Support PAM to ensure that WASH program and is done in accordance with work plan and budget and TWT team is performing at high levels of quality programming, efficiency and effectiveness.

Specific Goals Include:

1) Implement programs in accordance with TWT approach across social and technical departments.

2) Refine, improve and monitor software (sanitation and hygiene) and hardware (technical) methodology, processes and implementation in villages, schools and health centers across rural Uganda.

3) Utilize and improve current TWT systems and protocols to strengthen TWT program. Including but not limited to: monitoring and follow up of TWT projects implementation and team members.

Some specific duties include:

Identify and oversee the construction /rehabilitation of water networks, gravity flow systems, shallow-hand dug wells and boreholes.
Ensure appropriate design, construction and implementation of WASH hardware according to technical standards, as well as proper maintenance and use of WASH equipment.
Ensure quality and timely implementation of latrines or other sanitation facilities.
Ensure best practices in hygiene and sanitation practices are observed through developing key messages to enhance behaviour change and communication strategies remain relevant to needs on ground.
Improve and formalize protocols and monitoring of the hygiene and sanitation approaches such as Community Led Total Sanitation, PHAST and CHAST methodologies.
Conduct assessments and analyse monitoring data in conjunction with the section leads and teams.
Oversight of the programmatic monitoring system.
Monitoring of sub-contractor work.
Internal reports and reporting as required.
Carry out additional tasks as required.

The Person:

· Strong leadership and management ability; possessing confidence, humility and integrity.

· Master’s Degree or Bachelor’s in Environmental/Sanitary Engineering, or related Water, Sanitation and Hygiene or Engineering degree.

· Must know Excel and have strong computer skills in all the Microsoft Office programs.

· At least 4 + years of relevant /equivalent work experience in WASH leadership capacity with an NGO organization, particularly working in the development context in Uganda/ East Africa.

· Proven experience in coordinating, developing and improving sanitation and hygiene programs in support of the improvement of the safe water chain in Uganda.

· Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English are essential

· Sound technical knowledge of hardware technologies with strong emphasis on software promotion.

· Strong analytical programming and strategic planning skills.

· Experience in capacity building skills with the ability to work with people of different technical abilities and support them to gain confidence in WASH.

· The ability to motivate and facilitate the work of WASH team colleagues.

· A proven record of effective project and people management.

· Good teamwork skills and the ability to build good relations both internally and externally.

· Proven excellent influencing, negotiating and representation skills with internal and external audiences.