Program Coordinator for WASH Governance
- Career Category: Exec. / Management, Research / Development, Resources & Environment, Social Work, Community Development
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: Negotiable
REPORTING TO: Universal WASH Program Manager
CLASSIFICATION: Level 4
EMPLOYMENT DETAILS/HOURS: Unspecified duration contract, subject to a 3-month probationary period
Many WASH services are plagued by significant sustainability challenges. Making sure the right people, systems, skills, designs and money are in place to keep services running needs much greater attention. We will focus on strengthening national and local WASH governance and systems and collective action to support the acceleration towards universal, sustainable, equitable and safe WASH. This includes working with government institutions, public and private service providers, civil society organizations (including rights-based organization), research institutions, universities and communities.
Program Coordinator for WASH Governance role is responsible for managing program portfolio of WASH Governance & Systems strengthening. The role incumbent is responsible for providing overall technical leadership and support to improve governance, and systems for service delivery in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector in the system strengthening team. The Program Coordinator for WASH Governance is line managed by Program Manager – Universal WASH, working closely with government agencies, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders to strengthen WASH governance and systems and services delivery at the local, and national levels. This role manages and fosters relationships with NGOs and government partners and the private sector in the WASH sector for better coordination, enabling environment, developing institutional capacity and strengthening governance and improving program effectiveness, and as well as a contact person to coordinate and work collaboratively among sector partners and WaterAid’s program.
- Grant Management and reporting
- Manage and hold responsibility on assigned grants and budget for effective project delivery.
- Consolidate inputs, prepare program design, annual plans, monitoring plan and budgets to meet with grant compliance.
- Lead internal and donor narrative, and grant report.
- National and sub-national support and coordination support
- Work with sector partners, support MRD to formulate and execute national WASH and climate resilience action plans priorities
- Supervise program team and provincial staff to strengthen sub-national sector capacity, and maintain commitments with relevant local private sector actors for improving WASH services in target provinces.
- Facilitate and support women, rights-holder organisations and people experiencing marginalisation to be active WASH players in national and sub-national WASH governance structures
- Facilitate and actively engage in national sector discussions and events
- Program Development Management, Quality and Effectiveness
- Work with program team, conceptualise and deliver learning products and documentation of impact from program implementation.
- Work with Learning Effectiveness Campaign and Communication (LECC) team to update and improve program monitoring as well as project data management.
- Lead and support project team to develop, design Program Monitoring and Learning (PMEL)
- Support project team, partners where is possible, for timely data collection, monitoring and reporting
- Utilise the technical support of Equity &Inclusion team, design and implement gender, disability and social inclusion integrated programs.
- Strengthen WASH governance and systems, focusing on working through government, civil society, and service providers to strengthen institutional governance and increase public funding, accountability, capacity for the water and sanitation sector.
- Manage and ensure program quality in designed targets provinces aligned with WaterAid’s program quality standard.
- Conduct program monitoring and supervision and reflections with project team and local partners for improving program quality and strategy.
- Organisational responsibilities
- Supervise team members
- Inputs to development of WaterAid Cambodia’s annual Business Plans, strategies and reports.
- Lead on promoting collaboration across programs and teams.
- Contribute to WaterAid Cambodia working groups (e.g. gender, water quality, behaviour change) where relevant
- Maintain positive relationships with other WaterAid Country Programs working on WASH planning and sector strengthening and actively engage in relevant learning forums.
- Represent WaterAid when delegated at external forums.
- Other tasks as required by managers to contribute to achieving WaterAid Cambodia’s strategy.
- Khmer - Good
- English - Good
- Master's Degree
- Bachelor's Degree in Water Sanitation and Hygiene, Water Resource Management, Environmental Sciences, public policy, public administration, development management or related field
- Development program for 5 years
- Managing WASH related project for 4 years as a minimum
- Qualification in governance or WASH related fields.
- Working in partnership with national and sub-national government partners, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders on WASH governance and service delivery.
- Conducting assessments, developing and implementing WASH governance and services improvement interventions, and monitoring and evaluating impact.
- Working with national government institutions.
- Related work experience in good governance and service delivery in Water, WASH and Climate Change sector.
- Experience working with national and sub-national government.
- Experience conducting assessments, developing and implementing WASH governance and services improvement
- Experience in project management
- Facilitation and communication skills in Khmer and English (both written and verbal), good editing skills and the ability to tailor communication materials for different audiences.
- Hold track record of project management.
- Writing briefing notes and reports.
- Knowledge of national WASH initiatives/strategy
- Critical thinking and data analysis skills
- Skill in designing and facilitating knowledge sharing and events
- Proficiency in computer skill: MS Office (Excel, PPT, Word)
- Strong technical expertise in WASH governance and services improvement, including knowledge of best practices and standards and good reporting and documentation skills.
- Good analytical skills and reporting
- Good knowledge on partnership development and management
- Excellent skills on multi-stakeholders' collaboration and engagement
- Results oriented and commitment to deadlines
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, collaborative style and ability to forge new relationships and partnerships
- Being open to learn, experiment and take risks
- A strong commitment to gender sensitive, inclusive and pro-poor development work
- Demonstrate a good ethical value with team, and organization
- Commitment to Child Safeguarding and to the WaterAid values of integrity, respect, collaboration, courage, accountability and innovation
- Ability to travel within Cambodia and internationally
