Summary
Water For People is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) that works with people and partners to develop innovative and long-lasting solutions to the water, sanitation, and hygiene problems globally. The organization strives to continually improve, experiment with promising new ideas, and leverage resources to multiply its impact.

Water For People in collaboration with Ministry of Water and Sanitation is implementing a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector system strengthening project with support from the British Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) called WASH Systems for Health Program (WS4H). In addition, Water For People with support from Charity Water is also implementing a WASH service project in its focus districts. As part of the Project Implementation, Water For People now intends to recruit for the following positions to be part of the Program Team.

District Coordinator (1) -Neno Office (2 Years Contract subject to renewal)

The District Coordinator is responsible for overall district coordination of all Water For People interventions and provide technical leadership in the implementation of the Water For People program. He/She is accountable for the delivery of key performance indicators under the district Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program.

The District Coordinator responsible for all district grant compliance of all partners and represents Water For People at relevant district level technical forums. The District Coordinator will be reporting to the Senior Program Manager

Major Responsibilities:

• Lead in the development and review of Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) with District Councils and or local NGOs (Implementing partners) detailing each partner obligation and responsibilities and performance targets based on different projects.
• Provide technical leadership at district level in the implementation of Water For People Everyone Forever model.
• Ensure proactive program management of WASH projects through strong adherence to program quality standards, monitoring, evaluation and learning and evidence-based decisions.
• Lead in the development and delivery of the Multi Year Plans (MOP) and budgets and other related documents
• Support partners in the development of Specific District Operation Plans showing clearly activities to be implemented in light of the MOP and grants that Water For People is supporting.
• Participate in District level technical networks with a view to profiling and sharing Water For People contribution to district level WASH targets.
• Liaise with the Monitoring Specialist, in developing the district specific monitoring plan clearly showing relevant indicators, data sources, data collection tools, frequency of data collection, use of the data and clear feedback loop to the Programs Manager, Technical Staff and the Technical Manager.
• Support in the coordination of annual monitoring at district level such as the Sustainable Services Checklist (SSC) interviews and Reflection sessions for the district. This will include leading in the compilation of the reflection reports for the EF district. He/she will be responsible for following through the action plan and recommendations derived from the reports and reflection sessions.
• Identify advocacy opportunities and engage with the Advocacy resource person to develop tailored advocacy products at District level and escalate those that need national intervention.
• Take leadership is development and updating of internal reports and documents such as the Tracking Spreadsheet (TSS), Cost to Reach Everyone, the Forever Planning tool and the Bi-annual

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Social Sciences, Civil Engineering, Environmental Sciences, policy and planning, Political Science, Project Management, International Development Studies or other relevant academic background (essential). Master’s degree (Desirable)
• 3 to 5 years of project management (essential)
• Experience with both National and Local Government and Donor relationships
• Capacity to produce high-quality briefs and reports in English.

Knowledge, Skills and Ability

• Project management
• Good level of proficiency in Windows Excel and quantitative analysis
• Demonstrated ability to train and build capacity of others
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Bilingual in English and any other local language.
• Common sense to make judgments about a situation requiring deviations from routine tasks.

For detailed Job description for all positions advertised visit our website https://www.waterforpeople.org/careers/

Please send your application letter and CV including copies of relevant certificates through email to The Country Director at malawi@waterforpeople.org. The email heading should bear the title of the position being applied for

Closing date of application is December 2nd, 2024

Note: Due to the many applications that we normally receive shortlisting, interviews will be done on a rolling basis without waiting for the closing date.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.