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.

WS4H Project Coordinator (1) – Lilongwe Office (2 Years contract subject to renewal)

The Project Coordinator, for the WASH Systems for Health Program, will assist the Project Team Lead, and work in close coordination with the WASH Systems for Health Program team and contribute to the overall goal of Water For People-Malawi Country program. S/He will be responsible for coordinating W54H project activities, tracking progress, documenting activity reports, identifying learning agendas for each of the project pathways: Professionalised rural water supply service delivery systems and Effective service models for safely managed sanitation and responsive hygiene promotion. The Project Coordinator will be reporting to the Director of Influence and Scale

Major responsibilities

• Participation in Grant Strategic and operational planning Develop, manage and update the project progress tracker
• Work with Grant Project staff and Sub grantees to develop work plans and budget in line with grant strategy and objectives.
• Contribute to sector review and/or thematic research in line with WASH systems strengthening.
• Contribute to the Global Research and Learning agenda of the WASH Systems for Health.
• Facilitate program workstream meetings (Handpump Management
• Community of Practice and Sanitation Community of Practice) Support in management of program research consultants
• Update and maintain the grant reporting calendar.
• Compile activity, monthly, quarterly and annual reports and produce a synthetic and analytical progress report to guide management decision-making.
• Assist the Team Lead to manage the subgrantees of the grant to ensure efficient delivery of grant outputs and outcomes.
• Contribute to identifying bottlenecks of Government institutions, local partners and propose options of supporting them.
• Work with team lead and project staff to identify partners/consultants who can contribute to effective and efficient delivery of the project
• Assist in the identification, analysis, and synthesis of lessons learned from program implementation with the Water and Sanitation Community of Practices, and Strategic Objective leaders, and facilitate the incorporation of those lessons into the activity cycle.
• Contribute to organizational learning by preparing and disseminating data, lessons learned, good practices partners and other stakeholders, and organizing periodic organizational learning events to share best practices.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in policy and planning, Political science, Project Management, International Development Studies, Public Health, Social Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Psychology 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.