Technical Director, WASH Quality and Innovation

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

This role, which reports to the Global Director, WASH provides strategic leadership that influences the quality and impact of WASH sector programming globally. This will entail the leadership and quality control of key evidence based intervention packages, project models development and review, and impact measures in alignment with the Partnership Strategy and ensures integration of WV’s programmes. Champions cross-sector collaboration around scalable innovative solutions. In collaboration with other ministry leaders, oversees the development of sector guidance (including global minimum standards, project models, and capacity building strategies and curricula, and M&E tools) for World Vision’s WASH sector works in development, fragile states, and WASH in Emergency Response contexts. Represents World Vision in global technical networks for increased learning, impact, income and influence.

Preferred Location: Mali, Burundi, Angola, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Ghana, Niger and locations where WVI is registered.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Set Strategic Priorities

• Support the development and updating of Core Project Model, sector guidance in alignment with partnership strategies and organizational standards . Ensures sector guidance is complete, current and practical for field purposes

• Support the development, updating and review of sector program approach in alignment with partnership strategies and organizational standards

Strengthen Organisational Capabilities
• With Regional WASH Directors, build organizational agility and culture that supports quality and innovation in sector programming.
• Provides thought leadership in order to find evidence based and high impact solutions to WASH sector challenges.
• With WASH DME and Knowledge Management staff, and through CoP events, apply sector learning to ensure improvement of sector guidance.

Ensure Accountability
• With Global Field Operations, assesses quality and coverage of WV WASH sector programming within development, disaster and conflict contexts, to support increased quality in sponsorship, grant, and privately funded projects.
• Oversee the quality of sector programming, in alignment with global sectoral approach and prioritized project models.

Promote WV Way
• With other sector counterparts, champions cross sector collaboration for integration of WASH sector with other sectors and themes, working closely with other teams and colleagues to integrate our ministry distinctive including faith and development and advocacy and develop global ministry standards.
• Identifies, explores and acts on improvement opportunities

External Engagement
• Supports the identification, cultivation and development of relationships with international strategic WASH partners.
• Keeps abreast of latest developments and innovations in the broader sector that is relevant to WV and share them internally
• Benchmarks with peers and other relevant organizations to learn best practice and ensure we are cutting edge

Requirements include:

• Master’s degree in a relevant academic field
• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Hydrology, IWRM or other technical background in WASH systems design and supervision
• Minimum of 5 to 10 years experience in sector programming in field location.
• English and French required. Spanish, Arabic or Portuguese good to have.

Is this the job for you?

Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply onlineby the closing date until November 7th.

World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.

For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org.Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.