Water Policy, Partnerships, and Emergency Response Technical Director

Position Title:	Water Policy, Partnerships, and Emergency Response Technical Director	Application Deadline Date:	14 Feb 2014
Position Location:	tbd	Position Start Date	17 Mar 2014
Region:	Africa\East Africa	Position End Date:
Requisition Category:	International	Recruitment Priority:	Need Immediately
Country Name:	Kenya	Program/Office Name:	Health and WASH
City/Province:	tbd	Employee Type:	Contract
Job Grade Level:	18/172	Recruitment Status:	Actively Recruiting
Is this a family post?	Family - Spouse with Children
		Requisition Num:	2013INTLDPW-9E4NUP

 
*PREFERRED LOCATION: KENYA. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE DETERMINED BY HOME COUNTRY OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE. NO RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE*


PURPOSE OF POSITION:

The primary role of this position is to help with building WASH’s positioning and partnering around the partnership and with key stakeholders, contribute to the development around policy and advocacy related to WASH, and building external partnerships that will lead to Global WASH’s strategy, standards and policy models. The position will collaborate with policy and advocacy teams to frame the post MDG agenda and work to position the “Global WASH Champion” with key stakeholder audiences (SWAA /WASH networks & associations, UN, Senior Advisor of Hygiene). Lastly, the Technical Director will ensure that World Vision develops and updates quality strategies, policies, standards for both development and emergency contexts. Although the Global WASH Director has overall responsibility over Emergency Response and Sanitation/Hygiene communication, strategy and branding, this position will supplement the Global WASH Director’s role in partnering together around strategy development. This role is key in developing and cultivating key relationship with international Global WASH partners to help position WV as an industry leader.
For example, Water and Sanitation for All is currently setting up a High Level Forum in
Ivory Coast to discuss WASH with government ministers, key business leaders and industry leaders that will leverage WV's position around WASH issues in that region. This role would engage with these organizations in meeting planning, setting the agendas, discussing key
topics, sitting and chairing work streams, sitting or getting WV a set at the table on boards, facilitating appropriate WV Senior Leadership engagement and presenting during the forum to ensure WV's voice around WASH agenda items are represented and considered. If we do not leverage this engagement then we miss both funding opportunities with key partners and sharing World Visions industry leading work.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Capture strategic opportunities to build global market position, evidence of impact, brand identity and programme resources for WASH. This includes identifying, cultivating, developing relationships and showcasing World Vision’s WASH work with international strategic partners. Attend and organise World Vision’s participation and shaping of significant Global WASH events, conferences, and workshops to represent WV's work and develop a systematic approach to WV's participation in these events and help to shape our strategy engagement through preparation of abstracts, presentations, and participating in panels or speeches.
• In collaboration with Regional WASH Learning Centers manage the development, documentation, and decimation of World Vision’s sector strategy, project models/approaches, guidelines, tools. Promote & promulgate the approaches, guidelines, tools and standards through the WASH Community of Practice. This effort will focus on both work within World Vision’s transformational development programs as well as fragile states and emergency contexts.
• Work with the WASH Community of Practice to implement a defined WASH advocacy and policy framework (at global, regional, national, and program level) and programme for integration into our Child Health Now campaign as well as to guide our overall global WASH policy and advocacy work. Collaborate with global partner’s advocacy around post-MDG agenda. This includes participation in SWAA, World Water Week events, and various other key WASH stakeholders.
• Research, develop and support external engagement opportunities for the Global WASH Executive to represent World Vision in key international forums, networks and boards to ensure WV’s voice on our WASH programming priorities are clear, consistent, compelling and know.
• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 50% of the time. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Required:
• WASH engineer or equivalent level of WASH tertiary qualifications.
• Significant WASH humanitarian program/response experience.
• A minimum of 10 years of WASH field experience.
• Highly linked into a broad network of WASH professionals globally and experience working with governments on WASH advocacy work.
• Demonstrated ability to establish strong relationships cross culturally and secure significant funding from institutional donors.
• Demonstrated ability to establish strong relationships cross culturally and secure significant funding from institutional donors.
  
  Preferred:
• Extensive knowledge of the WASH community and best practice.
• Excellent communication and partnering.
• Detailed experience and knowledge of World Vision’s culture and technical abilities.
• Deep technical knowledge in one sector is required.

WaterPolicy,Partners.pdf

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