WaterAid - We are an international non governmental organisation with a
mission to transform lives by improving access to safe water, improved
hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities.
We
seek high calibre professionals to play leading roles in our mission to
transform lives with safe water sanitation and hygiene in the world’s
poorest communities in the capacity:
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMES
PROJECT SUMMARY
Around
45,000 children under the age of five in Nigeria die from diarrhoeal
diseases caused by the nation’s poor levels of access to water;
sanitation and hygiene. Nearly 60 million people - 31% of the Nigerian
population do not have access tosafe water; while 71% of the population
lacks access to basic sanitation, that’s over 130 million people without
a toilet. This is a crisis that needs urgent action to ensure that the
story is one of universal access - everyone everywhere in Nigeria having
access to high quality water; sanitation and hygiene services by 2030.
WaterAid
Nigeria has recently agreed a 5 year strategy and is restructuring for
more effectiveness in responding to the needs in the country context. We
are expanding the scale and scope of our work over the coming years
with a view to supporting and catalysing government efforts to deliver
the Sustainable Development.
JOB SUMMARY
Working
with the Programmes Directorate in WaterAid Nigeria, this senior
management role will set, achieve and maintain high standards of
programming quality that reflect adherence to WaterAid technical
standards, best practice and donor guidelines, while fostering
needs-driven innovation to improve effectiveness and impact.
The
Director of Programmes will ensure country level activities consistently
meets the 9 commitments outlined in the WaterAid Programme
Accountability Framework while also ensuring the desired integration
between policy and practice is achieved and focus our programmes towards
influencing for transformational change.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Set
high standards of programming quality that reflect adherence to
WaterAid programme quality standards, best practice and donor
guidelines, while fostering needs-driven innovation to improve programme
effectiveness and impact; ensure that WaterAid Nigeria consistently
meets the 9 commitments outlined in the WaterAid Programme
Accountability Framework
Lead the delivery of influencing programmes
at national & state level, Design programming activities to
influence government (national, state & LGA policy &
legislation, budgets, co-ordination mechanisms and innovative delivery
approaches to strengthen WASH services and increase WASH access
Plan, guide and showcase WaterAid’s service delivery and research and innovations to influence policy makers.
Provide
guidance to reports on maintaining quality of research products and
ensuring effective conversion of research products into use in the
sector and beyond.
REQUIREMENTS
To be
successful in the Director of Programmes role, you must have a graduate
or master’s level degree plus a minimum ten (10) years development
programme management experience.
At least three (3) year, of your
experience should be in a senior management position in a reputable
international development organization.
Candidates must demonstrate
experience In managing WASH projects and program Strong financial
management skills including developing and managing complex budgets and
experience in preparing donor reports (narrative and financial) is
required.
DIRECTOR, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & STRATEGY
PROJECT SUMMARY
Around
45,000 children under the age of five in Nigeria die from diarrhoeal
diseases caused by the nation’s poor levels of access to water;
sanitation and hygiene. Nearly 60 million people - 31% of the Nigerian
population do not have access tosafe water; while 71% of the population
lacks access to basic sanitation, that’s over 130 million people without
a toilet. This is a crisis that needs urgent action to ensure that the
story is one of universal access - everyone everywhere in Nigeria having
access to high quality water; sanitation and hygiene services by 2030.
WaterAid
Nigeria has recently agreed a 5 year strategy and is restructuring for
more effectiveness in responding to the needs in the country context. We
are expanding the scale and scope of our work over the coming years
with a view to supporting and catalysing government efforts to deliver
the Sustainable Development.
JOB SUMMARY
This
is a senior management role with oversight for raising and managing
funds from a diversified mix of local and international (private and
public) sources including mass engagement, grant making private
foundations and bilateral/multilateral donors etc.
Within the remit
of this role is leveraging our communications and campaign activities to
achieve fundraising and advocacy/influencing outcomes that will bring
real change and impact to our work in Nigeria.
Accountability for
effective OP business planning. forecasting, thematic reviews and
assurance of linkages between strategy and activities rest with this
position.
The incumbent will lead the team responsible for designing
and implementing an effective programme reflection, monitoring,
evaluation and knowledge
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Providing
steer as a member of the Country Programme Senior Management Team (SMT)
on comprehensive plans to generate funds required to deliver WaterAid
Nigeria country strategy;
Oversee grant funding proposal development
and contracting processes in WaterAid Nigeria; Anchor funding proposal
development activities, including contributions and inputs of the CP
programme, finance, people teams as well as WaterAid West Africa region
and WaterAid UK departments to delivering grant proposals and budgets of
the highest quality.
Propose, seek inputs and negotiate funding
contracts terms and agreements which protect WaterAid Nigeria wit donors
and ensure WaterAid Nigeria’s capacity to meet contractual requirements
Accountable
for implementing an effective Programme Monitoring, Evaluation and
reporting system that captures learning from our work in an adaptive
manner and creates new knowledge for the wider WASH sector;
Advocate
and promote cohesion and synergy between fundraising, communications
& campaigns and programme delivery elements of WaterAid Nigeria’s
activities
Manage the staff in the directorate to deliver day to day
activities focussing on themes including fundraising, strategy and
planning, communications and campaigns and research/knowledge
management.
REQUIREMENTS
Critical attribute
for success in this role include possession of post graduate
qualifications and a minimum of ten (10) years experience in a
fundraising/business development type role within the international
development sector at least three (3) years’of the candidate’s
experience should with at county management level with responsibility
for managing projects funded by any other key multilateral and bilateral
donors including DFID, USAID and EU.
HUMAN RESOURCES & ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
PROJECT SUMMARY
Around
45,000 children under the age of five in Nigeria die from diarrhoeal
diseases caused by the nation’s poor levels of access to water;
sanitation and hygiene. Nearly 60 million people - 31% of the Nigerian
population do not have access tosafe water; while 71% of the population
lacks access to basic sanitation, that’s over 130 million people without
a toilet. This is a crisis that needs urgent action to ensure that the
story is one of universal access - everyone everywhere in Nigeria having
access to high quality water; sanitation and hygiene services by 2030.
WaterAid
Nigeria has recently agreed a 5 year strategy and is restructuring for
more effectiveness in responding to the needs in the country context. We
are expanding the scale and scope of our work over the coming years
with a view to supporting and catalysing government efforts to deliver
the Sustainable Development.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Human
Resources & Organizational Development Officer will have the space
to learm and apply cutting edge people management principles and
practices in a highly dynamic global organization.
This exciting role
will he challenged to apply great initiative and innovative thought in
managing day to day operational HR activities including recruitment,
induction, performance management, managing employee engagement
processes & activities, administration of staff benefits and manage
human resources records/documentation,
REQUIREMENTS
The
ideal candidate would in addition to having a graduate level
qualification in the Social or Management Sciences, also be a certified
HR practitioner of at least six years standing.
The ideal candidate
would clearly demonstrate strong expertise as a HR generalist and
experience gained about best practices in contemporary people management
especially in the key areas of responsibility; recruitment, induction,
performance management, managing employee engagement processes &
activities, administration of staff benefits and manage human resources
records/documentation from a well-structured corporate setting
TO APPLY
Applicants should submit an expression of interest letter and updated CV to: hrnig@wateraid.org The submission must indicate position title as subject/in the subject line of the email.
Note
To apply for this role, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in Nigeria
Candidates who had submitted responses to our previous advert need not apply again.
DUE DATE: 23 February, 2017
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