Regional WASH Specialist – Infrastructure Quality at World Vision International

Employee Contract Type: Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Purpose of the position
The
Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Business Plan outlines our
strategy to leverage $1 billion between 2021 and 2025, impacting 15
million people with safe water, 14 million people with improved
sanitation, and 18 million with improved hygiene.As part of our goal to
demonstrate sustainable impact, we are working to define and foster a
Culture of Quality (COQ) to maintain infrastructure quality as our
programming grows in complexity. Therefore, this position aims at
creating a COQ to strengthen and promote reliable, long-lasting services
in the communities and sound stewardship of donor funds for increased
impact.

The position will oversee the Culture of Quality (COQ)
strategy implementation primarily in the East Africa region and
specifically in the listed countries: Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia,
South Sudan, Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda

Major Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Priorities & Technical Oversight

• Working
  with WVI WASH SLT and Support Offices Technical leads to outline a
  strategy to improve organizational quality culture including shared
  messaging, quality-specific objectives, and a plan for adaptive
  management.
• Support the Regional WASH Director and Support
  Offices to manage WASH infrastructure activities in the designated duty
  counties by providing quality assurance and quality control for the
  design and construction of limited to medium-scale WASH infrastructure,
  which are to be in compliance with WVI and Global WASH standards,
  environmental and construction codes, reporting, and management
  requirements.
• Developing and maintaining a quality management system for WASH infrastructure.
• Provide technical guidance on WASH infrastructure design
• Routine reporting on quality metrics to the regional WASH Director
• Working with 10+ countries to build technical capacity and implement their country-specific quality management strategy
• In
  collaboration with other leaders, lead training on quality and
  technical issues (e.g., adequate supervision, hydraulic modeling best
  practices, material sourcing)
• Serving as a quality ambassador
  for your region of responsibility including presenting on
  quality-focused topics at routine meetings and conferences
• Performing periodic audits and surveys to understand our culture of quality and ways to improve
• Review
  of WASH infrastructure designs including engineering standards
  adherence, review of contracts, and review of material selection for
  adherence to World Vision policies
• Participating in audit reviews and post-audit corrective action plan development

2. Resource Development (Prepositioning work, programs development & grants management)

• Support
  prepositioning for donor funding where necessary and participate in
  regional networks raising the profile of World Vision.
• Establish networks and alliances with stakeholders in the field for the purpose of enhancing program quality.

3. Evidence and Learning

• Contribute
  towards completion of WVI inventory of WASH assets in the global
  monitoring and evaluation database. Support in the data critical for
  updating monitoring of WASH programs and mapping of WASH assets using
  geographical information systems.
• Ensure accountability by using
  evidence and learning, analysis, and interpretation of data to provide
  regional evidence of impact for the sector.
• Coordinate the
  documentation, publication, and dissemination of promising quality
  assurance/quality control practices across the partnership.
• Promote adoption and scale-up of promising practices, project models and innovations in the WASH infrastructure domain.
• Facilitate cross-learning between NOs, learning from Support Offices (SO), other regions and peer organizations
• Contribute
  to the development of annual regional impact reports in collaboration
  with SEL, Communications, and the other sector leads.

4. Collaboration and cross-functional working

• Participate in the global WASH community of practice and major sector networks in the region.
• Mobilize
  technical expertise across the region, ensuring effective knowledge
  management, learning, and continuous improvement of programming in the
  region.
• Collaborate with key regional entities on defined collaboration matrix and joint projects

6. General Responsibilities

• Contribute towards other regional office strategic initiatives and Technical Working Groups (TWGs) as necessary.
• Providing direct support during the planning, design, procurement, and installation of WASH infrastructure depending on NO needs
• Provide
  key quality improvement input by closely overseeing WASH infrastructure
  projects and activities undertaken by contractors in the field.
• Support
  National Offices in the production of tender documents, contracts, and
  bills of quantities and provide inputs on WASH infrastructure site
  selection, surveys and designs, specifications, deliverables, and
  evaluation criteria.
• Collaboration with Supply Chain in bid
  evaluations to aid in the selection of qualified contractors or vendors
  for WASH procurements.
• Perform any other tasks assigned by the Regional WASH Director and World Vision US Quality Assurance and Control Engineer.

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience
Essential:

• Bachelors’ degree in Engineering – Civil, Electrical or Mechanical required
• Master’s
  degree strongly preferred in engineering, water policy, water resource
  management, economics, business, industrial engineering, or another
  complementary discipline.
• Work experience of 10+ years required
  in areas of water and sanitation design, construction, supervision, and
  quality assurance/quality control data collection.
• Engineering license in country of residence
• Demonstrated competencies using Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, EPANET, and/or other alternative software
• Demonstrated competencies in interpersonal communication, stakeholder engagement, and cultural intelligence
• Demonstrated
  experience working in cross-functional and remote teams for the purpose
  of program implementation, development of technical standards, and
  resource acquisition.
• Excellent facilitation skills, strong
  interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written, strong
  negotiation, diplomacy, strong leadership, and teamwork skills.
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English
• Also
  required are analytical skills for synthesis of materials, evaluations,
  and preparation of presentations/articles for publication as well as
  experience in a PC environment and the MS Office suite of software.
• Experience in working with faith organizations, faith actors, and faith-related issues in development
• Experience in HEA and fragile contexts.
• Effective
  in written and verbal communication in English. Additional languages
  representative of the countries WV serves in an advantage.

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in Water or Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering
• Experience
  developing and implementing quality assurance / quality control
  programs for WASH infrastructure or for other industries.
• Proven experience leading WASH infrastructure development programs in a variety of contexts.
• Experience working with and managing large grants in sector programming for major bilateral and multilateral donors.
• Previous experience working in a Country Office/National Office or Regional Office setting will be advantageous.
• Experience working in fragile, conflict, post-conflict, and/or difficult operating environments is preferred.
• Experience with mWater use, or any other water mapping technology
• East Africa experience is highly preferred.
• Female applicants are encouraged to apply.

Working Environment / Conditions:
The position requires the ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 40% of the time.
Applicant Types Accepted: Local Applicants Only