Summary of the Job:
As Irrigation and Social Organizational and Safeguarding Advisor, he/she will engage in the successful social organizational and safeguarding project activities implementation, monitoring and evaluation using the project management cycle to meet its intended objectives through increased use of Irrigation and WASH products and services.
The postion holder will use his/her capacity to implement TRANSFORM WASH to the quality requirement of donor/USAID; consortium lead/PSI; and other members using SNV’s track record of delivering high-quality WASH products in other similar projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Accompanies the feasibility study and validates site recommendations from a socio-organizational perspective
- Coordinates and ensures the quality of the social-organizational improvement plan in selected sites in xx woredas
- Strengthens the capacity of IWUA/IWUA
- Supports and promotes female leadership in IWUA/WUA
- Develops, together with the community, site improvement plans for ponds (including local agreements on maintenance and water access)
- Knowledge Management, Learning, and Innovation
- Project and process development
- People/Partnership Management
- Positioning: Identifies and analyses market opportunities and threats and ensures relevant colleagues are informed. Actively participates in strategic positioning meetings and acts as a knowledgeable face of the SNV organization to the client. Analyses, understands, and develops (local) networks with relevant stakeholders, and identifies new clients.
Qualifications
Education and Skill Requirements:
- BSc degree in Water Resource Engineering with Social/Environmental background, development studies, socio-logiest or social studies
- A minimum of five years direct related experience
- With strong experience in Organization and management small water works (irrigation, ideally also some WASH), GESI experience and Capacity development
- Knowledge of the working language where the jobholder is based is a mandatory
- Proven knowledge and experience in undertaking activities aimed at water and irrigation facility construction, rehabilitation, and upgrading project implementation
- Strong communication skill
- The ability to detect problems, recognize important information, and link various data to trace potential causes and look for relevant details.
Competencies:
- Coaching
- Problem Analysis
- Focus on Quality
- Result Oriented
- Persuasiveness
