SNV, Netherlands Development Organisation, has worked in Ethiopia since the 1970s and currently operates in SNNPR, Oromia, Amhara and Tigray regional states, providing capacity strengthening support in three sectors – Agriculture, WASH and Renewable Energy.
The USAID funded TRANSFORM: WASH is a five year project to be implemented through a consortium of PSI, SNV, Plan International and International Resource Center (IRC) which is aimed at reducing preventable deaths and illness in Ethiopia due to diarrheal diseases, particularly among children under five. Through development and testing of scalable and replicable market-based models, the TRANSFORM/WASH consortium will support the Government of Ethiopia (GOE) and the One WASH National Program (OWNP) to increase use of improved WASH products and services among women and their families. This will be achieved through four interrelated project result areas: increased WASH governance and management capacity at the subnational level; increased demand for low-cost quality WASH products and services, with a focus on sanitation; increased supply for low-cost quality WASH products and services, with a focus on sanitation; and increased knowledge base to bring WASH innovations to scale.
Based on the project overview above, he/she contributes to steer SNV Ethiopia WASH sector development, quality of practice and positioning at country level to guide TRANSFORM: WASH project, in line with SNV global WASH sector strategy, and cross-cutting themes in order to improve sector performance and delivery of results. As WASH Capacity Building Advisor, he/she will engage in the successful kick off USAID-funded TRANSFORM: WASH project implementation, monitoring and evaluation using project management cycle to meet its intended objectives through increased use of WASH products and services. WASH Capacity Building Advisor 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. S/he is responsible to work closely with TRANSFORM: WASH IDA/PM for achieving expected WASH outcomes to systematically disseminate lessons-learned with other USAID-funded WASH activities within SNV and other implementers.Key responsibilities:
1. WASH Capacity Building Advisory roles·
1. Coordination and stakeholder development
2. Business Development
3. Knowledge Management, Learning and Innovation
Education: Have at least first degree and master’s degree in Environmental Health, hydraulic engineering or other relevant fields;
Experience: Have at least ten years or above experience for first degree and/or eight years and above for master’s degree holder in the water and sanitation sector, especially related to current Ethiopian local government context;