Regional Technical Advisor

West Africa

Contract type: 2 Years Fixed term contract, Full time

Location: The role can be based at any WaterAid's office in West Africa: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, subject to right to work eligibility in the respective country.

Salary: Salaries and benefits will vary by country and experience, in line with the successful candidate's location.

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Every day, millions of people live without clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. WaterAid exists to change that for everyone, everywhere. Join us, and your energy will help unlock people's potential and create a fairer future.

About WaterAid

We're a global federation driven by one vision: a world where everyone, everywhere has clean water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030. Powered by our values of Respect, Accountability, Courage, Collaboration, Integrity and Innovation, we work alongside communities, partners and supporters to make change happen.

About the team

The Regional Technical Adviser (RTA) is a member of the regional team, in the International Programmes Department. S/he will also be a member of WaterAid's global technical programme and support function. The role of the International Programmes Department is to support, resource and enable delivery of our global strategy at the country, regional and continental levels. The role of the regional team is to provide strategic leadership and ensure effective management of Country Programmes and Region, support and develop the capacity of our country programmes in the region to maximise their impact at the national and regional levels, contribute to the development of a strong WASH sector and thus enable the poor, marginalised and excluded people realise their rights to equitable and sustainable access to water, sanitation and hygiene.

About the role

The RTA will lead on ensuring that the technical quality of delivery of our programmes (in terms of hardware and software) is consistent with national and global best practice in the sector as well as with WA global programme frameworks and standards. The RTA will be responsible for ensuring that technical competence in country programmes is at the right level.

In this role, you will:

Technical and Advisory Support:

• Review Country Programme approaches and technologies for water supply, sanitation and hygiene promotion in the light of national and global good practice with guidance from the Regional Team and PSK.
• Support country programme technical staff to raise standards of service delivery carried out through Country Programme partners.
• Based on the WaterAid Quality Programme Standards, support country programmes and partner staff in the quality assurance of project design, implementation and monitoring to achieve technical excellence and long-term sustainability of water and sanitation services. Support the understanding and embedding of the standards in CPs (QPS Project focal point in the Region)
• As part of WaterAid's global technical support function, use WaterAid's thematic frameworks - Sustainability, Water Security, Urban, Sanitation, Hygiene, Equity and Inclusion, Disaster Management - in supporting country programmes to adapt these to their respective contexts. Contribute to future developments of these and related guidance documents
• Ensure all WASH facilities constructed by WaterAid and partners in the region are resilient to climate change effects with strong focus on solar powered WASH systems.

Capacity development:

• Identify key areas where capacity gaps exist in WaterAid country offices and among partners and provide support to address these gaps in coordination with the Regional Team and PSK.
• Identify key resources / organisations within the region and at the global level, which can provide support to country programme and partner staff.
• Monitor effectiveness of capacity development inputs to ensure they address the challenges identified.

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