SHA seeks the consulting inputs of a relevant specialist, to augment SHA’s in-house global and country level capacities, to provide drawdown technical support and financial modelling inputs, to further enrich SHA’s thinking and activities on rural water service delivery/maintenance/financing models.
Specifically, the consultant would be contracted on a draw-down arrangement, to provide demand-responsive support to SHA global WASH team and the three country program teams (Nigeria, Malawi, Gambia), on aspects of financial modelling/life cycle cost analysis of water services, together with broader inputs on discussing and reviewing the approaches for maintenance services and providing suggestions on how to strengthen and financing arrangements around them, and how to monitor their effectiveness (including some review of their effectiveness).
The consultant will be expected to bring capacity to conduct rapid review of learning from other organisations/countries to benefit the thinking on SHA projects, and bring experiences and insights from rural water SDMs elsewhere, to augment the ideas of the SHA team.
See detailed TOR here;
It provides initial areas of envisaged technical support, and the precise focus of actual inputs will be influenced in part by the consultant selected and their respective expertise and value add relative to the SHA team. It may also evolve over time, as per the needs of the projects, but within what is possible and realistic within the initially contracted draw-down quota of days.
This role would suit, for example, a researcher (e.g. ongoing PhD or post-doc) or practitioner/consultant with relevant background, who can take on part-time consulting work. Experience on both handpumps and piped water services (with pre-paid meters and solar powered) would be highly beneficial, given this is what SHA is working on in the various countries.
Interested candidates should apply by 18/11/2024
sending an email to tenders@selfhelpafrica.org – copying mathieu.metois@selfhelpafrica.org
Applications should state Research on financial modelling of rural water services in the email heading.
Please include:
- A 1-2 page (maximum) cover letter stating interest, availability and relevance for this assignment, together with a proposed daily fee (inclusive of all costs and any applicable taxes)
- An updated CV, and contacts of two referees / former clients
- If you wish, include examples of / links to relevant documents that are examples of your past work on this topic
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