About WaterAid India
Jal Seva Charitable Foundation (JSCF) is registered in India as a not-for-profit company under Chapter 8 of the Companies Act, 2013. JSCF, is an associate member of the WaterAid federation and uses the brand name ‘WaterAid’ in India.
WaterAid India seeks to improve the quality of life of 5,000,000 households – with a special emphasis on the vulnerable by 2029 through the provision of climate-resilient and sustainable WASH services via demonstration, institution strengthening, and the effective utilization of public resources. We work in rural and urban areas and seek to deepen our presence in states we operate in and to work in small towns.
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Roles & Responsibilities
Overall Responsibilities:
· Lead a team of senior professional experts of various themes and ensure all outcomes are consistent with WAI quality standards
· Contribute to organisational visioning, planning and review processes.
· Collaboration with cross-functional and locational teams for effective delivery of WAI strategy
· Be part of Country Management Team
· Government and Stakeholder engagement for Collaborative action.
A. Organisational level Responsibilities
· Manage and mentor a team of experts, specialists and researchers.
· Support in building a highly motivated and high performing team.
· Facilitate matrix reporting and collaborative functioning across teams.
· Participate in and contribute to organizational progress and performance review processes
· Integrate all policy and technical support priorities and activities at all levels of organizational planning.
· Develop tangible indicators and a Programme Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning (PMEL) framework for Policy and Technical Support and ensure progress tracking.
· Contribute to resource mobilisation efforts in terms of strategic focus and content
· Provide content and direction to media and communication initiatives of the organisation, including campaigns
· Ensure effective coordination with program teams, integrating policy and Technical Support priorities
· Support in programme design and proposal development processes.
· Participate or lead, as necessary, and contribute to organisational management systems and processes.
· Collaborate with WA global teams on Policy, Research and Technical Support agenda,
· Facilitate representation of good practices from WAI States in other state and national level forums.
B. Policy level Responsibilities
· Ensure comprehensive analysis of relevant sector policies from WAI’s strategic priorities and facilitate organization wide dissemination.
· Ensure effective planning, delivery of Policy priorities and utilisation of financial resources and budgets allocated for the function.
· Facilitate identification of strategic priorities for policy change intervention through internal and external stakeholder consultation
· Develop short, medium, and long-term goals, milestones and plans to leverage desirable and appropriate changes in prioritized policy areas.
· Facilitate in developing organisation’s research strategy, and annual research plan, and ensure adherence organisational research protocols and principles
· Contribute to WA advocacy, research and learning at global level.
· Facilitate Policy uptake of research recommendations
· Support development of high-quality proposals for projects focussing on policy change and influencing.
· Facilitate policy discourse and support in strategizing policy change objectives.
· Regularly update on relevant sector insights and intelligence and facilitate action.
· Strategic engagement with key Government Ministries at state and centre.
· Forge or be part of networks and alliances for maximising impact of the team’s work
· Ensure policy briefs and other tools for aiding structured engagement and driving desired change
· Facilitate establishing attribution for policy change and synthesise and learning from the collaborative efforts
· Contribute to WA advocacy, research and learning at global level.
C. Technical level Responsibilities
· Supporting Technical experts and State Leads in government engagement and negotiation.
· Ensuring that the team members identify most relevant areas for technical support and guide towards effective delivery of the same.
· Development and regular update of organisational technical standards, training and dissemination of the standards and oversight of adherence.
· Facilitate the process of identification of relevant innovations, support testing under field conditions and robust evaluation of performance
· Facilitate development of simple manuals and guidelines and dissemination
· Support high quality proposals for projects on technical support.
· Promote technical excellence in WAI’s work
· Support documentation and collation of WAI’s technical models and their dissemination for wider adoption.
· Building WAI’s identity as a technical WASH sector lead
· Facilitate identification of and engagement with relevant technical experts and institutions as resource agencies or technical partners
· Contribute to and leverage support from the WA Federation for technical innovations.
Experience Required
· Proven track record of engaging with Government departments at the national level, state level, with evidence of change in policy at national or state level
· Hands on knowledge of how Government systems function at national and state level
· 10-15 years of relevant sector experience, with at least 5 years in a similar leadership role
· Demonstrated ability to communicate with diverse stakeholders to inform and drive policy change
· Understanding of operational/action research
· Experience of leading senior professionals, technical experts
· Track of publications (media articles, journal articles, reports, advocacy reports)
Skills & Competencies
· Language: Fluency in speaking, writing, reading English and Hindi. Fluency in any another Indian language (Telugu, Odiya, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi) preferred.
· Excellent computer and analytical skills
· Facilitation and moderation skills
· Ability to manage and lead team, and collaborate with different teams across WAI and the WA Federation
· Ability to position oneself within the context
· Proactive in exploring and testing new ideas, solutions, ways of working
· Command over subject matter and leadership position with humility demonstration of WaterAid values and principles
· Capacity to inspire and lead
· Ability to contribute to and build the culture of trust and respect based/genuine collaboration within the organization
Education
· Doctorate or Master’s degree in any relevant discipline related to WASH such as Public Health, Public Policy, Economics, Environmental sciences, Civil Engineering, Geology/Hydrogeology, Urban Planning etc.
