Programme Support & Knowledge Director

Company Details
Name:WaterAid
Industry: Government Administration
Description: WaterAid overall goal is to influence, deliver and scale-up WASH solutions that are sustainable, climate-resilient, gender-responsive and address key cross-cutting elements of other development goals including health, education, poverty, economic growth, and nutrition.
Job Details
Job Type: Full Time
Workplace Type: On-site
Qualification: Diploma
Job Experience: Mandatory
Job Location: Nairobi County, Kenya
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Salary: Undisclosed
Other Pay: Benefits
Job Category: Project Management
Job Description

About the role

  • As our Programme Support and Knowledge Director, you will play a key role in delivering our mission by providing strategic leadership to the PSK team and the wider IPD, as part of the department’s SMT. You will also input into organisation-wide initiatives, external collaborations and global networks to drive sustainable change.

In this role, you will:

  • Provide strategic and technical leadership to WaterAid UK’s programmes   
  • Lead the Programme Support & Knowledge Team
  • Lead programme learning and knowledge management
  • Oversee programme support and capacity development
  • Support fundraising, external engagement, partnerships and communications
  • Champion WaterAid’s commitment to equity, inclusion and safeguarding.

Requirements

To be successful, you will need:

  • Extensive and deep experience in WASH development across multiple contexts
  • Strong technical WASH skills – e.g. sustainable rural and /or urban water supply service delivery and management, climate resilient WASH, 
  • Systems-thinking capability to support transformational WASH programming
  • Proven ability to lead strategic, impactful initiatives in large organisations
  • Strong understanding of planning, monitoring and evaluation in development
  • Experience in knowledge management, learning and capacity development
  • Proven experience of developing propositions and donor engagement and
  • A track record of leading high-performing teams and supporting change

Although not essential, we’d prefer you to have:

  • Working knowledge of French, Portuguese or Spanish
  • Experience leading or managing applied research
  • Experience establishing and promoting technical standards.
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