Technical Specialist - Water Market Systems
Job Description
Title: Technical Specialist - Water Market Systems
Company Name: International Development Enterprises (iDE)
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ At least a Bachelor's degree (preferably a Master's degree) in economics, business, natural sciences, engineering, social sciences or development studies
Experience Requirements:
∎ 3 to 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Job Location: Dhaka, with frequent travel to the field (50% Dhaka; 50% field; field movement subject to COVID restrictions)
∎ Reporting Line: WASH Technical Lead
Job Responsibilities:
∎ The key responsibilities of the Technical Specialist - Water Market Systems will include the following
∎ Sector Analysis and Intervention Design:
∎ Based on field data collected by the project to date, and additional field scoping where needed, identify key constraints to households' adopting safe water consumption practices in the project's three geographic working areas (Faridpur, Patuakhali, Khulna)
∎ Adopting both a market development and social and behavior change lens, analyze and identify strategies to stimulate adoption of safe water consumption practices
∎ Identify private sector actors whose interests align with the project's goals and engage in building private sector partnerships
∎ Lead the design of market-based interventions to increase households' adoption of safe water consumption practices, in partnership with private sector actors
∎ Intervention Implementation & Results Monitoring:
∎ Lead the implementation of market-based interventions to increase households' adoption of safe water consumption practices, in partnership with private sector actors
∎ Manage and oversee the budget pertaining to these interventions
∎ Contribute substantially to developing the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plans for the water interventions
∎ Critically evaluate intervention success and take corrective measures in consultation with the Technical Lead WASH
∎ Partner Engagement:
∎ Engage with private sector actors to explore partnerships for safe water interventions, negotiate conditions of collaboration and establish partnerships in compliance with project and donor requirements
∎ Build and nurture strategic partnerships with key public stakeholders in the water sector
∎ Reporting and Documentation:
∎ Document findings from field scoping
∎ Develop intervention concept notes
∎ Regularly document progress and learnings from safe water interventions and contribute relevant sections to quarterly and annual project progress reports
∎ Develop and document case studies and success stories as and when required
∎ Consortium Engagement:
∎ Engage with local implementing partners to ensure water interventions are well understood by all partners
∎ Collaboratively plan implementation of intervention activities involving local implementing partners through the preparation of annual work plans and detailed implementation plans
∎ Other:
∎ The Technical Specialist - Water Market Systems will form part of the core strategic team of BNA's WASH component, comprising the Technical Lead WASH and two Technical Specialists focusing on sanitation and hygiene markets, respectively. The Technical Specialist - Water Market Systems will be expected to constructively engage in discussions on design and implementation of sanitation and hygiene interventions, and to proactively seek the team's inputs on water intervention design.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Candidates are expected to have the following qualification, skills and experience, and to be comfortable with the following conditions.:
∎ Work Experience:
∎ A minimum of 3-5 years of work experience with 2-3 years' experience in market systems development
∎ Prior experience in the water sector, and/or willingness to familiarize him or herself with aspects around chemical and microbial water quality, drinking water treatment, and safe water storage
∎ Experience in working with private sector partners
∎ Proven experience with monitoring and results measurement
∎ Proficiency in designing and conducting research using qualitative and quantitative tools, and in documenting and critically analyzing results efficiently and comprehensively
∎ Experience with social and behavior change approaches to intervention design is of advantage
∎ Skills & willingness to travel:
∎ Strong analytical skills, an investigative mind set and a passion for understanding incentives motivating multiple, interrelated actors in complex sectors
∎ Ability to communicate openly and to work constructively in a team
∎ Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Bangla
∎ Excellent computer literacy in Windows Office programs (especially Word and Excel); Familiarity with internet-based software systems such as Google Apps are of advantage
∎ Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interact constructively with a variety of stakeholders including rural households, local informal entrepreneurs, representatives of private sector companies and local Government representatives
∎ Ability to work in a consortium environment, maintaining constructive relationships with colleagues from all partner organizations
∎ Willingness to spend up to 50% of time in field locations in Faridpur, Khulna and Patuakhali Districts, and to travel on short notice on occasion. Field travel is currently suspended and will be subject to COVID safety assessment.
Application Deadline: June 20, 2020
Company Information:
∎ International Development Enterprises (iDE)
Category: NGO/Development
