Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist Job Vacancy in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Background / General description:

The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), is a
multi-donor trust funded program administered by the World Bank, comprising a
field-based network of over 70 professionals based in four regional teams
(Africa, East Asia Pacific, Latin America, and South Asia) managed from a small
headquarters team in Washington, DC. The WSP-Africa regional team (WSP-AF) is
based in Nairobi.

WSP’s mission is to support the poor in obtaining
sustainable access to water and sanitation services. WSP believes that improved
water and sanitation services and hygiene practices are integral to achieving
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on poverty reduction, health, gender
equality, and the environment. WSP is committed to being part of the collective
efforts of the development community to achieve Targets 10 and 11 of the MDGs
as an intermediate milestone of the vision of the sector. WSP will bring this
mission into reality in two ways: (a) Direct means, to support implementation
of sector dialogue, knowledge exchange, and capacity building; and (b) Indirect
means, to help immediate counterparts and partners to build large-scale
sustainable programs, support policy development and sector reforms, engage in
action-learning innovative pilot projects that serve in particular the poor.
For more information on WSP’s strategy, operations and products please visit:
www.wsp.org.

WSP’s current Business Plan builds on a global
strategy titled ‘FY2009-2018: Scaling Up Sustainable Services.’ It articulates
WSP’s strategic response to sector challenges affecting the poor through:
capacity building, technical assistance and knowledge.

The Business Plan
identifies six Business Areas where the Program has the best opportunity to
affect large-scale change in sector performance:

(i) scaling up rural sanitation and hygiene;

(ii)creating sustainable services through domestic
private sector participation;

(iii) supporting poor-inclusive Water Supply and
Sanitation (WSS) sector reform;

(iv) targeting the urban poor and improving
services in small towns;

(v) mitigating and adapting WSS delivery to climate
change impacts; and

(vi) delivering WSS services in fragile states.

In Tanzania, the work program is focused on Scaling
Up Rural Sanitation, and may expand to include Targeting the Urban Poor and
Improving Services in Small Towns.

WSP’s theory of change for at scale rural
sanitation includes: Generating demand for improved sanitation, strengthening
the supply of sanitation products and services that are affordable and
responsive to aspirations of the poor, strengthening the enabling environment
for policy and sector reform and, a strong and effective learning process that
gathers evidence about what is working and what still needs to be improved.

To improve sanitation access, the Government of
Tanzania (GoT) has taken a number of policy and programmatic steps to improve
sanitation access. According to the second National Strategy for Growth and
Poverty Reduction, locally known as MKUKUTA II, sanitation is a priority to
achieve its vision of a high quality of life by 2025. By 2015, the GOT is
committed to increasing improved sanitation coverage to 35% in rural areas.

To support the Government in this effort, WSP is
providing technical assistance through the Water Sector Development Program’s
(WSDP) National Sanitation Campaign in two areas:

(i) Working with national institutions on the
enabling environment which includes improving policy and technical inputs to
assist the Government to deliver sanitation through local governments at scale

(ii) Supporting the GoT to rationalize the
different existing sanitation monitoring systems to improve the reliability and
validity of sanitation data.

Experience from the Global Scaling Up Rural
Sanitation program has shown that to create a strong enabling environment
capable of sustaining service delivery at scale, technical guidance is needed
to strengthen the capacity of sector institutions and local stakeholders across
multiple dimensions, including:

Policy, strategy, and direction;
Institutional arrangements;
Program methodology;
Implementation capacity;
Availability of products and services;
Financing and incentives;
Cost-effective implementation; and
Monitoring and evaluation.

WSP seeks to
recruit a Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist as a country coordinator to
lead the work program in Tanzania, specifically the Scaling Up Regional
Sanitation business area and Targeting the Urban Poor and Improved Services in
Small Towns in Tanzania. The post is located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with
frequent internal travel to the regions.

Note: If the
selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended
appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All
others will be offered a 2 year term appointment.

Duties and Accountabilities:

As WSP Tanzania Country Coordinator, the Sr. Water
and Sanitation Specialist will provide technical leadership to WSP’s country
program as well as provide cross-support to other Bank teams as needed. The
duties and responsibilities for the successful candidate will include:

Develop and implement WSP’s Business Plan for
Tanzania: Lead the implementation of the scaling up rural sanitation
program including managing and supervising the country budget, procurement
of consultants, tracking progress and expenditure, reporting and ensuring
product quality assurance;
Develop and implement new technical assistance
in urban sanitation: the scope and dimension of this technical assistance
will be defined during the course of FY13.
Sector Coordination: Engage in regular
interactions with sector authorities, the donor community, the water
sector agencies, the civil society and all relevant stakeholders to
facilitate WSS policy dialogue; Specifically, strengthen national level
dialogue structures among development partners and government with a focus
on fostering evidence based decision making and improving results;
Scaling Up Rural Sanitation

National
Level

o Seek buy
in on the use of evidence based messaging and materials that can be achieved
using sanitation and hygiene behavior change;

o Develop a
sanitation training strategy for implementing entities using national
structures and institutes;

o
Periodically review the National Sanitation Campaign progress and recommend
improvements to institutional structures and implementation arrangements

Regional
Level

o Carry out
large scale testing and documentation of incentives to improve Community Led
Total Sanitation (CLTS) triggering, declarations, verifying improved sanitation
access

o
Demonstrate sanitation service delivery options involving large and small scale
private sector providers

o Facilitate
periodic forums among implementing regions and local governments to share
experiences and lessons

Sanitation Monitoring Systems: Plan and
facilitate policy dialogue among sanitation monitoring stakeholders from
the National Bureau of Statistics, Ministries, Departments and Local
Government Authorities to review their sanitation indicators and align
them with MKUKUTA II sanitation indicators; Review sanitation monitoring
systems of sanitation monitoring stakeholders and recommend modifications
and implement recommendations;
Monitoring and reporting: Review WSP’s
performance and report progress using established tools to WSP
Headquarters and to the donors. Work with the GoT to identify key
performance bottlenecks and build consensus using innovative approaches on
how to address them, taking into account prevailing constraints.
Knowledge Management: Generate documentation,
publication, and dissemination of lessons of large scale sanitation and
hygiene interventions; Lead specific knowledge management or policy
research initiatives in demand by WSP, the World Bank Group, country
clients and partners;
Collaboration with other teams: Work closely
with the Global sanitation business area leader and the senior regional
sanitation advisors for Africa, East Asia and South Asia to promote
globally consistent learning and evidence; Make substantive contribution
to WSP Sanitation Global Practice Team;
Cross Support: Provide cross support to World
Bank operations to design new programs and assist Bank staff and their
clients in preparing and implementing sanitation and hygiene in programs
and in delivering analytical work.

Selection Criteria:

Required:

Masters or higher-level degree(s) in a field
relevant to the WSP, such as, social science, public health, sanitation,
business/marketing, social communication, environmental health,
epidemiology, community development, engineering or other relevant field;
Have at least 8 years of relevant experience
in developing country work, including specific experience in the water
supply and sanitation sector, preferably focused on sanitation or hygiene
development;
Familiarity with sanitation marketing concepts
and their application at national level; and expertise in scaling up
sanitation services desirable;

COMPETENCIES:
Shown below are the competencies linked to this job:

Knowledge and Experience in Development Arena
– Understands policy making process; distills operationally relevant
recommendations/lessons for clients.
Policy Dialogue Skills – Identifies and
assesses policy issues and plays an active role in the dialogue with the
government and/or other stakeholders.
Integrative Skills – Works to develop an
integrated view across all facets of current sector.
Water Policy, Strategy and Institutions –
Solid understanding of water policies, strategies, institutions, and
regulations.
Water Supply and Sanitation Infrastructure and
Technologies – Direct experience with water supply and sanitation
infrastructure and technologies.
Client Orientation – Takes personal
responsibility and accountability for timely response to client queries,
requests or needs, working to remove obstacles that may impede execution
or overall success.
Drive for Results – Takes personal ownership
and accountability to meet deadlines and achieve agreed-upon results, and
has the personal organization to do so.
Team Leadership – Motivates the team to
deliver high quality results on time and within budget. Provides guidance
for individual team members to do their best. Is able to resolve problems
confronting the team, while staying focused and providing leadership to
the team. Fosters strong relationships with internal and external
partners. Respects diversity and brings different skills together to
achieve results.
Knowledge, Learning and Communication – Leads
in the sharing of best practice, trends, knowledge and lessons learned
across units and with clients and partners, articulating ideas verbally
and in writing in a clear and compelling way across audiences of varied
levels. Full written and spoken fluency in English required;
Business Judgment and Analytical Decision
Making – Analyzes facts and data to support sound, logical decisions
regarding own and others’ work.
Project Management: At the technical level,
builds consensus and commitment on achieving realistic project
objectives/results, and on addressing specific project issues/risks, in an
innovative and flexible fashion. Balances risk mitigation measures with
adjustments to project expected results and/or design, defines pertinent
and measurable indicators and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms.
Planning and Strategy – Understands the
strategic objectives and main incentives of internal and external
stakeholders (including clients, partners and other financiers) involved
in a project, and their capacity constraints. Conciliates stakeholders’
diverging objectives and incentives, and tailors project design and
solutions to specific issues.