Opportunities

Consultant - Functionality Assurance and O&M [1], WaterAid India

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Location: Patna, Bihar

Apply by: 22 Nov 2026

WAI’s Programme focus in the next five years is on ensuring access to safe and assured drinking water in households, as well as safely managed sanitation at both the household and habitation level. Further, we seek to ensure that anganwadis, schools and health care facilities have adequate and appropriate water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure. Finally, we seek to create integrated water and sanitation solutions in small towns. In all of these efforts, ensuring climate resilience of infrastructure and systems is critical. We seek to do this through demonstration and the provision of technical and knowledge support to governments at all levels who can facilitate adoption on scale. Implementation is primarily through our own field teams.

Further details about WAI can be accessed at https://www.wateraid.org/in/ 

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Review existing functionality monitoring and O&M practices.

  • Develop/refine functionality indicators and assessment methodology.

  • Field-test the methodology in a purposively selected sample agreed with PHED.

  • Develop scheme performance analysis and corrective-action formats.

  • Undertake O&M diagnostic and identify systemic bottlenecks.

  • Strengthen linkages between water quality surveillance/risk management and scheme-level action.

  • Support PHED use of performance information in technical and management reviews.

  • Transfer tools and processes to designated PHED personnel.

Eligibility and requirements: Education

  • Bachelor's degree or above in Engineering (Civil) from any reputed institution

Experience

  • At least 10 years of relevant work experience in the WASH Sector.

  • Work experience working with the State Government and extending specialised expertise on Water Governance Policies and Program Implementation.

Skills, Aptitude and Attitude:

  • A handful of experience working in the Government System.

  • Good understanding of issues about WASH/Water conservation intervention in the communities

  • Proactive and self-motivated individual capable of engaging persuasively with various stakeholders at the community level

  • A self-starter, able to work independently

  • Can understand and speak Hindi.

How to Apply:

Kindly share your updated resume at waindiahr@wateraid.org with current remuneration and expected remuneration 

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