Programme Coordinator, WaterAid India, Lucknow

WAI’s Programme focus in the next five years is on ensuring access to safe and assured drinking water in the households, as well as safely managed sanitation at both the household and habitation level. Further, we seek to ensure that anganwadi’s, 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/   

Responsibilities:

Program Management:

• Lead and anchor programme by building location-wise plans, implementation follow up of all activities, delivery of outputs, that include resources allocation, timeframes and managing budgets for projects.

• Guide and support the district teams in coordination/continual engagement with senior team in WAI, to ensure all deliverables of the project are met effectively within the desired timeline and with excellent quality.

• Support in relationship building and management with government officials at a district and state level as well as with other stakeholders

• Ensure quality documentation of the work being implemented in consultation with the state office. 

Ensure project objectives and targets are met effectively within timelines: 

• Plan monthly and quarterly targets and ensure their delivery through team

• Undertake intensive and regular field visits to project locations and support on field implementation

• Conduct periodic review meetings with the team to ensure delivery is as per schedule

• Lead, manage and motivate the team, creating an environment that enables staff to maximise their potential and facilitates high performing team

• Preparation of monthly updates and brief reports.

• Ensure Adherence to technical standards and technical guidelines and policies in the project

• Coordinate with concerned senior WAI members and plan the conduct of high level of events such as workshops, trainings, project meetings based on the desired objectives/deliverables of the concerned programmes.

• Plan WAI, donor or any other visit as might be required from time to time.

• Organize the capacity building program for the district team on quality standards and other topics as required.

• To undertake any other activity/ work assigned by SPD Donor and stakeholder engagement

• Take lead in conceptualizing and organizing state/ district level consultations /workshops/ conferences as required in the project

• Working with WaterAid’s communications Team (through SPD) to ensure effective documentation of the work being implemented

• Represent WaterAid in consortium meetings regularly in consultation with SPD

• Maintain excellent working relations with concerned government departments for collective planning, obtaining permissions and leveraging resources 

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