Climate and Environment Lead at WaterAid International

Climate and Environment Lead at WaterAid International May 2024
Job Description
Climate and Environment Lead
Contract type: Permanent, Full time.
Location: WaterAid
is a global and equal opportunities employer. For practical and legal
reasons, the successful candidate must be based in and legally able to
work in any of the following country programmes:
Burkina Faso,
Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger,
Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom, and
Zambia

For the UK Location: we offer hybrid working: A
minimum of 40% of working time is spent face-to-face, in a WaterAid
office. For UK-based staff, WaterAid is located at Canary Wharf, London
and this will be your location and contract base.

Salary & Benefits:
Salaries and benefits for different countries will vary in line with
the successful candidate’s location and depending on experience. If
UK-based: £56,249 – £59,602 (depending on experience) or equivalent
established grade G salary and benefits in the country of employment.

About WaterAid:
Want
to use your skills in Climate and Environment to play a vital role in
making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone
everywhere?
We need passionate,
creative and dedicated people. In return, you will be encouraged and
empowered to be yourself at your very best. Together, we will make a
bigger difference.

Join WaterAid as Climate and Environment Lead
to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their
potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good.

About the Team:
The
Climate and Environment Lead is based in the WASH Technical
Effectiveness team of the Programme Support & Knowledge team (PSK), a
key unit of the WaterAid UK International Programmes Department (IPD)
operating in 17 African and Asian countries. PSK is a diverse and
motivated group of 20+ technical specialists and advisors, passionate
about bringing sustainable WASH to the world’s poorest and most
marginalised people. PSK leads and supports organisation-wide programme
learning and knowledge management, collating and disseminating programme
knowledge and facilitating knowledge exchange. The team provides
technical advisory expertise and fosters and supports internal and
external programme and technical partnerships and networks. The team
also leads on developing normative programme documents and standards and
advise and support the delivery of a programme capacity enhancement
strategy. PSK collaborates with many functions across the organisation
including policy, advocacy, campaigns, fundraising, communications, as
well as with WaterAid partners and collaborators.

About the Role:
The
Climate and Environment Lead is a leadership position in the WASH
Technical Effectiveness team, reporting to the head of the team. The
Climate and Environment Lead is accountable for the strategic
development and effective delivery of the core team responsibilities on
climate resilience and environmental sustainability for high quality
WASH programming in both urban and rural, low-income settings,
incorporating WaterAid’s and the sector’s leading practices, innovations
and methods.

Applying a people-centred, systems strengthening
approach to WASH, she/he leads the provision of high quality specialist
technical analysis, advisory, and support services to the design,
inception, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and/or
assessments of WaterAid’s programming worldwide, at both strategic and
operational levels.

In collaboration with country, regional and
global colleagues, she/he leads the facilitation of effective learning
and management of technical and programme knowledge across the
organisation, and leads the development of relevant standards and
guidance. She/he also provides high quality strategic and technical
input to fundraising, communications, and external engagements.

The
Climate and Environment Lead has substantial autonomy in determining
what the technical objectives are and how they are delivered and
achieved. She/he is held account for the integrity and effective
delivery of the technical advice and services. She/he is seen as a
thematic authority and is expected to effectively handle the most
challenging technical assignments. With a strong understanding of
organisational dynamics and ways of working, the Lead advisor is
expected to bridge gaps and siloes, proactively establishing and
maintaining relationships with colleagues across WaterAid and beyond,
and facilitating joined-up and comprehensive efforts to advance
WaterAid’s programming globally.
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About You:

• Substantial
  technical experience in climate science, climate adaptation,
  resilience, environmental sustainability, environmental impact
  assessment and/or other inter-related topics across different settings,
  demonstrated through a progressive career record.
• Strong
  technical experience in systems strengthening, sustainable development,
  water, sanitation, health, hygiene, behaviour change, gender, inclusion,
  and/or other WASH-related topics.
• A relevant post-Graduate degree or equivalent work experience.
• Proven ability in leadership and strategic thinking.
• Substantial
  experience and success in offering technical assistance, consulting,
  and/or advisory services to empower and to develop capacities.
• Strong
  ability to handle highly specialized, unusual, and challenging
  technical assignments, resolve complex issues in practical and
  imaginative ways.
• Strong writing ability in English. Experienced in producing practical knowledge products targeting needs of diverse audiences.
• Organised
  and efficient. Demonstrated ability to drive tasks forward to
  completion in a timely manner while maintaining high quality.
• A team player, able to work responsibly, under pressure, and collaboratively across diverse groups and culture
• Working style that reflects WaterAid’s values of Respect, Accountability, Courage, Collaboration, Integrity and Innovation.
• Solid IT skills, particularly with core Microsoft Office software.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 30%.

Although not essential, we also prefer you to have:

• Working
  knowledge in French, Portuguese, Spanish, and/or any language widely
  spoken in the countries where WaterAid is programming.

Closing date:
Applications will close at 23:59 UK time on 9th June 2024. Availability
for interan view is required during the week starting 24 June 2024.
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Team.

How to Apply:
To
see the full job pack, please click ‘Apply’. Please apply by submitting
the following 3 items into one document in either Word Document or PDF
format:
Item 1: Your Cover Letter
Item 2: Your CV
Item 3: Short answers to the following three questions on a separate page. Please limit each answer to no more than 200 words.

• Q1. What are your top 3 skills/experience you feel meet the requirements of the role?
• Q2. What is your approach to providing technical advice and support?
• Q3. How is WASH related to the climate resilience of communities?

Please indicate your location and the right-to-work eligibility in your Cover letter.

Pre-employment screening:
To
apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility
to work in the respective country. All pre-employment checks will be
carried out according to the applicable laws in the respective
countries. All our UK-based vacancies require a basic Disclosure and
Barring Service (DBS) check to comply with our Safer Recruitment policy.

Our Commitment
Our People Promise:
We will work with passion and focus to ensure safe and sustainable
water, toilets and hygiene are available to everyone, everywhere.
WaterAid is a place of purpose – where people have a real commitment and
shared responsibility for the impact we have. We are a global community
with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring,
stimulating work. We are determined to put the wellbeing of our people
first, to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their
voice and truly live our values.

Equal opportunities:
We are an equal opportunity, disability-confident employer and are
dedicated to achieving the highest standards of diversity, equity and
inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds,
beliefs, customs, traditions and ways of life. This includes, but is not
limited to, race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation,
religion, national or social origin, health status, and economic or
social situation.
Go to our Homepage To Get Relevant Information.

Safeguarding:
We are also committed
to protecting everyone we come into contact with. We have a
zero-tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our
global work, and any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination,
abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation. Safeguarding the people
and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working
on our behalf is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities
extremely seriously.