Manager HerWash

Job Title:  Manager HerWash

Grade:  E

Department:  Programme

Reports to (title):  Manager Rural Programmes  

Travel: In WaterAid Pakistan interventions areas and internally when required

Clean water, decent toilets and hygiene are three essentials that help people lead dignified and healthy lives. They should be normal for everyone, but for millions of people they are not. We are determined to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene a normal part of everyday life for everyone, everywhere within a generation.

Role of position in the organisation:

Manager Her WASH will be responsible for providing leadership and strategic and technical guidance to the organisation’s national movement on safe Menstrual Hygiene Management. The incumbent will lead the process of developing and implementing the long-term strategy and action plan for the WaterAid Pakistan’s menstrual hygiene management programme through a consultative process engaging all key stakeholders. The position is based in Islamabad with frequent travel to the project sites. This position is for a period of three years with possibility of extension, subjected to organisational requirements and availability of funds.

Purpose of Role 

The Manager will be responsible for providing technical direction and oversight for MHM initiatives (including HerWASH project) aimed at ensuring that elements of safe menstrual hygiene management are well grounded into WaterAid Pakistan programmes. S/He will also evolve a process through identification and coordinating working with likeminded organisations and individual champions for promoting issues around menstrual hygiene and creating women/girls friendly WASH spaces and environment in all public and private places throughout Pakistan so that women and girls can manage their personal hygiene with safety, dignity and confidence. The Manager, as organisational lead on Menstrual Hygiene Management, will lead to develop and implement long-term roadmap and plan for WaterAid’s national MHM movements, which envisions that over next 5 years, every public building in Pakistan has women/girls friendly toilet facility.

Key working Relationships

Internal: Programme Manager Rural, Manager Urban Programme, Head of Policy and Advocacy, Manager BCC, Manager Finance, Manger Programme Quality, MHM Coordinator and other relevant staff of WaterAid in Pakistan.

External: Regional Manager and Project Staff of HerWASH project NRSP, Provincial and district Education and Health departments in Sindh, HerWASH project leads in WaterAid Canada, Representatives of technical partners including Simavi and Canada World Youth, HerWASH project staff in WaterAid Burkina Faso, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and WASH in Education and MHM Specialist WaterAid UK.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and guidance for developing organizational strategy and action plans for national MHM movement.
• Organise consultations with key stakeholders and MHM champions for defining their role in promoting MHM friendly environment and facilities within their respective sector/institutions
• Roll-out the strategy and action plans for national MHM movement with relevant partners and stakeholders
• Support and guide WaterAid, Implementing Partners as well as relevant sector partners for integrating MHM components into their programme
• Provide technical guidance and support in developing appropriate MHM tools and messages
• Develop and deliver MHM training packages to relevant partners and organisations
• Promote and support dissemination of best MHM practices among partners and stakeholders
• Represent and promote WaterAid’s MHM programmes and approach in relevant national, regional and international for a
• Development of technical proposals and concept notes for expansion of national MHM movement
• Responsible for relation building and nurturing with relevant national, regional and international organisations and experts
• Train and mentor WaterAid and partner staff for developing better understanding on MHM

• Capture and document successes stories, case studies and lessons learned

Person Specification

Education

• University degree or professional qualification in relevant subject (Public health, Social sciences, project management etc.)
• Post graduate degree in relevant subject e.g. Public Health, development studies)

 Experience

• Minimum of five-year experience in programme development and management
• Excellent knowledge of participatory development and rights-based approaches and an understanding of relevant issued and the regional context
• Proven experience of managing WASH in schools and WASH in healthcare projects
• In depth knowledge of Menstrual health and hygiene and its impacts on women/girls Experience in developing strategic plans and liaising with stakeholders
• Significant experience of community-based water supply, sanitation and hygiene promotion projects/programmes
• Experience of implementing through and working with partner organizations (NGOs or local government).
• Experience of research methodologies & documentation of best practice
• Experience in managing programme/project budgets

Knowledge and Skills

• In-depth knowledge of partners’ management and support.
• Ability to think strategically & translate development and fiscal plans into action
• Excellent command over English language and strong analytical and report writing skills
• Excellent planning, networking, programme formulation, monitoring and budgeting skills.
• Good computer skills- words processing and excel spreadsheet
• Understanding of Rural WASH issues and community mobilisation approaches
• Good understanding of community management and the integration of water supply with sanitation and hygiene
• Knowledge of “gender in development”, and equity & inclusion issues
• Knowledge of low-cost sanitation and hygiene technologies.
• Ability to communicate and engage with people at managerial and senior government levels

Personal Qualities

Evidence of a strong commitment to development work

Fitness and willingness to spend substantial time on field visits

Ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary team.

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