Program Coordinator,

Water Aid is a UK registered international charity with a vision of a world where everyone has access to water, sanitation and good hygiene. We support local organizations to manage low cost, sustainable projects and also influence policy makers to secure the right of poor people to affordable water and sanitation services.

To effectively implement our country strategy, water aid Nigeria is inviting applications from suitably qualified candidates to fill the following positions to be based at our office in Abuja, Nigeria.

Sustainable total sanitation-Nigeria (STS-NIGERIA) PROJECT (1 YEAR FIXED TERM- RENEWABLE).

Responsibilities:

The role will oversee programme planning and delivery, programme monitoring and reporting, communication and partnership liaison and staff management on a new programme which seeks to consolidate water aids years of work to improve effectiveness. Efficiency, inclusiveness and sustainability of sanitation approaches in 3 state of Nigeria. This position will be expected to provide day to day coordination towards achievement of the project goals and ensuring the integration of the projects activities with broader water-aid with broader water-aid in Nigeria programme priorities.

The ideal person for this position would possess an undergraduate and master’s degree in the natural physical or social sciences.

Minimum 10 years of experience of which at least 5 of which must be in a senior development programme management and delivery of complex community bided development projects with multiple stakeholder in a developing country context, experience with managing multiple project stakeholders including community level stakeholders, government officials, donors etc

Excellent competencies in writing project reports, strong demonstrable experience with managing people in a direct supervisory role and strong experience with implementation of an action learning and research project in a development setting.