WASH Team Leader

WASH Team Leader

locations

Maputo City, Mozambique

time type

Full time

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End Date: October 20, 2026 (12 days left to apply)

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JR53155

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type: Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

WASH Programme Development and Management:

• Lead the design and revision of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene component of the Integrated Program Framework (IPF), using approved global guidelines and quality standards, in collaboration with the Southern Africa Regional Office (SAR), Global Centre, Support Offices, and SST.
• Contribute to the overall National Office strategy by guiding the development of outcome pathways, intervention packages, and Results Frameworks that are measurable, adaptive, and evidence-based, ensuring that WASH Business Plan priorities are reflected in the national strategy.
• Build the capacity of project staff to implement WASH models as part of the National Office Integrated Programme Frameworks (IPFs).
• Ensure fidelity of implementation by establishing and enforcing sector standards for implementing staff and partners to deliver quality programming.
• Support District Managers and other sector leads to adapt appropriate WASH intervention packages and models for implementation in local areas, and support AP target setting, as well as the review and approval of annual plans and budgets in line with approved IPFs.
• Support the integrated implementation of sector intervention packages and models across programme and project areas (ADPs, Grants, and PNS-funded projects).
• Work closely with the Programme Quality and Impact Department and other Technical Specialists to compile national-level evaluations and other required integrated programme reports.
• Provide technical oversight of IPF implementation to ensure WASH programme delivery is aligned with the National Strategy and other relevant standards and policies.
• Collaborate in the development of relevant IPF budgets and plans for the National Office and ADPs.
• Ensure the effective management of WASH budgets and activities in an integrated manner within and across IPFs to support efficient and timely implementation in Area Development Programmes.
• Review district programme design and redesign documents, including WASH project ITTs, DIPs, and multi-year budgets.
• Develop national-level WASH targets in collaboration with DM&E.
• Upload approved WASH logframes into IMPAQ.
• Conduct monthly reviews of WASH ATTs and expenditure reports to monitor implementation, identifying and addressing issues as required.
• Review and approve mid-year budget and plan revisions for submission in IMPAQ.
• Review and provide technical approval of AP annual and semi-annual reports.
• Conduct programme monitoring and technical support visits at least twice per quarter, providing training, observing field activities, offering technical guidance, monitoring RC participation, and quality-assuring the implementation of core project models.

Technical Leadership:

• Provide overall National Office technical leadership for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, including participating in the Crisis Technical Team as required, serving as focal point for regional and global sectoral initiatives on behalf of WV Mozambique, coordinating Water, Sanitation and Hygiene participation in HEA clusters across the country, and providing technical support to other departments as required.
• Contribute specialist technical knowledge to strategy design, implementation and review processes – including leading sectoral external landscaping, developing strategic Theory of Change for sectoral area, contributing to Country Strategy Implementation Plan (CSIP) Development and participate in annual strategy review process as required.
• Lead sectoral contribution and technical analysis in national level vulnerability mapping process
• Work closely with SARO and GC WASH teams to ensure that MozWASH programming is fully aligned to partnership technical standards, plans and strategies.
• Work in partnership with SARO and WVUS to develop and implement the MOZWASH Business plan, ensuring alignment with and contribution to WV Moz’s national strategy, while applying an entrepreneurial mindset to the development and growth of the WASH program (including strategic staffing, financial leveraging, resource mobilization, partnerships, and program expansion) to ensure the program remains on track to achieve its five-year financial and implementation targets and goals.
• Regularly update the Strategy and Programmes Director on key issues and developments relating to MozWASH programme portfolio, funding and plans.

Impact, Evidence and Learning:

• Prepare Water, Sanitation and Hygiene annual report, communicating the impact and learning generated by WASH implementation, for circulation with WV Moz, SARO, SST and the wider partnership.

• Actively engage with and champion the use of the mWater platform as a core management and learning tool for the WASH programme, ensuring timely and quality input, review and analysis of WASH outputs, targets, impact stories/photos and financial information. Use mWater data and insights to identify trends, inform evidence-based decision-making, strengthen programme quality and accountability, and identify opportunities for programme growth and improvement. Lead by example in promoting a culture of data use, learning, innovation and continuous improvement across the WASH team and wider programme.

• Contribute to Annual Impact Measurement (AIM) and AIM+ processes, including reviewing the design to ensure that WASH technical indicators are incorporated.

• Establish regular flow of technical information from all programmes and funding streams (GAM, PNS and Spon), in order to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the impact, evidence and learning of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene across the national programme portfolio (including all funding streams).

• Receive and compile impact data for key indicators across all programmes and funding streams, ensuring quality sector data is included in the National Programme Impact Dashboard.

• Compile, review and submit all donor reports, to ensure effective management information is available in a timely manner.

• Work with DM&E to review and assure quality of sector data included in the SLT Internal Strategy Monitoring Tool

• Review and analyse RC monitoring data, in order to understand issues affecting vulnerable children, to inform programming and to support field teams in identifying and responding to specific CWB issues.

• Regularly communicating key sectoral achievements through different channels to different audiences, including developing and sharing technical briefs, capacity statements, short emails updates and success stories etc.

• Identifying and sharing Water, Sanitation and Hygiene sector “best practice” from across the national programme portfolio

• Review and quality assure monthly ATT data, identifying and addressing any issues in data quality

New Programme Design and Funding Acquisition:

• Lead technical input to grant proposal development process, ensuring technical support is available throughout proposal design (including liaison with other technical staff to participate as needed, in order to assure consistent level of ongoing technical support).
• Lead development of all Water, Sanitation and Hygiene related PNS project designs, including coordination of design working group, developing budget with finance and submission of proposals and concept notes.
• Provide support to DM&E team on AP Assessment and Design processes
• Proactively seek new funding opportunities in relation to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, including identifying and engaging PNS donors, foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors, trusts, corporate partners and other potential funding sources. Develop and maintain a diversified WASH acquisition pipeline and proactively draft and share concept notes that respond to WASH and opportunities identified across programme areas.
• Strive to maintain a strong portfolio-wide leverage ratio of at least 5:1 between the total WASH programme budget and MozWASH base funding, proactively identifying opportunities to leverage core WASH resources through new funding, co-financing partnerships, and strategic investment.
• Maintain situational awareness of actual and potential hazards, before, during and after a disaster.

PNS Project Management:

• Lead on all programme management, donor engagement and SO collaboration in