Senior Associate, Country Support

Key Responsibilities:

• Support planning and coordination across the Safe Water Now program  (e.g., meeting coordination, internal progress updates, and updates to external stakeholders, etc.).
• Provide solution-oriented and strategic programmatic support to the Safe Water Now program in Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda. 
• Support implementation of our Optimization Agenda, working with colleagues at country, regional, and global levels to test potential improvements to chlorine dispenser and ILC devices.
• Collect, consolidate, and share lessons learned and best practices (strategies, tools, and experience) across countries, including on technical questions. 
• In collaboration with the Monitoring, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Strategy and Delivery teams, analyze programmatic data to support the monitoring of country-level program process against milestones and continual improvement.
• Support cross-functional alignment across teams (e.g., Cost-Effectiveness, Communications, Policy and Partnerships, Finance and Operations, MLE, etc.).

Requirements

• You have a Bachelor’s degree in international development, public policy, environmental studies, public health, or a related field.
• You have 3-5 years of professional experience, especially in Africa at national or international levels with NGO or large multi-national organizations is desirable.
• You have strong analytical and research skills, with the ability to interpret data and draw meaningful conclusions.
• You’re a team player, with the ability to collaborate within and between geographically dispersed teams across multiple time zones. 
• You have a proactive attitude with the ability to take initiative and adapt to changing project requirements.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with a demonstrated ability to synthesize evidence into effective presentations and written documents (presentation decks, summary documents, briefs, etc) with actionable recommendations for diverse stakeholders, both internally and externally.