Programme Specialist

Global Water Leadership in a Changing Climate

JOB TITLE:                      Programme Specialist – Global Water Leadership Programme

REPORTS TO:                  Chief Operating Officer (COO)

SALARY CATEGORY:        F/Specialist

ELIGIBILITY:                   All nationalities

LOCATION:                      Stockholm, Sweden with possibility for partially remote posting

DURATION:                     2 years, with possibility of extension to August 2024

DEADLINE:                      24 August 2021 (23:59, Stockholm CET)

THE GLOBAL WATER LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME

GWP’s Strategy 2020-2025 emphasizes the urgent need for coordinated action to advance governance and management of water resources for sustainable and equitable development. As an action network bridging the global to the local and the local to the global, GWP seeks to lead systems changes at all levels, as they pertain to providing water solutions, effective policy and financial planning for water, and catalysing climate-resilient development. GWP accomplishes this by initiating steps with its local partners which lead to incremental shifts, resulting in a larger system change.

As an implementing partner of FCDO’s “Global Water Leadership in a Changing Climate” (GWL) programme, GWP has designed a set of work packages to contribute to the programme’s Output 2 (Evidence, norms, and standards) and Output 3 (Identifying systemic and financial constraints) for Integrated Water Resources Management, and where possible, for climate-resilient WASH services, in collaboration with UNICEF. These outputs will contribute to generating political leadership for water at the national and international levels.

GWP’s strategy for delivery of the GWL programme is based on horizontal and vertical integration, which indicates cooperation at multiple levels: between national and local stakeholders within a country; between national and global stakeholders towards international platforms; and among project partners both at the global level and within each country. It leverages GWP’s role and function on the global, regional, and national levels to bring forth a joint vision and a spectrum of impacts together with the GWL programme partners.  GWP will be contributing to the Global Water Leadership programme’s outputs through the following key activities:

• Providing grassroot perceptions of water insecurity in selected countries through a survey, complete with ground truthing of relevant data

• Providing baseline and updated information to demonstrate the status and evolution of water and climate resilience in policies and plans in the selected countries through the establishment of a scorecard approach,

• Supporting inclusive and participatory government-led multi-stakeholder change processes to identify bottlenecks in water resource management

• Catalysing political uptake and implementation of the strategies and mobilising strong global voices for water and sanitation in international platforms.

GWP seeks a Programme Specialist to be the focal point for the overall implementation of the GWL programme, and provide backstopping to GWP Regional Water Partnerships and Country Water Partnerships

SCOPE OF THIS POSITION 

The Programme Specialist will provide guidance, coordination and administration as needed to regionally and country-based programme staff to:

•  conduct community surveys and centralised information sharing

• develop a scorecard approach to measure progress in each country and share the information centrally

• organise for them to guide governments in carrying out multi-stakeholder change processes

• develop communication products on programme results to support efforts to encourage emergence of Water Leadership nationally and internationally

• ensure timely progress tracking and reporting

Full job details are available online (click on link)

PLEASE NOTE

• Applications must be submitted in English only and only via the online application system

• Email applications will not be accepted

• Maximum 2-page CV and 1-page cover letter describing how your experience, qualifications and competencies match this position.

• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted within 4-6 weeks after the application deadline.

• Questions can be directed to vacancy@gwp.org.

• Professionals with a background from and/or living and working in Asian, African, Eastern European, Latin American, or Middle Eastern countries are encouraged to apply.

• GWP offers competitive remuneration as well as an attractive work environment, with flat hierarchies, and with great opportunities for professional exposure and growth.

• GWP offers competitive remuneration as well as an attractive work environment, with flat hierarchies, and with great opportunities for professional exposure and growth.