Job Description
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), is a multi-donor trust funded program administered by the World Bank, comprising a field-based network of over 70 professionals based in four regional teams (Africa, East Asia Pacific, Latin America, and South Asia) managed from a small headquarters team in Washington, DC. The WSP-Africa regional team (WSP-AF) is located in Nairobi.
WSP’s mission is to support the poor in obtaining sustainable access to water and sanitation services. WSP believes that improved water and sanitation services and hygiene practices are integral to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on poverty reduction, health, gender equality, and the environment. WSP is committed to being part of the collective efforts of the development community to achieve Targets 10 and 11 of the MDGs as an intermediate milestone of the vision of the sector. WSP will bring this mission into reality in two ways: (a) Direct means, to support implementation of sector dialogue, knowledge exchange, and capacity building; and (b) Indirect means, to help immediate counterparts and partners to build large-scale sustainable programs, support policy development and sector reforms, engage in action-learning innovative pilot projects that serve in particular the poor. For more information on WSP’s strategy, operations and products please visit: www.wsp.org.
WSP’s current Business Plan builds on a global strategy titled “FY2009-2018: Scaling Up Sustainable Services.” It articulates WSP’s strategic response to sector challenges affecting the poor through: capacity building, technical assistance and knowledge. The Business Plan identifies six Business Areas where the Program has the best opportunity to affect large-scale change in sector performance: (i) scaling up rural sanitation and hygiene; (ii)creating sustainable services through domestic private sector participation; (iii) supporting poor-inclusive WSS sector reform; (iv) targeting the urban poor and improving services in small towns; (v) mitigating and adapting WSS delivery to climate change impacts; and (vi) delivering WSS services in fragile states.
This Terms of Reference relates to both the creating sustainable services through domestic private sector participation and the scaling up rural sanitation and hygiene Business Areas.
This position provides sanitation and hygiene support to both the Kenya country program and the Regional Sanitation team.
Support the sanitation components of the Kenya Country Program
In Kenya, WSP-AF supports the Ministry of Water & Irrigation (MWI) and the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (MoPHS) in the overall coordination process and keeping up the dialogue between government, donors and other sector actors to facilitate support to the reform process. The WSP Kenya work plan covers the following business areas:
1. Creating Sustainable Services through Domestic Private Sector Participation
2. Supporting poor-inclusive Water Supply and Sanitation sector reform
3. Targeting the urban poor and improving services in small towns
Due to the growing pace of the reform process, client demands in Kenya have increased. To this end, an Operations Analyst will be needed to strengthen WSP-AF’s Kenya team, in particular to support areas 1 and 2 outlined above with respect to sanitation.
Support to the Regional Sanitation Team
The regional sanitation work program covers 4 key areas:
1. Technical support to WSP focus countries in Africa which have Scaling up rural sanitation as a business area on creating demand, increasing supply and strengthening the enabling environment. In addition, an oversight role in helping country teams develop project implementation plans, budgets and tasks is carried out. The regional team also helps to facilitate learning and knowledge management in countries and between countries.
2. Support to AMCOW and non-focus countries on sanitation action plans and monitoring of the eThewkini commitments and other sector commitments made as part of the AfricaSan process. The facilitation of country peer-to-peer learning opportunities as well as support to regional processes for the sanitation sub-sector.
3. The Economics of Sanitation initiative. A two phase initiative which first sought to quantify the impacts of inadequate sanitation in countries and which in the second phase is working to create a stronger evidence base on the cost effectiveness of different programmatic options and different technologies.
4. Market Based approaches to sanitation – looking at innovative ways to scale up sanitation business and to design new products and services which meet the needs of rural and peri-urban households who have access to basic sanitation to upgrade their latrines to improved status.
Note: If the selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All others will be offered a 2 year term appointment.
Duties
The Operations Analyst will work with the Kenya Country team, Domestic Private Sector Participation team and the Regional sanitation and hygiene team. It is envisioned that 60% of the operation analyst’s work will be spent on the Kenya Country work and 40% on the regional team tasks.
The specific duties of the Operations Analyst in the WSP Kenya team are as follows:
• In Kenya, strengthening of the enabling environment for sanitation and hygiene at national and local levels including the development of strategies in consultation with government partners.
• Working with the Government of Kenya to strengthen the supply side for sanitation products and services including analyzing bottlenecks in the supply chain and identifying market interventions and solutions (in line with the Market Based Approaches to sanitation work mentioned under the regional sanitation work above).
• Creating household demand for improved sanitation and the upgrading of basic latrines to improved latrines by supporting the Domestic Private Sector. Enhance the sanitation supply chains towards introducing market interventions to enhance service delivery.
• Support consultants working on sanitation supply chain enhancement initiatives.
• Working with local governments, IFC and other partners including local governments to provide solutions for commercial latrines.
• Support Kenya country coordinator with the country monitoring tool and reporting template.
• Assist the Task Manager on all other issues relevant to the delivery of the Kenya Business Plan as will be assigned from time to time.
• Procurement for consultancies, both firms and individuals, engaged in the work program, including development of Terms of Reference as may be required.
The specific duties of the Operations Analyst in the WSP Regional sanitation and hygiene team are as follows:
Provide technical support to the Niger and Senegal country teams working on scaling up rural sanitation. Specifically this would be on activities to strengthen the enabling environment and on creating demand and strengthening supply preparation of briefings and notes on progress to date, activities, results and learning for clients and partners.
• Participate in Niger’s and Senegal’s planning and research to support their activities and to provide the inputs for evidence based decision-making and performance monitoring.
• Contribute to project management in procurement and processing of contracts/amendments for consultant firms and individuals.
• Review and provide feedback to refine Terms of Reference/improve quality of deliverables received from consultants engaged to support different project components, as required in these two countries.
• Conduct data collection and reporting on project implementation, as required in these two countries.
• Contribute to knowledge products based on evidence based decision making for scaling up sanitation and hygiene in Niger and Senegal.
Management, Reporting & Location
• The Operations Analyst will formally report to the Regional Team Leader for WSP-Africa, but with day to day supervision primarily by the Senior Sanitation and Hygiene Specialist, as well as the Kenya Country Coordinator on all substantive and professional matters.
• The candidate will be based in Nairobi but will be expected to travel to other countries including but not limited to, Niger, Senegal, and within Kenya.
Selection Criteria
The Operations Analyst will have the following qualifications:
a) A Master’s degree in a field relevant to WSP such as, social science, institutional development, economics, finance, engineering or other relevant discipline;
b) At least two years of relevant developing country work experience in the water and sanitation sector preferably focused on sanitation or hygiene;
c) Experience in working with government officials in sector ministries.
Competencies: Shown below are the competencies linked to this job:
Project Management - Understands the basic concepts of project management, as they relate to the execution of tasks within a project.
Data Collection and Management - Demonstrates use of this competency
Bank Instruments, Policies, Procedures, and Systems - Basic knowledge of Bank Instruments, Policies and Procedures, including Financial Management and Procurement.
Portfolio Management (OS) - Assists and/or organizes portfolio reviews; prepares portfolio monitoring reports, and follows-up on portfolio review recommendations.
Analytical and Technical Skills, Operational Strategy Development & Advice - Solid theoretical base with relevance for specific Bank Network recognized Sector or Theme.
Client Orientation - Takes personal responsibility and accountability for timely response to client queries, requests or needs, working to remove obstacles that may impede execution or overall success.
Drive for Results - Takes personal ownership and accountability to meet deadlines and achieve agreed-upon results, and has the personal organization to do so.
Teamwork (Collaboration) and Inclusion - Collaborates with other team members and contributes productively to the team's work and output, demonstrating respect for different points of view.
Knowledge, Learning and Communication - Actively seeks knowledge needed to complete assignments and shares knowledge with others, communicating and presenting information in a clear and organized manner.
Business Judgment and Analytical Decision Making - Analyzes facts and data to support sound, logical decisions regarding own and others' work.
Qualified male and female candidates of diverse background (gender, religious, ethnic etc.) are encouraged to apply.
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