Overview
The Water Officer will support the implementation of the Water for Resilience (W4R) Programme in Somaliland, focusing on strengthening sustainable and climate-resilient water systems through a Market Systems Development approach.
Key Responsibilities
- Support implementation of W4R activities.
- Conduct mapping, assessments, and diagnostics of water ecosystem actors and water systems.
- Support identification and onboarding of Water Service Providers, Water Companies, CWMCs, O&M operators, suppliers, and other ecosystem actors.
- Assist in baseline assessments, due diligence processes, and climate-water market systems assessments.
- Support preparation of technical assessments, infrastructure evaluations, and investment recommendations.
- Contribute to the design, rehabilitation, upgrading, and expansion of climate-resilient water systems and multi-use water infrastructure.
- Support implementation of solarization, water efficiency, groundwater protection, and climate-resilient water infrastructure initiatives.
- Support implementation of Market Systems Development (MSD) interventions.
- Facilitate engagement with private water service providers and local enterprises.
- Identify systemic constraints affecting water service delivery, investment, governance, and market performance.
- Support private sector engagement initiatives.
- Assist in developing business improvement opportunities for water ecosystem actors.
- Support implementation of challenge funds, co-investment initiatives, and other catalytic financing mechanisms.
- Support capacity strengthening initiatives targeting WSPs, WCs, CWMCs, government authorities, and other water ecosystem actors.
- Facilitate training and mentoring water service management, governance, operations and maintenance, customer service, climate resilience, and financial management.
- Support development and strengthening of governance structures and accountability systems.
- Promote inclusive participation of women, youth, minority groups, and vulnerable communities.
- Support establishment and strengthening of customer feedback and accountability mechanisms.
- Maintain effective working relationships with government ministries, district authorities, water agencies, private sector actors, financial institutions, and community structures.
- Participate in coordination forums, technical working groups, and relevant water sector meetings.
- Support collaboration between DRC, Braintec, local authorities, financial institutions, and other programme stakeholders.
- Facilitate stakeholder consultations, dialogue sessions, and community engagement processes.
- Support partnership development with water ecosystem actors and local institutions.
- Support integration of climate adaptation and resilience measures into water systems interventions.
- Contribute to anticipatory action and drought preparedness activities.
- Ensure conflict-sensitive and inclusive programming approaches are integrated.
- Support implementation of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) commitments.
- Ensure participation of women and youth in programme interventions and water governance structures.
- Collect, verify, and analyse technical and programme performance data.
- Support tracking of programme indicators.
- Contribute to the preparation of timely and quality periodic donor reports.
- Document success stories, lessons learned, innovations, and best practices.
- Support GPS mapping and maintenance of programme databases and records.
- Contribute to programme learning and adaptive management processes.
- Ensure programme activities comply with DRC policies, donor requirements, technical standards, and national regulations.
- Promote safeguarding, accountability, and protection mainstreaming.
- Identify implementation risks and propose mitigation measures.
- Ensure proper filing and documentation of project records and technical documentation.
Required Experience
- Minimum 4 years of experience in water resource management, water supply systems, water infrastructure, WASH, resilience, or market systems programming.
- Experience working with private sector actors, water service providers, utilities, community-managed water systems, or public-private partnerships.
- Experience in water systems assessments, planning, implementation, monitoring, and supervision.
- Experience engaging government institutions, communities, and private sector stakeholders.
- Experience using GIS/GPS and digital data collection platforms is an asset.
Qualifications
A University degree in Water Supply Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, Water Resource or Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a directly related field.
