NRT Hiring WASH Manager

WASH Manager

NRT is looking for a highly skilled person to join its Water Department to support achievement of the overall aim of the water program as guided by the NRT Water Strategy. The WASH Manager will be responsible for overseeing the planning, implementation and monitoring of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene programs. The role will ensure that improved livelihoods are achieved across the NRT member community conservancies as a result of continued investment in water projects, ensuring that WASH projects meet strategic objectives of NRT. This will be achieved through collaborations and partnerships especially with the County Governments and other stakeholders, in an accountable, professional, strategic, pragmatic, and innovative manner. 

The Manager will lead the WASH team and ensure that WASH projects comply with all statutory requirements/regulations. 

Key roles/responsibilities:

• Oversee the implementation of the NRT Water Strategy 
• Ensure an integrated and holistic approach to water development across the conservancies with environmental, technical, and financial sustainability built into the design and management of water supplies. 
• Develop and manage comprehensive WASH programs and projects. 
• Ensure WASH projects are delivered on time within the scope and within budget. 
• Prepare and manage projects budgets and financial reports. 
• Undertake technical and feasibility assessment of the community priorities for water infrastructure development and prepare comprehensive reports of the studies capturing legal aspects, hydrological and water resource analysis, environmental considerations, social and technical aspects etc. 
• Supervise and coordinate the development of WRM strategies and linkages to the water development plans within the counties including policies and annual plans for the conservancies. 
• Undertake contract management for all the water projects developments across the NRT member community conservancies. 
• Support all the conservancies to engage and coordinate all water projects including linkages to the county governments, fundraising, and following of the priorities in the WRM strategies. 
• Support the establishment and strengthening of coordination and partnerships at the regional levels to enhance coordinated water developments that enhances the implementation of the conservancies WRM strategies. 
• Undertake technical engineering survey, design work, BoQ’s development and all the necessary technical input with engineering reporting for the community priorities identified e.g., gravity and piped water projects, sand dams, water pans, rock catchments, boreholes, water treatment, desalination etc. 
• Support the establishment and actualization of conservancy-based water governance models/structures to ensure sustainability of the water supplies established with links to the respective county governments and other development partners. 
• Build capacity of the department technical staff on water supply engineering designs and all related skills for effective water development across the NRT member community conservancies. This to also include mentoring for registration with the relevant professional bodies.

Deadline: Friday 21st June 2024.

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