Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation Hiring Project Officer

NELSAP is now in the process of recruiting a Project Officer for Sio-Malaba/Malakisi River Basin (Kakamega – Kenya), shared between Kenya and Uganda. The Officer will support and facilitate
NELSAP in identification, preparation, and implementation of various projects in the Sio Malaba,
Malakisi River Basin and other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

Key Responsibilities

Stakeholder Engagements:

• Sensitize local communities in collaboration with Line Ministries, Water Management Zones,
  Local Government Authorities, County Governments, NGOs and Basin Water agencies on
  conservation and protection of the environment to ensure water resources in the sub-basin
  continue to provide envisaged service to the present as well as future generations.
• Prepare sub-catchment management plans through a participatory approach with different
  stakeholders in the sub-basin.
• Documents best practices, and lessons learnt and share with stakeholders for scaling up including
  study tours/field visits (depending on funds availability).
• Liaise with other players (NGOs, Government agencies, international organizations etc.) to bring
  synergies of our activities in the sub-basin.
• Involve stakeholders during project sensitization, identification, preparation, and implementation
  to ensure a sense of ownership of the identified projects by locals, which in turn yields
  sustainability of the projects.
• Involve stakeholders in the technical review and preparation of project concept notes, and
  proposals.

Project Preparatory Studies

• Together with key stakeholders, undertake the identification of projects that address community
  needs in line with the NELSAP mission (alleviate poverty, reverse environmental degradation, and economic growth).
• Analyze preparation of project concept notes and proposals.
• Support the procurement of consultancy services in terms of preparations of ToRs, REOI, Request
  for Proposal documents, and technical and financial evaluations of proposals.
• Participate in fieldwork missions to collect data, support the consultants, and validate the
  consultant’s fieldwork assignments, including supervisory missions.
• Facilitate the consultants where some project information is required from the respective
  governments such as Visa, data from government departments, permits, tax exemptions etc.
• Provide technical review of consultancy study outputs /reports.
• Convene stakeholder review workshop meetings and coordinate the logistics, facilitation, and
  moderation of the workshops.