WASH Vacancies

The Council of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) recently approved the regional Sustainable Integrated Water Resources and Wastewater Management Project (Pacific IWRM) for implementation. The Pacific IWRM Project will start in 2008 and will run for five years to 2013 with a total contribution from the GEF of US$10.7 million. The Project will help fourteen Pacific Island Countries address problems of pollution entering ground and surface water, as well as support improved management of clean water for drinking and sanitation.

Applications are invited for four positions within the Regional Project Coordination Unit (PCU). The regional PCU will be based within the Community Lifelines Programme of the Secretariat of the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), located in Suva, Fiji Islands. The PCU will provide a technical support, coordination, supervision, and management function for the implementation of the Pacific IWRM Project and will operate in accordance with the rules and procedures of Implementing Agencies UNDP/UNEP, Executing Agency SOPAC, and the GEF.

The four positions are:

1. Regional Project Manager - who will have overall responsibility for the project including preparation of the overall project Annual Work Plan, financial and technical management of the project, including reporting to UN Agencies and project stakeholders. The incumbent will act as the Secretary, and be accountable to the Regional Project Steering Committee. The Project Manager will be supported by three advisers:
2. Environmental Engineer/Management Adviser - who will assume direct responsibility for the technical delivery of the regional and national project components of the project, working with other members of the PCU as the principal technical project post.
3. Communications/Community Assessment and Participation Adviser - who will assume direct responsibility for the substantial community assessment, participation, information, monitoring and evaluation, communication(s) and education activities of the project.
4. Financial Adviser

Application deadline: 25 July 2008, 17:00 Fiji time.

For more information and application details go to the SOPAC web site

The International Water Association (IWA) is looking for a Regional Officer to coordinate the functions and activities of the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Water Safety Plan (WSP) Network. The officer will also provide occasional support to other programmes and activities within IWA which have particular relevance to the LAC Region, including:

• Support regional activities within the Water Operators Partnerships (WOPs) mechanism;
• Extension of the Operations and Maintenance Network in the region;
• Support to IWA membership activities in the region.

Requirements include:

• Degree(s) in Civil Engineering, Sanitary Engineering, Public Health, Management, Development Economics and /or other relevant disciplines;
• A minimum of five years substantive professional experience in the water sector;
• Very good command of Spanish language, and a good command of English written and spoken.

Contract period: Initial 2-year term, subject to completion of a six-month probationary period.

Duty station: Lima, Peru

Salary: $(US) 35000 - 45000 per annum, plus additional benefits

Application:

Interested candidates should submit a CV, including two references, and a covering letter of a maximum of 2-pages A4. Both documents should be submitted in English via email: Keith.Robertson@iwahq.org (tel.: +31 703 150 781)

Application deadline: 18 July 2008