Water County Extender at Artemis Outsourcing Limited

Job Description: 

• Monitoring and Evaluation Extenders, County Level 

Water County Extender

• Artemis Outsourcing Ltd is a regional focused multidisciplinary consulting firm providing technical assistance in Human Resource Management. Our client in the NGO sector is currently seeking to engage a Water County Extender to be based at the county.

Reporting To : County Director of Water

Background

• Monitoring and evaluation seeks to increase accountability, inform decision-making and contribute to learning on the best ways to achieve WASH objectives. County WASH Hub to encompass all WASH activities and improve coordination in the WASH sector in general. County sanitation Hubs are already set up. The Monitoring and Evaluation Units within Sanitation Hubs have been a critical component as they provide technical support to all actors at County level.  Upgrading of these sanitation hubs to WASH hubs at county level, will ensure that the Monitoring & Evaluation units will be responsible for conducting training on the monitoring of water supply related interventions, providing update on current progress, enhancing coordination among partners, leveraging funds, etc. 

Justification and Purpose of the technical support

• The purpose of this position is to provide support to the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit at the County Ministry of Water Services to strengthen monitoring and evaluation of County level activities on water supply initiative. In addition, there is need to strengthen the partnership and knowledge sharing for synergistic effort by various partners to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all. The technical extender will receive overall supervision from the County Director of Water who will be working closely with M&E consultant based at the WASH hub in the Ministry of Health in Nairobi with technical guidance from the WASH Specialist, UNICEF Lodwar Zonal Office. 

Key Tasks

Following tasks will be accomplished by the County Water Extender:

• Support the county in ensuring progressive realization of the human right to water towards universal access.
• Support the county in maintaining a directory of all agencies involved in WASH in the County
• Engage with other partners and share their WASH experiences through documentation and dissemination of key good practices and lessons learned in integrated water resources management in the county. 
• Support the county in conducting quarterly and ad hoc WaSH forum as per the Turkana County WASH Forum Terms of Reference (TOR). 
• Support the County Department of Water Services, WRUAs, WUAs, and water committees on effective engagement with the private sector to ensure effective and coordinated community and stakeholder participation and adoption of innovative market-based approaches to integrated water resources management.  
• Enhance WaSH partnership linkages through existing and innovative forums such as stakeholders’ meetings; water committees, and county WASH forum. 
• Support in capacity building and updating of water supply information through the Continuous Database Updating System (CODUSYS). 
• Regular update of system to capture real time functionality of various water resources and ensure data collected is uploaded into the system for analysis, reporting, and evidence-based interventions.
• Generate monthly report with specific actions identified for accelerating sustainable water resource management then sharing the report with the County Director of Water services and the national coordinating teams. 
• Ensure the County has access to various policy and technical documents on WaSH for reference and utilization during implementation
• Provide technical support for the County and facilitate development of related technical water supply standards and guidelines. 
• Support the County Water Services Department to raise the profile of water resource management as a critical area necessary for the county’s socio-economic development to ensure prioritization of these in the County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP) and annual development plans.  
• Any other work related to M&E assigned by the County Director of Water Services
• Ensure secretariat of Wash coordination forums
• Deliverables
• CODUSYS fully updated with respect to physical progress in the field.
• Weekly and Monthly update with analysis of progress based on the data in the CODUSYS and reports received from the water officers. 
• Report of follow up meetings and agreed actions carried out with partners based on partnership table. Minutes and report of stakeholders/review meeting shared within two days of the meeting. (WASH)
• Monthly report on follow up actions on stakeholders’ and review/ reflection meetings on water supply. 
• All training materials reports shared to the national Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MOWSI). 
• Quarterly Human-Interest Stories and good photographs of beneficiaries shared and for internal and external use (WASH)
• Monthly progress report on post intervention sustainability actions.
• Monthly implementation plan for all partners prepared and shared with the national ministry. 
• Monthly WASH Forum coordination minutes
• Quality assurance and reporting about water supply infrastructure and services in the county. 

Key Qualification:

• Applicants must be first degree holders in Civil/ Water Engineering, Public Health, Environmental Health, or related discipline.
• At least 4 years of implementing M&E related to water, sanitation and hygiene or projects of related areas
• Computer skills and reporting experience
• Good knowledge of WASH coordination especially within rural Kenya context and familiarity with Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) processes// wash
• Good communication skills and a team player

The technical extender will be expected to make their own arrangements for travel and accommodation while at the duty station. Further the s/he will be paid a mileage allowance on based on the actual distance travelled. They will be expected to have a valid motorbike riding license, and a motorbike before taking up the assignment. In exceptional cases agency can consider providing advance salary to buy motorbike.