Water Mission is a Christian engineering nonprofit that builds safe water solutions for people in developing countries, refugee camps, and disaster areas. Since 2001, Water Mission has served more than 8 million people in 60 countries, sharing safe water and the message of God’s love. Working at Water Mission is as much a calling as it is a career, and we are searching for people with the courage, passion, and drive to help us change the world. Read more about our Statement of Faith and Our Christian Mission.
Job Summary: Working under the supervision of the Country Director, with a dotted line to the Regional Carbon Credit Project Manager for East Africa, this position is responsible for coordinating key Carbon Credit Program requirements in the Malawi Country program. The position will manage the office and project portfolio, the scope of work, schedules, and budgets of various initiatives related to generating carbon credits for safe water projects in Malawi. It will also oversee routine baseline and end-line surveys and water quality testing and coordinate and implement staff and stakeholder training. The position is based in the Malawi Time Zone and will require routine travel to community locations.
Our culture: The Carbon Credit Project Manager is responsible for leading himself and those under his supervision in developing a biblical worldview culture that leads to God-honoring excellence in all their work and reinforcing the following: providing accurate data, empowering staff to have the skills and mindset needed to acknowledge mistakes or problems as opportunities to find appropriate solutions, and empowering staff to consistently work for excellence in solutions that are consistent with Water Mission’s mission, vision, values, and standards.
General Responsibilities
Mission Driven
- Maintain a strong Christian witness and model servant leadership to colleagues, partners, the communities we serve, and the public.
- Engage and participate in prayer before and after team meetings.
- Lead and participate in biblically based staff devotions.
Key Responsibilities
Carbon Credit Project and Program Management
- Audit Coordination: Coordinate regional audits, including logistics and technical leads support for onsite visits, and translate Water Mission’s work in the WASH sector to visiting auditors.
- Government Compliance: Support partnership conversions for buy-in, MoU negotiation, stakeholder sensitization, and government compliance for Water Mission’s carbon program in Malawi country program.
- Carbon Credit Project Management:
- Work closely with the Regional Carbon Credit Project Manager in East Africa to provide technical direction for country office staff to successfully implement the Carbon Credit Program.
- Work with the Regional Carbon Credit Project Manager in East Africa to develop and implement annual operating plans and budgets for Carbon projects.
- Manage multiple simultaneous project pipelines.
- Maintain good communications with the project stakeholders, i.e. in-country staff and partner organizations.
- Ensure that aspects of the project are executed according to an agreed-upon scope of work, design, schedule, and budget.
- Prepare and submit agreed-upon Project Status Reports using Smartsheet and other project management tools as directed.
- Budget Management: Prepare written proposals, budget to actuals, and cost estimates for assigned project activities. Support tight fiduciary oversight of all program and project-related expenses.
Community Development, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning and Program Design
- Health and Hygiene Promotion campaigns: Work with the staff from the Program Design and Standards and Subject Matter Experts (SME) departments to implement health & hygiene training.
- Stakeholder Inclusion. Work with the Program Design and Standards Team and Community Development SME staff to complete stakeholder inclusivity, stakeholder sensitization and community leadership training for carbon activities.
- Program Design: Coordinate with Program Design and SME staff on integrating new program design elements into existing workflows.
- Household Surveying: Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL), and SME staff to implement project-related surveys and required program documentation, including routine baseline and end-line surveys for all new and existing qualifying safe water projects in the region.
Professional Services
- Work with the Project Managers, Engineers, and Technicians to implement standards and processes related to asset management.
- Conduct field inspections and site assessments to ensure projects align with Carbon Credit Program requirements.
- Support Rural Water Cooperative (RWC) staff with robust Operations & Maintenance. (O&M) schedule for participating in communities.
- Household Water Quality Testing: Work with the Technical SME staff to implement routine household water quality testing procedures, including maintaining necessary inventory at routine intervals.
- Continuous Input and Grievance mechanism: Work with staff from the Program Design and Standards, Community Development SME, and Rural Water Cooperative (RWC) departments to monitor and follow up on continuous input mechanisms.
- Technical Carbon Training. Work with country office technical leads, coordinators, and leadership to support their technical knowledge of the Carbon Program, oversee Quality Assurance and Quality control (QAQC) of program deliverables, and coordinate required staff training.
Other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
Relationship and Alignment:
- Personal and growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Alignment with Water Mission’s Statement of Faith and Core Values of Love, Excellence, and Integrity.
- Alignment with the principles of servant leadership as embraced by Water Mission
Education Qualification and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Environmental Science, International Development, Public Health, or equivalent 10+ years of experience in an international development setting
- Minimum 5 years of progressive project management experience.
- Experience working in developing countries is preferred.
- Equivalent of 5+ years’ experience in the WASH sector.
Skills and Abilities
- Advanced skills with MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook) and familiarity with project management software such as MS Project, Smartsheet, etc.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for training and sensitization
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and project management skills.
- Excellent relationship and conflict resolution skills.
- Professional Engineering (P.E). license and/or Project Management certification preferred.
- Supervisory experience preferred.
- Experience working with MEL teams and surveying and researching teams.
- Ability to travel regularly in remote or hardship areas; (i.e., require long car rides on rough terrain, standing for extended periods of time in hot weather, and lifting moderately heavy things).
- Flexibility to work periodic long hours and weekends as required for ministry operations.
- Legal authorization to work in Malawi country without sponsorship.
- Commitment to the values and mission of the organization and ending the global water crisis.
