USA Africa Dialogue Series - Director of Water Programs, charity: water, New York, Projects in Africa

Director of Water Programs
charity: water
www.charitywater.org
New York, NY

charity: water is focused on providing clean, safe drinking water to
100 million people in the next ten years. To do this, charity: water
is scaling its staff, its countries of work, its international
partnerships-and they are-inventing charity in the process.

The DIRECTOR OF WATER PROGRAMS will:

• As a member of charity: water's Executive Team, help lead the
organization and drive the cultural values that make our organization
distinct.

• Drive charity: water's program strategy and build partner capacity
to fund $2B in projects over the next 10 years.

• Have ownership of all funds sent to the field for project work.
You'll deploy, monitor and report on $10-20M in project funding this
year, growing to $500M per year over the next 10 years.

• Develop and lead people and systems to manage continual influx of
complex project data, and to scale exponentially over the next 5-10
years.

• Develop and manage high-level relationships with NGO leaders, water
experts, field engineers and community workers, driving testing and
broad adoption of viable new technologies and best practices.

• Drive quarterly project funding planning, including vetting and
negotiating partner project proposals and coordinating funding
capacity with fundraising and accounting teams.

• Represent charity: water in the global safe drinking water,
sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector.

• Uphold charity: water's commitment to transparency and efficiency by
holding partners accountable for financial and project status
reporting.

We are looking for a truly remarkable individual to join the senior
leadership team. The ideal candidate will display these unique
qualities:

• At least 5 years experience and expertise in international
development, preferably focused on programs providing clean drinking
water and hygiene and sanitation training to impoverished communities.

• Experience with designing and managing scalable systems to track,
organize and analyze complex project data.

• Proven relationship skills with ability to develop and leverage
productive relationships with NGO executives, water experts, engineers
and field workers.

• Strong communication skills, with ability to speak authoritatively
at conferences, in meetings and on video.

• Analytical, detailed and numbers-oriented approach to planning and
budgeting.

Education:
Bachelor's degree is required. Advance degree a plus.

Travel:
Travel internationally at least 12 weeks per year.

Compensation:
A competitive compensation package will be offered to the successful
candidate.

For more detailed information, go to: http://devnetjobs.tripod.com/9november2010-charitywater.html

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