CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.
The Water Team at CARE USA sits within the broader Food and Water Systems Unit and is responsible for a wide range of functions in the areas of water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), water resources management, and water for productive uses; referred to collectively as Water+. Water Team responsibilities include: providing technical facilitation and policy and advocacy support to specific country offices (COs) and regional programs; strategic guidance to CARE’s larger Water+ portfolio; global impact measurement; contributing to sector discussions regarding best practices and sustainable outcomes; communicating with impact across CARE and within the global water sector; advocating domestically for effective US government engagement in the WASH sector; and engaging donors and the public in CARE’s Water+ work. Moving beyond service delivery, CARE’s Water+ programs emphasize collaboration with partners and governments to strengthen water governance and systems that ensure sustainable water and sanitation service provision and ensure sustained hygiene behavior change in the countries and communities in which CARE works. CARE’s Water+ programs recognize and address gender and social inequities, and seek change that sustainably improves the lives of women and girls.
The Water+ Systems Advisor will provide technical facilitation and learning support to CARE’s Water+ programs with a particular focus in East Africa, including large programs now in close-out stage, where consolidating and disseminating learning is a key priority. This will include: supporting learning, documentation and exchange to and from Water+ programs and the global water sector; helping to position key program learning to influence WASH policy and practice at district and national levels; and providing technical facilitation in water and sanitation systems strengthening, sanitation and hygiene behavior change, and water resources management for multiple and productive uses. The Water+ Systems Advisor will work closely with country offices and other members of the Water Team, CARE’s fundraising and Competitive Bids Unit, and members of CARE’s broader Food and Water Systems Unit to provide technical facilitation and assistance, learning and policy support to multi-sector programs, and to develop Water+ programs and initiatives.
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