Assignment: WASH Expert
Responsibility: Ensure the technical relevance of WASH knowledge
and skills are internalized within partner’s internal staff
Location:
West Java, Central Java, or East Java
Duration: 1 year contract, with possibility of extension
Type:
Individual
Reports
to:
Bina Artha Ventura’s WASH
Coordinator and operational team
BACKGROUND
Water.org is a U.S.-based, non-governmental organization working
to increase access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Under WaterCredit program, Water.org provides technical support to PT. Bina
Artha Ventura (BAV) to enable access
for sanitation amongst low-income communities.
Bina
Artha Ventura is an Indonesian
Ventura company started in 2011 to deliver financial services to the economically active
low
income population in a fair,
transparent, efficient and sustainable manner.
The company offers
uncollateralized group-loans
ranging from US$ 150-300 to economically-active, low-income women. The target of
BAV group
loans are women with
a daily income of US$ 2-6,
mainly living in semi-urban and semi- rural areas. BAV’s lending
approach is joint liability group lending with no collateral requirements. As of December 2015 BAV serves over
173,000 clients and seeks to reach 1,000,000 clients by 2020.
BAV
clients are organized into groups of
5-7 members. Groups are organized
in centers of 2-4 groups fortnightly (every two
weeks) center meetings in the client residential
areas are the primary point of contact
between BAV and the
clients.
Each BAV branch office has a services
area radius of approximately
15 kilometers and serves around 100 center meetings.
Since June 2014, Bina Artha Ventura has developed and launched a loan product to finance household
level facilities such as toilets
and septic
tank. Currently, BAV is planning to roll out the WASH loan product into new
branches across Java. Bina Artha Ventura
seeks three WASH experts to
support program implementation during the expansion phase.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Building a working team with WASH coordinator, head office team, regional office team, and branch office team in implementing water and sanitation financing program
- Attracting potential water and sanitation contractors in each branch location, and provide training to increase their capacity to become partners in improving members’ WASH facilities, with at least 1 contractor in each branch
- Directing contractor in building WASH facilities and ensure its accordance with the agreed facility and the standard quality
- Supervising the WASH facility constructions
- Providing training of WASH program to MFI employees
- Providing training on hygiene and health behaviors relating to WASH program to members or client in the meeting points.
- Working with MFI to conduct internal trainings
- Establish coordination to cooperate with sanitarians in health center offices in order to develop strategies, at the RT/RW, village, sub-district, or district levels
- Report on the progress of WASH program in branches to the head office team
- Manage WASH loan in all branches and provide quick and appropriate solutions
- Manage WASH activities at the branch level and regularly report progress to WASH Coordinator
Qualifications:
- Academic background at least diploma, but prioritize bachelor degree
- Has working experiences in WASH or other relevant sector (construction, civil, environment and community empowerment)
- Has leadership skills and motivation to help the poor
- Has the ability to work in team or alone, able to achieve targets
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written
- Capable of using Microsoft Office
- Honest, responsible, creative, innovative, initiative, and professional
- Could show a sample of work relating to WASH sector during discussion/interview
- Comfortable traveling extensively to MFI branch offices and operating areas
Application
Information
Proposals should be submitted
to Kiki Tazkiyah (ktazkiyah@water.org) and Neksi Triwidiyanti (neksi.triwidiyanti@bina-artha.net) no later than April 6, 2016 noting “WASH
Coordinator” in the subject line.
Applications will be reviewed as they are received.
