• Provide strategic and technical leadership under the supervision of WASH Technical Lead on implementation of Hygiene and other related WASH activities
• Develop and maintain relationships and work closely with national and local WASH actors, including national and local government, private sector partners, community, NGOs, other donors
• Work closely with Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Lead to integrate relevant WASH and hygiene behavior change messaging into the framework of the Activity
• Contribute to and provide inputs of annual work plan, required project reports, baseline data, tools and indicators for monitoring and evaluation, collection / sharing of lessons learned
• Document lessons learned related, evaluate impact and modify approaches as needed
• Help develop internal organizational WASH-related training and development of tools, guidelines, standards to improve program quality
• Lead rapid prototyping, field testing, installation, and full-scale manufacturing of WASH based technologies
• Support the implementation of different WASH-related interventions by the district field teams
• Provide guidance on the necessary steps and organization of activities

Consortium Engagement

• Provide strategic and technical leadership on implementation of WASH activities
• Develop and maintain relationships and work closely with local WASH actors, including national and local government, private sector, community, NGOs, other donors
• Work closely with SBC Lead, Communications Director to integrate relevant WASH SBC messaging into activities and manage the use of SBC communication tools and materials across project
• Contribute to and provide inputs of annual work plan, required project reports, baseline data, tools and indicators for monitoring and evaluation, collection / sharing of lessons learned
• Document lessons learned related, evaluate impact and modify approaches as needed
• Help develop internal organizational Hygiene related training and development of tools, guidelines, standards to improve program quality

Setting the tone

• Create a positive environment of piloting, trials, testing theories, learning from mistakes and critical analysis
• Actively and openly engage with Technical Lead, other Technical Specialists, Field Team Leader and Market Development Officers to strengthen project strategy
• Directly resolve with challenges with Technical Lead and technical staff

Planning, and Strategy Development

• Collaboratively plan and implement project activities through the preparation of multiyear and annual work plan in collaboration with the Technical Specialists and consortium partners
• Facilitate and frame the strategic direction of the project in collaboration with the Technical Lead
• Ensure the application of iDE’s WASH market system approach and closely work with market actors specific to selected value chains and business groups/actors
• Assist the Field Team Leader in planning and provide technical guidance for strategy formulation and implementation to achieve required changes in the market system related to WASH.

Reporting and Submissions

• Assist WASH Technical Lead to submit timely donor reports on weekly, quarterly and yearly basis as determined in the contract
• Assist WASH Technical Lead to manage the contracting cycle and the required project documentation
• Present progress report and other reports in a regular basis, document the key learning & findings, ensure accurate and timely data entry into the database

Finance and Administration

• Budget development
• Budget reporting
• Budget burn rate monitoring

Monitoring
and Evaluation

• Support the MEL team to ensure data quality control and timely entry of project data into relevant database
• Work with other technical specialists, field team leader and field teams to review and revise results measurement plans
• Actively engage in initiating best practices, key learnings, unique cases and other relevant documentation to share with the wider team
• Ensure that the intervention outreached are being properly captured

Supervisor and Staff Development

• Develop effective guidelines/tools that required for field implementation and orient staffs on the tools and guidelines;
• Provides close and supportive supervision and guidance to the field team and other stakeholders in the assigned areas to demonstrate outcomes and impact
• Support field staff to develop technical capacity of WASH and Hygiene entrepreneurs;

Coordination and Support

• Coordinate and liaison between field team and consortium partners
• Maintain close contact and communication for project planning, strategy, technical guideline formulation and other issues with Supervisor and counterparts, service providers, government, private sector and project clients.
• Based on guidance from the Technical Leader, support cross-program activities including:
  
  • Product innovation
  • Technology commercialization
  • Best practices documentation
  • Innovation and Quality Management
  • Maintain close contact and communication for project planning, strategy formulation and other issues with supervisor, technical specialists and institutional support teams

Other Responsibilities

• Actively follow and engage with Global WASH initiatives in other countries and other Bangladesh programs for stronger network connections
• Actively learn and develop skills related to online platforms used by iDE including but not limited to: Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, BNA-MIS software
• Maintain use of online platforms for sharing reports, documents and data
• Represent iDE at external events and meetings as agreed with supervisor
• Participate in all relevant meetings and workshops
• Undertake additional tasks subject to workload and skill sets such as photography, cross-project trainings and evaluations
  

Education

1. Minimum Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university in any of the following: Environmental Science, Economics, Development Studies, Civil/Environmental Engineering, Public Health or a related field associated with water supply, sanitation and hygiene behavior change. Master’s degree is preferred.

Work Experience

• At least 3 years of experience working on market system development, local economic development, private sector development or WASH sector. 
• Prior experience in managing technology design and development process through conducting Human Centered Design (HCD) research
• Experience in WASH initiatives in a combination of health and nutrition, livelihoods, gender, and agricultural development or similar Feed the Future (FtF) initiatives
• Proven knowledge to incorporate qualitative analysis to develop design directions for solving the problems
• Demonstrated ability to document information through materials such as case studies, narrative reports, fact sheets, infographics, blog post, catalog, and job aid
• Expertise to facilitate training and to develop training manual for capacity building of field staff & implementation partners
• Familiarity with rapid prototyping, field testing, installation, and full-scale production of WASH based technologies
• Understanding of social and behavior change (SBC) approach and experience in managing development of BCC materials

Management and Programmatic Skills

• Ability to responsibly manage funds, monitoring and team progress
• Ability to plan and implemented iterative field level activities for market systems change (looking beyond the DIP)
• Understands the facilitative role of the market development approach

Personal Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
• Ability to work with various national and international team members and flexibility to adapt to different work conditions
• Ability to interact and collaborate with a broad range of public and private sector and NGO partners

Physical ability and mindset

• Ability to travel and undertake fieldwork in rural contexts
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English and Bangla, including ability to present coherent and convincing messages to different audiences
• Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office, email and the internet
• Familiarity with internet based software systems such as G Suite
• Excellent presentation design skills with visual graphic for targeted audiences

Other Information and Conditions

• The position would be the regular employment of iDE-Bangladesh
• The remuneration package, work days and deliverables might be change based on negotiation between iDE management and the contract
• iDE reserves the right to terminate this agreement any time with the consultation of the employee as per HR policy
• It is duty and accountability of the Technical Specialist - Hygiene Market Systems to maintain full confidentiality for sharing information, documents and others issues with others