Company Profile

WaterAid is an international not-for-profit, determined to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation. Since we started in 1981, we’ve remained resolutely focused on tackling these three essentials that transform people’s lives. Without all three, people can’t live dignified, healthy lives. With all three, they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty, and change their lives for good. Children grow up healthy and strong, women and men get to earn a living, whole communities start to thrive.

WaterAid is fully committed to protecting those with whom it comes into contact. WaterAid is committed to ensuring that wherever we work in the world there is no tolerance for the abuse of power, privilege, or trust. WaterAid reinforces a culture of zero tolerance towards any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination, abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation of any kind. The safeguarding of the communities in which we work, our staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf, is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. We are passionately committed to WaterAid being an organisation where everyone is welcome, respected, included and empowered to be their best. We represent and celebrate the diversity of our staff, partners, and everyone with whom we work to create a culture where everyone can reach their full potential. All staff and volunteers are required to share in this commitment through our Global Code of Conduct.

We will conduct the most appropriate pre-employment references and checks to ensure high standards are maintained. WaterAid will carry out disclosure checks for roles that involve direct contact with children and vulnerable adults. Applicants are required to provide details of convictions that, in other circumstances, would be considered spent. For more information about safeguarding at WaterAid, please visit our safeguarding webpage at: https://www.wateraid.org/uk/safeguarding-at-wateraid

Job Description

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

REHABILITATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE INFRASTRUCTURE IN HEALTH CENTERS IN THE BONGO, KASSENA NANKANA MUNICIPAL, KASSENA NANKANA WEST AND BUILSA NORTH MMDAS

Background
WaterAid Ghana (WAG) in collaboration with Global Affairs Canada is implementing the Sexual Health and Reproductive Education (SHARE). The SHARE program was designed as a gender-transformative, human-rights progressive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) program. SHARE’s ultimate outcome in Ghana is to increase the enjoyment of health-related human rights by adolescent girls and young women in four districts: Bongo, Builsa North, Kassena Nankana West, and Kassena Nankana Municipal, in the Upper East Region.

A key aspect of the SHARE project is to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities in selected healthcare facilities (HCFs) to deliver quality adolescent-friendly and gender-responsive priority services addressing the needs of adolescents and young people, particularly girls and young women. WaterAid Ghana seeks to undertake rehabilitation, and construction works to establish model WASH facilities in HCFs, which include refurbishment of Adolescent and Youth Friendly Spaces (AYFS), Sanitation, Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH) and Waste Management Facilities in selected HCFs. 

The HCFs were shortlisted based on those that already have access to an improved water source on-premises as determined by a Joint Assessment and Monitoring Program in consultation the District Assembly and the Health Directorate for each of the four Districts. However, rehabilitation alone will not be sufficient to provide safe and adequate services as the current structures do not meet national guidelines and, in many cases, are not structurally sound.  Therefore, the re-construction of WASH infrastructures will be required to ensure structural integrity of the facilities and sustained use and provision of good hygiene and MHH services. This includes proper hand washing facilities, running water in health center treatment rooms, adequate toilets, and basic waste management facilities.

Rehabilitation and re-construction of WASH infrastructure in Health Centers 

Required Skills or Experience

• Expertise in areas defined and evidence of providing high quality and professional WASH service delivery, advocacy and influencing, and/or organizational development and capacity building.
• Evidence of registration with the Government of Ghana.
• Local Presence: have a functional office in the project district and/or region.
• Experience with assignments of a similar nature in the last 5 years or demonstrated ability to deliver on the assignment.
• Experience managing multilateral and bilateral donor funds, private sector, and foundation grants (e.g., GAC, USAID, CIDA/DFATD, CNHF, FCDO, WB, UN, EU/EC, SNV, BMGF, etc) 
• Governance Structure- Board of Directors or a similar structure in place.
• Policies and procedure documents that guide the activities and operations of the organization will be reviewed post-selection as part of due diligence. Examples of such policy documents are finance manuals, human resource policies, health and safety policy, child protection policy, etc.
• References/Referees (3): 2 must be technical referees in areas of work interest.
• Audited annual statements of accounts of the three (3) preceding years, audited by a properly certified person or entity recognized by a national or international professional body. 
• Key personnel List and CVs relevant to the above. A Letter of Commitment is required for external staff that may be hired to support any aspect of this assignment.
• Goodwill at the community level.
• Valid GRA Tax clearance certificate
• Valid SSNIT clearance certificate