The USAID Water Security and Systems Strengthening Activity (USAID Eau) is a five- year activity that began on 12 February 2024. The purpose of USAID Eau is to enhance the capacity and performance of water sector institutions and markets in Haiti to finance and deliver safe, reliable, and affordable climate resilient drinking water service before, during and after shocks and stresses such as climate crises, health pandemics and epidemics, and other shocks such as civil unrest, gang insurgence and political fragility. USAID Eau will achieve this purpose through two mutually reinforcing and interrelated objectives:
1. Governance and Finance: Strengthen the policy and regulatory framework to enable accountability and financing for drinking water services and water resources management; and
2. Climate Resilient and Low-Emissions Drinking Water Services: Improve the capacity and
performance of service providers to deliver climate resilient, inclusive and reliable drinking water services.
Successful implementation under USAID Eau will be demonstrated through these expected results:
• 1,000,000 people have access to sustainable drinking water services (of which 250,000 must be new access),
• A minimum of $200,000 of funding mobilized through revenue generation (of which a minimum of $150,000 must be from new household connection fees),
• 20 local water utilities (CTEs) have increased by one level on the World Bank Utility
Turnaround Framework scale; and,
• at minimum, 3 CTEs will achieve 100% non-fossil water exploitation systems and 2 CTEs with strategies in place to enable them to access commercial and/or multilateral financing, enhance
domestic budget allocations, and increase revenue collection in order to upgrade and expand climate-resilient water systems and services.
Fonctions
THE ROLE
The Electrical Engineer, as part of the engineering team will work to help CTEs to convert from fossil fuel to solar power for their well fields.
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RESPONBILITIES
• Identify CTEs where it would be possible to convert some or all of their power requirements to solar power.
• Work with the rest of the engineering team to develop concept notes that outline the technical and financial feasibility of converting the well fields to solar power.
• Assist in the development of terms of reference for the detailed design of the solar installation.
• Review and provide comments on the detailed design.
• Assist in the supervision of the installation of the infrastructure.
• Provide knowledge and support to the CTEs on other issues related to electrical engineering.
Qualifications Requises
QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or civil engineering with at least 7 years of work experience in electrical engineering.
• Experience with solar energy in Haiti.
• Knowledge of Haiti’s building code and building requirements.
• Fluent French and Haitian Creole.
