THE SANIFIN PROJECT AT A GLANCE

The Financing Climate-Resilient Sanitation Systems and Services (SANIFIN) project, implemented by the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), aims to improve sanitation services to households with low access to such services. The SANIFIN use a market-based approach to ensure that 85,000 Haitians receive improved sanitation systems through demand-driven advisory services, blended finance, and a pay-for-performance engage with local mechanism. The project partners with various local stakeholders including government, municipalities, private sectors, civil societies organizations, and international partners including the diaspora to supporting micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) in Haiti, engaged in sanitation service delivery. The project targets the USAID Resilience Focal Zones (RFZs) in Haiti comprising of Central Plateau, North, Northeast, South, Artibonite, and West.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) oversees the program’s cross-cutting technical areas, in support of the program’s adaptive local systems approach to increase access to safe sanitation services and systems in Resilient focus zones (RFZ) of USAID in Haiti . The position is responsible for facilitating processes that help SANIFIN project to understand how financial incentives, technical assistance, and performance-based model increase both, supply of safe sanitation services, systems and increase private financing and partnership to the sector. The DCOP will also contribute to enable co-creation, experimentation, evaluation, and adaptation for maximum impact; and use evidence and data to pivot program interventions based on demonstrable outcomes and in response to emerging windows of opportunity to increase access to safe sanitation and mobilized funding for the sector.

The DCOP is expected to oversee three long-term positions: the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist; the grant specialist; the financial specialist. Under the DCOP’s management, those professionals will provide cross-cutting support, knowledge management, and thought leadership for the objectives of SANIFIN. The DCOP-led team led drives the program to integrate action-learning and feedback loops into SANIFIN implementation, while managing a program “learning agenda” reflective of our overall approach. It helps the team to communicate strategically about partner successes thereby magnifying results and incentivizing progress on safe sanitation services and systems. It helps partners plan, deploy, and expand safe sanitation systems and services to population in targeted RFZ ( North ,Northeast, Artibonite, South, West-Croix des Bouquets) including increasing access to funding by Sanitation services providers (SSPs).

The DCOP role, in the context of the program, revolves around several core functions:

• Serve as institutional “glue” among and between the thematic Objective teams ( strengthening capacity and financial viability of SSP, facilitate climate resilient partnerships, strengthening the capacity of financial services providers ) and program integration.

• Support the COP in coordination of relations with partners involved in the program, including government agencies (DINEPA, OREPA, CTE, ...), partner organizations, SSPs, financial services providers and other local stakeholders.

• Facilitate the transfer of knowledge, approaches, lessons learned, ideas, experimental results among the program teams, preventing intellectual siloes from emerging, and catalyzing the spirit of innovation and issue-driven, iterative, and adaptive programming.

• Work closely with the PADF Home Office team and through the three specialists in the DCOP reporting line to access resources and communities of practice that serve the intellectual and programming needs of the three thematic Objective of SANIFIN.

• Encourage supervised professionals to keep cross-cutting issues in focus (evidence-driven programming, learning, gender and social inclusion, digital transformation, strategic communications).

• Represent the SANIFIN program, in the absence of the COP, at meetings, events and stakeholder gatherings, ensuring that key project messages are communicated effectively.

• Coordinate office operational activities and work closely with other project team members to coordinate efforts and ensure alignment of activities with project objectives.
• Contribute to the implementation of a monitoring and evaluation system to measure program performance, analyzing data and providing periodic reports on progress.

• Oversee the efficient use of program resources, ensuring that budgets are respected, and expenditure justified.

• Gather and synthesize information from various sources (including through regular contact with Objective teams) to conduct rolling contextual analysis and advise the COP on new developments, emerging opportunities, and other trends with the potential to impact the Program.

The duties of the position include but are not limited to the following:

• Manages and leads the crosscutting team of three specialists (MEL, Grant specialist, Finance Specialist), and supervises short-term experts and consultants. Leads in these areas and is accountable for team deliverables, as well as overall crosscutting team performance.

• Conducts regular follow-up with subordinates to ensure successful completion, documentation, and submission of project deliverables.

• Contributes to developing Annual Work Plans rooted in contextual analysis, including desired co-creation with prioritized stakeholders, monitoring of progress on approved activities, keeping the COP abreast of any challenges with implementation. Offers the COP solutions for problem identification and rectification.

• Leads the Project’s efforts on rolling contextual analysis, supports objective Leads and their teams as necessary.

• Leads the development and implementation of the program’s communication strategy.

• Provides oversight of design and implementation of activities by subordinates – ensuring appropriate planning, procedurally correct development, sound implementation, active monitoring and evaluation, and timely activity completion.

• Develops terms of reference/scopes of work for external experts and consultants doing work under the cross-cutting team, participates in selection committees, supervises the work of experts as relevant.

• Provides inputs into requests for applications, annual program planning or other grant mechanisms to make sure that proposed Subawardees, SSPs, Financial services Providers activities are complementary and catalytic to SANIFIN objectives and expected results.

• Develops terms of reference/scopes of work for subcontractors under the crosscutting team’s purview, participates in selection committees, supervises the work of sub-contractors as relevant.

• Under the supervision of the COP, prepare financial and narrative report of the project.

• As required, builds solid working relationships with other Program stakeholders, including

• Assists the COP on other time sensitive and priority tasks not listed above.

• Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., economics, finance, governance, business administration, engineering, international development, water supply, and sanitation, or another field closely related to SANIFIN objectives).

• At least 10 years of experience in a similar coordination-focused, horizontal relations-management position with cross-disciplinary elements.

• At least one year experience in DCOP role

• Fluency in French and creole, with professional English ability.

• Demonstrated ability to conduct in-depth, nuanced, and objective contextual analysis for applied programming in sanitation is a must.

• Demonstrated experience in facilitating the work of thematically diverse teams, serving as coordinator and effective intermediary to bring about results;

• Knowledge and experience of the sanitation sector in Haiti including strong relationship with DINEPA, including sanitation services providers.

• Experience in blended finance mechanism and good knowledge of the services financial providers system in Haiti.

• Experience of working on USAID-supported programming is an asset.

Applicants should send cv, cover letter and copies of diplomas and certificates

Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted.