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• Improve
  sector planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting, with a special
  focus on employing a Rights Based Approach in i) the identification and
  reduction of socioeconomic disparities and gender inequalities; and ii)
  the relevance and reliability of data and the information systems in which
  they are used;
• Continuously
  improve the institutional, organisational, staffing and managerial
  structures of sector institutions, with the aim of enhancing their
  contributions to sector performance;
• Maintain
  and/or establish sector funding mechanisms that are well functioning, transparent
  and accountable, and aligned to government rules and procedures;
• Refine
  and implement the sector’s decentralisation policies, including the
  separation of functions such as implementation; regulation; policy-making;
  O&M and monitoring;
• Actively
  involve users/consumers in the planning, financing, management and
  monitoring of water and sanitation facilities;
• Enhance
  sector transparency and accountability at all levels, leading to a
  tangibly increased share of resources that actually benefit the
  end-user/consumer;
• Strengthen
  the overall sector coordination and liaison function;
• Support
  MWE in preparing inputs to the Joint Budget Support Framework/Joint Assistance
  Framework (JAF) planning and monitoring process for provision of budget support
  to the GoU;
• Implementation
  of the sector capacity development strategy.

• Strengthening
  and consolidating SWAP arrangements, based on the Sector Investment Plan
  (SIP) as the point of departure for continuously increased alignment and harmonisation
  of contributions from JWESSP as well as non-JWESSP partners;
• Identifying
  strategic dialogue issues for the Joint Sector Reviews and Joint Technical
  Reviews, as well as policy and strategic issues for discussion in the
  WESWG;
• Developing
  procedures for integrating JWESSP resources in the planning, budgeting, implementation
  and reporting systems of MWE and its directorates, while ensuring that confidence
  from development partners and other stakeholders remains intact;
• Developing
  internal DWD/MWE support mechanisms for i) coordinating the utilisation of
  JWESSP resources and ii) preparing comprehensive work plans, budgets and
  reports – based on departmental inputs – for presentation to the WESWG and
  required sub working groups as well as development partners;
• Support
  the system of the WESWG and its sub-working groups, for interaction
  between government and JWESSP development partners, which allows strategic
  dialogue and informed decisions on work plans, budgets and reports, while
  discouraging outside involvement in tasks that are part of DWD/MWE’s
  management responsibilities;
• Improving
  uniform reporting systems that satisfy both government and development partners;
• Liaise
  closely with the Water Sector Adviser for the Directorate of Water
  Resources Management (SA-DWRM).

• In
  liaison with the Operation and Maintenance Adviser, carry out promotion
  and training of private operators in small towns, rural growth centres and
  rural gravity flow schemes, hereunder the private sector organisations for
  operation and maintenance of private sector managed systems;
• Support
  to NGOs/civil society organisations through the Uganda Water and
  Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET) Secretariat to leverage own funding, by
  empowering them to address development partners and access funds for
  sector activities directly from them;
• Support
  to NGO/civil society through UWASNET Secretariat in their watchdog role,
  as well as in strengthening the role of the user in monitoring and
  influencing how sector resources are used at the local level;
• Supervision
  and regulation of water authorities/utilities.

• The
  applicant should possess a master’s degree or corresponding qualifications
  in subjects relevant to the water and sanitation sector, management and/or
  public sector restructuring and reform;
• Profound
  experience in comprehensive water and sanitation sector reform, including institutional
  reform and enhanced involvement of the private sector and civil society,
  or equivalent experience of institutional reforms in other sectors, where
  institutional reform of the public sector is combined with private sector
  and civil society involvement;
• Strong
  experience in capacity development within public institutions;
• Extensive
  work experience from central governments and/or donors;
• Strong
  experience from developing countries and, preferably, Eastern Africa;
• Fluency
  in written and spoken English;
• Experience
  in catchment-based planning and implementation;
• Experience
  in employing a Rights Based Approach to planning and implementation.
• Good
  analytical skills, outgoing and robust with a pragmatic approach and
  appreciation of the dynamics in a politically managed organisation;
• Ability
  to work as part of an interdisciplinary team with relations to different
  ministries and stakeholders.

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