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• Improve planning, monitoring and reporting
  with a special focus on application of Integrated Water Resources
  Management (IWRM) principles and approaches in the water and environment
  sector including, but not limited to, the relevance and reliability of data
  and information systems in which they are used;
• Continuously improve the institutional,
  organisational, staffing, and financial managerial structures in DWRM,
  with the aim of enhancing the Directorate’s contributions to sector performance;
• Strengthen implementation of all water
  resources management functions of monitoring (quantity and quality),
  assessment, information services, planning, regulation, policy making and
  trans-boundary water resources management and priority issues as summarised
  from time to time in the DWRM annual work plan:
• In collaboration with the Good Governance
  & Financial Management Adviser, maintainand/or establish financial
  management mechanisms in the DWRM that are well-working, transparent and
  accountable, and aligned to government rules and procedures;
• Refine and implement the framework for
  catchment-based water resources management, ensuring synergy with the
  MWE’s other de-concentrated structures (i.e. Technical Support Units,
  Water Supply Development Facilities, Umbrella Organisations, etc.);
• Actively involve all levels of
  stakeholders, from governmental decision-makers down to civil society
  beneficiaries, in the management and development of water and related resources
  through application of sound Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
  principles;
• Ensure systematic implementation of a
  water resources management communication strategy at all levels, leading
  to increased appreciation of water resources management issues and the
  importance of sound management and development of the country’s water and
  related resources to socio-economic development, thus increasing the visibility
  of the DWRM, leading to tangibly increased allocation/share of budgetary
  resources for sustainable management, development and use of the water
  resources in the country
• Popularise and operationalise the WRM
  performance indicator framework.

• Strengthening and consolidating Sector
  Wide Approach arrangements, based on a consolidated sector investment plan
  (SIP) as the point of departure for continuously increased alignment and
  harmonisation of contributions from JWESSP as well as non- JWESSP donor
  partners;
• Identifying strategic dialogue issues for
  the annual Joint Sector Reviews and Joint Technical Reviews, as well as
  for issues for discussion in the Water and Environment Sector Working
  Group (WESWG);
• Supporting the development and/or
  implementation of internal DWRM administrative and financial management
  mechanisms for i) coordinating the utilisation of GoU, JWESSP and other
  donor financial resources and ii) preparing comprehensive work plans,
  budgets and reports – based on departmental inputs – for presentation to
  the WESWG and subgroups;
• Establishing a system, based on the WESWG,
  for interaction between government and development partners, which allows
  for strategic dialogue and informed decisions on work plans, budgets and
  reports. Supporting rational, uniform and integrated planning and
  reporting systems that satisfy both government and development partners;
• Identification and formulation of new
  water resources management projects and programmes for future funding.

• The Water Resource Management Adviser will
  provide support and advice to DWRM on issues relating to the private
  sector and civil society involvement in water resources management:
• Promotion and training of civil society in
  application of IWRM approaches in water and related resources management;
• Ways of strengthening private sector and
  Civil Society Organisations’ (CSO) involvement in application of IWRM
  approaches in water and related resources management and development;
• Facilitate the involvement of Private
  Sector Organisations (PSOs)/CSOs in catchment based planning and
  implementation.

• Coordinate the capacity building
  activities;
• Coordinate the cross-cutting activities
  like HIV/AIDS, gender, good governance, and environment;
• Collaborate with the Directorate of Water
  Development and Environment and Natural Resources sub sector to ensure
  synergy;
• Collaborate with the Climate Change Unit
  to ensure that the links between water resources management and climate
  change adaptation are clearly articulated and that climate change
  adaptation strategies and actions are developed and implemented by relevant
  sectors/sub-sectors in a coordinated manner.

• The applicant should possess a master’s
  degree or corresponding qualifications in subjects relevant to the water resources
  management and/or public sector restructuring and reform;
• Significant experience in comprehensive
  water 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;
• Profound knowledge in IWRM/catchment based
  planning and implementation;
• Extensive work experience from central
  governments and/or donors;
• Strong experience from developing
  countries and, preferably, from Eastern Africa;
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Analytical, outgoing and robust with a
  pragmatic approach and appreciation for the dynamics in a politically
  managed organisation;
• Ability to work as part of an
  interdisciplinary team with relations to different ministries and stakeholder.

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