For a growing social enterprise in the water and sanitation industry, we are seeking a CEO that can take the organisation to the next level.

Purpose of the role
The CEO will lead the team through the next phase of growth. This will include taking the team through break-even to profitability and beyond. One area of growth to be examined is opportunities to replicate the business model in other suitable cities.

Key responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

Strategy:
• Evolving and defining the company strategy working with the Board and Senior Management Team
• Growing the marketing department with a clear marketing strategy to further growth

Operations:
• Bearing full P&L responsibility, ensuring growth targets (revenue and profitability) are consistently met
• Operationalizing the strategy, ensuring high quality execution across all levels of the organization
• Continually improve the quality of the organization its environmental sustainability, including, but not limited to, striving for complete circularity in waste management, bringing relevant industry innovations into the value chain as appropriate.
• Furthering the culture of innovation, accountability and operational excellence, gathering ideas from staff, stakeholders and peers and bringing them to life in the team, to help growth of the organisation
• Ensuring evaluation and improvement structures remain appropriate to the size and momentum of the business, to enable a culture of continuous improvement
• Leveraging technology to ensure high quality data and detailed analytics are at the heart of all decisions made across the business, making us more efficient
• Improving the supply chain for all products and services required to deliver the highest quality service to our customers

Team/Stakeholder Development and Engagement
• Continuing the development of the team, identifying both formal and informal opportunities for team members to grow their experience and skills to advance the organization
• Keeping the safety of all stakeholders , as a core priority, ensuring all necessary licenses and procedures are in compliance with the relevant law.

Board Interaction:
• Reporting regularly to the Board, enabling them to properly govern the organization and engage with strategic decision making, leveraging their wide array of expertise
• Effectively source, test, evaluate and scale new opportunities to improve the business across all departments

Investment/Funding:
• Managing investment , with the Board’s support, to reach scale ambitions, brokering and maintaining relationships with funders and building long-term sustainable partnerships
• Working closely with funders/investors to ensure reporting requirements are met and strong collaboration continues

Minimum skills and experience
• Relevant bachelor’s degree
• Demonstrated experience in successfully growing a business
• Experience effectively managing budgets over 2m GH₵. Comfortable reading and interrogating various financial statements (P&L, balance sheet, financial model etc.)
• Successful management, growth and development of experienced, high performing teams
• Demonstrated experience effectively managing change and mitigating risks in a rapidly growing organisation
• Exposure working collaboratively with a board or similar body - able to extract and leverage robust critique to improve ideas and execution
• Enthusiasm to work with low-income communities in a commercial setting
• Ability to identify and scope work with subject matter experts, such as consultants, and manage them to deliver agreed results on time, to budget
• Experience of building and maintaining external stakeholder relationships to deliver strategic results

Preferred skills and experience
• Demonstrated experience growing a social enterprise or purpose-driven organisation
• Experience in fund raising, and structuring innovative growth capital
• Experience working collaboratively with an experienced Board and able to extract and leverage robust critique to improve ideas and execution
• Experience managing budgets in excess of 10 m GH₵, in particular complex budgets and across different business units and workstreams and ensuring appropriate controls are in place
• Experience working in the WASH/sanitation sector
• Experience working with local and national government and development stakeholders, sharing appropriate information and forming partnerships where sensible
• Demonstrated commitment to the improvement of society and social services in Ghana
• A relevant, advanced degree

Are you interested in becoming a CEO in Ghana? Apply now at the top or bottom of our page.

For a programme in Ghana we are bidding for, we are currently looking for a Sanitary Engineer.

About the programme
The World Bank has given a loan to the Government of Ghana (GoG), to prepare an Integrated Urban Sanitation and Drainage Masterplan covering the metropolitan area of Greater Accra. The total area is about 894 square kilometres, and has a population of about 4.3 million people. Flooding and poor environmental sanitation have become significant urban problems for the area in the past decade. These problems have been exacerbated by factors such as uncontrolled population growth, unregulated development of settlements, and poorly managed land use.

The objective of the programme is to develop a comprehensive integrated urban environmental sanitation strategy and masterplan covering all 11 Metropolitan / Municipal areas within the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA). This masterplan must provide a safe and effective management of environmental sanitation, including solid and liquid waste as well as storm water runoff from the GAMA area, solve existing environmental sanitation and drainage problems, and provide guidance for the implementation of future environmental sanitation and drainage improvements. The assignment will also support preparatory activities including design and preparation of procurement documents for prioritized investments to alleviate critical problems in the GAMA area.

Job Description

Jobdescription Sanitary Engineer
As Sanitary Engineer your day to day tasks are (among others):
- Lead the urban sanitation components within the following scope of work:
- Comprehensive review and assessment of existing situation with respect to environmental sanitation in GAMA
- Develop a comprehensive integrated urban sanitation and drainage improvement strategy that will provide a safe and effective management of environmental sanitation and drainage
- Develop an appropriate institutional framework and action plan;
- Provide support for consensus building around the strategy, institutional framework and action plan;
- Assess and provide strategic options for improving sanitation and drainage services in GAMA
- Identify and prepare a phased program for the development of improved environmental sanitation and drainage system in GAMA in a prioritized manner;
- Identify and prepare preliminary designs for priority drainage, liquid and solid waste interventions in GAMA;
- Identify and evaluate options for improving waste water treatment management (sewage and septage/faecal sludge) and developing a viable business model and implementation arrangements for a waste water management in GAMA; and
- Support and facilitate the determination of the appropriate level of safeguards assessments that will be required for the proposed priority sanitation investments undertaken in order to ensure that the interventions are carried out in compliance with the World Bank’s safeguards policies.

Candidate Specification

Requirements
- Masters degree in a relevant field
- At least 10 years of experience in the urban sanitation sector
- Proven experience in developing sanitation masterplans or environmental assessments in an urban environment
- Good computer knowledge
- Strong report writing skills
- Fluent in written and verbal English

Expected input is approximately 50%, spread over 18 months. Employment will be on freelance basis.

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Job Profile
Mott MacDonald is currently looking for a Freelance Team Leader for a Technical Assistance Programme in Lusaka, Zambia.

Background of the Programme
Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, is currently given an upgrade of the water and sanitation infrastructure. The Technical Assistance Programme is part of the Lusaka Sanitation Programme and the purpose is to assist the Lusaka Water and Sanitation Company to achieve the overall Lusaka Sanitation Programme objective and to deliver separate element of the programme in an efficient, effective, coordinated and sustainable way. The duration of this TA programme is 5 years.

Job Description
Tasks of the Team Leader are (among others):
- Managing the team of key- and non-key experts on a daily basis;
- Oversee the progress of the total programme;
- Liaise with the Lusaka Water and Sanitation Company regarding daily issues;
- Writing of progress reports;
- Capacity building;

Candidate Specification
Requirements:
- Master’s degree or Bachelor degree or University diploma with specialisation in sanitary (environmental) engineering, economics or equivalent;
- Good command of written and spoken English;
- Minimum of 15 years professional experience required;
- Minimum of 10 years international experience;
- Minimum of 10 years required of experience with managing the implementation of major water and sanitation programs;
- Minimum of senior role on 2 similary complex water and sanitation implementation programs. Complex means that each project includes both on-site and piped sanitation, serves a city of at least 250,000 people and has a value of EUR 40m.
- Experience as a line manager in a water or sewage utility would be an advantage;
- You have experience as TL on IFI funded TA projects.

For an upcoming programme in Kenya, Mott MacDonald is currently proposing for, we are looking for a DSS, GIS, remote sensing specialist.

Background of the programme:
The Kenya Water Security and Climate Resilience Project aims to improve the water resources management of Kenya’s 6 main catchments. The current catchment plans require substantial revision, especially in relation to spatial information and strategic visioning.
The governmental agency, Kenya’s Water Resource Management Agency (WRMA), responsible for catchment plan development and implementation requires consultancy support to realise state-of-the-art knowledge and database management and to facilitate stakeholder processes for decision-making. The scope of the programme is thus to develop the capacity of WRMA in terms of tools, skills and infrastructure, to deliver on the core functions of project component “Strengthening Water Management and Planning”. This includes on-the-job development capacity building on the development of databases and new information systems, models, tools that will support WRMA’s work. The expected results of the programme are:
- A stronger WRMA institution that has strengthened capacity to carry out its core functions;
- Six integrated catchment management plans that outline the critical land and water resources development and management elements in a manner that is based on extensive knowledge-driven analysis and meets the expectations of all key-stakeholders.

Job Description
Tasks of the DSS, GIS, remote sensing specialist are, among others:
- Development of Decision Support Systems (DSS) and databases, including remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) applications.
- Development of interactive knowledge products, like web portals with 3-D and animation visualizations and toolkits/atlases which enable users to explore catchments in a multi-dimensional perspective.
- Development of systems and applications in close consultation with various stakeholders.
- Building capacity of WRMA staff in DSS, GIS, remote sensing and interactive knowledge products.

Candidate Specification
Requirements:
- Post-graduate degree in Information DSS, remote sensing and/or GIS, or similar.
- At least 12 years of demonstrated experience with water sector data, information, knowledge and decision support bases and systems development and management, including remote sensing , GIS applications and interactive knowledge products.
- Experience in developed and developing countries.
- Experience in working in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams.
- Experience of working on International Development Agency (IDA) or bilateral funded projects is preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

The expected input for this role is [FULLTIME]. The total duration of this programme is 3 years. Employment will be on freelance basis.

For an upcoming programme in Kenya, Mott MacDonald is currently proposing for, we are looking for a METEOROLOGIST.

Background of the programme:
The Kenya Water Security and Climate Resilience Project aims to improve the water resources management of Kenya’s 6 main catchments. The current catchment plans require substantial revision, especially in relation to spatial information and strategic visioning.
The governmental agency, Kenya’s Water Resource Management Agency (WRMA), responsible for catchment plan development and implementation requires consultancy support to realise state-of-the-art knowledge and database management and to facilitate stakeholder processes for decision-making. The scope of the programme is thus to develop the capacity of WRMA in terms of tools, skills and infrastructure, to deliver on the core functions of project component “Strengthening Water Management and Planning”. This includes on-the-job development capacity building on the development of databases and new information systems, models, tools that will support WRMA’s work. The expected results of the programme are:
- A stronger WRMA institution that has strengthened capacity to carry out its core functions;
- Six integrated catchment management plans that outline the critical land and water resources development and management elements in a manner that is based on extensive knowledge-driven analysis and meets the expectations of all key-stakeholders.

Job Description
Tasks of the METEOROLOGIST are, among others:
- Take the lead in the design, operation and maintenance of meteorological network instrumentation
- Coordinate with other staff setting up/improving monitoring systems for hydrological, geo-hydrological, water quality and flood forecasting data
- Apply satellite imagery in reinforcing missing data
- Build capacity of WRMA staff to use, operate and maintain meteorological network instrumentation

Candidate Specification
Requirements:
- Post-graduate degree in Meteorology.
- At least 20 years of international experience in meteorological network design and operations.
- Experience in applying satellite imagery to reinforce missing data.
- Experience with seasonal weather and climate modelling is preferred.
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams.
- Experience of working on International Development Agency (IDA) or bilateral funded projects is preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

The expected input for this role is [INTERMITTENT]. The total duration of this programme is 3 years. Employment will be on freelance basis.

Job Profile
For an upcoming programme in Kenya, Mott MacDonald is currently proposing for, we are looking for a TEAM LEADER / WATER RESOURCES PLANNER.

Background of the programme:
The Kenya Water Security and Climate Resilience Project aims to improve the water resources management of Kenya’s 6 main catchments. The current catchment plans require substantial revision, especially in relation to spatial information and strategic visioning.
The governmental agency, Kenya’s Water Resource Management Agency (WRMA), responsible for catchment plan development and implementation requires consultancy support to realise state-of-the-art knowledge and database management and to facilitate stakeholder processes for decision-making. The scope of the programme is thus to develop the capacity of WRMA in terms of tools, skills and infrastructure, to deliver on the core functions of project component “Strengthening Water Management and Planning”. This includes on-the-job development capacity building on the development of databases and new information systems, models, tools that will support WRMA’s work. The expected results of the programme are:
- A stronger WRMA institution that has strengthened capacity to carry out its core functions.
- Six integrated catchment management plans that outline the critical land and water resources development and management elements in a manner that is based on extensive knowledge-driven analysis and meets the expectations of all key-stakeholders.

Job Description
Tasks of the TEAM LEADER / WATER RESOURCES PLANNER are, among others:
- Overall project coordination and communication.
- Providing strategic and technical direction.
- Project and financial management.
- Maintaining excellent client and donor relationships.
- Providing technical input for water resources planning and management.
- Ensuring timely and structured reporting.

Candidate Specification
Requirements:
- Post-graduate degree in engineering or equivalent.
- At least 20 years’ of experience in water resources planning and management for multiple uses.
- At least 10 years of experience in a similar context.
- At least 5 years’ of team leader experience.
- Experience in developing and developed countries.
- Experience in Africa is preferred.
- Experience with Decision Support Systems (DSS) and stakeholder process management.
- Experience of leading multidisciplinary teams and managing excellent relations with the executing and donor agencies.
- Experience with monitoring and recordkeeping of projects, preparing work plans, budgets, progress reports and financial reports as well as with facilitating evaluation missions from donor agency.
- Experience of working on International Development Agency (IDA) or bilateral funded projects.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

The expected input for this role is fulltime. The total duration of this programme is 3 years. Employment will be on freelance basis.

For our client, a global civil engineering company, we are recruiting a Senior Resident Engineer in Kenya, who can hit the ground running.

REPORTS TO
Project Director / Functional Manager

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• To manage all the on site technical duties.
• Consult the contractor regarding technical aspects.
• Manage all the requests for information from the site.
• Monitoring of quality the works.
• Monitoring of construction programme, including budgets and cash flows.
• Drafting site instructions.
• Chair site and technical meetings.
• Consult with HSE responsible manager and other third parties.
• Approve drawings from the contractor.
• Improve maintenance and operation manuals.
• Closing out the project, including finalizing reports.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
• Giving high quality and timely responses to technical questions from the contractor.
• Managing technical difficulties experienced on site.
• Identifying discrepancies in the contract.
• Ensuring compliance with Environmental Management Programme.
• Ensuring compliance with the Construction Regulations.
• Making sure all the work is done according to the Kenyan Engineering Code of Conduct.
• Successful works completion and operation.
• Handover on completion.
• Utilize the resources in optimal form.

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
• Engineering Degree.
• Registered Professional Engineer.
• 20 years relevant experience in large dam and hydropower projects.
• 10 years relevant experience in the supervision of engineering projects, which include large diameter tunnels.
• Construction management experience.
• Experience with projects in Africa.
• Being able to work with modern project management techniques.
• Must be fully articulate in English. Kishwahili will be an advantage.

Are you interested in becoming a Senior Resident Engineer in Kenya? Apply now at the top or bottom of our page.

For our client, a global civil engineering company, we are recruiting a Resident Dam Engineer in Kenya, who can hit the ground running.

REPORTS TO
Senior Resident Engineer / Project Director / Functional Manager

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Managing the infrastructure technical duties on site.
• Consult the contractor regarding technical aspects.
• Manage all the requests for information from the site.
• Monitoring of quality the works.
• Monitoring of construction programme.
• Drafting site instructions.
• Documenting backup documentation.
• Consult with HSE responsible manager and other third parties.
• Review all tests both on and off site.
• Review drawings from the contractor.
• Improve maintenance and operation manuals.
• Closing out the project.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
• Giving high quality and timely responses to technical questions.
• Managing technical difficulties experienced on site.
• Making sure all the work is done according to the Kenyan Engineering Code of Conduct.
• Utilize the resources in optimal form
• Successful works completion and operation
• Handover on completion

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
• Engineering Degree.
• Registered Professional Engineer.
• 15 years relevant experience in large dam and hydropower projects.
• Experience with projects in Africa.
• Must be fully articulate in English. Kishwahili will be an advantage.

Are you interested in becoming a Resident Dam Engineer in Kenya? Apply now at the top or bottom of our page.