Water Data, Advocacy, and Research Advisor | Improving Pakistan’s Water and Natural Resources Governance
Founded in 1975, Chemonics is one of the world’s leading partners in international development. Present in Asia since 1977, our work has expanded to Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Tonga overseeing a portfolio of over 200 projects across various technical sectors.
Chemonics International seeks a qualified individual for the role of Water Data, Advocacy, and Research Advisor for the anticipated five-year, £20-40 million DFID-funded Improving Pakistan’s Water and Natural Resources Governance (IPWG) programme. IPWG intends to strengthen Pakistan’s management of its water to meet future population, agricultural and economic needs, and provide resilience to shocks and climate change. Aligning with the Pakistan government’s forestry, water and agricultural management priorities, this programme aims to improve the management and use of water and natural resources so to prepare the country for sustained climate resilient growth.
Responsibilities include:
The Water Data, Advocacy, and Research Advisor will lead technical assistance that supports water data advocacy and research, climate change adaptation, and integrated natural resource management. Based in Islamabad, the advisor will provide technical support to improve the management and use of water and natural resources so to prepare the country for sustained climate resilient growth. The advisor will be responsible for:
Operational and technical leadership
- Act as a single focal point for data collection and analysis of the programme across all technical components for DFID and relevant ministries and stakeholders.
- Carry out analyses and interpretation of data relevant to the assessment of the situation of women and children, persons with disabilities, climate change, vulnerable and marginalized groups including contributions to the IPWG research publications, and other reports.
- Devise innovative ways to best serve IPWG’s in-house data and information needs at country, province and sub district levels
- Work with the technical leads and other key personnel to promote a coherent and strategic vision with buy-in from DFID and counterparts and stakeholders
- Advise on efficient and effective ways to prepare and disseminate products and provide input into making data, analyses and products accessible and available through different media.
- Provide technical advice on reporting on the situation of women and children, persons with disabilities, climate change, vulnerable and marginalized groups as required, including responding to ad hoc requests to senior management, government counterparts, the client, partner organization and others in the areas of drinking water, sanitation and agriculture.
- Contribute to the capacity development of Pakistan to monitor drinking water and climate change challenges, in collaboration with national and provincial offices.
- Contribute to developing the capacity within government counterparts and civil society organizations for evidence-based policy, planning, programming and advocacy.
- Contribute to the on-going improvement in data quality at the data collection stage, including through household surveys. In collaboration with DFID modify existing measurement tools and develop new tools where appropriate. Test tools in field situations, develop guidelines for their use and provide support for implementation at country level.
Administrative and financial management
- Facilitate project work planning and budgeting and assist with the staffing and resources to reach established results indicators and targets.
- Review draft consultant scopes of work prepared by the technical team or partner organizations, and submit approval requests.
- Ensure consultants complete their assignments and submit deliverables in a timely manner
- Plan and track financial and administrative activities with the home and field offices to evaluate implementation needs
- Monitor project financial performance against work plan and life-of-project budgets
Qualifications:
- Extensive knowledge of climate change and natural resources management, including one of the social sciences with statistics; advanced training, preferably a higher degree, in statistics, public health or another area with advanced statistics, data manipulation and analysis skills.
- Knowledge of characteristics of key sectors such as agriculture, water management, and water treatment; regional work experience preferred.
- Technical knowledge in social/health/education statistics, sample surveys, data analysis or other areas of applied statistics, information systems and data interpretation and dissemination in sectors of concern to DFID, such as water and sanitation and health. A professional background or work experience in water and sanitation will be advantageous.
- Demonstratable knowledge of Pakistan climate and natural resources politics and networks, of DFID Climate, UN-Water, the 2030 Development Agenda (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement are required.
- Expertise in the analysis of household survey data, data obtained from population censuses and from administrative and routine health systems records.
- Relevant achievements in brokering and maintaining effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and developing and implementing strategies to foster change.
- Experience working with the private sector and donors, preferably for the UK Government in DFID or FCO or other international donors strongly preferred
- Fluency in English (speaking, writing, and reading) required; Pakistan nationals strongly preferred.