9/18/2018 Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist

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Job #: req462
Organization: World Bank
Sector: Water/Sanitation
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Grade: GF
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Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment
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Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Required Language(s): French [Essential]; English [Essential];
Preferred Language(s): Haitian Creole [Desired]; Spanish [Desired]
Closing Date: 9/20/2018 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

About the World Bank Group

Established in 1944, the WBG is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and
knowledge for development solutions. In fiscal year 2017, the World Bank Group
committed more than $61 billion in loans, grants, equity investments, and guarantees to its
members and private businesses. Overall, the Board approved $42.1 billion in financial
assistance in fiscal 2017 through 383 operations, comprising $22.6 billion in IBRD lending
and $19.5 billion in IDA support.

The institution is governed by 189 member countries and delivers services out of 120
offices with more than 10,000 staff located globally. The WBG consists of five specialized
institutions: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the
International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC),
the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for the
Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The World Bank is organized into six client-
facing Regional Vice-Presidencies, several corporate functions, and fourteen Global
Practices (GPs) as well as five Global Themes to bring best-in-class knowledge and
solutions to regional and country clients.

Global Practices & Global Themes

The 14 GPs are: Agriculture; Education; Energy and Extractives; Environment and Natural
Resources; Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation; Governance; Health, Nutrition and
Population; Macro, Trade and Investment; Poverty; Social Protection and Labor; Social,
Urban, Rural and Resilience; Transport and Digital Development; and Water. The 5 Global
Themes are: Climate Change; Fragility, Conflict and Violence; Gender; Knowledge
Management; and Infrastructure and Public-Private Partnerships. The Global Practices and
the Global Themes, in concert with the WBG’s six client-facing Regional Vice-Presidencies,
design solutions that address clients' most pressing developmental challenges, and
ultimately, enable the WBG to achieve its twin goals by 2030: (1) End extreme poverty by
decreasing the percentage of people living on less than $1.90 a day to no more than 3%;
and (2) Promote shared prosperity by fostering the income growth of the bottom 40% for
every country.

The Role of the World Bank Group in Water

Water resources are under unprecedented and increasing pressures, driven by greater
climate variability, population and economic growth, land use changes, and declining
quantities and qualities of both ground and surface waters. With cross cutting impacts on
agriculture, education, energy, health, gender equity, and livelihood, water is an essential
resource for all life on the planet and is at the center of economic and social development.
Climate change expresses itself through water and sound water management lies at the
heart of the resilience agenda. Successful water management requires accurate knowledge
of the resource available and an assessment of competing demands for its usage. Making
best use of available supplies requires complex and sensitive economic, environmental and
socio-political trade-offs. Planning for a more uncertain and more constrained water
environment in the future only makes the situation more complex.

The World will not be able to meet the great development challenges of the 21st century –
human development, livable cities, climate change, food security, energy security, and
universal access to services – unless we ensure a water-secure world for all. To achieve this
goal the Global Practice will need to work on both water resource management and service
delivery issues but in a context where we focus on water in the context of the broader
economy.

The WBG is in a unique position to help governments take such an integrated and strategic
approach to solve water supply, sanitation, water resource, hydropower, and irrigation
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problems through partnership, finance and knowledge. The Water GP places Water
Resource Management (hydrology, economics, storage, groundwater use, rivers and
deltas), Service Delivery (to households, businesses and farmers), and an understanding of
water in the context of the broader economy at the center of its efforts to help countries
address the challenge of managing water. The Water GP seeks to ensure that water issues
are effectively addressed in all related sub-sectors, such as agriculture (ensuring
sustainable water availability for irrigation; managing the trade-offs around the agricultural
use of water), disaster risk management (floods and droughts), energy (hydropower;
energy cooling systems), management of rivers and deltas, and water supply & sanitation
(rural and urban; utility performance; wastewater management; targeting the poor). In
each sub sector an integrated approach is adopted which considers investment and
operations in the context of governance, institutions and policies. Finally, the WBG sees
the WTR GP to play a pivotal role as an implementation arm of all water-related SDGs, and
in particular SDG 6, as well as a global player in the interface of water, resilience and
climate change.

Recognizing these unique opportunities, the Water GP has enjoyed a scaled-up program
both in lending (about $4-5 billion of new lending per year moving into programmatic
approaches, PforRs, and building country systems), RAS, innovative ASA, and a global
partnership agenda. However, the portfolio has also faced persistent implementation
challenges that need to be resolved.

The Water Global Practice is organized around: (a) a Senior Practice Director and two
Practice Directors in the Front Office; (b) 10 region-facing Practice Managers (PMs)
covering Africa, Europe and Central Asia, East Asia Pacific, Latin America and the
Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia; (c) one Global PM for Strategy
and Operations, who brings together Operations, Knowledge, and Communications; and (d)
five cross-cutting Global Solutions Groups (GSGs) led by Global Leads. The regional PMs
report to one of two Directors in the Practice, while the global PM and the Global Leads
report to the Senior Director to reinforce the globality of the Practice. The Water Practice
comprises around 300 staff.

The Water and Sanitation Sector in Haiti

Access to quality water is a significant challenge in rural areas and small towns of Haiti. A
substantial portion of systems is not operational for lack of sufficient funds for operation
and maintenance and less than ten percent are equipped with chlorination devices. Access
to sanitation in rural areas and small towns is low. Both urban and rural populations mostly
rely on individual on-site sanitation solutions, as sustainable collection and treatment of
sewage are practically non-existent.

The Haiti’s National Water and sanitation Directorate (DINEPA) has initiated a sector reform
with a vision to develop the WSS sector and tackle the low levels of service. The main
pillars of this reform are: (i) the reinforcement of the National Directorate for Water and
Sanitation--DINEPA’s regulatory role; (ii) the deconcentration of implementation and
service delivery responsibilities; (iii) the professionalization of service providers and
promotion of private sector participation in service delivery; and (iv) the introduction of
volumetric billing schemes.

Major progress has been made in some of these areas, particularly the reinforcement of
DINEPA and the deconcentration of sector institutions. In this sense, today, thanks to the
efforts of the Government of Haiti and the support of the international community, DINEPA,
as well as the four Regional Water and Sanitation Offices (OREPAs), the Rural Water and
Sanitation Development Units (URDs, one per province) and the Community Water and
Sanitation Technicians teams (TEPACs) are all in place and fully staffed – albeit with
procedures and capacities that still need to be strengthened.

On the other hand, although the steps taken so far by DINEPA in the introduction of
domestic private sector participation and volumetric billing schemes for the provision of
water services are still timid, the results of initial experiences in these two areas have so
far been promising.

DINEPA has also developed and enacted a National Sanitation Strategy which, in terms of
rural sanitation, proposes to move away from subsidies and focus on generating demand
and improving the supply chain of improved sanitation solutions. The enactment of this
Strategy is a key first step to improve the alignment of the different stakeholders working
in the sanitation sector and therefore the effectiveness of their interventions.

The important advances mentioned above have helped to prepare the terrain for an
effective and sustainable increase in the access to improved water and sanitation services
in Haiti. However, to ensure that this process continues a number of important conditions
still need to be met, including: (i) improved coordination between DINEPA and the donor
community; (ii) increased and predictable medium-term funding; (iii) strengthened
implementing capacity of DINEPA’s decentralized agencies; (iv) scaling up of private sector
participation in water service delivery; and (v) the definition of mechanisms and tools to
operationalize the National Sanitation Strategy.

The World Bank is supporting the efforts of Haitian sector authorities in these areas
through the Sustainable Rural and Small Towns Water and Sanitation Project (EPARD), a
US$70 million investment project financed by IDA, and through a portfolio of Bank-
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executed advisory services and technical assistance activities funded by the Global Water
Security Partnership (GWSP), PPIAF and other programs.

In this context, the Bank is seeking to hire a Water and Sanitation Specialist to be based in
Port-au-Prince to join the Task Team in charge of managing and further developing the
business portfolio of the Water GP in Haiti.

Scope of Work/Tasks

The candidate will be expected to work independently with guidance on complex

projects/issues from senior specialists and Task Team Leaders (TTLs). The successful
candidate will support the lending and advisory services and analytics activities in the areas
of water supply and sanitation and water resources management in Haiti, with the following
duties:

Support Bank Task Teams and/or participate in projects providing technical support in
the identification, preparation and supervision of projects as well as in the preparation
and implementation of analytical and advisory activities including formulation of
background documents, monitoring progress of projects, and undertaking regular field
visits.
Generate knowledge reports and participate in Advisory Services and Analytics (ASAs)
activities for the Water Global Practice.
Maintain liaison and dialogue with development partners, research institutions, non-
Government organizations, the private sector and other sector-related institutions.
Supervise the appointment and work of short-term consultants and firms ensuring
consistency and conformity to Bank standards; and evaluate studies and sector-related
project documentation.
Provide technical support to the task teams, as needed, liaising closely and coordinating
the water related activities with other Global Practices and LCC8 Country Management
Unit (CMU); and
Monitor and provide advisory support for the adherence to World Bank’s operational
policies and quality requirements in technical and fiduciary due diligence.
Selection Criteria

A Master’s level degree, in a field relevant to water supply and sanitation, including civil,
sanitary or environmental engineering, water resources/environmental management,
economist, or other related fields;
A minimum of five years of relevant professional experience in water supply and
sanitation; experience in water resources management, hydrological analysis and
modeling will be a plus;
The candidate’s track record should combine experience on institutional development
and management of water and sanitation services in particular rural WSS, with a
thorough knowledge of the water supply and sanitation sector and the water resources
sector;
Knowledge and experience working with rural water operators would be a plus.
Experience in coordinating and/or managing multi-disciplinary projects on water or water
resources.
Project management experience in international institutions/companies is a plus
Good understanding of policy, institutional, regulatory and management frameworks for
water supply and sanitation, and water resources management, particularly in the
context of Haiti
Experience with multi-sectoral teams particularly desirable;
Good external client relations skills
High level of energy, initiative and flexibility in quickly adjusting to changing work
program requirements;
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and French;
Ability to effectively dialogue with and relate to clients and stakeholders;

Required Competencies

In addition to the above, the successful candidate should demonstrate the following:
Knowledge and Experience in Development Arena
Understands policy making process; distills operationally relevant recommendations /
lessons for clients.
Policy Dialogue Skills - Identifies and assesses policy issues and plays an active role in
the dialogue with the government and/or other stakeholders.
Integrative Skills - Working to develop an integrated view across all facets of current
sector.
Water Policy and Strategy – Basic understanding of water policies and strategies and
their role in delivering outcomes to end users/customers.

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Water Institutions – Basic understanding of water supply and sanitation sector
institutions (ministries, regulators, service providers, community organizations) and how
they are best organized to deliver services to end users in a sustainable manner.
Water Financing – Basic understanding of approaches to water supply and sanitation
sector financing of both capital and O&M costs
Water Supply and Sanitation Infrastructure and Technologies - Direct experience with
water supply and sanitation infrastructure and technologies.
Lead and Innovate - Develops innovative solutions.
Deliver Results for Clients - Proactively addresses clients’ stated and unstated needs.
Collaborate Within Teams and Across Boundaries - Collaborates across boundaries, gives
own perspective and willingly receives diverse perspectives.
Create, Apply and Share Knowledge - Applies knowledge across GPs and WBG to
strengthen solutions for internal and/or external clients.
Make Smart Decisions - Interprets a wide range of information and pushes to move
forward.

The World Bank Group values diversity and encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of
World Bank Group member countries to apply, regardless of gender, gender identity, religion, race,
ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability. Sub-Saharan African nationals, Caribbean nationals, and
female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

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