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charity: water

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

🤝 Non-profit

🤲 Charity

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Charity • Social Impact

charity: water is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries. The organization funds sustainable, community-owned water projects in remote locations around the world. charity: water ensures that every public donation is used solely to fund water projects, with a separate fund covering operational costs. Their impact includes over 171,469 water projects in 29 countries, serving millions of people.

📋 Description

• Managing the multi-year grant lifecycle for a portfolio of global implementation partners, including soliciting and reviewing grant proposals, approving progress reports, monitoring implementation milestones, and managing project timelines • Managing program performance against a defined performance framework by setting expectations up front, tracking progress against agreed objectives and indicators, reviewing progress reporting, and monitoring work through field visits to inform grant and program decisions • Optimizing partner program implementation through the incorporation of M&E findings and by sharing effective WASH strategies and innovations with partners where relevant • Regularly identifying opportunities for strengthening technical and operational areas relating to program implementation, which may include management of various external technical consultants as needed • Building and maintaining strong partner relationships characterized by trust, candor, mutual accountability and a shared commitment to quality by navigating difficult conversations across cultures and languages when needed • Aiding the execution of portfolio or department goals and special initiatives as needed • Driving ongoing improvements both internally (our systems, processes, and ways of working) and externally (the quality, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness of the partners’ work), all with the aim of strengthening systems that increase the efficiency, transparency, and impact of our programs over time • Supporting the team’s AI transition by piloting and adopting AI tools that increase the efficiency, consistency, and quality of partnerships with appropriate human judgement and oversight • Supporting the identification, vetting, and onboarding of new global WASH partnerships as needed • Working collaboratively across the organization with each charity: water department to make sure their involvement in our water programs is maximized and efficient • Working closely with the Associate Director of Program Partnerships as well as other members of the leadership team to establish long-term partnership plans that incorporate lessons from monitoring efforts and M&E data collected for the partnerships you manage • Managing a Water Programs Associate or coordinating closely with other Associates on your team, guiding them to be successful in their administrative roles and mentoring their growth on the team • Managing various consultants hired for programmatic evaluations or technical initiatives and then supporting the interpretation and integration of findings or results into partnership strategies • Managing requests for information and impact stories from across the organization to share with the organization and greater charity: water community • Providing program-specific content for customized donor reports and presentations and engaging with donor audiences as needed • Spending up to 20% of your time traveling to the field

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing a WASH funding portfolio at a grantmaking organization or developing WASH programs in international contexts • A bachelor degree’s in a related field • Demonstrated ability to manage partnerships or programs against a defined performance framework, including defining objectives, tracking progress, and supporting action on the results • Experience engaging external technical resources to compliment in-house capacity • A desire to manage and develop a team in knowledge and capacity • A Master’s degree in a related field, including public health, environmental engineering, or water science (it's an added plus if you have) • Managed sustainable rural WASH grant portfolios or partnerships (it's an added plus if you have) • Experience capacity-building with international NGO partners, especially in West Africa (it's an added plus if you have) • Fluency in French (it's an added plus if you have) • Direct international experience implementing WASH programs, including experience with monitoring and evaluation, budget analysis, and data collection platforms (it's an added plus if you have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO • Summer Fridays • 6-week paid sabbatical leave after 5 years of employment • Annual bonus potential through The Pool • 401k plan + employer match • Medical covered at 85% + Dental/Vision contributions • FSA + dependent day care FSA • Employer-paid life insurance, STD, LTD • 16-week paid maternity and paternity leave for new parents • Stipends for Home office, Professional Development, and a You-do-You Perk • TSA Pre-check reimbursement • Flexible working hours; team members are expected to be online 10am - 4pm ET regardless of location, plus three hours per day asynchronously, which factors in an hour for lunch • 2-4 annual travel requirements that foster team alignment, connection and in-person collaboration