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Full time

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The SCRWM Activity is a five-year project funded by USAID and meant to support effective transboundary cooperation and water management among Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia. This will set an example of successful regional cooperation on shared priorities, mitigating conflicts, and contributing to peacebuilding in the South Caucasus. This project will also concurrently achieve social, economic, environmental, and climate change objectives.
The project will implement three cross-related objectives:
- Objective 1 - Transboundary environmental and water management networks developed at various levels across the South Caucasus.
- Objective 2 - South Caucasus stakeholders take a harmonized approach to transboundary water governance.
- Objective 3 - Communities incentivized by introducing new technologies, approaches, and economic models to rationally use water in a manner that demonstrates the benefits of improved water resource utilization across boundaries.

Purpose of Assignment
The Water Engagement Specialist will provide strategic and technical leadership under all three objectives. This individual will also coordinate with the Objective leads and report to the country director.

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- Engage regional and local authorities and stakeholders for the introduction of new technologies, approaches, and economic models to rationally use water and demonstrate the benefits of collaboration;
- Design and implement information campaigns to raise awareness among water users and the public of improved water use practices;
- Define capacity-building and training activities and social marketing campaigns to change behaviors towards improved water use practices;
- Mobilize communities for collective action, awareness raising and implementation of concrete water interventions;
- Ensure equitable participation by engaging all water user groups - agricultural cooperatives, commercial farms, fisheries, irrigation or forestry associations, environmental groups, water utilities, businesses, women and youth groups, and marginalized groups such as small farmers;
- Contribute to action plans with defined interventions (who, what, when, where), corresponding outputs and outcomes, clear targets and indicators, detailed timeframes, distinct roles and responsibilities, and specific resources and capacities to be mobilized;
- Promote organizational restructuring and reforms of water institutions to concretely apply stakeholder engagement and other IWRM principles and expand WRM responsibilities and resources of decentralized entities such as municipalities, River Basin Committees, WUAs, consumer advisory boards, and others water user entities, notably engaging women, youth, and vulnerable populations.

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- Master's degree in a discipline related to community mobilization, local/ rural development, capacity/ building, political science, environmental management, or related;
- Ten (10) years of relevant, senior subject matter expertise experience related to community interventions, including experience with USAID or other international donors, preferably in South Caucasus region;
- Demonstrated capacity to engage and mobilize local authorities and communities in collaboration with local and international experts;
- Preferably comes with a current professional in-country network in the most relevant ministries and offices, private entities, and non-government organizations in the water/ environment sector.

Key Skills:
- Proven capacity in community mobilization, communications/training, Gender equity and Social Inclusion (GESI);
- Ability to engage government and civil society organizations, public and private sector counterparts and other key stakeholders to create collaboration and synergies toward achieving concrete results;
- Effective communication skills, both oral and written, to support communication with USAID, public and private sector counterparts, and colleagues;
- Full Professional Proficiency in spoken and written English is required, as well as in Armenian

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If you are interested, please email your CV with the Cover Letter to: *************@********.*** and **********@*****.*** before 5 pm on January 13, 2024.

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