WASH Blended Finance Manager

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MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Blended-finance strategy and program leadership (40%)

• Lead implementation and periodic refinement of the Tanzania rural water blended-finance strategy, which strengthens CBWSO sustainability through a combination of technical assistance and financing. Translate the full design into annual operating plans, budgets, milestones and measurable financing targets; maintain alignment between program objectives, Tanzania's rural water institutional framework and CBWSO professionalization priorities; and ensure that blended finance remains a means of improving sustainable service delivery rather than an end in itself.
• Provide technical leadership in the planning, design, implementation of blended financing support to rural water operators, supporting their improved business operations and financial sustainability through capacity-building and upgrades that improve the sustainable management of rural water supply systems.
• Manage the complete CBWSO investment pipeline from preliminary screening through detailed assessment in coordination with financial service partners.
• Represent the organization/program in WASH sector working groups, investment forums, government meetings, donor meetings, and relevant conferences.
• Support the establishment of sustainable preventive maintenance and asset-management systems
• Develop and operationalize blended-finance models for rural water supply, combining grants with public financing, commercial finance, concessional finance, guarantees, results-based financing, and private investment where appropriate.
• Maintain categories such as finance-ready, blended-finance candidate, investment-preparation candidate and not-yet-ready, and periodically reassess CBWSOs as their performance improves.
• Work with CBWSOs and engineers to identify specific investments such as source development, rehabilitation, network expansion, household connections, storage, solarization, metering, NRW reduction and digital systems.
  Ensure each investment has a credible technical scope, cost estimate, implementation plan, demand case, projected revenues, incremental O&M requirements and development outcomes.
• Facilitate public-private partnerships where they offer appropriate and sustainable solutions for rural water services.
• Build relationships with technology suppliers, contractors, operators, and other private-sector organizations.
• Assess the capacity of CBWSO to repay loans while maintaining affordable services for rural communities.
• Support CBWSO providers to become investment-ready and creditworthy.
• Maintain a program and transaction-level risk register covering credit, technical, construction, demand, governance, water-resource, climate, tariff, regulatory, environmental/social and implementation risks. Ensure risks are allocated to the party best positioned to manage them rather than simply transferred to donors or guarantees.

• Support development of partnership agreements, financing arrangements, MoUs, and implementation frameworks.

Monitoring, evaluation and learning (20%) 

•  Establish a blended-finance performance dashboard tracking both financial and service-delivery results.
•  Use standardized CBWSO and investment indicators to monitor performance before and after financing.
• Ensure lessons from initial transactions inform subsequent financing structures.

Government, RUWASA engagement and CBWSO professionalization (20%)

• Maintain strategic relationships with RUWASA at central, regional and district levels, and the Ministry of Water.
• Strengthen monitoring of water-system functionality, service levels, water production, consumption, non-revenue water, operating costs, revenue, and overall system performance.
• Ensure financing arrangements are legally permissible, institutionally supported and consistent with sector policy.
• Strengthen governance structures to improve accountability, transparency, and commercial discipline.
• Promote appropriate use of digital technologies for water-system monitoring, customer management, billing, revenue collection, and operational decision-making.
• Facilitate clarification of asset ownership, borrowing authority, tariff approval, performance monitoring and government responsibilities.
• Develop technical-assistance packages addressing financial management, billing and collection, accounting, governance, procurement, asset management, preventive maintenance, business planning, digital systems, customer service and performance reporting.
  

Institutional capacity building (10%)

• Ensure projects consider the needs of vulnerable groups, women, persons with disabilities, and underserved rural populations.
• Develop training materials, guidelines, tools, and standard operating procedures for sustainable management of rural water services.
• Develop field staff capacity to assess CBWSO performance and provide technical assistance to strengthen their business (sustainable service delivery).
• Develop guidelines so that new water systems are sustainably managed by well-performing CBWSOs.

Team and budget management (10%)

•  Manage project personnel, consultants, budgets, procurement, contracts and annual work plans; establish clear performance expectations; mentor technical staff; and ensure timely delivery of program commitments.
• Participate in global blended financing learning and institutional knowledge sharing

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional Experience

• At least 7 years of progressively responsible experience in SME (small and medium enterprise) business development, infrastructure, WASH investment, PPPs, project development programming.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• Holder of master’s degree in Finance, Engineering, Economics, Business Administration, Public Policy or related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience in several of the following areas: business development; financial modeling and cash-flow analysis; commercial lending or infrastructure finance; blended-finance structuring; guarantees and concessional instruments; project/investment appraisal; water utility or rural water economics; government engagement; private-sector development; institutional strengthening; and management of multidisciplinary teams.
• Knowledge of Tanzania's rural water sector, CBWSOs, RUWASA and local financial markets would be a substantial advantage.

Core Competencies

• The most important competencies are investment judgment, financial analysis, partnership negotiation, effective communication skills across diverse cultures and demographics, strategic leadership and the ability to translate development objectives into financeable transactions.
• The role also requires strong stakeholder diplomacy, as it sits between community organizations, government institutions, banks and development partners whose incentives may not always be the same.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications Other qualifications

• Innovative, initiative-taker, and quick to learn.
• Team leader; skilled at building and supporting teams towards collective action.
• Ability to assess risk, viability, additionality and financing fit
• Ability to structure practical agreements across public, private and development actors.
• Ability to align CBWSOs, government, lenders, partners and investors.
• Strong command of cash flow, debt capacity, DSCR and affordability analysis.
• Ability to translate program design into an investable pipeline and measurable results.
• Strong project, budget, procurement, risk and performance management.
• Experience working with CBWSOs.
• Experience in organizational learning and documentation, with strong writing and editing skills.
• Good planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with staff at all levels, partners, and donors.

Please Note: World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization with a mission centred on following Jesus Christ in service to the world´s most vulnerable children. Therefore, in all locations to the fullest extent legally permissible, the successful applicant will affirm our core documents, observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, serve at a high level of professional ethics and strive to act in accordance with cultural sensitivities. Furthermore, regular attendance with team and office devotions, chapel and prayer gatherings are expected in line with policies in the World Vision host location and its departments

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