Regional WASH Specialist (in Charge of WASH Infrastructure Quality Assurance & Quality Control)

Job Description

Purpose of the position:

The Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Business Plan outlines our strategy to leverage $1 billion between 2021 and 2025, impacting 15 million people with safe water, 14 million people with improved sanitation, and 18 million with improved hygiene. As part of our goal to demonstrate sustainable impact, we are working to define and foster a Culture of Quality (COQ) to maintain infrastructure quality as our programming grows in complexity. The cost of poor quality can result in an average of 22% of an organizations funds being allocated to fixing errors or inefficiencies. This would mean $220 million of our $1 billion commitment would be allocated to correcting these errors. Otherwise stated, if these errors were avoided, we could provide 4.4 million more people with water (assuming $50 per person).

Therefore, to minimize and ensure we are learning and improving from our errors, we believe that creating a COQ will r...