Swa Cso Engagement Officer

SWA CSO Engagement Officer

**WaterAid**
- Canary Wharf, Greater London (Hybrid)
- £43,668 - £45,851 per year
- Full-time
- Permanent

Job description

**SWA CSO Coordinator (Sanitation and Water for All Civil society organizations)**

**Contract type**: Permanent, Full time, 35 hours per week

**Location**: London, UK

**UK Hybrid Working**: A minimum of 40% of working time is spent face to face, either in London office, or as a result of external engagement or travel for WaterAid. WaterAid is located at Canary Wharf, London and this will be your location and contract base.

**Salary**: £43,668 -£45,851 per year with excellent benefits

**About WaterAid and Sanitation and Water for All**

**Sanitation and Water for All** (SWA) is a global partnership of nearly 50 country governments, civil society organizations (CSOs), external support agencies, private sector, academia and utilities and regulators working together to catalyse political leadership, improve accountability and effective use of scarce resources. Partners work towards a common vision of universal access to safe water and adequate sanitation. Civil society plays an important role in this partnership. The CSO constituency is the largest constituency within SWA gathering more than 190 partners.

**About the Team**

Over 703 million people around the world don’t have safe water to drink and wash with, and 1.5 billion people don’t have a toilet. This is causing huge health problems and holding back development. This position involves working with two of the organisations at the forefront of tackling this global crisis and enabling people around the world to influence their governments to take action. This is a great opportunity to work with civil society organisations around the world to connect with the global Sanitation and Water for All partnership to both increase political prioritisation for water, sanitation and hygiene, build and strengthen multistakeholder platforms and improve systems as well as increase investments for the sector.

**About the Role**
- Coordinate the Civil Society Constituency to assist in carrying out the annual workplan in line with SWA strategic objectives and Results Framework
- Lead on in-country support to SWA Civil Society partners, networks, and INGO country chapters in 2024-25 priority countries on Heads of State Initiatives, including advocacy strategies and commitments building process
- Support internal and external communications to CSO partners and identify needs for support, including documenting impact, tailored press releases, advocacy letters, and digital support. Additionally, support preliminary research in priority countries to identify entry points for advocacy including for countries undergoing elections
- Oversee monitoring, evaluation, narrative, and financial reporting for SWA CSO Catalytic grants
- Work closely with the Country and Partner Engagement lead to organize Global partners' quarterly meetings and follow-up
- Prepare and finalize the narrative report submitted to UNICEF from WaterAid

**Requirements**:
To be successful, you’ll need:

- Experience of both coordinating and working within global, regional and national CSO networks and coalitions preferably in developing countries
- Proven experience in advocacy and influencing, preferably with the civil society organisations, networks and International NGOs
- Demonstrable experience in leading successful campaigning and policy analysis within the development sector
- Experience in budget management and/or in project/account/relationship management.
- Strong communication skills
- Proven experience at influencing and negotiating internally and externally
- Experience of using a range of capacity building approaches, methods and tools, including, designing and delivering training around advocacy, campaigning and policy analysis.
- Experience and expertise in internal and external communication: in writing blogs, impact stories, and monitoring impact of advocacy
- Knowledge of sustainable development goals, and water sanitation and hygiene
- Ability to work autonomously with mínimal supervision
- Ability to travel internationally
- circa 15 days (2 weeks) per year
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to manage complex and sensitive organisational relationships.
- Fluency in English is required, and ability to communicate effectively in both verbal and written in another UN language is required.
- Proven ability in effective negotiations and enhanced diplomacy skills to effectively build and manage cross cultural stakeholder relationships
- Understanding of and ability to work within a variety of political, legal and cultural constraints to advocacy and campaigning at the national level.
- Educated to bachelor’s degree in development studies or related field with post qualification experience

**Closing Date**: Applications will close at **12:00pm UK Time** on Friday 21st March. Interview shall start w/c 7 April 2025.

**How to Apply**:Cl