Admin Officer

Admin Officer - Resilient Water Accelerator

**WaterAid**
- Canary Wharf, Greater London (Hybrid)
- £33,223 - £34,894 per year
- Full-time
- Permanent
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**Admin Officer - Resilient Water Accelerator**

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

**UK hybrid working** - a minimum of 40 % of working time is spent face-to-face (London office, external meetings or travel).
- 60/40 hybrid working at WaterAid means roughly three days wherever you work best and two days together in person._

**Salary**: £33,223 - £34,894 per year with excellent benefits

**Change starts with water. Change starts with you.**

Every day, millions of people live without clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. WaterAid exists to change that - for everyone, everywhere. Join us, and your energy will help unlock people’s potential and create a fairer future.

**About Resilient Water Accelerator (RWA)**

The climate crisis is a water crisis. Around the world, people are feeling the effects of climate change through water, including flooding, droughts, sea level rise, and irregular rainfall. Climate change is affecting seasonal and long-term water availability, meaning we can no longer rely on rain, river flows and aquifers. The Global Commission on the Economics of Water has said that the world is facing the prospect of a 40% shortfall in freshwater by 2030; and water and wastewater contribute 10% of global emissions. To adapt to this new reality and build resilience to the impacts of climate change, we need to re-think how water resources are managed and delivered for different users over time. This provides an exciting opportunity to rethink how we create investment opportunities that promote resilient water management for people and the planet.

The Resilient Water Accelerator is designed to increase the flow of private and public finance into water projects that help the most climate-vulnerable communities build resilience to climate change. Despite the high need, only 3% of total climate finance flows go towards water. Our mission is to demonstrate the business case for increased and enhanced public and private investment in water-related deals in emerging economies that strengthen resilience for climate-vulnerable communities and are replicable so that millions more can benefit. We are working to increase the speed, scale and replicability of water investment by creating a pipeline of bankable projects, bringing together the right mix of financing with the right commercial structures and partners, and supporting improvements in the enabling environment. We are undertaking work to understand local markets and context, develop templates, shared resources, and data, to build proof of concept projects to provide a springboard for increased action on resilient water. And we are developing thought leadership on how to make water more investible.

**About the RWA team**

The Resilient Water Accelerator (RWA), wholly owned subsidiary of WaterAid, is a global organisation that aims to:

- Address the climate impacts on water to strengthen resilience in vulnerable communities.
- Secure greater investment from public and private sources in water infrastructure and services.
- Ensure this work can be replicated and scaled to increase long term water security.

To achieve this, we work with policy makers, experts, investors and communities to identify critical climate risks to water and shape a business case for priority projects.

We work to ensure these projects act as positive examples of a new approach to programme development in the water and climate sectors.

This role will play an essential part in delivering our international programme of work.

**About the role**

As our **Admin Officer**, you will play a critical role in our Global Platform team — helping to **link the different parts of the Resilient Water Accelerator (RWA) together and co-ordinate with our partners** around the world to drive sustainable change.

The Resilient Water Accelerator is a newly formed not-for-profit organisation, which, as a wholly owned subsidiary of WaterAid, means both organisations retain a close and collaborative relationship. This is an exciting opportunity to be on the ground floor as we build new structures and culture for this unique startup organisation, as it works towards delivering on its mission.

**In this role, you will**:
**Provide support and solutions as the RWA puts in place new structures and systems**
- You will work with SMT to explore the practical and regulatory steps towards building our own high-performing systems.
- Help develop solutions to interfacing with WaterAid’s systems (e.g. financial and HR).

**Take the lead in engaging with WaterAid’s finance processing systems**
- Process payments
- Develop contracts and due diligence
- Prepare invoices and work with the team to develop budget forecasts
- Ensure quality and consistency of our financial reporting

**Support SMT