Position Summary

Under the direction of the Community Development Coordinator, the Community Development Officer, Lead is responsible for coordinating, guiding, mentoring, and monitoring the work of Community Development Officers to ensure the effective planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and continuous improvement of community development and WASH activities that promote the sustainable use and management of Water Mission safe water systems

The Community Development Officer, Lead ensures compliance with Water Mission standards, organizational policies, and donor requirements. The incumbent serves as the primary point of contact for coordinating Community Development Officer activities and ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality community engagement, behavior change, and sustainability interventions across all project sites. The incumbent also implements community development activities along with Community Development Officers as assigned. The position requires frequent travel to remote project locations and occasional travel outside the assigned duty station.

1.0 Duties and Responsibilities

Mission Responsibilities

• Maintain a strong Christian witness and model servant leadership to colleagues, partners, communities, and the public.
• Participate in prayer before and after team meetings and engage in biblically based staff devotions.
• Demonstrate Water Mission's core values of Love, Excellence, and Integrity in all aspects of work.
• Support the integration of the gospel of Jesus Christ through appropriate words and actions consistent with Water Mission's mission.

Disaster Response

• Coordinate Community Development Officers during emergency assessments and WASH response activities.
• Support rapid community mobilization during emergency operations.
• Participate in disaster recovery and resilience-building initiatives.

Reporting and Administration

• Consolidate Community Development Officers' work plans, activity reports, monitoring reports, donor reports, and success stories.
• Prepare timely summary reports for submission to the Community Development Coordinator.
• Ensure accountability for program resources and accurate documentation.
• Monitor budget utilization for Community Development activities.
• Maintain complete program records and support audit and compliance requirements.

Other Responsibilities

• Participate in organizational training and continuous professional development.
• Support cross-functional teams during project implementation.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the Community Development Coordinator.

2.0 Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

Relationship and Alignment

• Personal and growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Alignment with Water Mission's Statement of Faith and core values of Love, Excellence, and Integrity.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Community Development, Transformative Community Development, Social Work, Development Studies, Public Health, or any related field.
• Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience implementing community development or WASH program.
• At least two (2) years of experience coordinating teams or leading community-based programs.
• Demonstrated experience in community mobilization, stakeholder engagement, behavior change communication, capacity building, and program coordination.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting, and project planning.
• Experience working with local government, community-based organizations, schools, and development partners.
• Must have a Valid driver's license and the ability to drive a manual vehicle

Skills and Abilities

• Strong leadership, coordination, coaching, and mentoring skills.
• Excellent facilitation, training, and community mobilization skills.
• Strong knowledge of WASH programming and behavior change methodologies.
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong planning, analytical, report writing, and documentation skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to coordinate multiple field activities simultaneously.
• High level of integrity, accountability, and professionalism.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Experience using mobile data collection tools such as KoboToolbox, mWater, or ODK is an added advantage.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently to remote project locations.

• Coordinate Community Development Officers during emergency assessments and WASH response activities.
• Support rapid community mobilization during emergency operations.
• Participate in disaster recovery and resilience-building initiatives.
• Consolidate Community Development Officers' work plans, activity reports, monitoring reports, donor reports, and success stories.
• Prepare timely summary reports for submission to the Community Development Coordinator.
• Ensure accountability for program resources and accurate documentation.
• Monitor budget utilization for Community Development activities.
• Maintain complete program records and support audit and compliance requirements.
• Participate in organizational training and continuous professional development.
• Support cross-functional teams during project implementation.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the Community Development Coordinator.

• Strong leadership, coordination, coaching, and mentoring skills.
• Excellent facilitation, training, and community mobilization skills.
• Strong knowledge of WASH programming and behavior change methodologies.
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong planning, analytical, report writing, and documentation skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to coordinate multiple field activities simultaneously.
• High level of integrity, accountability, and professionalism.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Experience using mobile data collection tools such as KoboToolbox, mWater, or ODK is an added advantage.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently to remote project locations.

• Personal and growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Alignment with Water Mission's Statement of Faith and core values of Love, Excellence, and Integrity.
• Bachelor's Degree in Community Development, Transformative Community Development, Social Work, Development Studies, Public Health, or any related field.
• Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience implementing community development or WASH program.
• At least two (2) years of experience coordinating teams or leading community-based programs.
• Demonstrated experience in community mobilization, stakeholder engagement, behavior change communication, capacity building, and program coordination.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting, and project planning.
• Experience working with local government, community-based organizations, schools, and development partners.
• Must have a Valid driver's license and the ability to drive a manual vehicle