About WaterAid

We’re a global federation driven by one vision: a world where everyone, everywhere has clean water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030. Powered by our values of Respect, Accountability, Courage, Collaboration, Integrity and Innovation, we work alongside communities, partners and supporters to make change happen.

About the Team

The WaterAid Global Campaigns team is the public mobilisation experts at WaterAid, leading our public engagement work for the broader Global Policy and Advocacy department. They are responsible for delivering the two global advocacy priority campaigns on climate and women’s health.

About the Role

The Public Mobilisation Expert will strengthen public mobilisation capacity across five WaterAid country programmes (Cambodia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Malawi) by providing practical, hands-on support in strategy development, training, and delivery. The role is designed to enable country teams to design and deliver impactful, locally led public mobilisation approaches that grow public support, influence decision-makers, and contribute to organisational and movement-wide change goals.

This role will work closely with country programme staff, regional teams, and global campaign leads to embed effective public mobilisation practice, grounded in local context, power analysis, and equity-centred approaches.

In this role, you will:

1. Capacity Building & Training

• Design and deliver tailored training programmes to strengthen country programme and local partner capacity in public mobilisation, including supporter engagement, grassroots organising, digital mobilisation, and offline activation.
• Develop practical tools, templates, and guidance to support country teams at different stages of mobilisation maturity.
• Provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to country programme and local partner staff, supporting learning-by-doing approaches and peer learning.

2. Strategy Development & Support

• Support country programmes or identified local partners to develop or strengthen public mobilisation strategies aligned with national priorities and global campaign objectives.
• Provide hands-on technical support to adapt global campaigns for local contexts, ensuring relevance, inclusivity, and effectiveness.
• Support integration of public mobilisation into broader influencing, advocacy, and fundraising strategies.

3. Learning, Evidence & Continuous Improvement

• Capture learning, best practices, and case studies from country programmes to inform organisational learning and improvement.
• Support monitoring of mobilisation outcomes and contribute to evaluation and learning processes.

Requirements

To be successful, you’ll need:

• Significant experience in public mobilisation, campaigning, or organising in the Global South.
• Proven experience supporting capacity building or training for teams, partners, or grassroots organisations.
• Strong understanding of public mobilisation approaches, including grassroots, digital, and community-led models.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and communication skills, with the ability to work across cultures and contexts.
• Commitment to equity, inclusion, and locally led development and campaigning approaches.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, managing multiple priorities across different country contexts.
• Experience working with or within international NGOs, coalitions, or social movements.
• Experience supporting mobilisation linked to advocacy, policy change, or systems change.
• Familiarity with monitoring, evaluation, and learning approaches for public mobilisation.
• Experience working in politically sensitive or challenging environments.

• Design and deliver tailored training programmes to strengthen country programme and local partner capacity in public mobilisation, including supporter engagement, grassroots organising, digital mobilisation, and offline activation.
• Develop practical tools, templates, and guidance to support country teams at different stages of mobilisation maturity.
• Provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to country programme and local partner staff, supporting learning-by-doing approaches and peer learning.
• Support country programmes or identified local partners to develop or strengthen public mobilisation strategies aligned with national priorities and global campaign objectives.
• Provide hands-on technical support to adapt global campaigns for local contexts, ensuring relevance, inclusivity, and effectiveness.
• Support integration of public mobilisation into broader influencing, advocacy, and fundraising strategies.
• Capture learning, best practices, and case studies from country programmes to inform organisational learning and improvement.
• Support monitoring of mobilisation outcomes and contribute to evaluation and learning processes.

• Strong facilitation, coaching, and communication skills, with the ability to work across cultures and contexts.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, managing multiple priorities across different country contexts.

• Significant experience in public mobilisation, campaigning, or organising in the Global South.
• Proven experience supporting capacity building or training for teams, partners, or grassroots organisations.
• Strong understanding of public mobilisation approaches, including grassroots, digital, and community-led models.
• Commitment to equity, inclusion, and locally led development and campaigning approaches.
• Experience working with or within international NGOs, coalitions, or social movements.
• Experience supporting mobilisation linked to advocacy, policy change, or systems change.
• Familiarity with monitoring, evaluation, and learning approaches for public mobilisation.
• Experience working in politically sensitive or challenging environments.