Senior Manager, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

14 Aug 2026 Senior Manager, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) at CIFF

• Provide strategic leadership for CIFF’s Zambia WASH portfolio, ensuring alignment with the Africa WASH Mission and CIFF’s corporate priorities, including leading the design, appraisal, implementation, adaptive management and closure of WASH investments, and developing and managing a pipeline of high-quality investment opportunities. • Oversee delivery of climate-resilient, solar-powered groundwater schemes serving rural communities, schools and health facilities from feasibility through commissioning and handover, ensuring investments deliver agreed outputs relating to beneficiaries, schools, health facilities, functionality, sustainability and value for money. • Serve as CIFF’s principal WASH representative in Zambia, building trusted relationships with senior government officials, utilities, regulators, donors and development partners, including engagement with ministries responsible for Water, Finance, Health, Education and Local Government. • Support the Government of Zambia to accelerate implementation of committed WASH financing, identify implementation bottlenecks delaying government and MDB-funded programmes, support preparation of bankable WASH investment pipelines, and help strengthen Zambia’s country-led WASH platform, including support for mobilisation of climate finance. • Ensure robust monitoring systems are implemented across all investments, support independent verification of outputs and outcomes, promote learning from implementation to improve programme quality and contribute to CIFF’s thought leadership in climate-resilient WASH and innovative financing.