Chief of Technical Division
Duties and Responsibilities:
The incumbent will be responsible to oversee the Technical Division of the Fund Board Office, by taking care as a whole of technical aspects of the RWSSIP. His/her main responsibility is to assess the technical capability of SOs to determine their eligibility to participate in RWSSIP and to develop strategies for strengthening their capability. This will include recruitment and training of service agencies for strengthening their technical staff. He/she will be fully responsible for the technical appraisal of scheme proposals and will ensure that project designs are prepared in a community-based approach where all decisions are taken by users. He/she will also be responsible for identification, field testing and recommendation to the Fund Board for a range of technical standards to be accepted as the basis of the community water supply design. He/she will appraise of project submissions including that of application of field-tested technical guidelines, will prepare and update the specifications, price and quality norms to be followed by the SOs/communities in the procurement of materials standards and specifications for hardware. He/she will also prepare unit prices and norms and apply them to proposed cost estimates. He/ she participates in TAC meetings and manages all record keeping with reference to the technical aspects of the RWSSIP. H/She will be responsible for reporting to DED and will be liable to him and then through him to ED.
Academic Qualification:
S/he must have Master's Degree in Civil Engineering or Environmental Engineering or Agricultural Engineering or Water Resource Engineering from recognized national or foreign University.
Work Experience:
S/he must have at least 5 (five) years relevant work experience.
Note: For detail Job description, download from www.rwss.org
Applicants must not be convicted of any criminal case of moral turpitude and must not be affiliated with any political party. They must not be a relative of any of the Board Members and the Board employees. They must include a statement to these effects in their applications. Those who are Government employees and civil servants of government-owned universities, academic and research institutes and any other government organizations will not be eligible to apply. The applicant should not be above 50 years of age till the application submission deadline.
Duty Station: These are Kathmandu Valley based positions. However, all position holders will be required to undertake extensive field visits to districts outside Kathmandu Valley.
Salary and benefits: As per the Fund Board's Rules.
Application Procedure: Eligible candidates are required to apply with a signed copy of updated CV, copies of citizenship, testimonials of academic qualification and training certificates and employment records attested by notary public and with recent two passport size photographs not later than 5.30 PM on 2073 Ashad 13 ( June 27,2016).
Selection Procedure: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further selection process. Undue influence will result in automatic rejection.
The Fund Board reserves all rights to accept or reject any application without assigning any reasons whatsoever.
Application can be sent by post to or directly submit at Fund Board Office. However, Applications sent through email or electronically will not be entertained.
Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Fund Development Board encourages to apply from Women, Dalit and individuals from marginalized/disadvantaged communities
The Executive director
Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Fund Development Board
Shiva Marg, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, P.O. Box 12414,
Website: www.rwss.org (for downloading detailed TOR)
Government of Nepal created the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Fund Development Board, on 14th March 1996 to promote sustainable and cost effective demand-led rural water supply and sanitation services in facilitation of Non-governmental and Private Organizations with full emphasis on community ownership in conformity with the Government's Eighth Plan (1992-97), Ninth Plan (1997-2002) and Tenth Plan (2002-2007) sector policies, which aimed at fundamental changes in rural water supply and sanitation service delivery mechanism in the country. The Ministry of Urban Development is the line ministry for the Board.
The Board is designed based on the experience of a field tested pilot project, acronymed 'JAKPAS' (the Nepali acronym of Janata Ko Khanepani Ra Sarsafai Karyakram - meaning People's Water Supply and Sanitation Program). Preparation studies for the pilot were carried out with funding by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and a grant from Japanese Grant Facility (JGF). The World Bank executed the pilot for a period of three years, during 1993-96, financed by two additional JGF grants.