Deadline: 25 May, 2021

Location: Bangui, Central African Republic

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of WASH Cluster Coordinator.

Across 190 countries and territories, UNICEF works for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, guidance, and direction for the WASH Cluster
• Establish and maintain an appropriate humanitarian coordination mechanism
• Strengthen pre-existing sectoral coordination through increased predictability and accountability
• Build complementarity of partner actions avoiding duplication and gaps
• Ensure adequate resources are mobilised and are equitably allocated for the effective functioning of the cluster and its response
• Ensure effective and comprehensive integration of relevant cross-cutting issues, including age, gender, environment and HIV/AIDs
• Maintain flexibility within the cluster to respond to changes in the operating environment, evolving requirements, capacities and participation
• Effectively use and transfer information to, from and among cluster participants and other stakeholders
• Interact with other clusters (including through inter-cluster coordination forums), humanitarian actors, government counterparts, and relevant authorities for operational planning, engagement and active contribution of operational partners

Requirements

• University degree in Public Health, Social Sciences, Behaviour Change Communication, Sanitary Engineering, or a related technical field
• Additional relevant postgraduate courses will be a plus
• Extensive work experience relevant to this post may be considered as a replacement for formal qualifications
• Five years, minimum, of humanitarian work experience with UN and/or NGO, including programme management and/or coordination in the first phase of a major emergency response relevant to the cluster
• Extensive work experience outside the humanitarian sector relevant to this post may be considered as a replacement for humanitarian experience
• Formal training in cluster coordination will be a plus
• Fluency in French and English
• Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station will be a plus

To apply and for more information, click here.

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