Deadline: 22 April, 2021
Location: Gambella, Ethiopia
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is seeking to fill the role of WASH Specialist.
UNICEF works for a world in which every child has a fair chance in life.
Responsibilities
- Draft the WASH inputs for the situation analysis
- Provide timely, comprehensive and current data to inform WASH policy and programme development, planning, management and implementation
- Support agencies, strengthen national government WASH sector monitoring systems, with a focus on WASH outcomes (behaviours), using bottleneck analysis tools available in the sector (WASH-BAT, CSOs, SDAs)
- Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual sectoral reviews with government and other counterparts and prepare reports on results for required action/interventions at the higher level of programme management
- Support activities through field visits, surveys and exchange of information with partners, assessing progress, identifying bottlenecks and potential problems and taking timely decisions to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant officials for timely interventions
- Provide technical and operational support to government counterparts, NGO partners, UN system partners and other country office partners/donors on the application and understanding of UNICEF policies, strategies, processes and best practices in WASH
Requirements
- Advanced university degree (master’s degree or higher) in Public Health, Social Sciences, Behaviour Change Communication, Sanitary Engineering, or a relevant technical field with two years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of advanced degree
- Relevant professional experience in WASH-related programmes
- Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset
- Fluency in English
- Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset
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