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Job no: 578169
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Level: NO-1
Location: Somalia
Categories: WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for personal and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a rewarding mission. We pride ourselves on a culture that helps staff thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
For every child, safe environment
How can you make a difference?
1. Programme development and planning
● Research and analyze regional/national political, WASH, health, and social and economic development trends. Collect, analyze, verify and synthesize information to facilitate programme development, design and preparation.
● Prepare technical reports and inputs for programme preparation and documentation, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and relevance of information.
● Assist in the development/establishment of WASH-related outcome and output results, as well as related strategies, through analysis of WASH sector needs and priorities.
● Provide technical and administrative support throughout all stages of programming processes by executing/administering a variety of technical programme transactions, preparing materials/documentations, complying with organizational processes and management systems, to support progress towards the WASH-related outcome and/or output results in the Country Programme.
● Prepare required documentations/materials to facilitate review and approval processes.
2. Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
● Work collaboratively with colleagues and partners to collect/analyze/ share information on implementation issues, suggest solutions on routine programme implementation and alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level interventions and/or decision. Keep record of reports and assessments for easy reference and/or to capture and institutionalize lessons learned.
● Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual sectoral reviews with government and other counterparts and prepare minutes/reports on results for follow up action by higher management and other stakeholders.
● Monitor and report on the use of sectoral programme resources (financial, administrative and other assets), verify compliance with approved allocations, organizational rules, regulations/procedures and donor commitments, standards of accountability and integrity. Report on issues identified to enable timely resolution by management/stakeholders. Follow up on unresolved issues to ensure resolution.
● Prepare inputs for programme and donor reporting.
3. Technical and operational support for programme implementation
● Undertake field visits and surveys, collect and share reports with partners/stakeholders. Report critical issues, bottlenecks and potential problems to supervisor, for timely action.
● 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, to support programme implementation.
4. Humanitarian WASH preparedness and response
● Draft inputs for the preparation of WASH emergency preparedness, including the drafting of required supplies and services, long-term agreements, partnership agreements, and coordination mechanisms.
● Study and fully understand UNICEF’s procedures for responding in an emergency.
● Take up support roles in an emergency response and early recovery, as and when the need arises.
6. Networking and partnership building
● Build and sustain close working partnerships with government counterparts and national stakeholders through active sharing of information and knowledge to facilitate programme implementation and build capacity of stakeholders to achieve WASH output results.
● Draft communication and information materials for WASH programme advocacy to promote awareness, establish partnership/alliances and support fund raising for WASH.
● Participate in inter-agency meetings/events on WASH programming to collaborate with inter-agency partners/colleagues on UNDAF operational planning and preparation of WASH programmes/projects and to integrate and harmonize UNICEF output results and implementation strategies with UNDAF development and planning processes.
● Research information on potential donors and prepare resource mobilization materials and briefs for fund raising and partnership development purposes.
7. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
● Assist in the development, implementation, monitoring and documentation of WASH action research and innovation (technical or systems).
● Assist in the preparation of learning/knowledge products, covering innovative approaches and good practices, to support overall WASH sector development.
● Assist in creating and delivering learning opportunities for UNICEF WASH staff, to ensure our sector capacity remains up-to-date with latest developments.
● Participate as a resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of clients/stakeholders.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum requirements:
● Education: A university degree in one of the following fields is required: public health, social sciences, behavior change communication, sanitary engineering, or another relevant technical field.
● Work Experience: A minimum of one year of professional experience in WASH-related programmes for developing countries in both technical area (design and implementation of WASH infrastructure) and social aspects of the WASH Programme (social mobilization, community development, sanitation and hygiene promotion, SBC) is required.
● Experience in humanitarian response is considered a strong advantage
● Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish)
Desirables:
● Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency.
,● Master’s degree and additional relevant post-graduate courses that complement/supplement the main degree are a strong asset.
Technical requirements:
Basic knowledge of four of the eight components:
● Rural water supply for low- and middle-income countries - including water safety, sustainability
● Rural sanitation for low- and middle-income countries, including sustainability; applying CATS principles
● Urban sanitation for low- and middle-income countries, including sustainability
● Handwashing with soap
● WASH-in-Schools and Health Centres
● Menstrual hygiene management
● National government WASH policies, plans and strategies
● Analysis of national budgets and expenditure for basic WASH, and related advocacy
Basic knowledge:
Humanitarian WASH - preparedness
Humanitarian WASH - response and recovery
Programme/project management
Capacity development
Knowledge management
Monitoring and evaluation
Human rights and WASH
Gender equality and WASH
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
Advertised: 25 Dec 2024 E. Africa Standard Time
Deadline: 07 Jan 2025 E. Africa Standard Time
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