GVA - Multiple positions: WASH Specialist, NO3, TA (364 days), Multiple locations (Maiduguri, Bauchi, Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, Sokoto, Enugu, Abuja), Nigeria - WCAR

Organizational Context

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. We are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

Job Purpose

This Generic Vacancy Announcement (GVA) aims to identify and assess qualified professionals for UNICEF's Talent Group for WASH. The goal is to build a pool of pre-assessed, high-caliber candidates for future positions aligned with UNICEF's strategic priorities and operational needs. Inclusion in the Talent Group is a valuable resource for swiftly filling future vacancies, though it does not guarantee selection for a specific post. The WASH Specialist will report to the Chief of WASH or WASH Manager, providing technical guidance and management support to develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate WASH programmes. This role strengthens programme design, analysis, monitoring, and strategic documentation, ensuring alignment with UNICEF's Strategic Plan, global WASH strategy, and national priorities.

Responsibilities

The WASH Specialist will support the development, preparation, management, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the WASH programme within the country. This includes providing technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to achieve WASH-related output results. The role involves strengthening the design and use of programme theory of change, results frameworks, situation analysis, bottleneck analysis, monitoring evidence, donor proposals, annual work plans, and strategic programme documentation. Collaboration with UNICEF colleagues, government counterparts, implementing partners, and external support agencies is crucial to ensure WASH strategies, outputs, indicators, baselines, targets, and means of verification are coherent, evidence-based, and aligned with UNICEF's Strategic Plan, global WASH strategy, Country Programme, and government plans. Key functions include programme development and planning, programme management, monitoring and delivery of results, technical and operational support for programme implementation, humanitarian WASH preparedness and response, networking and partnership building, and innovation, knowledge management, and capacity building.

Work Experience

A minimum of five years of professional experience in WASH-related programmes is required. One year of deployment in a developing country and at least one three-month deployment mission in a humanitarian situation with the UN, government, or an international NGO are also required.

Skills

Rural water supply for low- and middle-income countries, Rural sanitation for low- and middle-income countries, Urban sanitation for low- and middle-income countries, Handwashing with soap, WASH-in-Schools and Health Centres, Menstrual hygiene management, National government WASH policies, plans and strategies, Humanitarian WASH preparedness, response, recovery, and coordination, Capacity development, Knowledge management, Human rights and WASH, Gender equality and WASH

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