WASH Specialist (Quetta)

Organizational Context

Pakistan, a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, faces significant challenges for its children and adolescents. UNICEF collaborates with the Government of Pakistan to advance Sustainable Development Goals and children's rights through partnerships with provincial authorities, communities, and families. The WASH Programme focuses on system strengthening, expanding access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene, and promoting climate-resilient WASH services, emphasizing gender-responsive, disability-inclusive, and child-friendly approaches.

Job Purpose

This role provides essential technical, programmatic, and capacity-building support to enhance the design, implementation, monitoring, and scaling of climate-resilient and inclusive Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) interventions. Aligned with UNICEF’s child rights-based approach, the position contributes to UNICEF's efforts in Pakistan to achieve SDGs and uphold children's rights. Key focus areas include system strengthening, expanding access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene, and developing climate-resilient WASH services. The role ensures that WASH programs are gender-responsive, disability-inclusive, child-friendly, and incorporate climate adaptation and community engagement strategies.

Responsibilities

The incumbent will report to the Provincial WASH-CEE Specialist, providing programmatic and technical support for WASH program development and implementation. Key duties include supporting the preparation of annual work plans, budgets, and roadmaps, and developing monitoring frameworks. The role ensures WASH services are safe, inclusive, gender-responsive, and disability-inclusive, adhering to UNICEF's child rights approach and global standards. Responsibilities also involve supporting the development of safely managed and climate-resilient WASH service models, and providing technical assistance to improve WASH infrastructure in schools and health facilities. The position will strengthen evidence-based behavior change strategies, conduct field visits for quality assurance, support data analysis and reporting, and document best practices and innovations. Additionally, the role will support coordination with provincial departments, district authorities, and development partners, and represent UNICEF WASH in technical working groups.

Work Experience

A minimum of 3 years of overall experience is required, with at least 2 years of relevant experience in WASH programming and climate-related fields within a humanitarian or development organization. Experience with child rights, gender equality principles, and gender-sensitive WASH programming is necessary. Experience in conducting research and analysis on WASH projects is also required. Prior experience with UN agencies or international organizations is an asset.

Skills

Essential skills include excellent writing and communication abilities, and the capacity to work both independently and collaboratively within a team. Desirable skills include knowledge of current climate change trends and their impact on WASH. Expertise areas mentioned are community development, development programmes, and social work.

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