UNICEF Wash Specialist Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs

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UNICEF Wash Specialist Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.

UNICEF Ethiopia looking for “Wash Specialist”.

Applicants with an Advanced University Degree may apply on or before 02nd January, 2024.

UNICEF is a Christian international relief and development agency working globally to end poverty and injuries and to restore hope in some of the world’s poorest communities. UNICEF have the vision to see 50 million people released from material and spiritual poverty through a worldwide network of 100,000 local churches. We operate in more than fifty countries around the world.

The UNICEF has published a job vacancy announcement on 12th December, 2023 for qualified Ethiopians to fill in the vacant post of Wash Specialist to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

UNICEF Job Vacancy 2024

Roles and 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. Keep abreast of WASH sector development trends, for maximum efficiency and effectiveness in programme design, management, and implementation.
Participate in strategic WASH programme planning discussions. Prepare WASH donor proposals, ensuring alignment with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, UNICEF’s global WASH strategy and the Country programme, as well as government plans and priorities, and the role of other external support agencies.
Assist in the formulation of the WASH outcome and output results, related indicators, baselines, targets and means of verification.
Prepare required documentation for programme reviews.
Work with colleagues and partners to discuss strategies and methodologies for the achievement of WASH output results in the country programme.
Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of programming processes and ensure integration, coherence, and harmonization of WASH with other UNICEF sectors, for the achievement of the WASH output results.
Draft assigned sections of the annual work plan, in close cooperation with government and other counterparts.
With other external support agencies, strengthen national government WASH sector monitoring systems, with a focus on WASH outcomes (behaviors), 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.
Prepare/assess monitoring and evaluation reports to identify gaps, strengths/weaknesses in programmes and management, identify and document lessons learned.
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.
Prepare sectoral progress reports for management, donors, and partners.

Position in Organization:

WASH Specialist
Job no: 568112
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Duty Station: Gambela
Level: P-3
Location: Ethiopia
Categories: WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)
Advertised: 12 Dec 2023 E. Africa Standard Time
Deadline: 02 Jan 2024 E. Africa Standard Time

Minimum Requirements:

Qualification:

An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: public health, social sciences, behavior change communication, sanitary engineering, or another relevant technical field. Additional relevant post-graduate courses that complement/supplement the main degree are a strong asset.

Experience:

A minimum of five years of professional experience in WASH-related programmes for developing countries is required. One year of deployment in a developing country is required.
Expert knowledge of Rural water supply for low- and middle-income countries – including water safety, sustainability is required.
Expert knowledge of Rural sanitation for low- and middle-income countries, including sustainability; applying CATS principles is required.
Expert knowledge of Urban sanitation for low- and middle-income countries, including sustainability is required.
Experience with National government WASH policies, plans and strategies is required.

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