UNICEF WASH Specialist Jobs 2024 – Nigeria NGO Jobs

UNICEF WASH Specialist Jobs 2024 – Nigeria NGO Jobs.

UNICEF Nigeria programme looking for “WASH Specialist”.

Applicants with An Advanced University degree may apply on or before 19th April 2024.

UNICEF is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.

UNICEF WASH Specialist Jobs 2024

The UNICEF has published a job vacancy announcement on 6th April 2024 for qualified Nigeria’s to fill in the vacant post of WASH Specialist to be based in Abuja, Nigeria.

UNICEF Job Vacancy 2024

Key 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.
• 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.
• Actively monitor UNICEF-supported activities through field visits, surveys and exchange of information with partners, to assess progress, identify bottlenecks and potential problems and take 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, to support programme implementation.
• Plan for use of technical experts from the Regional Office and HQ, as and where appropriate in the WASH programme, through remote support and on-site visits.
• Prepare requisitions for supplies, services, long-term agreements and partnership agreements to ensure UNICEF is prepared to deliver on its commitments for WASH in case of an emergency.
• Contribute to the coordination arrangement for humanitarian WASH, for instant robust coordination in case of an emergency.

Position in Organization:

• Job no: 570925
• Position type: Fixed Term Appointment
• Location: Nigeria
• Division/Equivalent: Dakar (WCAR), Senegal
• School/Unit: Nigeria
• Department/Office: Abuja, Nigeria
• Categories: WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)

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.
• At least one three-month deployment mission in a humanitarian situation (with UN-Govt-INGO) is required

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English is required.  Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.

How to Apply UNICEF WASH Specialist Jobs 2024

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The Closing Date: 19th April, 2024

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

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