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For each child, clear water.

Niger is a landlocked Sahelian nation of 24 million inhabitants predominantly by younger and rural folks (81.3%). Children aged 0-14 is 51% of the overall inhabitants and 20% for these aged 15-24. Although poverty has declined, inequality persists, because the progress made has been misplaced owing to a mix of many vulnerabilities. While two thirds of the nation is a desert, it additionally experiences excessive inhabitants progress, accelerating pure disasters, the results of local weather change and important insecurity within the cross-border areas of the central Sahel.

The present nation program of UNICEF in Niger is aligned to the UNSDCF and covers the interval 2023 – 2027 with the intention at making certain all women and boys, from start by means of adolescence, survive, thrive, study, develop to their full potential, are protected against all types of violence and exploitation, and thus contribute to optimistic social change of their communities.

Niger can also be significantly susceptible to the results of local weather change, being ranked the second most susceptible nation on the planet (ND-GAIN Country Index) and the seventh nation the place kids are most in danger from local weather change (UNICEF Children’s Climate Risk Index, 2021).

Despite efforts to make sure entry to water and sanitation for all, progress stays restricted, significantly in rural areas and in IDP websites and host communities. According to the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP, 2023), lower than 50% of the inhabitants has entry to fundamental consuming water, whereas 66% of the inhabitants nonetheless practices open defecation, with important geographical and socio-economic disparities. Access to WASH companies in faculties and well being/vitamin centres can also be restricted: in 2023, 75% of colleges didn’t have entry to protected consuming water, 57% didn’t have entry to sanitation (JMP, 2023), and most colleges and well being centres didn’t have handwashing services.

How are you able to make a difference? 

The WASH Specialist experiences to the Chief of WASH for steerage and basic supervision. The Specialist helps the event, preparation, administration, implementation, monitoring and analysis of the WASH programme inside the nation programme. The Specialist offers technical steerage and administration help all through the programming processes, to facilitate the administration and achievement of the WASH-related output ends in the nation programme.

Key features, accountabilities and associated duties/duties

1. Programme improvement and planning

• Draft the WASH inputs for the scenario evaluation.  Provide well timed, complete and present information to tell WASH coverage and programme improvement, planning, administration and implementation. Keep abreast of WASH sector improvement tendencies, for most effectivity and effectiveness in programme design, administration and implementation.
• Participate in strategic WASH programme planning discussions. Prepare WASH donor proposals, making certain alignment with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, UNICEF’s world WASH technique and the Country programme, in addition to authorities plans and priorities, and the position of different exterior help businesses.
• Assist within the formulation of the WASH final result and output outcomes, associated indicators, baselines, targets and technique of verification. Prepare required documentation for programme critiques.
• Work with colleagues and companions to debate methods and methodologies for the achievement of WASH output ends in the nation programme.
• Provide technical and operational help all through all levels of programming processes and guarantee integration, coherence and harmonization of WASH with different UNICEF sectors, for the achievement of the WASH output outcomes.
• Draft assigned sections of the annual work plan, in shut cooperation with authorities and different counterparts.

2. Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes

• With different exterior help businesses, strengthen nationwide authorities WASH sector monitoring programs, with a give attention to WASH outcomes (behaviors), utilizing bottleneck evaluation instruments out there within the sector (WASH-BAT, CSOs, SDAs).
• Participate in monitoring and analysis workouts, programme critiques and annual sectoral critiques with authorities and different counterparts and put together experiences on outcomes for required motion/interventions on the increased stage of programme administration.
• Prepare/assess monitoring and analysis experiences to determine gaps, strengths/weaknesses in programmes and administration, determine and doc classes realized.
• Monitor and report on the usage of sectoral programme assets (monetary, administrative and different belongings), confirm compliance with authorized allocations, organizational guidelines, laws/procedures and donor commitments, requirements of accountability and integrity. Report on points recognized to allow well timed decision by administration/stakeholders.
• Prepare sectoral progress experiences for administration, donors and companions.

3. Technical and operational help for programme implementation

• Actively monitor UNICEF-supported actions by means of subject visits, surveys and change of knowledge with companions, to evaluate progress, determine bottlenecks and potential issues and take well timed selections to resolve points and/or seek advice from related officers for well timed interventions.
• Provide technical and operational help to authorities counterparts, NGO companions, UN system companions and different nation workplace companions/donors on the application and understanding of UNICEF insurance policies, methods, processes and greatest practices in WASH, to help programme implementation.
• Plan for use of technical consultants from the Regional Office and HQ, as and the place acceptable within the WASH programme, by means of distant help and on-site visits.
• Participate in WASH programme conferences, to evaluate progress, with authorities, different sector businesses and implementation companions, concerned at varied levels of WASH programme implementation, to offer knowledgeable recommendation and steerage.
• Draft coverage papers, briefs and different strategic supplies for use by administration, donors, UNICEF regional workplaces and headquarters.

4. Humanitarian WASH preparedness and response

• Prepare requisitions for provides, companies, long-term agreements and partnership agreements to make sure UNICEF is ready to ship on its commitments for WASH in case of an emergency.
• Contribute to the coordination association for humanitarian WASH, for instantaneous strong coordination in case of an emergency.
• Ensure that every one UNICEF WASH workers are conversant in UNICEF’s procedures for responding in an emergency.
• Take up help roles in an emergency response and early restoration, as and when the necessity arises. 

5. Networking and partnership constructing

• Build and maintain shut working partnerships with authorities counterparts and nationwide stakeholders by means of energetic sharing of knowledge and information to facilitate programme implementation and construct capability of stakeholders to realize WASH output outcomes.
• Prepare supplies for WASH programme advocacy to advertise consciousness, set up partnerships and help fund-raising.
• Participate in inter-agency discussions, making certain that UNICEF’s place, pursuits and priorities are totally thought-about and built-in within the UNDAF improvement planning and agenda setting.

6. Innovation, information administration and capability constructing

• Lead the event, implementation, monitoring and documentation of WASH motion analysis and innovation (technical or programs).
• Prepare studying/information merchandise, protecting revolutionary approaches and good practices, to help general WASH sector improvement.
• Create and ship studying alternatives for UNICEF WASH workers, to make sure our sector capability stays up-to-date with newest developments.
• Contribute to the systematic evaluation of WASH sector capability hole evaluation, in collaboration with authorities and different stakeholders, and help the design of initiative to strengthen capacities systematically.
• Participate as a useful resource particular person in capability constructing initiatives to boost the competencies of purchasers/stakeholders.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…

• An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: public well being, social sciences, conduct change communication, sanitary engineering or one other related technical subject.
• Additional related post-graduate programs that complement/complement the primary diploma are a powerful asset.
• A minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise in WASH-related programmes is required.
• Fluency in French is required. Knowledge of English or one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Child, you show…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin the whole lot we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

• Builds and maintains partnerships (1)
• Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (1)
• Drive to realize outcomes for influence 1)
• Innovates and embraces change (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
• Thinks and acts strategically (7)
• Works collaboratively with others (1)

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