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UNICEF WASH focuses its efforts on growing sustainable entry to secure consuming water, eliminating open defecation, enhancing entry to secure sanitation and selling hand washing and good hygienic practices, together with in faculties and healthcare services and with specific consideration to women and to youngsters with disabilities. Leveraging its presence earlier than, throughout and after emergencies, UNICEF WASH gives help to extend entry to secure consuming water, sanitation and hygiene amongst youngsters and households in humanitarian conditions.
Within these pages you can see details about WASH programming areas, our precept methods, who’s who, sources and instruments, and information and occasions.
For each child, a hope….
We are wanting for a proactive and skilled WASH Specialist (Sanitation) to affix our group remotely underneath the steerage of the Senior Adviser (Sanitation and Hygiene). In this position, you’ll collaborate with regional advisors, nation places of work, and exterior companions to drive market-primarily based sanitation programming and strengthen sanitation techniques for scaling up safely managed sanitation companies. You will present technical help and oversight for the Lixil-funded multi-regional sanitation program, help in rolling out the UNICEF Sanitation Game Plan, and help capability growth and data sharing to assist obtain common entry to soundly managed sanitation. This is a singular alternative to contribute to international WASH initiatives and make a long-lasting influence.
How are you able to make a difference?
The WASH Specialist (Sanitation) will tackle a management position in overseeing and interesting with international personal sector initiatives in sanitation, particularly specializing in the Lixil-funded six-nation sanitation program. This consists of offering technical help for this system’s administration, monitoring progress, and making certain efficient communication with program international locations and regional places of work. The position additionally entails growing communication supplies reminiscent of movies and briefs, supporting cross-regional studying alternatives, and sustaining common coordination with Lixil and PFP. The specialist will additional drive personal sector engagement in market-primarily based approaches to sanitation, contributing to scaling up sanitation efforts globally.
Additionally, the WASH Specialist will help the implementation and coordination of the UNICEF Sanitation Game Plan and the eight steps to realize common entry to soundly managed sanitation. The position consists of helping within the growth and updating of the communication plan, supporting the mixing of local weather resilience into sanitation efforts, and constructing capability inside UNICEF WASH employees and companions. The specialist will even put together coverage papers and proposals, plan and arrange regional and international sanitation occasions, and doc learnings from the adoption of the Sanitation Game Plan. Furthermore, the specialist will present help to the Sanitation and Hygiene Unit’s monitoring, reporting, and useful resource mobilization efforts, together with growing new proposals and partnerships to speed up progress on safely managed sanitation.
Minimum necessities:
Education
Advanced college diploma (grasp’s diploma) in a related discipline reminiscent of public well being, training, environmental well being, social sciences and engineering or a associated discipline is required.
Work Experience
At least eight years of stable accountable work expertise in WASH growth in growing international locations.
Desirables/Assets:
- Experience working within the areas of personal sector engagement, technique growth, capability constructing, planning, monitoring and data administration will probably be thought of an asset.
Language Requirements
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.
For each Child, you display…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every little thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…
- Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
- Works Collaboratively with others (1)
- Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
- Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
- Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
- Drive to realize impactful outcomes (1)
- Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges.
UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to grow to be a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF provides paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations. Click here to study extra about versatile work preparations, properly-being, and advantages.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embrace those that have lengthy-time period bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with numerous obstacles, could hinder their full and efficient participation in society on an equal foundation with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has dedicated to extend the variety of staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-associated help necessities of candidates and staff with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you’re an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility help in finishing the web application, please submit your request by the accessibility e mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals underneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer extra data to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.
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Remarks:
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the employees is the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
Government staff who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance will not be obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an affordable interval for any motive.
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WASH Specialist – Sanitation (P-4), PG WASH, New York # 00131705 (Temporary Appointment 6months) Fully Remote
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