Chief WASH, FT, P-4, #96671, Yaounde – Cameroon, WCAR (Open to non-Cameroonians)

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, all over the place, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each baby, Entry

UNICEF has been working in Cameroon since 1975 to permit girls and youngsters to completely notice their rights to growth with out restriction, as enshrined within the UN Conference on the Rights of the Little one. UNICEF supplies monetary and technical assist to Cameroon throughout seven areas to completely notice the rights of ladies and youngsters. These areas embody Well being, HIV/AIDS, Water-sanitation-Hygiene, diet, training, baby safety, and social inclusion. UNICEF focuses primarily on kids and essentially the most weak and excluded households. The duty is immense however not insurmountable; it requires the vitality of all stakeholders in Cameroon and outdoors of Cameroon: additionally, girls, males, youth and youngsters, authorities, technical and monetary companions, donors, civil society, the non-public sector, parliamentarians, communities. Everyone seems to be invited to take part within the wrestle to fulfill the challenges forward. Collectively, we’ll act for Cameroon, a rustic that summarizes the challenges and hopes of Africa.

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hyperlink https://unicef.sharepoint.com/sites/CMR/SitePages/AboutUs.aspx

How will you make a distinction?

The Chief WASH in Cameroon studies to the Deputy Consultant for common steering and route. The Chief is chargeable for managing and supervising all levels of the WASH programme from strategic planning and formulation to the supply of the WASH end result and output outcomes – this via a workforce primarily based in Yaounde but in addition workers within the three discipline places of work. This place can be the programmatic point of interest for  local weather change and is thus anticipated to work with different sections in applicable local weather change associated programming.  The Chief is  chargeable for main and managing the CO WASH workforce (together with these within the discipline places of work) and must be relaxed working on this matrix administration arrange.  The Chief WASH is accountable for making certain that the WASH end result and output outcomes are achieved in keeping with plans, allocations, outcomes based-management approaches and methodology, UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, requirements of efficiency and accountability framework. The Chief WASH in Cameroon is predicted to suggest progressive methods for WASH and local weather change programming and establish less expensive and environment friendly methods to ship outcomes for kids in these areas. The Chief WASH can be anticipated to significantly contribute to early childhood growth via working carefully with different sections to ship a holistic bundle of interventions for essentially the most weak kids. For adolescent ladies, the Chief WASH is predicted to give you options which might be scalable when it comes to menstrual hygiene administration. Please be a part of us in case you are loopy sufficient to suppose that optimistic change for kids at scale is feasible even beneath troublesome circumstances. When you learn till right here, and it made you smile, then carry on studying and apply.

• Set up the annual work plan, figuring out priorities and efficiency measurements. Monitor workplan implementation, to make sure that WASH output outcomes together with local weather mitigation and adaptation are achieved to schedule and efficiency requirements. 
• Lead the event of the WASH content material of the annual workplan together with output-related indicators, baselines, targets and technique of verification and the impression of local weather change on WASH; advise different sections on local weather change inclusion of their workplans.
• With different exterior assist businesses, analyze nationwide authorities WASH sector programmes and tasks, with a concentrate on WASH outcomes (behaviors), utilizing bottleneck evaluation instruments obtainable within the sector (WASH-BAT, CSOs, SDAs) assessing danger of local weather change and different externalities on programme implementation.
• Take part in strategic discussions to affect nationwide WASH insurance policies and methods, together with the discount of inequalities, contributing to world sector studying and mitigate and adapt to local weather change.
• Determine progressive options for WASH and local weather change programming that may be piloted and put to scale in a while. Be sure that WASH programmes are carefully linked to interventions of different sections notably within the space of early childhood growth.
• Innovate within the space of menstrual hygiene administration to ship options for adolescent ladies at scale.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have…

• Superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: public well being, local weather change, social sciences, habits change communication, sanitary engineering or one other related technical discipline.
• Minimal of eight years {of professional} expertise in WASH-related programmes for creating nations is required.
• Expertise in areas associated to growth cooperation in local weather change adaptation and mitigation, surroundings and socio-economic growth is an asset.
• Familiarity with kids’s rights and gender within the context of local weather change adaptation and mitigation is an asset.
• A minimal of 1 yr of deployment in a creating nation is required.
• Confirmed means to successfully lead a workforce to ship outcomes is required.
• Fluency in English and French is required.

Technical necessities

• Fundamental to skilled information of all parts :

1. Rural water provide for low- and middle-income nations – together with water security, sustainability
2. Rural sanitation for low- and middle-income nations, incl sustainability; making use of CATS ideas
3. City sanitation for low- and middle-income nations, incl sustainability
4. Local weather change
5. Handwashing with cleaning soap
6. WASH-in-Colleges and Well being Facilities
7. Menstrual hygiene administration
8. Nationwide authorities WASH insurance policies, plans and methods
9. Evaluation of nationwide budgets and expenditure for fundamental WASH, and associated advocacy

• In-depth information of each parts :

1. Humanitarian WASH – preparedness
2. Humanitarian WASH – response and restoration

• In-depth information of idea and UNICEF function :

Humanitarian WASH – coordination of the response

• Knowledgeable information of two parts and fundamental information of the opposite two parts:

1. Programme/venture administration
2. Capability growth
3. Data administration
4. Monitoring and analysis

• In-depth information :

1. Human rights and WASH
2. Gender equality and WASH

For each Little one, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every part we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to attain outcomes for impression (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others (8) Nurtures, leads and manages individuals.

In the course of the recruitment course of, we take a look at candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our world workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. 

Remarks:

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