Re-advertise : WASH SPECIALIST, P3, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Fixed Term #115045 (Internal & External Advertisement)

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Ethiopia is located within the Horn of Africa and is the second most populous nation on the continent with an estimated inhabitants of 115 million. It borders six African international locations: Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan, and covers 1,104,300 sq. kilometers. Roughly 85 % of the inhabitants lives in rural areas. Ethiopia represents a melting pot of historic cultures with Center Japanese and African cultures evident within the spiritual, ethnic, and language composition of its individuals.

Over the previous two years, youngsters and their households throughout Ethiopia confronted a number of and complicated emergencies, such because the battle in northern Ethiopia and the drought, which resulted in tens of millions of individuals in want of pressing humanitarian help. UNICEF has applications in Little one Safety, WASH, Well being, Diet, Social Coverage, and Training and serves over 15 million youngsters in Ethiopia. Be part of UNICEF Ethiopia to contribute to enhancing the lives of youngsters and girls.

To find out about UNICEF within the IDP camp in Amhara, Ethiopia, and help, watch the next video.

How are you going to make a distinction?

Objective of the job:

Be part of our workforce to help the event, preparation, administration, implementation, monitoring and analysis of the water and sanitation associated contracts throughout the nation programme. You’ll present 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 capabilities, accountabilities and associated duties/duties

1. Main capabilities on help in the direction of total mission engineering cycle

The candidate will help the L4/5 officers to make sure that all 12 beneath mission cycle steps are achieved easily, well timed and with out duty gaps.

This candidate must be robust in (a) data of WASH engineering mission cycle, (b) software of circumstances of contract and (c) the function of Engineer  (whether or not the ‘Engineer’ is UNICEF employees or agent, RWB employees or agent, engaged immediately by a funder or engaged by an NGO).

• Pre-feasibility and high-level costing primarily based on per capita estimates; together with long run affect, sustainability, potential for clustering of cities, Multi Village Schemes (MVSs) and villages for financial system of scale and abilities base and potential for delegation of ring fenced companies to group teams and/or personal enterprise.
• Identification of funding sources for (a) advocacy, (b) feasibility research, (c) design, (d) implementation and (e) publish development help together with defects legal responsibility interval
• Appointment of the ‘Engineer’ chargeable for mission supply and to take care of the pursuits of each the consumer (eventual proprietor of the property) and the contractors in a good and equitable approach.
• Advocacy and formative analysis to (a) get buy-in from the eventual homeowners of the property, (b) establish these chargeable for utility regulation and (c) leverage involvement of, and ‘symbolic possession’ by, the goal beneficiaries.
• Feasibility research together with web site investigation; operational programs together with applicable expertise and draft utility and delegated efficiency agreements; monetary, financial and environmental sustainability evaluation; price estimates primarily based on define BoQs; financing threat (inflation, escalation, international alternate charges); commonplace circumstances of contract for use; supplies specification; supplies sourcing; full threat evaluation together with battle and flood and mitigation planning.
• Finance settlement, together with price and time threat contingency.
• Detailed design and costing together with design report, ESIA, detailed specs, circumstances of contract, contract packaging, BoQs and pre-tender price estimates.
• Tendering
• Monetary changes, negotiation and award of contract(s)
• Contract(s) supervision
• Handover of property to the proprietor and handover of operations to the mandated utility
• Defect legal responsibility interval

2. Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes

• Take part in monitoring and analysis workout routines, programme opinions and annual sectoral opinions with authorities and different counterparts and put together stories on outcomes for required motion/interventions on the increased stage of programme administration.
• Put together/assess monitoring and analysis stories to establish gaps, strengths/weaknesses in programmes and administration, establish and doc classes realized. 
• Monitor and report on the usage of sectoral programme assets (monetary, administrative and different property), 
• confirm compliance with permitted allocations, organizational guidelines, rules/procedures and donor commitments, requirements of accountability and integrity. 
• Report on points recognized to allow well timed decision by administration/stakeholders. 
• Put together sectoral progress stories for administration, donors and companions. 
• Preserve a central function in guaranteeing correct daily contract administration, streamlining contract correspondence, mission funds and timeline management, contract administration monitoring in opposition to donor funding necessities, cost processing and liaising with purchasers, authorities companions and contractors as per UNICEF’s necessities, and as per nationwide and worldwide requirements to make sure high quality, price, and time controls of all deliverables.
• Assist total supervision of contracts and sustaining the grasp work plan, with a purpose to monitor all activity order inner and consumer deadlines, and assess how company, inner and exterior assets are managed to help the sleek implementation of every contract and activity order with an total system of company procedures and assets.

3. Technical and operational help for programme implementation

• Actively monitor UNICEF-supported actions associated to WASH infrastructure by means of discipline visits, surveys and alternate of data with companions, to evaluate progress, establish bottlenecks and potential issues and take well timed choices to resolve points and/or consult with related officers for well timed interventions.
• Present technical and operational help to authorities counterparts, NGO companions, UN system companions and different nation workplace companions/donors on the applying and understanding of UNICEF insurance policies, methods, processes and finest practices in WASH, to help programme implementation.
• Plan to be used of technical specialists from the Regional Workplace and HQ, as and the place applicable within the WASH programme, by means of distant help and on-site visits. 
• Take part in WASH programme conferences, to evaluate progress, with authorities, different sector businesses and implementation companions, concerned at numerous levels of WASH programme implementation, to offer knowledgeable recommendation and steerage.
• Draft coverage papers, briefs and different strategic supplies to be used by administration, donors, UNICEF regional workplaces and headquarters.
• Opinions of environmental social affect assessments and offering technical recommendation
• Participation in tendering course of commentary and finishing up evaluations for various WASH engineering design, development or supplies provide bids.
• Supervision and coordination of applicable technical backstopping companies to implementing companions, supervision agency and personal contractors as wanted to resolve administrative, technical, and contract points as they come up.
• Liaises with exterior stake holders corresponding to authorities, INGOs and consulting companies and personal contractors to supervise the contracts mechanisms, guaranteeing that every one contract processes are applied in an open, clear and environment friendly method to maintain them on schedule (together with program implementation, spending and reporting) and throughout the parameters units out within the contracts.
• Conduct high quality assurance of development works, set up of electromechanical tools, and supplies.
• Observe up the implementation of UNICEF’s response in WASH sector, incorporating required modifications into WASH-specific actions, with particular consideration to make sure equitable and inclusive provision of companies among the many communities
• Lengthen help to UNICEF discipline workplace employees
• Present well timed and high quality technical recommendation to regional and native authorities, UNICEF, and different concerned companions on completely different WASH points as requested

4. Humanitarian WASH preparedness and response

• Put together 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 immediate strong coordination in case of an emergency, with linkages to local weather resilient WASH programs; help the nexus between humanitarian and improvement
• Take up help roles in an emergency response and early restoration, as and when the necessity arises.

5. Networking and partnership constructing

• Construct and maintain shut working partnerships with authorities counterparts and nationwide stakeholders by means of energetic sharing of data and data to facilitate programme implementation and construct capability of stakeholders to attain WASH output outcomes.
• Put together supplies for WASH programme advocacy to advertise consciousness, set up partnerships and help fund-raising.

• Take part in inter-agency discussions, guaranteeing that UNICEF’s place, pursuits and priorities are absolutely thought-about and built-in within the UNDAF improvement planning and agenda setting.

6. Innovation, data administration and capability constructing

• Lead the event, implementation, monitoring and documentation of WASH motion analysis and innovation (technical or programs). 
• Assist improvement of inexperienced power initiatives
• Put together studying/data merchandise, protecting progressive approaches and good practices, to help total WASH sector improvement.
• Create and ship studying alternatives for UNICEF WASH employees, 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.
• Take part as a useful resource particular person in capability constructing initiatives to reinforce the competencies of purchasers/stakeholders.

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

• A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or increased) in civil engineering, different related engineering or one other related technical discipline.
  *A primary College Diploma in a related discipline mixed with 2 further years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.
• A minimal of 5 (5 )years of related skilled expertise in managing advanced WASH-infrastructure contracts and programmes for growing international locations is required.

• One 12 months of deployment in a growing nation is required. 

• Data of FIDIC and its circumstances of contract. 

• Infrastructure contract administration and administration together with newest developments. 

• Abroad expertise working with nation counterparts, establishments, personal sector and contractors within the areas of contract administration and administration is extremely fascinating.

• Creating nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

 Technical necessities

Rural and concrete water provide and City sanitation for low- and middle-income international locations – together with water security, sustainability Managing of advanced contracts for water infrastructure, sanitation infrastructure, provide and set up of electromechanical tools WASH associated infrastructure works associated contract litigation Experience with reference to FIDIC and its issues of contract administration and administration Nationwide authorities WASH insurance policies, plans and techniques Evaluation of nationwide budgets and expenditure for primary WASH, and associated advocacy	Knowledgeable data of three elements and primary data of three elements
Humanitarian WASH – preparedness Humanitarian WASH – response and restoration	Primary data of each elements
Humanitarian WASH – coordination of the response	Primary data
Programme/mission administration Capability improvement Data administration Monitoring and analysis	Knowledgeable data of two elements and primary data of the opposite two elements
Human rights and WASH Gender equality and WASH	In-depth data

For each Little one, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) and core competencies in Communication, Working with Individuals and Drive for Outcomes.

The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…

Core Competencies

• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drives to attain impactful outcomes (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

Useful Competencies

• Analyzing (3)
• Making use of technical experience (3)
• Deciding and Initiating motion (2)

To view our competency framework, please go to here.

Click on here to be taught extra about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

UNICEF is dedicated to range and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, spiritual and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals dwelling with disabilities, to use to turn into part of the group.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict little one safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can due to this fact endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further info to conduct a background verify.

Remarks:

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.