WASH Officer, (NO-1), Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico [Temp Appointment – Mexican Nationals Only]

  • Contract
  • Mexico
  • Posted 2 months ago

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, in all places, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each little one, outcomes

The UNICEF discipline workplace in Chiapas operates inside the context of supporting and defending the rights of kids in one in every of Mexico’s most various and culturally wealthy states. Chiapas is thought for its important Indigenous populations, vital presence of kids and households on the transfer, and profound socio-economic challenges. The state has excessive charges of poverty, inequality, and restricted entry to important providers comparable to training, healthcare, and clear water, which disproportionately have an effect on kids. 

The UNICEF workplace in Chiapas focuses on varied vital areas to enhance the lives of kids and adolescents. These areas embrace WASH, bettering entry to wash water, sanitation amenities, and selling hygiene practices to stop illness and enhance well being outcomes amongst kids and their households. 

UNICEF collaborates with native governments, non-governmental organizations, group teams, and different UN companies to implement its packages. The overarching aim is to make sure that each little one in Chiapas can notice their rights in alignment with the United Nations Conference on the Rights of the Little one.   

The WASH Officer offers skilled technical, operational and administrative help all through the WASH programming course of, via the appliance of theoretical and sensible technical abilities in researching, accumulating, analyzing and presenting programme info whereas studying organizational guidelines, laws and procedures to help the event, implementation and monitoring of the WASH output outcomes of the Nation Programme.  

For extra info associated to the work of our group in Mexico, please go to our web site: UNICEF Mexico and our newest Annual Report 2022: Informe Anual 2022 UNICEF México 

How are you going to make a distinction?

The WASH Officer (NO-1) stories to the Chief Discipline Workplace in Tapachula, with technical supervision of WASH Specialist P-3 within the Mexico Nation Workplace. They could also be assigned the first, shared, or contributory accountabilities for all or a part of the next areas of main duties and key end-results: 

1. Programme growth and planning

2.Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes

3. Technical and operational help for programme implementation

4. Humanitarian WASH preparedness and response

5. Networking and partnership constructing

6. Innovation, data administration and capability constructing

If you’re focused on studying extra about this place and the key-end outcomes and accountabilities, learn the Full Phrases of Reference: Download File ToRs_WASH Officer (NO-1) – Tapachula (1).pdf

To qualify as an advocate for each little one, you’ll have the next necessities… 

  • A Bachelor’s diploma, ideally in, public well being, engineering, sanitary engineering, social sciences or another related discipline of self-discipline.
  • One 12 months {of professional} work expertise in WASH-related programmes for growing nations.
  • Fluency in Spanish.
  • Intermediate stage of English. 

You may additionally have the next property (fascinating, not obligatory)… 

  • Further related post-graduate programs that complement/complement the primary diploma.
  • Skilled expertise in WASH-related packages in emergencies.
  • Expertise working with migration on the southern border of Mexico.
  • Fluency in English.

For each little one, you reveal…

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

 UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to realize outcomes for affect (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

Through the recruitment course of, we check 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 international workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to together with everybody, no matter race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, 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 targets 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. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background examine.

Remarks:

  • UNICEF’s lively dedication to range and inclusion is vital to ship the perfect outcomes for kids. 
  • UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities workers thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or mandatory inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an inexpensive interval for any cause.
  • Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
  • This can be a nationwide place. Candidates who aren’t authentic residents of Mexico should maintain a legitimate Mexican citizenship earlier to making use of, to be thought-about eligible for this submit. Please word that work visas aren’t sufficient to be eligible for this place. 
  • This can be a non permanent place, anticipated to final 364 days. Exceptionally, it could be prolonged for a further 364 days, summing to 728 days as the utmost attainable length of this appointment.

  Apply now and JOIN US because the subsequent WASH Officer at UNICEF Mexico!  

Marketed: 19 Feb 2024 Central Normal Time (Mexico)
Deadline: 03 Mar 2024 Central Normal Time (Mexico)

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