WASH Specialist (Climate Resilience),(P-3) FT, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea #126776

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. 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, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each baby, Entry

With over 850 indigenous languages, and one of the crucial ethnically numerous populations, widespread poverty and gender inequality make it exhausting for a lot of youngsters to comprehend their rights.  In Papua New Guinea (PNG), UNICEF’s works successfully each ‘upstream’ (with governments) and ‘downstream’ (on the grassroots stage) to hold out its mission via a programme of cooperation collectively developed with the federal government guides our work within the nation.

How are you going to make a distinction?

UNICEF Papua New Guinea seeks a Local weather Resilient WASH Programme Specialist position that may enable UNICEF PNG to scale up its actions and help the strengthening of low-carbon resilience constructing and improvement, together with using low-carbon renewable vitality in programming. The WASH Specialist will report back to the WASH Chief. The WASH Specialist will likely be positioned in Port Moresby, PNG. The incumbent will present technical steerage and administration help all through the programming processes, to develop and facilitate the administration and achievement of local weather and environmentally delicate output leads to the nation programme. As well as, the WASH Specialist will likely be required to strengthen local weather responses programme supply, monitoring and doc classes studying. 

Abstract of key capabilities/accountabilities:

1. Programme improvement and planning

2. Advocacy, proof technology, coverage and positioning of UNICEF in local weather change and youngsters

3. Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes

4. Technical and operational help for programme implementation

5. Exterior partnerships, useful resource mobilization and linkages to regional and world efforts

6. Innovation, data administration and capability constructing 

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

• A complicated college diploma in environmental sciences, climatology, geology or earth sciences, local weather change, catastrophe danger discount, water useful resource administration, engineering, social and financial improvement, social and financial improvement, worldwide cooperation or one other related technical area is required. Extra related post-graduate programs that complement/complement the primary diploma are a powerful asset.
• A minimal of 5 years of progressively accountable skilled work expertise on the nationwide and/or worldwide ranges in programme/challenge improvement, centered on creating nations in areas associated to improvement cooperation in WASH local weather change adaptation and mitigation, setting and socio-economic improvement. Expertise on renewable vitality is an asset.
• Conversant in youngsters’s rights and gender within the context of local weather change and setting. Data of gender equality ideas and gender delicate programming. Demonstrated expertise in making use of results-based administration required. Wonderful analytical and writing abilities, advocacy and presentational abilities required. Demonstrated means to work harmoniously in a multicultural setting and set up harmonious & efficient working relationship each inside and outdoors an organisation. One 12 months of deployment in a creating nation is required.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.

 For each Youngster, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing 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 realize outcomes for influence (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 folks.

In the course of 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 youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute. We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using 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 youngsters. 

Remarks:

UNICEF’s energetic dedication in direction of variety 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). Do you have to be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice will likely be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference checks and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. 

Authorities workers which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or needed inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any cause.

Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.