WASH Technical Consultant

UNICEF along with companions is working to make sure that emergency entry to protected water and sanitation is obtainable to kids and households throughout the nation, together with a number of the precedence and most affected areas of Dnipro, Kherson, Kharkiv, Izyum, Kryvyi Rih, Balaklia, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia areas, the place giant scale rehabilitation initiatives have been initiated in 2022 and 2023. Since 2022, a majority of the interventions are targeted within the frontline space the place UNICEF helps vodokanals (water utilities), municipalities, hospitals, colleges and collective facilities, restoring water and sanitation companies and amenities, offering tools and important consumables akin to chemical substances for water remedy. For the reason that destruction of the Kakhovka dam and reservoir in June 2023, UNICEF can also be implementing giant water provide initiatives in Marhanets, Nikopol, Kryvyi Rih and Kherson. 

Working by area workplaces, in 2024, UNICEF seeks to succeed in over 1.5 million individuals with essential WASH provides, guarantee roughly 4.5 million individuals entry protected water and sanitation companies from public utilities, and guarantee child-friendly, gender-sensitive and inclusion WASH amenities in 260 social establishments. Moreover, UNICEF coordinates humanitarian and improvement companions for WASH response and restoration, generates consciousness on hygiene and environmental sustainability, helps scalable fashions for improved WASH service supply and governance, engages in capability improvement, and bases its infrastructure intervention on environmental and social safeguards. 

In 2024, one of many distinguished traces of labor for UNICEF is in the direction of early restoration with proof era and data administration to tell legislative and coverage works of the Authorities of Ukraine, in step with EU accession, to coordinate and assist inform additional investments and interventions by donors and worldwide organizations, and to pilot scalable fashions, working in the direction of higher governance and power effectivity, additionally resulting in price restoration for the sector on an entire and particularly for water utilities. To this finish, proof era, data administration and monitoring and reporting of those actions turns into essential. 

Key duties/duties underneath the project: 

• Underneath the supervision of the WASH specialist, the marketing consultant will assist and intently work with WASH employees for the supply of shared or contributory outcomes for all or a part of the next areas:
• Inform with technical perception and enter, technical assessments and critiques, the established coordinative and supportive relationship with Authorities companions, vodokanals, communal enterprises, native authorities and NGOs/CSOs implementing the WASH programme in Ukraine, specializing in the roadmap for early restoration efforts for the sector.
• Undertake monitoring and knowledge assortment workouts and develop or inform monitoring and reporting frameworks for UNICEF WASH programme implementation in addition to monetary administration.
• Undertake particular area missions to evaluate and doc modern and environment friendly WASH efforts within the area, with a particular concentrate on sustainable market-based options and scalable fashions.
• Liaise with the WASH and different related clusters in illustration of UNICEF, to establish websites requiring WASH interventions. 
• Liaise with academia (nationwide and/or overseas) for the event of scalable fashions, and ultimately handle the scientific publication course of derived from the obtained outcomes, with the intention to leverage UNICEF’s restoration progamme place.
• Present technical assist and experience to complement UNICEF WASH in several coordination and capability improvement boards, when vital.
• Every other related activity assigned by supervisor.

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

• Schooling: Grasp’s diploma or larger in one of many following fields is required: engineering, structure, public well being, or different technical disciplines related to the fields of WASH, from an accredited tutorial establishment. MBA and/or a Bachelor’s diploma in enterprise administration, advertising, statistics or a associated area, will probably be thought of a bonus.

Skilled expertise:

• A minimal of 5 (5) years of related expertise, on the nationwide and/or worldwide ranges, in WASH and/or different immediately associated technical fields is required.
• Expertise in planning and implementation of civil design development and WASH initiatives will probably be thought of a bonus.
• Expertise in improvement and humanitarian work, particularly in emergency response, will probably be thought of a bonus.
• Work expertise with different UN businesses in WASH will probably be thought of a bonus.

Languages: 

• Ukrainian: Proficient/Native [C2];
• English: Higher-intermediate [B2].

Supply:  https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/570545