Re-advertisement Chief WASH

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The Chief WASH reports to the Deputy Representative for general guidance and direction. The Chief is responsible for managing and supervising all stages of WASH programme, including the overall climate change and adaptation/mitigation component, from strategic planning and formulation to the delivery of the WASH outcome and output results.

At Country Office level, the Chief WASH reports to Deputy Representative for general guidance and direction. The Chief is responsible for managing and supervising all stages of the WASH programme from strategic planning and formulation to the delivery of the WASH outcome and output results.  The Chief is also responsible for leading and managing the CO WASH team.  The Chief WASH is accountable for ensuring that the WASH outcome and output results are achieved according to plans, allocations, results based-management approaches and methodology, UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, standards of performance and accountability framework. The chief will also serve as the focal point for climate change action for the Country Office. 

• Managerial and technical leadership
• Strategic guidance in Programme development and planning
• Efficiency in programme management, monitoring and quality control of results
• Advisory services and technical support
• Advocacy, networking and partnership building
• Quality, timeliness and predictability of humanitarian WASH preparedness and response
• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: public health, social sciences, health and hygiene behavior change communication, environmental or public health, water resource management or another relevant technical field.
• Additional relevant post-graduate courses that complement/supplement the main degree are required.
• DEVELOPMENTAL:  A minimum of ten years of professional experience in WASH-related programmes at the national and international levels in a mix set of country context (including humanitarian, fragile, developing) is required.
• Proven ability to effectively lead big team to deliver results is required.
• HUMANITARIAN:  Emergency field experience working in humanitarian situations, including deployment missions (with UN-Govt-INGO) is required.  Experience working in multiple geographic regions is strongly desirable   
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, French,) or a local language is an asset.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/574788

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