Regional Adviser WASH

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Description

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•  Advise UNICEF Country Offices and their partners on policies, strategies, approaches, and best practices on WASH, including emergency preparedness, to support programme development planning, management, implementation, and delivery of results.
•  Participate in regional and country programme planning, preparation and reviews to provide advice on formulation, design, management, enhancement and communication of UNICEF country office WASH programmes including setting priorities and formulating outcome and output results, baselines, targets, and means-of-verification.
• Lead and/or organize regional strategic discussions and planning on WASH programmes and projects. Collaborate with other Regional Advisers/Country Offices on cross cutting issues to harmonize, link and/or leverage competencies, especially with respect to climate change and environment.

• Collaborate with Regional Management/Country Office teams throughout all stages of WASH programming to provide technical support to programme preparation, implementation, and monitoring for results.
• Ensure that current and comprehensive data is available to guide UNICEF COs strategic policy advocacy, intervention and development efforts on WASH programmes and projects and to set programme priorities, strategies, and implementation plans.
• Provide technical advice to facilitate the preparation of the Country Office WASH programme recommendations and related documentation and to ensure alignment of programme goals with the overall UNICEF Strategic (WASH) Plans and regional strategies.
• Evaluate and facilitate synergy, integration, coherence, and harmonization of programmes/projects with the UNICEF Strategic Plan and priorities, donors’ development strategies/policies, national priorities/competencies and UN System development interventions/initiatives.

• Collaborate with HQ Advisers, Regional/Country Monitoring and Evaluation Advisers/Officers to establish benchmarks, performance indicators and other UNICEF/UN system indicators and measurements to assess and strengthen performance accountability, coherence, and delivery of concrete and sustainable results on WASH programmes.
•  Participate in major monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual sector reviews with government and other counterparts to assess progress and to provide advice on required action/interventions to achieve results.
•  Assess COs monitoring and evaluation reports to identify gaps, strengths and/or weaknesses in programme management; identify lessons learned and use knowledge gained for development planning and timely intervention to achieve goals.
• Submit and share assessments on WASH programmes in country offices highlighting critical issues and suggestions for enhancing performance and delivery of sustainable results.

• Build and strengthen strategic partnerships through networking and advocacy with regional and national government counterparts, UN system agency partners, donors, international financial institutions (IFIs), NGOs, funding organizations, research institutes, and the private sector to reinforce cooperation and pursue opportunities to promote goals and mobilize resources to achieve sustainable results in WASH programmes.
• Strengthen partnerships with climate institutions in the region and develop regional funding proposals related to climate resilience and climate mitigation in WASH.
• Participate and/or represent UNICEF (as delegated/designated) in key events, meetings, and in inter-agency discussions and planning on WASH related issues to ensure organizational position, interests and priorities are clearly articulated, fully considered and integrated in development planning and agenda setting.
• Collaborate with regional inter-agency partners/colleagues in planning and preparation of WASH related programmes.

• Promote critical thinking and technical leadership to introduce technological and programme innovations, approaches and good practices in the region for sustainable and climate-resilient WASH services.
• Identify, assess, vet, and disseminate a roster of qualified experts and highly recognized institutions for easy access and use by stakeholders.
• Lead and/or develop policies and procedures and introduce innovation and best practices to ensure optimum efficiency and efficacy of sustainable programmes.
• Lead, plan, and implement capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of stakeholders to promote sustainable results in WASH programmes. Priority learning topics include climate-resilient WASH; safely managed sanitation; urban WASH; water security; Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS); and WASH in institutions.

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: public health, social sciences, behavior change communication, sanitary engineering or another relevant technical field. 
• Additional relevant post-graduate courses that complement/supplement the main degree are required.

• A minimum of ten years of professional experience in WASH-related programmes for developing countries is required.
• One year of deployment in a developing country is required.
• At least one year of deployment in a humanitarian situation (with UN-Govt-INGO) is required.
• Relevant experience in water, sanitation and hygiene programme/project development and management in any UN system agency or organization is an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

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