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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
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The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the Organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give more children the opportunity to fulfil their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.
UNICEF’s programme in Türkiye focuses on safeguarding and advancing the rights of the most vulnerable children to education, child protection, health care, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and social protection, in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Children need water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to survive and thrive. This is true both in times of stability and crisis, in urban as well as rural communities, and in every country around the world. WASH is important in its own right, and is also necessary to achieve good health, nutrition, education and other outcomes for children. Girls and women are particularly affected by poor WASH, as are people living with disabilities. UNICEF’s Strategy for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene guides the organization’s overarching contribution to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 – ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by 2030. The strategy indicates that strong engagement is needed to adapt to climate change and follow environmental and social standards, while maintaining the focus on helping every child gain access to WASH, including in schools and health centres, and in humanitarian situations.
How can you make a difference?
On 6 February 2023, two major earthquakes (7.7 and 7.6 magnitudes) struck south-east Türkiye, devastatingly impacting 10 provinces (Kahramanmaraş, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis, Osmaniye, Malatya, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Şanlıurfa and Adana), where approximately 15.2 million people (13.5 million Turkish citizens, 1.7 million registered refugees), including 4.6 million children, of whom 811,000 are refugees, live. UNICEF is targeting these 10 provinces, with a possible gradual expansion to Elazığ. Humanitarian consequences are significant and increasing. As of 15 February, at least 35,418 deaths and 80,278 injuries have been confirmed, over 1 million people are currently residing in temporary accommodations centers (TACs).
Currently UNICEF is working with partners, Municipalities, and water utility companies to ensure safe water and improved sanitation as humanitarian response for affected people in earthquake affected provinces. There will be a time lag around 2-3 years until such time that the reconstruction phase is completed.
There is an urgent and increasing need to invest in climate-proofing the WASH sector especially in Turkiye. Tanking these opportunities, while responding on emergency early recovery, UNICEF is transitioning to climate resilient WASH interventions both at national and service delivery level. In 2024-2025, UNICEF will be working on advocacy, evidence generations, awareness raising, environment, disaster risk reduction (DRR), behavioural change (SBC) and transitioning from humanitarian WASH to climate resilient WASH in Turkiye.
UNICEF as a lead agency in WASH sector, coordinates more than 30 WASH actors at Gaziantep level and at hub level for effective and efficient WASH response especially to earthquake affected population, refugees and host communities.
Purpose of the job:
The WASH Officer reports to Wash Officer NO-B with technical support from WASH Manager based in CO Ankara. The WASH Officer provides technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process, which includes earthquake emergency and recovery response, climate change and environmental degradation adaptation aspects. The Officer prepares, manages and implements a variety of technical and administrative tasks, related to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the Country Programme.
WASH officer provides support for WASH sector coordination, participates in general coordination forums in Gaziantep an in the four provincial hubs.
Key Function, Accountabilities, and Related Duties/Tasks:
Programme development and planning
Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
Technical and operational support for programme implementation
Humanitarian WASH preparedness and response
Networking and partnership building
Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
WASH Sector Coordination, Responsibilities:
Within the delegated authority and under the given organizational set-up, WASH Officer will support UNICEF, for delivery of primarily, shared, or contributory results for all or part of the following areas of major duties and key end-results:
Core sector functions:
Supporting service delivery
Informing strategic decision-making of the HC/HCT for the humanitarian response
Planning and strategy development
Advocacy
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UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.
During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.
UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children.
Remarks:
UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
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