Chief WASH, P-5, Fixed Term Position, Kyiv, Ukraine, #00101336

UN Children's Fund - UNICEF

Staff Closes 11 May 2026 11 days left

Overview

The Chief WASH reports to the Deputy Representative and is responsible for managing and supervising all stages of the WASH programme, from strategic planning to delivery of results. The role involves leading and managing the CO WASH team and ensuring achievement of WASH outcome and output results.


Key Responsibilities
  • 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
Required Experience

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. Emergency field experience working in humanitarian situations, including deployment missions (with UN-Govt-INGO) is required. Proven ability to effectively lead a team to deliver results is required.

Qualifications

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.

Other Details
Languages Required
Fluency in English is required.
Languages Preferred
Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language
Contract Duration
Not specified
Work Modality
on-site
Remuneration
Not specified
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