Overview
Provides strategic leadership, overall management and technical direction for the WASH programme in Burkina Faso. Responsible for planning, implementing, monitoring and reporting across all stages of the programme in both humanitarian and development settings.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish annual work plans, determining priorities and performance measurements.
- Monitor workplan implementation to ensure output results are achieved.
- Report critical issues to senior management.
- Establish annual workplan outputs, activities and developmental priorities for the WASH section staff.
- Provide guidance to WASH section staff.
- Manage WASH team building and motivation.
- Signal potential conflicts and take preventive action.
- Prepare WASH inputs for situation analysis.
- Provide data to inform WASH policy and programme development.
- Keep abreast of global, regional and national WASH sector developments.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues and partners to discuss national WASH priorities.
- Lead the development of WASH outcome and output results of the country programme.
- Lead the development of output-related indicators, baselines, targets and means of verification.
- Lead the development of the WASH content of the CPAP.
- Develop and manage a fund raising strategy for WASH.
- Lead interactions with senior staff of donor agencies.
- Prepare documentation for programme reviews and analytical statements on progress and constraints.
- Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of programming processes.
- Ensure effective collaboration with other UNICEF sectors.
- Analyze national government WASH sector programmes and projects.
- Manage monitoring and evaluation of the WASH programme.
- Prepare reports for CO management and WASH sector coordination bodies.
- Monitor, report and certify the use of sectoral programme resources.
- Ensure timely donor reporting.
- Negotiate changes required to agreements with donors.
- Ensure systems are in place for HACT compliance.
- Participate in strategic discussions to influence national WASH policies and strategies.
- Advise senior officials on WASH policies, strategies and best practices.
- Lead the preparation of policy papers, briefing notes and other strategic materials.
- Coordinate the use of technical experts from the Regional Office and HQ.
- Build and strengthen strategic partnerships with government counterparts, UN agencies, donor agencies, WASH institutions, NGOs, research institutes and the private sector.
- Oversee the analysis of national budgets for WASH, cost analysis and value-for-money studies.
- Produce materials for WASH programme advocacy.
- Represent UNICEF in inter-agency discussions.
- Interact with global and regional initiatives and partnerships for WASH.
- Ensure the annual preparation/revision of UNICEF’s preparedness for WASH in emergencies.
- Ensure the coordination arrangements for humanitarian WASH are in place.
- Ensure that all UNICEF WASH staff are familiar with UNICEF’s procedures for responding in an emergency.
- Ensure that UNICEF meets its commitments for WASH in the response and early recovery.
- Support government to strengthen WASH emergency preparedness.
- Organize and lead the development, implementation, monitoring and documentation of WASH action research and innovation.
- Determine priorities for learning/knowledge products.
- Systematically plan, support and monitor the professional development of UNICEF WASH staff.
- Organize the systematic assessment of WASH sector capacity gap analysis.
- Support the design of initiatives to strengthen capacities systematically.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience in WASH-related programmes for developing countries is required.
- One year of deployment in a developing country is required.
- Proven ability to effectively lead a team to deliver results is required.
- At least one year of work in humanitarian situations, including one three-month mission deployment (with UN-Govt-INGO) is required.
Qualifications
- An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in public health, social sciences, behaviour change communication, sanitary engineering, or another relevant technical field is required.
- Additional relevant post-graduate courses that complement/supplement the main degree are required.
