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UN Children's Fund - UNICEF

Staff Closes 02 Aug 2026 10 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 the delivery of results. The role involves leading and managing the CO WASH team and ensuring that WASH outcome and output results are achieved according to plans and standards.


Key Responsibilities
  • Managing and supervising all stages of the WASH programme from strategic planning and formulation to the delivery of the WASH outcome and output results.
  • Leading and managing the CO WASH team.
  • 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.
  • Providing managerial and technical leadership.
  • Providing strategic guidance in Programme development and planning.
  • Ensuring efficiency in programme management, monitoring and quality control of results.
  • Providing advisory services and technical support.
  • Undertaking advocacy, networking and partnership building.
  • Ensuring quality, timeliness and predictability of humanitarian WASH preparedness and response.
  • Driving 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.

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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