Overview
Provides technical, operational, and field-level support for the implementation, monitoring, and supervision of urban WASH recovery interventions in earthquake-affected areas.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitors WASH infrastructure activities and updates tracking tools and progress reports.
- Verifies targets for rehabilitated water systems, schools, and health facilities, validating beneficiaries reached.
- Assists in preparing donor reports, visibility materials, and sectoral updates.
- Supports technical assessments and regular field monitoring of damaged WASH systems.
- Coordinates with government counterparts to verify quality, compliance, and functionality.
- Integrates resilience measures into rehabilitated infrastructure.
- Resolves operational bottlenecks and provides technical guidance to stakeholders.
- Drafts requisitions for supplies, services, and partnership agreements.
- Builds and sustains partnerships with key counterparts, service providers, and implementing partners.
- Facilitates information sharing and technical alignment across stakeholders.
- Represents UNICEF in inter-agency forums and working groups.
- Assists in developing, monitoring, and documenting WASH action research and systems innovations.
- Prepares knowledge products and learning materials on good practices.
- Serves as a resource person in capacity-building initiatives.
Required Experience
- A minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional work experience in WASH-related (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) programmes for developing countries is required.
- Relevant emergency response experience is highly desirable.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
Qualifications
A completed first level university degree (Bachelor or equivalent) in one of the following fields is required: Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, Sanitary Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Water Resources Engineering or another relevant technical field.
