Overview
The Senior Specialist for Climate Health and WASH is responsible for leading strategic projects related to Climate Resilient WASH and Climate Sensitive Infectious Disease Prevention within the Crisis Response, Recovery and Development department.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a complex portfolio of strategic projects across CR-WASH, water security, and the water-energy nexus.
- Drive technical delivery of the IDPC Impact at Scale priority.
- Provide remote and in-country technical support to Technical Advisors, Regional Practice Leads and Country Program teams.
- Identify and shape research opportunities in CR-WASH/IDPC.
- Collaborate with the Emergency Unit on technical quality strengthening for WASH in Emergencies.
- Monitor progress on technical program implementation.
- Collaborate effectively on shared priorities within the Health Unit and with other Technical Units and Global Practice Areas.
- Support partner and donor engagement for strategic projects.
- Contribute to global strategy and delivery planning for CR-WASH/IDPC.
- Lead finalization and roll out of the CR-WASH core indicators and Climate Resilient WASH MEAL package.
- Convene and sustain a CR-WASH community of practice.
- Synthesize lessons, strengthen technical guidance and capacity and support strategic work on Anticipatory Action for CR-WASH/IDPC.
- Contribute to the development of the Environment & Climate Health technical competency framework and assessment.
- Synthesize, adapt, and disseminate relevant technical standards, methodologies, and implementation tools for CR-WASH/IDPC.
- Provide technical inputs to MEAL tools and methodologies.
- Proactively disseminate lessons learned across countries and regions.
- Contribute to shaping, refining and delivering the Environment & Climate Health Learning Agenda.
- Collaborate with policymakers, implementing partners, humanitarian responders, and UN agencies.
- Represent IRC in priority external forums.
- Contribute to global prioritization and agenda-setting efforts.
- Work with the Policy and Communications Teams to develop and advocate IRC’s and global policies on CR-WASH/IDPC.
- Lead strategic business development opportunities.
- Provide TAs and Country Programs with specialized support on program design.
- Service as technical lead on large, complex and high value business development opportunities.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 6-8 years of progressive experience designing and leading programs relevant to Climate Resilient WASH in FCAS and/or across the humanitarian-development nexus.
- Demonstrated experience developing and delivering new strategies to advance ambitious goals.
- Experience collaborating across health, nutrition, climate resilience and related domains.
- Demonstrated ability to use of data and research evidence for programmatic decisions and rigorous analytic skills.
- Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice.
- Ability to design technical approaches for proposals and identify new business development opportunities.
- Ability to work, manage, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, highly matrixed environment.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in public health engineering, environmental management and/or related fields or equivalent professional experience required.
