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• Actively participate in both mutli sector
  and sectoral assessment.
• Identify the need and gap required for
  continued emergency response to provide water and sanitation services as
  per the minimum SPHERE standard to Refugees.
• Prepare agreed WASH Intervention plan for
  immediate need and long term need ensuring that these are adequately
  reflected in the overall country strategies.
• Provide details plan of requisition,
  releasing and monitoring of WASH emergency supplies.
• Develop an exit or transition strategy for
  UNICEF supported response.

• Identify key humanitarian partners for
  WASH, based on their respective mandates and program priorities
• Identify other key partners including
  local and national authorities
• Carry out capacity mapping of all current
  and potential actors – government, national and international humanitarian
  organizations as well as national institutions, the private sector

• Establish and maintain data system to measure
  progress against CCCs standards and benchmarks
• Regularly monitor, Supervise and ensure
  the quality of WASH activities mainly on Water, sanitation and hygiene
  promotional activities including development of piped water system to
  cover entire refugees implemented by UNICEF PCA and private sector
  Partners; at refugee transition center and settlement area
• Provide technical support to Zonal
  Offices, District government and partners, including DWO and DHO to
  monitor and supervise WASH emergency activities like water trucking,
  drilling and rehab of boreholes, construction of latrines and hygiene
  promotion activities.

• Support, participate and coordinate if
  necessary any emergency related WASH coordination meetings held at
  national and sub national level at UNHCR/OPM and in refugee settlement
  areas as necessary.
• Support the establishment/maintaining of
  appropriate sector coordination mechanism including working groups at
  national and sub national level.
• Ensure effective linkage with other sector
  especially Health, Education and Nutrition
• Based on information obtained from the
  meetings prepare situation update report for UNICEF internal use.

• Ensure that UNICEF-supported districts and
  partners are aware of relevant policy guidelines, technical standards
• Ensure that responses are in line with
  existing policy guidance, technical standards, and relevant Government
  human rights legal obligations.
• Promote and support training of
  humanitarian personnel and capacity building of humanitarian partners,
  based on the mapping and understanding of available capacity;
• Support efforts to strengthen the capacity
  of the national/local authorities and civil society

• Identify core advocacy concerns, including
  resource requirements, and contribute key messages to broader advocacy
  initiatives of the Humanitarian Coordinator and other actors;
• Prepare periodic donor updates and support
  donor field visits as relevant

• The applicant for the United Nations
  UNICEF WASH Specialist job opportunity should hold an advanced university
  degree in one of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: Public
  Health, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Geology, Hydrology,
  Sanitation Engineering, or a field relevant to international WASH related
  development assistance.
• At least five years’ experience in the
  relevant areas of water, sanitation and hygiene, water quality, public
  health, environmental health. Should have experience with design,
  construction and supervision of water supply including boreholes and piped
  water systems.
• Background/familiarity with Emergency
  (preparedness and response) and the IASC Cluster approach.
• Ability to travel and live in stressful
  and hardship condition and familiarity with the culture and  settlement patterns of the refugee
  settlement area

• Core Values: Commitment,
  Diversity and Inclusion, Integrity
• Core Competencies:
  Communication, Drive for Results, Working with People
• Functional Competencies:
  Leading and supervising (I), Formulating strategies and concepts (II),
  Analyzing (III), Relating and networking (II), Deciding and initiating
  action (II), Applying technical expertise (III)

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