Chief WASH

Leads UNICEF Sudan’s WASH programme in a complex humanitarian setting marked by conflict, displacement and damaged essential services. The chief directs strategic planning through delivery of programme results, manages the country-office WASH team, and ensures accountable, results-based implementation that advances emergency response, systems restoration, resilience and sector strengthening.

• Manage and supervise all stages of the WASH programme from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of results
• Lead and manage the country-office WASH team
• Ensure WASH outcome and output results are achieved against plans and allocations
• Apply results-based management approaches and methodologies across the WASH programme
• Ensure implementation aligns with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, performance standards and accountability framework
• Direct WASH programming that responds to displacement, disease outbreaks and damaged water and sanitation systems
• Advance restoration, resilience and systems strengthening where conditions permit

• Advanced university degree in engineering, civil engineering, environmental engineering, water resources management, hydrology, public health, social science, behaviour change communication, international development or another relevant field
• At least 10 years of professional experience in WASH-related programmes for developing countries
• At least 2 years of deployment in a developing country with proven ability to lead a team
• At least 2 years of work in a humanitarian context
• Fluency in English

• Additional postgraduate courses complementing the main degree
• Experience with AfDB-, KfW- or World Bank-funded programmes
• Experience in WASH cluster coordination and familiarity with CATS principles
• Experience at country level in development, fragile settings or humanitarian contexts

• WASH Programme Management
• Strategic Planning
• Team Leadership
• Partnership Building
• Resource Mobilisation
• Programme Development
• Results-based Management
• Humanitarian Response

• CATS

• Reports to the Deputy Representative Programme
• Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF