WASH Officer

Provides technical support to UNICEF’s WASH programme in Gaza, with emphasis on implementing partnerships. The Officer plans, manages, monitors and evaluates water, sanitation and hygiene results; coordinates government, utilities, NGOs and cluster actors; supports humanitarian preparedness and hygiene promotion; and strengthens partner oversight, reporting, accountability and WASH solutions.

• Support WASH programme development and planning
• Manage, monitor and deliver WASH programme results
• Coordinate implementing partners and WASH-sector actors
• Provide technical support for WASH implementation
• Support humanitarian preparedness and response
• Build partnerships, capacity and knowledge management

• Advanced university degree in public health, social science, behavioural science, civil, sanitary or environmental engineering or a related field
• At least 2 years of WASH, humanitarian-assistance, public-health or partnership-management experience
• Experience coordinating WASH cluster actors, government, municipalities, utilities, UN agencies, NGOs or service providers
• Fluency in English and Arabic

• Integrated UNICEF and WASH-cluster programme experience
• Technical leadership and field-team supervision
• Hygiene promotion and social-behaviour-change experience
• HACT, programme-agreement and direct-cash-transfer experience
• Localised and decentralised WASH intervention experience

• WASH Programming
• Partnership Management
• Humanitarian Response
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Hygiene Promotion
• Risk Communication
• Community Engagement
• Capacity Building