WASH Specialist

Builds a pre-assessed UNICEF talent pool for temporary WASH Specialist appointments across Nigeria, supporting evidence-based programme design, implementation, monitoring and humanitarian response while strengthening government systems, partnerships and sector capacity.

• Develop and plan WASH programme strategies, results frameworks and workplans
• Manage implementation, monitoring and delivery of WASH programme results
• Provide technical and operational guidance to country programme teams
• Support humanitarian WASH preparedness, response, recovery and coordination
• Build partnerships with government, implementing partners and external agencies
• Strengthen WASH knowledge management, innovation and capacity development
• Develop donor proposals and strategic programme documentation
• Use monitoring evidence and bottleneck analysis to improve programme decisions

• Advanced university degree in public health, social sciences, behaviour change communication, sanitary engineering or another relevant technical field
• Minimum five years of professional experience in WASH programmes
• At least one year of deployment experience in a developing country
• At least one three-month humanitarian deployment with the UN, government or an international NGO
• Fluency in English

• Relevant postgraduate courses
• Experience in programme design, theory of change, results-based planning, monitoring and evaluation, donor proposals and programme management
• Country-level experience in development, fragile or humanitarian settings
• Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language

• WASH Programme Management
• Rural Water Supply
• Rural Sanitation
• Urban Sanitation
• Humanitarian WASH
• Menstrual Hygiene Management
• WASH Policy
• Results-Based Planning
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Capacity Development
• Knowledge Management
• Donor Proposal Development

• CATS

• Temporary appointments last 364 days
• Selection creates a talent group and does not guarantee appointment
• Applications may be reviewed on a rolling basis