Consultancy Post: Public Health/ WASH Specialist - Yemen (Open for National & International Applicants)

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone and we never give up.

For every child, Hope

In the 1970s UNICEF established presence in Yemen to respond to the urgent needs of children in the poorest country in the Middle East. In 1991, Yemen ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and it was enacted immediately. Since then the country has been making steady progress for children until it plunged into a brutal conflict in 2015 but even before that, Yemen needed large amounts of humanitarian assistance.

In collaboration with local authorities, non-governmental organizations and community partners, UNICEF is working in all the governorates in Yemen to respond to the needs of children throughout the country with a continuum of services to help children survive and grow to their full potential through the following programmes: Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Basic Education, and Child protection.

For more on our work in Yemen, please visit our website: https://www.unicef.org/yemen/

How can you make a difference?

The Public Health or WASH Specialist will work with a team that includes a team leader/evaluation specialist, a data analyst, a data collection team manager, and a team of enumerators. The Public Health or WASH Specialist will provide epidemiological expertise, especially on cholera response, that will assist the team leader and data analyst in interpreting the results of the evaluation. The Public Health or WASH Specialist will be expected to provide inputs on the inception report, including the data collection tools, as well as the draft and final reports, and will also contribute to the design of the orientation/training for the enumerators. The Public Health or WASH Specialist will be contracted directly through UNICEF but will report to the Team Leader/Evaluation Specialist for all technical matters.

To make a difference in the lives of children, you will be responsible for the following key functions:

• Contributes epidemiological perspective to the inception report with annexes of the evaluation matrix and data collection tools, including ethical protocols for discussion at the Steering Committee.
• Contributes to answers to questions from the ethical clearance process if required
• Contributes to responses to issues raised by the Steering Committee and the ethical clearance process.
• Contributes epidemiological perspective to orientation/training of enumerators
• Contributes epidemiological perspective to analysis of collected data
• Contributes epidemiological perspective to emerging findings
• Contributes to draft report using data, taking into account the feedback received during the preliminary findings phase.
• Responds to comments regarding public health/WASH/epidemiology received in the comments matrix.

• Contributes epidemiological perspective to final report based on comments in comments matrix.

  For more details on the Job Profile, double-click this link: Public Health or WASH Specialist ToR.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have...

1. • Master’s degree in public health, water engineering, or related field
   • Minimum 7 years of experience in analysing WASH programming specifically related to outbreak of disease (previous experience in cholera response is required).
   • Epidemiological experience
   • Strong experience in hygiene promotion and communication with community.
   • Experience working or researching in humanitarian contexts and familiarity/ background with WASH in these contexts.
   • Good understanding of gender and inequity issues in relation to WASH and development and the application of gender / equity analysis to policy and planning in WASH.
   • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with senior officials.
   • Cultural sensitivity especially as demonstrated through similar assignments in the Middle East and other regions of the Global South.
   • Fluency in English, proficiency in Arabic (preferred)

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and core competencies: Builds & Maintains Partnership; Demonstrates Self-Awareness & Ethical Awareness; Drive to Achieve Results for Impact; Innovates and Embraces Change; Manages Ambiguity and Complexity; Thinks and Acts Strategically and Works Collaboratively with Others.

View our competency framework, click here.

While UNICEF seeks to recruit the best talent in the Yemeni labor market to be able to deliver the best possible services for the children in Yemen, we would like to make it clear that we never use any third party in any of the recruitment processes for all junior and senior positions advertised. All received applications are treated with high level of transparency and professionalism. Only applicants whose profiles meet the advertised job requirements are considered and only within the announced deadline.

في حين تسعى اليونيسف لإستقطاب أفضل الكوادر في السوق اليمنية لتتمكن من تقديم أفضل خدمة للأطفال في اليمن، تود التنويه إلى أنها لا تستعين بأي شخص أو جهة (قد يقدم نفسهـ/ـا) كوسيط أو طرف ثالث في أي من عمليات التوظيف وفيما يخص جميع الوظائف، باستثناء الإعلان عبر وسائل الإعلام والمواقع الإليكترونية. إن اليونيسف، منظمة الطفولة، تعمل بمستوى عال من الشفافية والمهنية. ولا يتم التواصل إلا مع المتقدمين الذين توافقت مؤهلاتهم وخبراتهم مع الوظائف المعلن عنها والتي تقدموا لها في الموعد المعلن.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. Female candidates are especially encouraged to apply. Please see entitlements for females by double-clicking this link: Female Entitlements Edited2.jpg

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.