Local Consultant: Typhoon Odette Response - WASH Area Coordinators for CARAGA-Butuan and Region 8 - Southern Leyte, 4 Months

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UNICEF has been an active partner of the Government of the Philippines and civil society in realizing the rights of every Filipino child, in line with priorities to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. UNICEF efforts have been focused on the most vulnerable regions identified by the Government of the Philippines Development Plan, particularly in the regions of Visayas and Mindanao. To ensure that interventions are sustainable and scaled up, UNICEF will support primarily local government units (LGUs) as the main instruments of delivering services and building systems. The level of engagement with government institutions will take into account capacities, economies of scale and sector issues.

It has a field office in Cotabato City, the second largest city in Mindanao, southern Philippines, with some 300,000 population. The city is the regional administrative centre of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao and over 80 percent of the population is Muslim. Mindanao is both conflict-affected and prone to frequent earthquakes and typhoon storms.

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UNICEF will hire two (2) local consultants as part of the UNICEF Philippine Country Office response to Typhoon Odette to support the WASH implementation in CARAGA and Southern Leyte, including CERF and the Government of Japan. The Consultants will work closely with the implementing partners: Plan International in Southern Leyte and Action Against Hunger in CARAGA and with local officials of the provinces of the affected areas in Southern Leyte, as well as with the regional offices of DOH to effectively implement the CERF funding.

Scope of Work:

Under the technical supervision of the UNICEF WASH Chief and WASH Officer/s, the specific objectives of this consultancy are to:

Task 1. Strategic and Quality Implementation

1. Support the UNICEF WASH team on the implementation of the UNICEF WASH Response Plan (targets, indicators, activities, budget), ensuring quality response implementation of the implementing partners(i.e. Plan International and Action Against Hunger).

2. Support the WASH team in identifying and implementing strategies and mechanisms to scale up the WASH response to the emergency.

3. Ensure effective and coherent analysis of implementation/progress, including identifying and recommending appropriate actions to cover gaps, involving all relevant partners

Task 2. Coordination mechanisms

4. Ensure appropriate coordination mechanisms at the sub-national level and with the WASH Manila/Mindanao are in place, including effective links, communication.

5. Ensure effective links with other clusters or sectoral coordination platforms at the sub-national level as well as with local government units, including identifying opportunities for collaboration that can contribute to the improvement of the humanitarian situation.

Task 3: Monitoring and reporting

6. Support implementing partners with a Monitoring Plan and with tools that capture project progress, public health risk monitoring by community health works, and AAP/feedback from beneficiary women, men, children, persons with disabilities throughout the design, implementation and monitoring of the WASH programme (with sex and age disaggregated data)

7. Monitor the distribution of supplies and other related to WASH interventions and end-user monitoring.

8. Assist with reporting (UNICEF and OCHA SitReps, other reporting requirements) and effective information sharing to highlight needs, responses, issues in the implementation and demonstrate the closing of gaps.

Deliverables

1. Update key UNICEF WASH staff in Manila and Mindanao on the status of implementation of the partners against planned targets and activities on a regular basis or as needed.

2. Provide key UNICEF WASH staff in Manila and Mindanao priority recommendations and action points for improving the WASH response and/or covering gaps in the implementation.

3.Provide analysis of progress against implementing partner’s activities and budget of the WASH implementation of the UNICEF partners.

4. Attend WASH meetings and establish a system to update Manila and MFO colleagues.

5. Attend coordination meetings at national and sub-national levels.

6. Coordinate via emails, calls, and/or meetings for opportunities for collaboration between UN agencies and NGO partners in the field.

7. Documentation of updates for the WASH implementation as needed by WASH colleagues based on the schedule of reporting requirements. Highlighted issues with concerned key authorities.

8. Monthly progress report on the implementation

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

• Bachelor degree in any Health Promotion, Civil or Public Health Engineering, Public Health (MPH), Environmental Health. *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• A minimum of 5-8 years of experience with either the UN and/or NGO in analysis, design, and implementation of WASH programs
• Experience in 1st phase of emergency response
• Experience in coordinating programs or projects, preferably in emergency response
• Fluency in English and local language is desirable
• Proven ability to conceptualize, innovate, plan and execute ideas and systems
• Ability to express clearly and concisely ideas and concepts convincingly in written and oral form
• Proven ability to plan, manage, monitor the effective use of financial resources
• Ability to plan, coordinate and manage multiple activities and adjust to changing priorities
• Good interpersonal skills; sensitivity to partner’s needs and expectations and maintaining open communication
• Innovative, able to take risks and able to lead or participate in change to keep operations working, practical solution-oriented.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

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HOW TO APPLY

Qualified candidates are requested to complete an online candidate profile in http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/ by 08 February 2022. Only applications sent through the e-recruitment portal under Job Number: 548085 will be considered.

All candidates are requested to submit a COVER LETTER, and the duly filled P11 Form which can be downloaded from our website at P11 Form.docx (sharepoint.com) indicating three (3) previous supervisors. Please indicate your area of assignment, ability, availability and daily/monthly rate to undertake the terms of reference above. PLEASE INDICATE WHICH AREA YOU ARE APPLYING FOR (REGION 8 : SOUTHERN LEYTE OR CARAGA: BUTUAN CITY). Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered.

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.

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 be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

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

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.