WASH - CEED Officer, NO-2, ( 364 days) Quito, Ecuador

Contract

This is a NO-2 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-2 contracts.

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, a future.

UNICEF Ecuador works on ensuring access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH services) as part of both, its regular programming as well as its emergency and humanitarian response. Stunting is a major issue and a key intervention for UNICEF's current Country Programme Document, and evidence shows the importance of WASH services as one of the determinants to prevent it. At the same time, the COVID-19 Pandemic evidenced the need to strengthen WASH services in health facilities and schools, therefore, the incumbent will have a strategic role in supporting both the health and nutrition programmes and the early childhood development and education programme, while leading the humanitarian and emergency sectorial response.

Climate, energy, environment, and disaster risk reduction (CEED) is a crucial part of the WASH programme for Ecuador Country Office which tracks the broader outcome of child-friendly climate/environment and DRR government policies as well as UNICEF’s implementation of cross-sectoral child-sensitive programming, strengthening of systems for disaster preparedness and critically — UNICEF’s support to young people to be climate and environmental champions.

For information of the work of our organization in Ecuador, please visit our website: https://www.unicef.org/ecuador/

How can you make a difference?

If you are hired as the WASH Officer for UNICEF Ecuador, you will make a difference by contributing to the implementation of our programme in the country, considering both emergency and humanitarian response. You will be working with WASH services and more specifically Climate, Energy, Environment, and Disaster (CEED) reduction in the country and contribute to strengthening the systems for disaster preparedness. You will also be a part of UNICEF's support to young people so they can be climate and environmental champions.

Your main responsibilities will be:

1. Programme development and planning

• Draft updates for WASH in the situation analysis, to inform the development of WASH-related outcome and output results.
• Prepare technical reports and inputs for programme preparation and documentation, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and relevance of information.
• Contribute to the development/establishment of WASH/CEED ( climate change, environment, energy and disaster risk reduction)-related outcome and output results, as well as related strategies, through an analysis of WASH/CEED sector needs and priorities.
• Provide technical and administrative support throughout all stages of programming processes by executing/administering a variety of technical programme transactions, preparing materials/documentation, and complying with organizational processes and management systems, to support progress towards the WASH/CEED-related outcome and/or output results in the country programme.
• Prepare required documentation/materials to facilitate review and approval processes.

2. Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results

• Work collaboratively with colleagues and partners to collect/analyze/ share information on implementation issues, provide solutions on routine programme implementation and alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level interventions and/or decisions. Keep records of reports and assessments for easy reference and/or to capture and institutionalize lessons learned.
• Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual sectoral reviews with government and other counterparts and prepare reports on results for required action/interventions at the higher level of programme management.

• Monitor and report on the use of sectoral programme resources (financial, administrative and other assets), verify compliance with approved allocations, organizational rules, regulations/procedures and donor commitments, standards of accountability and integrity. Report on issues identified to enable timely resolution by management/stakeholders.

• Prepare sectoral progress reports for management, donors and partners.

3. Technical and operational support for programme implementation

• Undertake field visits and surveys, collect and share reports with partners/stakeholders. Report critical issues, bottlenecks and potential problems to supervisor, for timely action.

• Provide technical and operational support to government counterparts, NGO partners, UN system partners and other country office partners/donors on the application and understanding of UNICEF policies, strategies, processes and best practices in WASH, to support programme implementation.

4. Humanitarian WASH preparedness and response

• Draft requisitions for supplies, services, long-term agreements and partnership agreements to ensure UNICEF is prepared to deliver on its commitments for WASH in case of an emergency.
• Study and fully understand UNICEF’s procedures for responding in an emergency.
• Take up support roles in an emergency response and early recovery, as and when the need arises.

5. Networking and partnership building

• Build and sustain close working partnerships with government counterparts and national stakeholders through active sharing of information and knowledge to facilitate programme implementation and build capacity of stakeholders to achieve WASH/CEED output results.

• Draft communication and information materials for WASH programme advocacy to promote awareness, establish partnership/alliances and support fund-raising for WASH.

• Participate in sectorial inter-agency meetings.

• Research information on potential donors and prepare resource mobilization materials and briefs for fund raising and partnership development purposes.

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

• Education: A university degree (bachelor's), preferably in one of the following fields is required: public health, social sciences, behavior change communication, sanitary engineering, environmental studies or another relevant technical field.
• Experience: a minimum of two years of professional work experience in WASH/CEED-related programmes is required. Understanding of key determinants of WASH and CEED services is also required.
• Language: Fluency in Spanish and English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability (CRITA) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others. Nurtures, leads and manages people ( 8).

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

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.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

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.

UNICEF constantly works for the well-being of its team. We offer:

• Hybrid work.
• Flexible working hours and other flexible working arrangements.
• International exposure (contact and networking with people from other UNICEF offices).
• Benefits above those provided by law in Ecuador, such as 4-month parental leave for non-gestational parents and 6-month parental leave for gestational parents.
• Paid vacations that are accrued after each month of work and can be taken flexibly.
• The opportunity of impacting the future of children in Ecuador.
• And many more, so apply now!

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

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

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.