WASH Cluster Coordinator, P-4, Fixed Term Appointment, Kinshasa, Democratic Rep. of Congo (DRC)

This opening expired 3 years ago. Do not try to apply for this job.

UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund

Open positions at UNICEF
Logo of UNICEF

Application deadline 3 years ago: Monday 17 Aug 2020 at 22:55 UTC

Open application form

Contract

This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 146,826 USD and 189,301 USD.

Salary for a P-4 contract in Kinshasa

The international rate of 90,970 USD, with an additional 61.4% (post adjustment) at this the location, applies. Please note that depending on the location, a higher post adjustment might still result in a lower purchasing power.

Please keep in mind that the salary displayed here is an estimation by UN Talent based on the location and the type of contract. It may vary depending on the organization. The recruiter should be able to inform you about the exact salary range. In case the job description contains another salary information, please refer to this one.

More about P-4 contracts and their salaries.

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, Clean Water

PURPOSE OF THE JOB: On behalf of the IASC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene cluster), and in collaboration with the Government authorities, the main purpose of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Cluster Coordinator post is to provide leadership and facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, coherent, strategic, and effective WASH response to the current crisis and on-going complex emergencies by a mobilized and adequately resourced group of agencies, organizations, NGOs, local communities

How can you make a difference?

ACCOUNTABILITIES AND KEYS END-RESULTS

The WASH Cluster Coordinator’s will report to the Chief Emergency. Her / His major tasks/responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to, the following:

  1. Establishment and maintenance of appropriate humanitarian coordination mechanisms:
  • Ensure inclusion of key WASH humanitarian partners in a way that respects their mandates and programme priorities
  • Ensure appropriate coordination between all WASH humanitarian partners (national and international NGOs, the ICRC/International Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, etc ...), through establishment/maintenance of appropriate WASH Cluster/sector coordination mechanisms, including working groups at the national and, if necessary, local level;
  • Maintain information on all current and potential WASH partners, their capacities and areas of work (including Who, What, Where and by When).
  • Secure commitments from WASH humanitarian partners in responding to needs and filling gaps, ensuring an appropriate distribution of responsibilities within the WASH group, with clearly defined focal points for specific issues where necessary;
  • Ensure the complementarity of different WASH humanitarian actors' actions;
  • Promote WASH emergency response actions while at the same time considering WASH within early recovery planning as well as prevention and risk reduction concerns;
  • Ensure effective links with WASH cluster at national level and WASH cluster in the hubs
  • Ensure effective links with other Cluster/sector groups, working closely with the Health, Nutrition, Emergency NFI/Shelter and Camp Co-ordination, Camp Management Clusters when present;
  • Ensure that WASH coordination mechanisms are adapted over time to reflect the capacities of local actors and the engagement of development partners
  • Support WASH clusters in Hubs in coordination of WASH partners, including by building capacities/mentoring designated hub cluster coordinators
  • Act as focal point for inquiries on the WASH cluster's response plans and operations.
  • Represent the interests of the WASH Cluster/sector in discussions with the Inter-Cluster, the Humanitarian Coordinator, the Humanitarian Country Team and other stakeholders on prioritization, resource mobilization and advocacy;
  1. Coordination with national/local authorities, State institutions, local civil society and other relevant actors:

- Ensure that WASH humanitarian responses build on local capacities including the promotion of capacity building of relevant authorities were deemed necessary - Ensure appropriate links with national and local authorities, State institutions, local civil society and other relevant actors (e.g. peacekeeping forces) and ensure appropriate coordination and information exchange with them.

  1. Needs assessment and analysis:

- Ensure effective and coherent WASH assessment and analysis, involving all relevant partners - Support and build capacities of WASH clusters in Hubs in developing needs analysis - Promote and adopt standardized methods, tools and formats for common use for needs assessments and analysis - Promote joint needs assessments and analysis with other clusters, especially Health, Nutrition and Shelter - Development (adaptation of generic standards) of standard assessment formats;

  1. Planning and strategy development: Ensure predictable WASH action by;
  • Developing/updating agreed WASH needs and gaps analysis and ensuring that these are adequately reflected in the overall country strategies including the Humanitarian Needs Overview and Hubs Operational Plans
  • Developing/updating agreed WASH response strategies and action plans and ensuring that these are adequately reflected in the overall country strategies including the Humanitarian Response Plans and the Hubs Operational Plans;
  • Supporting and building capacities of WASH clusters in Hubs to improve their contribution to the inter-sectoral operational plans and ad-hoc response plan while ensuring alignment with national WASH strategy
  • Drawing lessons learned from past WASH activities and revising strategies and action plans accordingly;
  1. Application of standards/ Attention to priority cross-cutting issues/ Community based approach:
  • Ensure that WASH cluster/sector participants are aware of relevant policy guidelines, technical standards and relevant commitments that the Government concerned authorities have undertaken under international human rights law;
  • Ensure that WASH responses are in line with existing policy guidance, technical standards, and relevant Government human rights legal obligations.
  • Ensure integration of agreed priority cross-cutting issues in WASH assessments, analysis, planning, monitoring and response (e.g. age, diversity, environment, gender, HIV/AIDS and human rights);
  • Ensure utilization of participatory and community-based approaches in WASH related assessments, analysis, planning, monitoring and response.
  1. Monitoring and reporting:

- Ensure adequate monitoring mechanisms are in place (with OCHA support) to review impact of WASH interventions and progress against response plans. This specifically needs to include an analytical interpretation of best available information in order to benchmark progress of the emergency response over time - Ensure adequate WASH impact reporting and effective information sharing (with OCHA support) to demonstrate the closing of gaps.

  1. Advocacy and resource mobilization:

- Identify key WASH advocacy issues, including resource requirements, and develop advocacy note/presentation - Contribute to key messages to broader advocacy initiatives of the HC, HCT, ICN, UNICEF and other actors; - Advocate for donors to fund priority WASH activities (including WASH cluster coordination) while at the same time encouraging WASH actors to mobilize resources for their activities through their usual channels.

  1. Training and capacity building:

- Promote and support training of WASH humanitarian personnel and capacity building of humanitarian partners, based on the mapping and understanding of available capacity ; - Mentor and reinforce capacities of WASH cluster coordinators in the hubs to enhance quality of WASH cluster coordination at sub-country level - Support efforts to strengthen the WASH capacity of the national/local authorities and civil society

  1. Provision of assistance or services as a last resort Where critical gaps in addressing WASH priorities are identified the WASH Cluster Coordinator will :
  • Lobby for implementing humanitarian partners (including UNICEF WASH) to address the gaps.

  • With advice/support from the HC and support from other humanitarian partners will advocate, as appropriate, on the adequate provision of resources and safe access .
  • If persistent gaps remain then with the full support of the UNICEF Country Representative will specifically request that the UNICEF WASH Country Team to take action to fill the critical gaps through direct implementation action .
  1. Emergency preparedness:
  • Ensure adequate WASH related contingency planning and preparedness for potential significant changes in the nature of the emergency

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

  • An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in subjects/areas of WASH e.g Health Promotion or Education , 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 eight (8) years direct WASH emergency experience in complex emergencies. Four of which would be based in the field at a senior programme management level. Significant experience of responding to first phases of an emergency. Significant experience with either the UN and/or NGO
  • Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
  • Fluency in French and English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The functional competencies required for this post are:

  1. Foundational Competencies (Required)
  • Commitment [ E ] • Drive for Result [ E ]
  • Embracing Diversity [ E ] • Integrity [ E ]
  • Team Work [ E ] • Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation [ E ]
  1. Functional Competencies (Required)

- Leading vision and change [ E ] • Networking [ E ] - Strategic and Global thinking [ E ] • Decisiveness[ E ] - Managing [ E] • Planning, Setting Standards & Monitoring Work [ E ] - Communication [ E ] • Team Leadership [ E ]

  1. Technical Knowledge [ E ]

- Common WASH Technical Requirements [ E ] - Knowledge of humanitarian reform principles, international humanitarian law, inter­ connectedness and reform pillars & reform updates [ E ] - Knowledge of the Cluster approach guidelines and terms of Reference (and knowledge of how to apply them) [ E ] - Knowledge of cluster participants (their mandates, capacities, attitudes, limitations) and how to integrate them into the cluster approach [ E ] - Ability to mitigate and mediate conflict and disagreements among cluster partners [ E ]

  1. Function-Specific Technical Requirements [ E ]

- Ability to think broadly beyond agency mandate to the entire sector and to the larger humanitarian situation [ E ] - Ability to ensure appropriate coordination with all humanitarian partners as well as with national authorities and local structures [ E ] - Ability to identify key humanitarian partners for the cluster, respecting their respective mandates and programme priorities and to bring them in the planning process [ E ] - Ability to use coordination management mechanisms and best practices beyond meetings [ E ] - Ability to facilitate assessment and/ or joint analysis stemming from disparate assessments and to identify of gaps in the field of WASH and conceptualize how sectoral needs can be met through collective delivery [ E ] - Ability to Identify core advocacy concerns for the cluster [ E ] - Ability to use and adapt cluster coordination tools (e.g HPC- HNO/HRP, Humanitarian Funding -CERF, stakeholder mapping, NAF, Flash Appeals, GAP 10, IM tools, Need-Capacity-Resource Mapping, Contingency planning etc... [ E ] - Ability to apply best practice and lessons learned derived from previous experience implementing the cluster approach

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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:

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.

Added 3 years ago - Updated 2 years ago - Source: unicef.org