WASH Specialist (Cluster Coordinator), NO-3, Caracas, Venezuela, FT

Contract

This is a NO-3 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-3 contracts.

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UNICEF is implementing its new cooperation programme agreed with the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to contribute addressing national priorities and emerging needs faced by the most vulnerable children. This also entails UNICEF’s fullfillment of its global responsibility as the lead Agency for the WASH Cluster Coordination, ensuring the six core functions of cluster coordination are applied to both preparedness and response with a humanitarian-development nexus approach within the framework of the Humanitarian Country Team of Venezuela.

Under the overall supervision of the Chief Field Operations, Emergency & DRR (Level 5), the WASH Officer (Cluster Coordinator), with close technical guidance from the Chief of WASH (Level 4), promotes cluster goals and objectives by coordinating the national cluster stakeholders ensuring they deliver on their agreed minimum commitments (see IASC Reference Module for Cluster Coordination at the Country Level, November 2012) and Inter-cluster coordination bodies established by the HCT/UNOCHA.

How can you make a difference?

The Cluster Coordinator provides leadership and facilitates the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, effective and timely response by members of the WASH Cluster. Manage cluster coordination team at national level and support interagency coordination at subnational level. The WASH Cluster Coordinator organizes regular meetings to coordinate the WASH response and address common challenges, they provide strategic leadership to the sub-national coordination mechanism and ensures that cluster members contact list is regularly updated with the support of Information Management Officer. He or she is entitled to raise WASH cluster contribution to HCT/HC level. Under technical supervision of the chief of the WASH section, he/she will have to articulate with the UNICEF WASH program teams, the WASH cluster partners and the WASH focal point of government to, they facilitate information exchange within and outside the cluster through website, shared drive, communication groups, WASH bulletins and proactively engage in relevant strategic coordination mechanism on identified themes (Cash and Voucher assistance when possible, AAP, humanitarian access etc.).

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks:

The post holder is responsible for providing predictable, timely and strategic leadership and representation for the Cluster to ensure a timely and effective sub-national Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group program. The post holder is responsible for leading a range of stakeholders, beyond their immediate direct reports, to work collectively towards the realization of a shared goal based on evidence. The post holder's main tasks and responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

1. Supporting coordination and quality service delivery
2. Strengthen national and local capacity
3. Informing strategic decision-making of the HC/HCT for the humanitarian response
4. Technical and operational support for priorization and planning
5. Resource Mobilization
6. Knowledge management, Information management, Monitoring and evaluating performance
7. Networking and partnership building
8. Support robust and evidence-based advocacy
9. Emergency Preparedness
10. Accountability to affected populations
11. Cross-cutting themes

For more details on the functions and duties of the WASH Specialist please refer to the job profile: Specific JD WASH Cluster NOC.pdf

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in public health, research, policy and/or management, social sciences, health and behavior change communication, WASH-related engineering or another relevant technical field. *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 years of relevant professional experience at the national and/or international levels in humanitarian response, programme/project development, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, or administration is required.
• Fieldwork expedrience is required
• Experience in emergency planning is highly desirable.
• Experience in a UN organization or similar is an asset.
• Proven ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders is required.
• Familiarity with children's rights and gender in the context of emergencies is desirable.
• Excellent analytical and writing skills, advocacy, and presentational skills.
• Fluency in Spanish is required. Working knowledge of English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

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.(8) Nurtures, leads and manages people.

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 here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic. 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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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:

This position has been assessed as an elevated risk role for Child Safeguarding purposes as it is:a role with direct contact with children, works directly with children, is a safeguarding response role. Additional vetting and assessment for elevated risk roles in child safeguarding (potentially including additional criminal background checks) applies.

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates are encouraged to apply.

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 are also 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.

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