Chief WASH

The Chief of WASH provides strategic leadership, overall management and technical direction for the WASH programme in Burkina Faso. The role involves planning, implementing, monitoring and reporting across all stages of the programme in both humanitarian and development settings, ensuring coordination with government, UN agencies and partners, and promoting integrated approaches with other sectors.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership, overall management and technical direction for the WASH programme.
• Plan, implement, monitor and report across all stages of the programme from strategic formulation to delivery of agreed outcomes and outputs in both humanitarian and development settings.
• Lead and manage the WASH team.
• Ensure effective coordination with government counterparts, UN agencies and partners.
• Promote integrated, cross-sectoral approaches with Health, Nutrition, Education and Child Protection.
• Achieve results in line with approved plans and budgets, results-based management principles, UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, Core Commitments for Children, and organizational standards of quality, accountability and risk management.
• Focus on equity, access in insecure areas, emergency preparedness and climate resilience.
• Provide managerial leadership.
• Develop and plan programmes.
• Manage programme monitoring and delivery of results.
• Provide advisory services and technical support.
• Engage in advocacy, networking and partnership building.
• Lead humanitarian WASH preparedness and response.
• Drive innovation, knowledge management and capacity building.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree (Master) in public health, social sciences, behavior change communication, sanitary engineering or another relevant technical field is required.
• Additional relevant post-graduate courses that complement/supplement the main degree are required.
• A minimum of eight years of professional experience in WASH-related programmes for developing countries is required.
• One year of deployment in a developing country is required.
• Proven ability to effectively lead a team to deliver results is required.
• At least one year of work in humanitarian situations, including one three-month mission deployment (with UN-Govt-INGO) is required.
• Basic to expert knowledge of rural water supply for low- and middle-income countries including water safety and sustainability.
• Basic to expert knowledge of rural sanitation for low- and middle-income countries including sustainability and applying CATS principles.
• Basic to expert knowledge of urban sanitation for low- and middle-income countries including sustainability.
• Basic to expert knowledge of handwashing with soap.
• Basic to expert knowledge of WASH-in-Schools and Health Centres.
• Basic to expert knowledge of menstrual hygiene management.
• Basic to expert knowledge of national government WASH policies, plans and strategies.
• In-depth knowledge of humanitarian WASH - preparedness, response and recovery.
• In-depth knowledge of humanitarian WASH coordination of the response and UNICEF role.
• Expert knowledge of programme/project management, capacity development, knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation.
• In-depth knowledge of human rights and WASH.
• In-depth knowledge of gender equality and WASH.
• Fluency in English and French is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is desirable.
• Experience in WASH-BAT, humanitarian WASH coordination, donor fundraising, and climate-resilient WASH programming is highly desirable.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

Skills

• Public Health
• Behaviour Change Communication
• Sanitation Engineering
• WASH Programme Management
• Humanitarian WASH Principles
• Rural Water Systems
• Water Safety
• Rural Sanitation Interventions
• CATS Principles
• Urban Sanitation
• Handwashing with Soap
• WASH in Schools
• WASH in Health Facilities
• Menstrual Hygiene Management
• National WASH Policies
• Humanitarian WASH Response
• Programme Management
• Project Management
• Capacity Development
• Knowledge Management
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Human Rights and WASH
• Gender Equality and WASH
• Donor Funding
• Climate-resilient WASH
• WASH BAT

Languages

English, French