UNICEF Vacancy for WASH State Consultant – Civil Engineer

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Nigeria is supporting the
Government of Nigeria to strengthen prevention of and response all
forms of violence against children.
In particular, assistance will be provided to
strengthen the child protection system, including through
modelling the
system in four States, in order to demonstrate the impact of a
well-functioning child protection system, to develop a common model for
operationalizing the Child Rights Act at State level and to develop
standardized tools, including regulations, working protocols and
training manuals to govern the system.

If you are a passionate and committed professional and want to make a
lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights
organization would like to hear from you.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: WASH State Consultant – Civil Engineer

VN No.: VN-NGR-59-2015
Location: Maiduguri
Level: NOB
Type of Appointment: Special Service Agreement (SSA) for 6 months

Purpose of the Consultancy

• The State Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Consultant will be
  based in Maiduguri working under the supervision of WASH Specialist
  & UNICEF Maiduguri Field Office to deliver on the planned WASH
  results for the emergency interventions being implemented by UNICEF.

Qualifications or Specialized Knowledge/Experience Required

• University Degree in Civil Engineering with a Masters in Water, Sanitary, Public health or related field.
• Fluency in locally spoken Hausa and Kanuri languages (preferably of Borne, Yobe, or Adamawa state origin).
• At least 6 years of relevant experience in programme planning,
  implementation and monitoring preferably in water and sanitation sector.

Major tasks expected for the above consultancies:

• Provide technical support to UNICEF partners inducing State Rural
  Water Supply and Sanitation agency, BOSEPA, etc. in program need
  assessment, planning, draft of proposals, implementation and monitoring
  of WASH services
• Ensure that sector actors are aware of relevant policy
  guidelines, technical standards and assist the lead WASH agency/State
  WASH sector emergency working group to ensure that WASH responses are
  in line with existing policy guidance, technical standards.
• Facilitate identification of gaps in WASH services provision,
  draft/recommend update WASH response, transition, or exit strategies as
  applicable and action plans based on lessons learned from WASH
  response activities and advocate/lobby implementing humanitarian
  partners to address the gaps where critical gaps in addressing WASH
  priorities are identified.
• Facilitate monitoring of WASH interventions and progress against
  implementation plans with dis-aggregated indicators for adequacy of
  WASH services in terms of quantity, quality, coverage, etc. and access
  of disadvantaged and marginalized groups.
• Facilitate and ensure utilization of participatory and community
  based approaches involving all relevant partners and the IDP
  communities in WASH emergency related assessments, analysis, planning,
  monitoring and response
• Facilitate adequate WASH related contingency planning and
  preparedness for potential significant changes in the nature of the
  emergency;
• The consultant will particularly technical leadership in the
  development of cost effective designs, drawings, bits of quantities and
  construction methodologies for dealing with the water and sanitation
  facilities, especially informal/ informal camps.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should submit their application,
accompanied by updated CV’s in English and a completed United Nations
Personal History Form.

Applications should be sent to: nrecruit@unicef.org Candidate are advised to put the Job Title on the Subject line of their email.

Click here to download United Nations Personal History Form

 
Deadline  Monday, 28 September, 2015.