Associate Wash Officer Job. UN Jobs In Kenya

Responsibilities

Leadership and Coordination

• In collaboration with UNICEF and UNHCR Country WASH Officers, follow-up and monitor and coordinate all activities related to the R-WASH utility programme in Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia to meet the UNHCR standards of assistance in the designated locations.
• Ensure regular and effective coordination with all Country R-WASH Coordinators and Focal Points in Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia, UNICEF and donors when needed. S/he will participate/represent UNHCR in the regular technical steering committee meetings and joint monitoring field visits in coordination with the Regional Technical Coordinator.
• Maintain regular and effective coordination with Country WASH/Energy/Environment Officers for regional earmarked funding activities, facilitate regional technical sectors’ coordination meetings, and bilateral meetings with country operations, in collaboration with and supported by the Regional Technical Coordinator.
• Participate and represent UNHCR in meetings, forums, workshops, and visits with all actors involved with the R-WASH project and existing projects linked to R-WASH in coordination with the Regional Technical Coordinator.
• Liaise between UNICEF, and UNHCR Country Operations, Government authorities, and all actors involved in the R-WASH project from refugees, host community leaders and water user groups, to contractors, UN agencies, NGOs, and technical working groups.
• WASH/Energy/Environment/Climate Roadmaps, Planning, and Programme Support
• Provide strategic support and guidance to the country operations on all activities related to WASH/Energy/Environment/Climate including the ongoing multi-year strategies of the country operations, community engagement and inclusion strategy being implemented under the above technical sectors. 
• Jointly with the WASH/Energy/Environment Colleagues, update detailed needs and resource assessments and revise designs of technical plans as necessary, considering practical aspects of implementation, and relevant technical specifications and guidelines.
• Contribute to the planning processes and financial management of the WASH/Energy/Environment programme.
• Formulate project submissions including budget to respond to identified needs in collaboration with appropriate regional and country sector leads, and other programme and technical sectors.
• Advise on the strategic development of WASH/Energy/Environment programme, including potential expansion within the respective country operation.

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Technical Assistance and Capacity Building

• Provide technical guidance and support to country operations WASH Staff and Partners on all water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion issues, to ensure quality, cost-effectiveness, sustainability, and environmental soundness in their implementation and in accordance with UNHCR policies, standards, and priorities.
• Share, seek and offer advice as a contribution to problem identification and solving where needs arise (technical, operational, conflict resolution, negotiation etc.).
• Trouble shooting and risk management: constantly observe and analyze potential problems and risks and to contribute to their mitigation (e.g. from natural hazards, social tensions, capacity issues, mismanagement etc). Regularly attend the UNHCR Technical meetings and other technical working group forums. 
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality Assurance
• Proactively monitor all aspects of the WASH/Energy/Environment/Climate Action project implementation (studies, construction, trainings, communications, materials, work sites etc.) in close collaboration with the Country Operations Technical Staff and to flag deviations from schedules, specifications, and planning. Ensure that mechanisms to monitor the performance of UNHCR's Partners on WASH activities in the refugee camps and host community are in place.
• Actively follow up project implementation activities to help ensure quality control, transparency, accountability.
• Ensure that the WASH Monitoring System (WMS) and the Technical Information Monitoring Systems (TIMS) data collection and reporting is carried out properly and timely with quality information.
• Coordinate and follow-up the Quarterly Country Operations Technical Sectors Report.
• Reporting, communication, and documentation
• Monitoring and Progress Controls
• UNHCR’s policies, standards and procedures relating to WASH are appropriately and coherently applied in the area of responsibility.
• Implementation of WASH activities in targeted locations clearly documented, reported, and shared.

Qualifications and Experience

• Education (Level and area of required and/or preferred education)
• Bachelor of Water/Civil Engineering, Water Resources Development, Hydrogeology, Hydraulics, or relevant field.

Work Experience 

• Four years with a bachelor’s degree or three years with Masters’ degree in one of the relevant fields, of progressive work experience in water/sanitary engineering or a related field, dealing with large scale refugee/IDPs WASH services delivery, Energy and Environment and Climate initiatives.  

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