Overview
Provide national-level coordination and strategic leadership of the WASH Cluster to ensure a coherent, evidence-based, and prioritized WASH response, strengthen partner coordination, and ensure robust WASH inputs into inter-cluster coordination and the Humanitarian Programme Cycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide national-level coordination and strategic leadership of the WASH Cluster.
- Ensure a coherent, evidence-based and prioritized WASH response.
- Strengthen partner coordination, analysis, and response monitoring.
- Ensure robust WASH inputs into inter-cluster coordination and the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC).
Required Experience
- At least 8 years progressively responsible relevant work experience, on WASH humanitarian response with UN or NGO.
- Demonstrated experience in leading or co-leading a Cluster, Sector, or equivalent coordination mechanism in complex humanitarian emergencies (conflict, natural hazards, public health emergencies), preferably at country level;
- Demonstrated experience with coordination, project management, planning, monitoring, analysis, evaluation.
- Proven experience working in complex humanitarian contexts, with sound understanding of humanitarian principles, and the IASC Cluster Approach;
- Experience with the Humanitarian Programme Cycle, and joint planning processes (HNRP);
- Experience in training partner organizations on key coordination and technical WASH components.
Qualifications
- Masters in Public Health Engineering, Hydrology, Sanitation, Geoscience, Environmental Science, International Development or a field relevant to international WASH-related development assistance
- Additional relevant post-graduate courses that complement/ supplement the main degree are a strong asset.
