WASH Emergency Officer (Refugee Influx) job at United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) | Apply Now

Support WASH sector needs assessment and identifies priorities to define the preparedness and response plans to deliver safe drinking water, safe excreta disposal facilities, and promote safe hygiene practices within affected refugee population and host communities, under the refugee coordination framework and corresponding response programme for Uganda.

Plan, design, implement, monitor, and evaluate gender-sensitive WASH response programme for refugees and host communities to ensure quality delivery of the results in coordination with UNHCR, OPM, refugee settlement administration, Private Sector, WASH partners in consideration of multisector inputs, SPHERE, UNHCR and national standards.

Strengthen the sustainability of water supply systems in refugee settlements and transit centers by improving operation and maintenance mechanisms, building local capacity for resource management, and providing targeted capacity-building to partners responsible for managing UNICEF-supported WASH infrastructure.

Promote gender equality and women’s empowerment by ensuring the active participation of women, youth, and other marginalized groups in the management, operation, and decision-making processes of water source governance structures within settlements and transit centers.

Ensure integration of WASH response with other sectors such as Nutrition, Health, Education, and Child Protection, to address the multi-sector needs of the refugee children and their families, wherever needed.

Incorporate the critical cross-cutting needs such as disability-friendly and gender-sensitive facilities and approaches, while carrying out WASH response, recognizing the different needs and vulnerabilities of women, girls, boys, and men. Prepare timely and accurate reports on program activities, including assessments, progress, and challenges, for internal and external stakeholders.

Coordinate with UNHCR, Government ministries/departments, NGOs, and other stakeholders involved in the emergency response to ensure harmonized and complementary of WASH interventions. Represent UNICEF in WASH-related sector coordination meetings, ensuring the agency’s priorities are reflected in the wider humanitarian response plan.

Assist developing plan and proposals for mobilizing resource under the guidance of WASH Manger; and engage in other relevant emergency support that is assigned.