WCA Regional WASH Advisor, At Save the Children

The role

The West and Central Africa Region is a strategically important region for Save the Children’s Water, Sanitation Hygiene work. As the senior WASH Technical Advisor in the region, this position will be responsible for ensuring quality of WASH-related development programs and humanitarian responses.The Regional Health Technical Advisor will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to provide a critical link between Save the Children’s global health, nutrition and WASH teams and country level technical work, strengthening our representation and programme quality oversight at the regional level. This position will contribute to building capacity and fostering networks across all our West & Central African country offices in both humanitarian and development contexts. Areas of particular focus in the region include integration with health, nutrition, food security and livelihoods programmes. The role supports regional advocacy and influencing, particularly focused on improving outcomes for children through our multi-sectoral approach. This position will provide Quality Assurance and demand driven technical assistance to country offices in line with regional priorities and design, including implementation and monitoring of the WASH portfolio in the region

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Masters degree in public health, health related disciplines, water engineering, environmental sciences or equivalent post-graduate qualification.
• At least 8 years’ experience of delivering high quality WASH programmes in development and humanitarian settings
• Experience working in West and Central Africa – more particularly the Sahel, and supporting cross-cultural teams
• Significant experience integrating WASH into multi-sectoral food and nutrition security programs in development and emergency contexts
• Oversight of strategy development and planning for multi-year, multi-sectoral programmes in development and humanitarian settings.
• Significant experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring with proven experience in facilitating presentations, webinars and multi-day training events.
• Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
• Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources. Familiarity with national, regional and global WASH technical coordination bodies (e.g. WASH cluster, working groups)
• Ability to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for children. Leverages evidence in advocacy work with donors and governments on policies and responses to structural drivers of food insecurity.
• Fluency in French (writing and speaking)
• Proficiency in English (writing and speaking)

Desirable:

• Experience working on USAID-funded multi-sectoral food and nutrition security programmes
• Supporting programs funded by USAID, UNICEF, Green Climate Fund, EU, DFID, DFAT, BMGF, the World Bank, other development banks or other strategic international donors
• Past participation in emergency responses in support of life-saving WASH programs such as droughts, floods, conflicts, etc.
• Technical expertise in any of the following areas: nutrition, integrated water resource management (IWRM), natural resource management, agriculture, livelihoods, behavior change, market-based programming, monitoring & evaluation
• Demonstrated involvement in designing and/or implementing climate adaptation programs

Contract length: 2 years

Location: Locally based, Country Offices in West & Central Africa (Sahel location preferred)

The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Application Information:

Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

Applicants are advised that Save the Children International does not require any payment or expense during the entire recruitment process. Any request in this direction should be immediately reported as contrary to the values and practices of our organization.