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United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) – hiring WASH Specialist (NO-3)

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Education Officer, NO-2 at United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: WASH Specialist, NO-3,

Job no: 596824
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Location: Kaduna

How can you make a difference?

The WASH Specialist, TOC, will make a difference by strengthening the evidence base, strategic logic and results orientation of UNICEF Nigeria’s WASH programme. They will also ensure quality implementation and oversight of the DGIS-funded ASWA III project from both the service delivery and systems strengthening components. By supporting high-quality programme design, theory of change, monitoring, documentation, partnership engagement and knowledge management, the role will help improve programme effectiveness and contribute to sustainable, equitable and climate-resilient WASH results for children and communities.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
1. Programme development and planning
2. Develop, implement, monitor WASH strategies and project activities
3. Technical and operational support for programme implementation
4. Humanitarian WASH preparedness and response
5. Networking and partnership building
6. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:

To qualify as a champion for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

Education: A Master’s degree in Public Health, Water and Sanitation, Environmental Engineering or related field.
Work Experience: A minimum of five years of professional experience in WASH-related programmes is required, in addition to experience in WASH systems strengthening, advocacy and stakeholder coordination. Experience in humanitarian preparedness and response is required.
Skills:
- Expert knowledge of selected WASH components, including rural and urban water supply, sanitation, hygiene, WASH in institutions, national WASH policies and strategies, or public financing for basic WASH.
- Experience in climate resilience construction and engineering
- Strong skills in theory of change, results-based planning, situation analysis, bottleneck analysis, programme design, monitoring and evaluation.
- Ability to prepare high-quality donor proposals, strategic briefs, policy papers, progress reports and knowledge products.
- Basic knowledge of humanitarian WASH preparedness, response, recovery and coordination.
Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.

Desirables:

- Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language
- A bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Water Resource Engineering, Environmental Science and Sanitary Engineering or a related field is an advantage.
- Experience and knowledge of market-based approaches for WASH and public private partnerships will be an asset.
- Experience supporting climate resilient WASH, and WASH service sustainability is desirable.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

Application Deadline: 12 Nov 2026 W. Central Africa Standard Time