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Context
The climate driven challenges in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector in South Africa have been compounded by the cholera outbreaks in 2023 in South Africa. The flood in Eastern Cape, KwaZulu Natal (KZN) and in other provinces has resulted in people including children leaving home.
All the issues strongly suggest a need to re-engineer WASH structures, but also to ensure full participation of children and youth in capacity building and any employment opportunities arising from these negative results. Under this urgency, UNICEF South Africa is recruiting a National UNV Specialist to support the implementation of climate resilient WASH and environmental health programme.
The objective of this project is to ensure children access to improved climate/emergency resilience of water, sanitation, hygiene and energy facilities in early childhood development centers, schools and health care facilities in cholera and flood affected areas and improve environmental health to foster healthy children.
The specific objectives are
(1) to empower children and young people in water quality monitoring and climate resilient technologies; and
(2) to strengthen and model climate-resilient technologies for water, sanitation, hygiene and energy to respond to health risks and naturally induced disasters.
Task description
Under the direct supervision of Chief of Health and Nutrition Specialist, the UN Volunteer will support the management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH programme within the country programme. The Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes, to facilitate the administration and achievement of the WASH-related output results in the country programme. This requires technical expertise in critical areas beyond a UNICEF WASH programme towards stronger climate resilient and sustainable WASH services. The UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
1. Programme development and planning • Participate in strategic WASH programme planning discussions; and • Work with colleagues and partners to discuss strategies and methodologies for the achievement of WASH output results.
2. Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
• With other external support agencies, strengthen national government WASH sector monitoring systems, with a focus on WASH outcomes;
• Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual sectoral reviews with government and other stakeholders;
• Prepare reports on results for required action/interventions at the higher level of programme management;
• Prepare/assess monitoring and evaluation reports to identify gaps, strengths/weaknesses in programmes and management and identify and document lessons learned;
• Monitor and report on the use of sectoral programme resources (financial, administrative and other assets);
• Verify compliance with approved allocations, organizational rules, regulations/procedures and donor commitments, standards of accountability and integrity;
• Report on issues identified to enable timely resolution by management/stakeholders.
• Prepare sectoral progress reports for management, donors and partners.
3. Technical and operational support for programme implementation
