Emergency WASH Coordinator Consultant

Background

FHI 360 is harnessing its four decades of development experience to provide humanitarian assistance in crisis-affected countries. FHI 360’s Crisis Response Team (CRT) meets the urgent needs of people whose lives are jeopardized by conflict, disaster or displacement. FHI 360’s Crisis Response Team is looking to expand operations and technical programming in Chernivtsi, Ukraine to respond to the current crisis. FHI 360 is responding to the conflict by intervening in the health, nutrition, protection, and WASH sectors.

Scope of Work

In this particular context, the Crisis Response Team requires the services of a highly skilled WASH Consultant to support HQ staff CRT by implementing a WASH program during the initial start-up phase in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. The Emergency WASH Consultant will engage with cluster leads, government of Chernivtsi officials, WASH facility-based personnel and other NGO partners to discuss the pressing needs and challenges of the impacted area. The consultant will lead WASH start-up activities with respect to sector specific best practices, barriers to access, and potential for innovative interventions to implement a fully integrated WASH program. The consultant must also have a strong background in humanitarian programming and experience with rapid startups.

Specific Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Lead the team’s efforts in the WASH sector during the startup and implementation phase, ensuring the programming design meets the technical standards
• Implement WASH activities and provide technical guidance on appropriate emergency activities and devise sector-specific response strategies focusing on promoting hygiene practices, increasing access to water and improving sanitation facilities.
• Assess community infrastructure and service-provider capabilities, identify support needs and gaps.
• Develop partnerships with local service providers, implementing partners, and local government entities as well as attend WASH cluster meetings.
• Work with operation staff to ensure commodities are procured, handled, and managed properly.
• Work with technical and management coordinators of FHI 360’s Crisis Response team in identifying needs; target locations, supply chain routes, actors and mechanisms to ensure time-critical assistance is delivered to affected people.

Deliverables:

• Lead the start-up of WASH related activities in the areas of intervention**
• Implement programmatic strategy for the WASH sector**
• May support the development of proposal in liaision with the WASH**

Location of Work

Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Important Note: Applicant should research COVID-19 measures and the associated risks of this location before submitting an application.

Travel

Level of Effort: 2 Months, up to 40 hours per week

Period of Engagement: April – June 2022

Travel and accommodations are not provided

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or its International Equivalent, in Social Sciences, Public Health and International Development is required; Master’s is strongly preferred
• 5 – 8 years of professional work experience in managing humanitarian response initiatives
• Experience establishing startup operations/projects in new countries highly preferred
• Skilled in developing responsive, evidence-based program designs
• Demonstratable experience designing and leading WASH technical assessments using appropriate methodologies; strong background in monitoring and evaluation preferred
• Experience coordinating complex programs with the UN cluster/sector system, experience as a cluster co-lead is preferred

• Prior experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency or related industry experience

• Sensitivity to cultural diversity and understanding of the political, contextual, and ethical issues in assigned area

• Fluency in verbal and written English required

Evaluation Criteria

Proposals will be evaluated in accordance with the following criteria:

• Knowledge of standard WASH approaches and best practices
• Expertise in humanitarian programming and implementation
• Consultancy experience with similar organizations