Field Support Team WASH Cluster Co-ordinator, Strategy, Preparedness and Transition

The Field Support Team (FST) is a surge support mechanism for National Cluster Coordination Platforms (NCP) and non-cluster coordination mechanisms in locations with humanitarian WASH crises. The FST operates under the strategic aegis of the Global WASH Cluster (GWC) and to facilitate GWC member participation is implemented as a consortium, currently led by Action Contre la Faim (ACF), with membership from Oxfam, iMMAP and IMPACT. The purpose of the FST is to provide reliable and predictable support to NCP for effective and efficient coordination of the WASH response. The FST is composed of a surge team of cluster coordinators and information managers and an assessment specialist. Support is delivered through physical or virtual deployments, in which the FST staff are dedicated to an NCP for a given period, or via remote support that is delivered bilaterally to a specified NCP on a specified task or via a support service delivered to multiple NCP through online events, guidance, tools and capacity strengthening.

The FST postholder will provide surge support to National Cluster Platform (NCP) under the direction of Global WASH Cluster (GWC) and FST Manager through deployment and/or remote support. During a deployment the FST may assume a national or sub-national, leadership or supporting, role for the NCP, a specific Terms of Reference will be developed for each deployment including in-country line management. Key FST surge support responsibilities are in line with GWC guidance relating to the IASC Reference Modules (2015) for Cluster Coordination and the Humanitarian Program Cycle.

What will you doing as FST WASH Cluster Coordinator

The WASH Cluster Coordinator – Collective Outcomes, Emergency Preparedness and Transition position’s purpose is to provide surge support for NCPs as necessary and in line with NCP requests. In remote support the position will take a lead role for the FST in supporting Collective Outcomes, Emergency Preparedness/Anticipatory Action and Transition planning, guidance and tools.

What we are looking for

Education:

• Master degree, or relevant combination of qualifications and experience, in public health in emergencies, water, social sciences, institutional development, water or sanitation engineering or related field.

Working experience:

• Minimum height years field management experience in WASH emergency humanitarian contexts.
• Strong experience in coordination or occupied a wider leadership role.
• Experience in developing transition strategies, exit strategies, expertise in phase out/handover of project to National stakeholders such as Government institutions etc.
• Experience in developing sustainable multi-stakeholders Emergency and Preparedness Response Plan, in humanitarian settings.
• Experience of developing and implementing WASH strategies.
• A good understanding of the humanitarian policy environment including current knowledge of the latest WASH policies, research, international standards and developments in the field, Nexus, Transformative Agenda and Localization.
• Proven ability to conceptualize, develop, plan monitor and evaluate programs, as well as to teach skills and build team capacity
• Experience of applying humanitarian accountability standards and practices.

Knowledge and skills:

• Proactive problem solving and operational decision making.
• Highest-level technical, analytical, negotiation, communication and advocacy skills.
• Strong skills in presentation and facilitation.
• Personal and professional integrity.
• Ability to encourage and contribute to a climate of team-working and collaboration in a multi-cultural environment.
• Excellent training, coaching and mentoring skills.
• Willingness to travel, resilience, stress tolerance and work under difficult conditions.

Languages:

• Fluently spoken and written English.
• Fluently spoken and written French.
• Good command of another language (especially Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese) – desirable