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WASH Specialist at United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) – 8 Openings

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
📍 LagosCDI🗓️ 3 days ago

Job Description

Lagos
CDI

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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

Job no: 594952

Duty Stations: Abuja, Maiduguri – Borno, Bauchi, Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, Sokoto, Enugu

Contract type: Temporary Appointment

Level: NO-3

Categories: WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)

How can you make a difference?

You as the WASH Specialist reports to the Chief of WASH or WASH Manager (Level 4) for guidance and general supervision. You will support the development, preparation, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH programme within the country programme. You will provide 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. The temporary appointment will strengthen the design and use of programme theory of change, results frameworks, situation analysis, bottleneck analysis, monitoring evidence, donor proposals, annual workplans and strategic programme documentation. You will work with UNICEF colleagues, government counterparts, implementing partners and external support agencies to ensure that WASH strategies, outputs, indicators, baselines, targets and means of verification are coherent, evidence-based and aligned with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, UNICEF’s global WASH strategy, the Country Programme and government plans and priorities.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities

Programme development and planning

Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results

Technical and operational support for programme implementation

Humanitarian WASH preparedness and response

Networking and partnership building

Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

Minimum requirements

Education: Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in one of the following fields is required: public health, social sciences, behaviour change communication, sanitary engineering or another relevant technical field. Additional relevant post-graduate courses that complement or supplement the main degree are a strong asset.

Work Experience: A minimum of five years of professional experience in WASH-related programmes is required. One year of deployment in a developing country is required. At least one three-month deployment mission in a humanitarian situation with the UN, government or an international NGO is required.

Skills: Rural water supply for low- and middle-income countries – including water safety, sustainability

Rural sanitation for low- and middle-income countries, incl sustainability; applying CATS principles

Urban sanitation for low- and middle-income countries, incl sustainability

Handwashing with soap

WASH-in-Schools and Health Centres

Menstrual hygiene management

National government WASH policies, plans and strategies

Humanitarian WASH – preparedness, response, recovery and coordination of the response

Capacity development

Knowledge management

Human rights and WASH

Gender equality and WASH

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

Experience in programme design, theory of change, results-based planning, monitoring and evaluation, situation analysis, bottleneck analysis, donor proposal development, strategic documentation and programme management is highly desirable.

Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

Application Closing Date: 13th August, 2026.

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For WASH roles, show how your experience directly solves les compétences demandées dans l'annonce. Mention specific projects where you improved water access or sanitation systems at United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)—this proves you can deliver results in challenging field conditions.

UN process — Complete an up-to-date, role-specific UN P11 — a generic P11 is disqualifying. Apply within 72 hours of posting: UN agencies often close applications once volume thresholds are reached.

Field portfolio — List water points built/rehabilitated, hygiene training sessions conducted, monitoring tools used (KOBO, ODK). A one-page last WASH project summary consistently makes the difference.

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