WASH Adviser – Humanitarian Surge Team at Save the Children

About HST
HSTs work alongside country, regional and member teams to support the scale up and management of international and domestic emergency responses, enabling positive change for children. The role of the surge staff varies depending on the needs of the response and could include: 

• deploying in the first days or hours following a natural disaster or crisis to lead the first phase of a response to sudden onset emergency; 
• supporting ongoing emergency response and recovery work through providing advice, guidance and expertise in a specific skill area; 
• providing short term interim cover for country office staff;  
• supporting delivery of capacity building initiatives. 

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Education to Degree level in Public Health, Water Engineering, or a related subject, or equivalent field experience
• Prior experience of working within a senior management role within a complex country programme in an emergency response or fragile state, and managing a WASH team at national level 
• Previous first phase emergency response experience 
• Previous experience of WASH project management and programme coordination, implementing WASH programmes within donor constraints, on time and within budget 
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability 
• Demonstrated monitoring and evaluation skills
• Ability to work both in an advisory and a hands on implementation capacity
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff in WASH technical skills
• Experience of representation and ability to represent SC effectively in external forums.
• Experience of preparing successful funding proposals for donors · Excellent communication skills including the ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports and a high level of written and spoken English · Strong influencing skills and experience in advocacy 
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy 
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances
• Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children. 
• In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support 
• Specific experience of designing and managing DFID and ECHO projects 
• Good at building and maintaining relationships not only with other WASH team members but also with colleagues in country offices and across the organisation 

Language skills in French, Spanish, and/or Arabic ·

Desirable

• Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts 
• Specific experience of working in consortia projects.

Deadline: 31 JUL 2023 - 02:59 EAT