Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in around 120 countries. Our vision is to live in a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Senior WASH Advisor, with in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and networking skills to deliver CSP for the CO, will be responsible for proving technical support in program design with quality technical inputs and to contribution to the child survival breakthrough, drawing upon Health and Nutrition strategic priorities. The role will contribute to health and nutrition strategy development and the technical design and implementation of high quality programmes that deliver change for children in both emergency and development programming.

The role supports national advocacy and influencing, while driving strategic partnerships for new business development. It supports the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across our programmes, teams and partners. The role will support Health and Nutrition Thematic Director and the team to ensure the CO health and nutrition thematic sector contribution to the CO CSP and to the survive breakthrough in particular while also contributes to respective WASH sector stakeholders and contribute to regional WASH learning, evidence generation and knowledge management where appropriate.

The role will work closely with operations colleagues and with partners in Ethiopia CO, building their capacity and building ownership and agency of local organisations. This position will be expected to engage with the country WASH sector, and coordination mechanisms, as well as represent the organisation with key stakeholders such as the Ministry of Health and its structures including Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Regional Health Bureaus and other key health sector INGOs/CSOs. The role would be expected to provide support emergency preparedness, DRR and support the assessment, design and implementation of humanitarian responses with the Roving Health and Nutrition Advisors and other program staff in the CO.

The role includes on-job technical support at field level WASH experts where the incumbent is expected to travel to all Save the Children operation areas and spend approximately 50% of his/her time at the across range of priority issues including active technical support to existing WASH projects.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Health and Nutrition Thematic Director

Staff reporting to this post: WASH Advisor (Roving). Also expected to provide coaching and mentoring support to operational and other technical colleagues and local partners

Budget Responsibilities: TBC

Role Dimensions: The role is expected to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children members, the Country Office Programme Development & Quality team, advocacy colleagues, Regional Advisors, technical counterparts in other organisation, donors etc. The role is also expected to engage with internal technical working groups and communities of practice.

Context: Development and Humanitarian

Primary Technical areas: WASH

Primary Sub technical area: Hygiene and Sanitation and Water Works

Secondary Technical areas: Health and Nutrition

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical leadership for WASH for the Country Office, and set the strategic approach in relation to the wider country strategy
• Build capacity, mentor and build a supportive WASH community across the Country Office, in conjunction with WASH advisor and other WASH experts and colleagues within Health and Nutrition.
• Ensure relevant, evidence-based WASH activities are integrated in Health & Nutrition.

Education and Child Protection programs

• Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation): 75%LOE
• Work closely with new business development colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities that allow for both integration into broader programmes and standalone WASH projects; engage with technical partners, donors and colleagues across Save the Children
• Lead the technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing during new programme development, and ensure that we design and deliver high quality integrated WASH programmes for children with public health resources, building on global best practice
• Work with Child Rights Governance colleagues to ensure that a rights based approach is reflected in our programme design and implementation (in line with our child rights programming approach), with a strong focus on child participation
• Promote a Health Systems Strengthening approach as the overarching framework that supports working in collaboration and partnership with governments and regional bodies, local partners and working towards impact, scale and sustainability.
• Provide oversight and guidance to the programme implementation teams to ensure that thematic programme components are technically sound, implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, acknowledged good practice (e.g. Save the Children Common Approaches); and are likely to achieve scale, as well as equitable and sustainable results.
• Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of WASH programmes at the community level.
  Support local partners (government, private sector, CBOs, professional organizations, universities) to design, implement and measure quality WASH programs
• Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) teams to carry out gender and power analysis, and conduct quality monitoring against international standards through participatory methodologies that promote gender equality and social justice (including child-friendly and gender sensitive/transformative methodologies);.
• Contribute towards the creation of an organisational learning culture that promotes the use of disaggregated data, evidence and analysis (including gender and power analysis) and understands its link to quality and accountable programming; Contribute to strengthening the use of equality-focused programme principles and good practice across themes and sectors.
• Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.
• Contribute to organisational learning on health ensuring that learning from our programmes is shared across the Country Office and our partners, as well as with colleagues in the wider regional and global health, nutrition and WASH community in Save the Children.
  Contribute to strengthening the use of health competencies within training and learning initiatives in the sector.
• Develop emergency preparedness plans, and conduct sectoral assessments (including gender analysis and disability situation analysis using SC assessment processes and tools) and to design and deliver emergency response and recovery programmes. Monitor trends in order to ensure early action; and lead technical design and implementation and technical coordination of humanitarian responses

Networking & External Engagement: 25%LOE

• In alignment with Country Office strategy and leadership, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners and government in-country, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in WASH.
• Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others through national technical coordination and networking bodies such as health clusters and working groups.
• Strengthen civil society engagement in national dialogues and policy processes through working closely with advocacy and child rights governance colleagues. Ensure that the diverse voices of children, girls and boys are equitably heard and represented in our WASH work.
• Represent the program to National and Local government representatives, donors, partner agencies, etc. as required.
• Ensure the quality, clarity and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports (e.g. programme reports, sit-reps, internal updates), working closely with awards, and programme implementation and communications colleagues as needed.
• Leverage and liaise with technical colleagues from across Save the Children, including technical working groups and centres of excellence, ensuring that learning from the Country Office is shared with others and global lessons brought back.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS : BSc degree- preferably in WASH related disciplines (hydraulic, water resource engineering)

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• At least 12 years’ experience of working in Ethiopia in WASH in emergency or development settings.
• Understanding of the WASH thematic area in Ethiopia, and an understanding of the sector priorities impacted on by the regional or neighbouring situation.
• Familiar with WASH systems and service provision including community WASH and the engagement of civil society organisations.
• Good experience in training, and capacity building of workforce and WASH staff
• Experience of the national context, strategies and policies to enable advocacy at national / regional level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realise children’s rights, including the right to WASH services and food.
• Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources.
• Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for children
• Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.
• Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
• Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery