SayPro GLOBAL WASH TECHNICAL UNIT ADVISORY

· Provide regional technical leadership to the WASH/IPC intervention at regional and country programs;· Work collaboratively in a regional team of technical specialists and advisors across sectors and cross-cutting issues; Support the development of technical guidance for WASH interventions in humanitarian responses and development settings.· Support the regional rollout of global WASH strategy, protocols, policies, and international best practices to adopt; advice on SPHERE standards, both qualitative and quantitative, are considered through the program cycle and are well documented;· Conduct the joint assessments and sectoral counterparts to ensure integrated programming;· Build the evidence of good practices from WASH interventions and ensure that field teams incorporate these into their programs;· Advice on technical designs from an array of appropriate technologies for water, sanitation, hygiene and infection prevention and control in context (health facilities, communities, camps, and Schools);· Advocate/lobby that the WASH program design considers Health, gender, protection, operation, maintenance, and sustainability;· Support the regional roll-out of WASH Minimum Standards in the assigned regions and ensure they are reviewed on time;· Emergency preparedness and response support the contingency planning and preparedness as directed by the WASH Adviser for any emergency and timely response;· Actively engage with all relevant regional technical leads and operational and program development team members to identify and respond to opportunities for WASH activities in current program areas;· Review and approves the WASH components of regional program development (CNs, proposals) by the proposal review and signoff process;· Provide technical guidance to WASH assigned field staff and country teams at all stages of the program cycle (assessments, grant and proposal writing, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation); gender and protection are considered throughout the project cycle, with women being enabled to influence decision-making around WASH challenges;· Provide technical capacity building of the assigned regions through coaching, mentoring, and on-the-job training during the field’s visits and remotely on global WASH standards and approaches for WASH in emergencies (both hardware and software); in WASH and relevant Cluster activities;· Represent at regional meetings with governmental donor agencies, UN Agencies, WASH Cluster, and conferences and meetings of health and WASH organisations.Perform other duties as assigned. The obligations and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work given, and notare are are are ne scarily all-inclusive.