WASH Manager Cluster Coordinator, P-4, Gaza, State of Palestine, Temporary Appointment (post no. 134182)

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For every child, water

UNICEF in the State of Palestine (SoP) works to uphold the rights of children to access services and protection, from early childhood through to adolescence. Our objective is to ensure that every child in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, irrespective of background or circumstance, has an equal chance to fulfil their potential.

In the past years, UNICEF in the State of Palestine has achieved a high reach and engagement through its communication channels. UNICEF-SoP would like to build on this and continue engaging with our audience, who are not only seek information but are willing to have important conversations on crucial issues concerning children’s wellbeing and rights. 

How can you make a difference?

Under the overall direction and guidance of the Senior Emergency Coordinator, Gaza, the WASH Manager Cluster Coordinator will provide leadership and representation of the Sub-National Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group. They will facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by participants in the Sub-National Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group that is accountable to those who are affected by the emergency. In their effort to provide an efficient and effective response to the humanitarian crisis, the WASH Manager Cluster Coordinator is responsible for building relationships with stakeholders, for securing the overall coordination of sectoral responses and for ensuring inter-sectoral collaboration.

Your key functions/accountabilities

The sub-national WASH Cluster Coordinator in Gaza reports to the Senior Emergency Coordinator, with a dotted line to the national Cluster Coordinator for technical guidance and support.

Coordination, representation and leadership

- Collaborate with the national WASH cluster to ensure a common and holistic coordination mechanism for the State of Palestine WASH Partners.

- Ensure, establish and maintain a coordination mechanism that facilitates the effective achievement of the sub-national cluster functions (as outlined by the IASC Reference Module) and the requirements of the HPC (HNO, HRP and CCPM) and which builds on pre-existing coordination structures where appropriate and furthers the development of current or future national and subnational capacities,

- Oversee the functioning of any sub-national or hub Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group where they exist, ensuring alignment of work and priorities, effective communication, reporting, engagement and coordination between the levels,

- Supervise the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group coordination team,

- Ensure appropriate coordination and build partnerships with all relevant sub-national sector stakeholders including government counterparts and national authorities, local, national and international organizations and affected populations,

- Build complementarity of partner actions within the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group, pro-actively negotiating with partners to avoid and resolve duplication and gaps,

- Coordinate, collaborate and represent the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group with stakeholders across all sectors, including through inter-cluster coordination fora, developing cross-sectoral relationships as appropriate.

Needs assessment and analysis

- Lead the sub-national planning and implementation of needs assessment and analysis, including representing the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group in multi-sectoral needs assessments and joint analysis of need, at subnational level and in coordination with national assessment and analysis,

- Analyse needs assessment data and work collaboratively with the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group partners to create analytical products, including an HNO based on evidence-based information.

Strategic response planning

- Lead and coordinate sub-national strategic planning, response prioritization and the development of the sectoral response plan that is based on the HNO and aligned with national priorities, policies and plans

- Ensure all programme delivery modalities (in-kind, cash, voucher an