Technical Expert for In-depth WASH Assessment on Drought Impacts on Communities and Livelihoods of Affected Population in Gia Lai and Ca Mau

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Save the Children started our work in Vietnam in 1990, and implements programs in the key thematic areas: Education, Health and Nutrition, Child Protection, Child Rights and Governance, Child Poverty, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Emergency Response. At present, Vietnam Country Office has programs in 22 out of 63 provinces in Vietnam.

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Led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Save the Children is implementing the project “Drought Forecast Based Financing for Food security, livelihoods and WASH in Vietnam”, in collaboration with UN Women (UNW). The project aims to ensure that drought climatic forecasts and early warning are available to communities in a systematic way and trigger pre-defined early actions for water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH) and food security/ livelihoods (FSL) which can mitigate the impact of drought. It will also identify existing funding mechanisms that can be used to support the preparedness actions.

Save the Children is seeking for a competent national technical expert to undertake an in-depth water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) assessment on drought impacts on communities and livelihoods of affected population in Gia Lai and Ca Mau.

Main Objectives:

Overall Objective

• Assess the current WASH practices of selected communities;
• Identify the impact of droughts on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) of different community groups in Ca Mau and Gia Lai provinces (2 communes in each province);
• Identify preparedness actions (early actions) to be taken by different stakeholders to mitigate drought impacts on WASH; and
• Determine appropriate and realistic modalities of support for each identified early actions as well as roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder. The assessment results will be used to inform the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs) and Water Safety Plans in these two provinces.

Specific objectives

• Conduct a risk assessment of the WASH sector in targeted communities to the most vulnerable groups including children, women and people with disability.
• Identify the impact of drought on the most affected areas, particularly water, sanitation and hygiene.
• Identify early actions by different stakeholder roles and responsibilities to ensure that drought forecasts and EW is available to communities in a systematic way and trigger pre-defined early actions to minimize the impact of the drought
• Develop Water Safety Plan (WSP) for community in 4 communes
• Identify chains of commands and channels of communication in WASH early actions
• Integrate WASH early actions chain of commands and communication channels into Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Forecast based Financing.
• Facilitate follow-up of SOP test exercise in the field prior to the validation and final workshop at provincial and national levels to validate the SOPs with key actors
• Present findings to FAO, UN Women and Save the Children team and prepare draft report in English for comments;
• Finalize and submit reports to FAO including all raw data.

In addition, the consultant team will be required to collaborate with FSL consultant contracted by FAO and UNW with regard to design of the assessment and development of tools in order ensure consistency of both assessment and to avoid overlapping as well as maximize resources.

Key Competencies:

• A strong background in risk reduction and climate change adaptation
• In-depth expertise in WASH assessment, Water Safety Plan and SoP development
• Extensive knowledge of Community Development
• Proven experience in social inclusion and gender analysis, is an advantage
• Proven experience in research skill (acquainted with qualitative and quantitative data collection methods)
• Proven experience working with children is an advantage
• Fluent in verbal and written English and the applications of relevant software
• Preference is given to those who has had similar assignments to SC or FAO, UNW

For further information and how to apply, please go to our website at:
https://vietnam.savethechildren.net/jobs/job-details/45

The closing date for application is 5 pm on 16 April 2018. Applications will be treated in confidence. Due to the volume of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted and CVs cannot be returned.

Save the Children is an equal opportunities employer. Our selection processes reflect our commitment to the protection of children from abuse, and our people are as diverse as the challenge we face. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, HIV/AIDS status, race, national origin, religion, or sexual orientation.