WASH International Consultant Tender in Guatemala - 24771590

Procurement Summary

Country: Guatemala

Summary: WASH International Consultant

Deadline: 16 Jul 2018

Posting Date: 09 Jul 2018

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 24771590

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Competition: ICB

Financier: United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership: -

Tender Value: Refer Document

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79600000 - Recruitment services

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Tender Details

Tenders are invited for WASH International Consultant.
UNICEF works in some of the world-s toughest places, to reach the world-s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child,
The consultant will strengthen the municipal-wide CATS model envisioning scale up through the municipal and provincial departments and will support the national WASH sector system strengthening through coordination support. The consultant will report to the UNICEF Healthy Start for Life outcome area, led by the Health Specialist, receive strong supervision of the Deputy Representative, and coordinate with Nutrition and C4D Officers. The consultant will also work in close collaboration with Helvetas.
How can you make a difference?
Regarding the joint UNICEF-Helvetas CATS programme:

Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of programming processes and ensure integration, coherence and harmonization of CATS with other UNICEF sectors, and especially community-based approaches in nutrition and C4D.

Provide overall high-level technical assistance to Helvetas field teams on municipal scale-up of CATS to ensure that the programme:

Support the development of joint work plans and budgets with municipalities and departments

Strengthen local coordination mechanism within and across municipalities

Strengthen municipal capacity to implement the programme

Strengthen local monitoring systems to capture, analyse and report on WASH status of the municipality

Support knowledge management (bi-annual programme implementation review, etc.) and facilitate horizontal learning exchanges

Jointly with Helvetas, strengthen the sustainability of the CATS programme:

Conduct a sustainability check/study in communities ODF more than 1 year

Document compendium of designs used in the communities using locally available materials

Conduct market research for sanitation products and services

Conduct capacity analysis of local supply actors (private sector mason/local service providers, local entrepreneurs, micro-finance institutions)

Leverage resources for scale up

Conduct costing exercise for existing CATS implementation

Conduct municipal expenditure review for sanitation and explore options for fiscal space

Analysis financial/fiscal flows and identify potential bottlenecks to spending

Monitor and report on the use of WASH programme resources (financial, admin, etc.)

Prepare WASH programme reports for management, donors and partners.

Regarding the national WASH sector coordination strengthening:

Develop a programme management committee (PMC) at national level

Conduct annual programme reviews

Conduct an evaluation of the programme led by the PMC

Support the development of the national strategy to end open defecation

Prepare learning/knowledge products to support overall WASH sector development

Regarding humanitarian WASH preparedness and response:

Take up support roles in emergency preparedness, response and early recovery, as and when the need arises.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Advanced university degree in a relevant field such as public health, environmental health, social sciences, civil engineering or sanitation engineering or similar

Proven experience in municipal CATS programming at scale

Strong understanding of national and local governance systems

Proven experience in monitoring and evaluation

Capacity to ensure high-level representation/communication/advocacy skills.

Fluency in Spanish (written and spoken), English is an asset.

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