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Mission and objectives
UNICEF is supporting health, nutrition, HIV prevention, education, access to safe drinking water, sanitation and protection for children and families caught in the conflict.
Context
Within its new Country Programme Document (CPD) for Ukraine, UNICEF has positioned Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) as a core outcome area to ensure that children and young people live and develop in a safe, sustainable and resilient environment, with equitable access to affordable and safely managed WASH services. This outcome aligns with the Water Strategy of Ukraine until 2050 and supports UNICEF’s broader contribution to humanitarian response, early recovery and longer-term system strengthening in a conflict- and climate-affected context. WASH interventions underpin and enable progress across other programme areas, including health, education, child protection and social services, by safeguarding public health, dignity and environmental sustainability for children and their families.
UNICEF Ukraine’s WASH programme takes a dual humanitarian–development approach, addressing urgent needs through the provision of critical supplies, emergency repairs and essential equipment, while simultaneously supporting recovery and resilience of national and local WASH systems. Working with the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, local authorities and service providers, the programme focuses on strengthening governance, service delivery capacity and system sustainability in line with the principles of building back better and greener.
UNICEF prioritises gender-responsive, inclusive and child-friendly WASH services, promotes improved drinking water and wastewater quality from public health, energy and cost-efficiency perspectives, and advances climate-resilient and innovative technical and governance solutions. Through WASH in schools, healthcare facilities and social institutions, the programme also provides critical cross-cutting support to other programme outcomes, ensuring that children can safely access essential services even in contexts of ongoing shock and disruption.
UNICEF Ukraine is expanding its emergency WASH early recovery interventions in conflict-affected oblasts, with a particular focus on restoring essential water, heating, and sanitation services for households, health care facilities (HCFs), and schools. Through various financing and other donor modalities, UNICEF supports municipal water and heating utilities (Vodokanals and District Heating Companies), hromadas, and essential public service providers to implement rapid repairs, critical infrastructure upgrades, and scalable models for resilient service delivery.
The WASH Quality and Accountability Engineering Expert (UNV) will provide high-level technical oversight, guidance, and systems-strengthening support to operationalise UNICEF’s engineering supervision and risk management model across all WASH projects. The Expert will ensure consistent application of supervision standards, strengthen documentation and compliance processes, mentor national WASH officers in quality assurance practices, and support the transfer of technical know-how to enable a sustainable handover and exit at the end of the assignment. This is a short, time-bound deployment focused on establishing robust systems, building national capacity, and ensuring coherence in risk-informed project implementation. Other duties may be assigned as necessary.
UNICEF Ukraine’s WASH programme takes a dual humanitarian–development approach, addressing urgent needs through the provision of critical supplies, emergency repairs and essential equipment, while simultaneously supporting recovery and resilience of national and local WASH systems. Working with the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, local authorities and service providers, the programme focuses on strengthening governance, service delivery capacity and system sustainability in line with the principles of building back better and greener.
UNICEF prioritises gender-responsive, inclusive and child-friendly WASH services, promotes improved drinking water and wastewater quality from public health, energy and cost-efficiency perspectives, and advances climate-resilient and innovative technical and governance solutions. Through WASH in schools, healthcare facilities and social institutions, the programme also provides critical cross-cutting support to other programme outcomes, ensuring that children can safely access essential services even in contexts of ongoing shock and disruption.
UNICEF Ukraine is expanding its emergency WASH early recovery interventions in conflict-affected oblasts, with a particular focus on restoring essential water, heating, and sanitation services for households, health care facilities (HCFs), and schools. Through various financing and other donor modalities, UNICEF supports municipal water and heating utilities (Vodokanals and District Heating Companies), hromadas, and essential public service providers to implement rapid repairs, critical infrastructure upgrades, and scalable models for resilient service delivery.
The WASH Quality and Accountability Engineering Expert (UNV) will provide high-level technical oversight, guidance, and systems-strengthening support to operationalise UNICEF’s engineering supervision and risk management model across all WASH projects. The Expert will ensure consistent application of supervision standards, strengthen documentation and compliance processes, mentor national WASH officers in quality assurance practices, and support the transfer of technical know-how to enable a sustainable handover and exit at the end of the assignment. This is a short, time-bound deployment focused on establishing robust systems, building national capacity, and ensuring coherence in risk-informed project implementation. Other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Task description
1. Technical Quality Assurance and Risk Management
• Operationalise UNICEF’s LTA (Long-Term Agreement) supervision risk model to ensure consistent and correct application across all WASH infrastructure projects.
• Review design packages, BoQs, technical documentation, contractor submissions, supervision reports, and QA/QC evidence to ensure compliance with UNICEF standards and Ukrainian regulatory requirements.
• Identify systemic weaknesses or documentation gaps and recommend improvements to strengthen engineering oversight, risk controls, and accountability mechanisms.
• Develop and refine tools, templates, checklists, and workflows that enhance the quality, safety, and traceability of WASH infrastructure interventions.
2. Capacity Building, Mentorship and Knowledge Transfer
• Mentor and provide on-the-job technical coaching to national WASH officers, field engineers, and implementing partners to improve quality assurance practices, supervision methods, and engineering documentation.
• Strengthen FO staff capabilities in applying the LTA supervision model, including risk categorisation, contractor performance monitoring, defect management, and variation approval processes.
• Deliver targeted capacity-building sessions on engineering risk management, construction supervision standards, and accountability frameworks.
• Prepare a structured knowledge-transfer package to support long-term institutionalisation of supervision practices within the WASH team.
3. Develop Tools and Systems for Consistency and Harmonisation Across Projects
• Ensure harmonised implementation of LTA supervision standards across oblasts and partners, supporting national officers to apply uniform quality benchmarks.
• Facilitate cross-project learning, documenting lessons and emerging risks to inform programme adjustments.
• Provide technical inputs to monitoring missions, donor reports, and management briefs on engineering quality and risk status.
• Strengthen linkages between WASH quality assurance processes and broader programme optimisation (HACT, supply planning, emergency preparedness, recovery programming).
4. Support to the WASH team in the coordination, implementation and monitoring of projects
• Deliver a time-bound package of advisory support focused on system establishment rather than long-term implementation.
• Produce a clear exit strategy outlining: transferred tools, trained staff, sustained workflows, and recommendations for future risk-informed WASH programming.
• Provide high-level technical advice to management on engineering risk exposure and opportunities for system strengthening
• Provide technical and operational support as required for the successful completion of UNICEF WASH projects
• Operationalise UNICEF’s LTA (Long-Term Agreement) supervision risk model to ensure consistent and correct application across all WASH infrastructure projects.
• Review design packages, BoQs, technical documentation, contractor submissions, supervision reports, and QA/QC evidence to ensure compliance with UNICEF standards and Ukrainian regulatory requirements.
• Identify systemic weaknesses or documentation gaps and recommend improvements to strengthen engineering oversight, risk controls, and accountability mechanisms.
• Develop and refine tools, templates, checklists, and workflows that enhance the quality, safety, and traceability of WASH infrastructure interventions.
2. Capacity Building, Mentorship and Knowledge Transfer
• Mentor and provide on-the-job technical coaching to national WASH officers, field engineers, and implementing partners to improve quality assurance practices, supervision methods, and engineering documentation.
• Strengthen FO staff capabilities in applying the LTA supervision model, including risk categorisation, contractor performance monitoring, defect management, and variation approval processes.
• Deliver targeted capacity-building sessions on engineering risk management, construction supervision standards, and accountability frameworks.
• Prepare a structured knowledge-transfer package to support long-term institutionalisation of supervision practices within the WASH team.
3. Develop Tools and Systems for Consistency and Harmonisation Across Projects
• Ensure harmonised implementation of LTA supervision standards across oblasts and partners, supporting national officers to apply uniform quality benchmarks.
• Facilitate cross-project learning, documenting lessons and emerging risks to inform programme adjustments.
• Provide technical inputs to monitoring missions, donor reports, and management briefs on engineering quality and risk status.
• Strengthen linkages between WASH quality assurance processes and broader programme optimisation (HACT, supply planning, emergency preparedness, recovery programming).
4. Support to the WASH team in the coordination, implementation and monitoring of projects
• Deliver a time-bound package of advisory support focused on system establishment rather than long-term implementation.
• Produce a clear exit strategy outlining: transferred tools, trained staff, sustained workflows, and recommendations for future risk-informed WASH programming.
• Provide high-level technical advice to management on engineering risk exposure and opportunities for system strengthening
• Provide technical and operational support as required for the successful completion of UNICEF WASH projects
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