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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
Ukraine's water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector has sustained severe damage as a result of the ongoing conflict, with 70–90% infrastructure deterioration leaving approximately 10 million people (including 1.7 million children) without safely managed water services.
Since opening its office in Kyiv in 1997, UNICEF has supported the Government of Ukraine in strengthening water and sanitation services. Following the escalation of hostilities in 2022, UNICEF expanded its WASH response by establishing six field offices across the country (Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa and Poltava). Within its Country Programme Document (CPD) for Ukraine, UNICEF has positioned WASH as a core outcome area, ensuring that children and young people live and develop in a safe, sustainable and resilient environment with equitable access to safely managed WASH services. UNICEF Ukraine's WASH programme takes a dual humanitarian–development approach, addressing urgent needs through emergency repairs and critical supplies while simultaneously supporting recovery and systemic resilience of national and local WASH institutions. The programme works with the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development, the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture, relevant State Agencies, local authorities, and water utilities to strengthen governance, service delivery capacity, and system sustainability.
This UNV assignment supports two complementary functions within UNICEF Ukraine's WASH programme: recovery programme implementation and monitoring and evaluation. The WASH Recovery Officer will support programmatic implementation across field offices, coordinate cross-cutting monitoring and reporting on recovery outputs and outcomes, and contribute to grant management and donor reporting, while also supporting the programme's M&E system and evidence generation function. The position provides substantive programme support to ensure coherence, quality, and accountability across WASH interventions delivering safe water and sanitation to conflict-affected children and communities.
UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for UN Volunteers with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process and afterwards in your assignment.
Since opening its office in Kyiv in 1997, UNICEF has supported the Government of Ukraine in strengthening water and sanitation services. Following the escalation of hostilities in 2022, UNICEF expanded its WASH response by establishing six field offices across the country (Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa and Poltava). Within its Country Programme Document (CPD) for Ukraine, UNICEF has positioned WASH as a core outcome area, ensuring that children and young people live and develop in a safe, sustainable and resilient environment with equitable access to safely managed WASH services. UNICEF Ukraine's WASH programme takes a dual humanitarian–development approach, addressing urgent needs through emergency repairs and critical supplies while simultaneously supporting recovery and systemic resilience of national and local WASH institutions. The programme works with the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development, the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture, relevant State Agencies, local authorities, and water utilities to strengthen governance, service delivery capacity, and system sustainability.
This UNV assignment supports two complementary functions within UNICEF Ukraine's WASH programme: recovery programme implementation and monitoring and evaluation. The WASH Recovery Officer will support programmatic implementation across field offices, coordinate cross-cutting monitoring and reporting on recovery outputs and outcomes, and contribute to grant management and donor reporting, while also supporting the programme's M&E system and evidence generation function. The position provides substantive programme support to ensure coherence, quality, and accountability across WASH interventions delivering safe water and sanitation to conflict-affected children and communities.
UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for UN Volunteers with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process and afterwards in your assignment.
Task description
Under the direct supervision of the WASH Specialist (Climate), the UNV is expected to undertake the following:
1. Recovery programming support and field office coordination
• Support coordination of WASH recovery implementation across field offices (Dnipro, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, Poltava), ensuring alignment with project documents, workplans, and programme standards.
• Serve as coordination focal point between Kyiv WASH team and field offices, facilitating information flow and resolving bottlenecks.
• Track progress of recovery interventions against agreed targets and timelines.
• Contribute to programme planning processes including workplan reviews, field visit planning, and implementation strategy adjustments.
• Support identification and documentation of risks and mitigation measures across the recovery portfolio.
2. Grant management and donor reporting
• Support management of the WASH recovery grants portfolio, tracking timelines, deliverables, expenditure, and reporting deadlines across multiple donors.
• Coordinate preparation of donor reports by gathering inputs from field offices and programme colleagues, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Assist in developing funding proposals, concept notes, and project documents for WASH recovery interventions.
• Monitor grant implementation against donor agreements, flagging risks of underspend, delays, or non-compliance.
• Maintain organised documentation of donor agreements, amendments, and reporting records in UNICEF systems.
3. Monitoring, evaluation and results
• Lead end-to-end management of the 5Ws database, including partner submissions, data consolidation, validation, and analysis.
• Ensure monthly reporting to ActivityInfo in line with HNRP requirements and support management of the projects database.
• Maintain accessible records of datasets, dashboards, and assessments to support institutional memory and programme planning.
• Prepare weekly updates for WASH Cluster technical cells on newly established partnerships.
• Support Third Party Monitoring (TPM) exercises including development of data collection tools and follow-up tracking.
• Monitor KPIs including programmatic visit completion, action point implementation, and partnership agreement status.
• Lead maintenance of the WASH programme monitoring template, ensuring data is current and presented through clear visualisations.
1. Recovery programming support and field office coordination
• Support coordination of WASH recovery implementation across field offices (Dnipro, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, Poltava), ensuring alignment with project documents, workplans, and programme standards.
• Serve as coordination focal point between Kyiv WASH team and field offices, facilitating information flow and resolving bottlenecks.
• Track progress of recovery interventions against agreed targets and timelines.
• Contribute to programme planning processes including workplan reviews, field visit planning, and implementation strategy adjustments.
• Support identification and documentation of risks and mitigation measures across the recovery portfolio.
2. Grant management and donor reporting
• Support management of the WASH recovery grants portfolio, tracking timelines, deliverables, expenditure, and reporting deadlines across multiple donors.
• Coordinate preparation of donor reports by gathering inputs from field offices and programme colleagues, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Assist in developing funding proposals, concept notes, and project documents for WASH recovery interventions.
• Monitor grant implementation against donor agreements, flagging risks of underspend, delays, or non-compliance.
• Maintain organised documentation of donor agreements, amendments, and reporting records in UNICEF systems.
3. Monitoring, evaluation and results
• Lead end-to-end management of the 5Ws database, including partner submissions, data consolidation, validation, and analysis.
• Ensure monthly reporting to ActivityInfo in line with HNRP requirements and support management of the projects database.
• Maintain accessible records of datasets, dashboards, and assessments to support institutional memory and programme planning.
• Prepare weekly updates for WASH Cluster technical cells on newly established partnerships.
• Support Third Party Monitoring (TPM) exercises including development of data collection tools and follow-up tracking.
• Monitor KPIs including programmatic visit completion, action point implementation, and partnership agreement status.
• Lead maintenance of the WASH programme monitoring template, ensuring data is current and presented through clear visualisations.
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