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JOB DESCRIPTION

As our Emergency WaSH Advisor, you work as a specialist giving guidance, support, and quality assurance in WaSH emergency response. The role holds both strategic and operational support throughout the project or programme cycle.
The support is given to the Red Cross Red Crescent National Society partners who implement the SRC supported projects and programmes. Your work is performed in close collaboration with other SRC staff, such as geographical managers and desks officers, other advisors, and - of course - representatives from the supported National Society Partners as well as delegates, people deployed from the Swedish Red Cross to support in-country. In WaSH specificities you work very close with our other WaSH advisor the Community WaSH Advisor and the Green Response Advisor. You will also be part of a Health and WaSH team.
In larger emergency response, when a WaSH ERU is requested by the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), you give support, in close collaboration with technical colleagues in other WaSH ERU-holding Partner National Societies (PNS). You develop and work with a pool of delegates to deploy to WaSH ERUs and to other WaSH missions. The emergency response work is conducted in close collaboration with Disaster Management colleagues at the Global Response Unit. The role includes budget responsibility.
Besides operational work, your role includes staying up to date in your thematic area of expertise and to function as an expert and spokesperson in the emergency WaSH area, internally and externally. Networking, maintaining a dialogue with strategic actors and sharing of experiences and best practices are important parts of your role. Resource mobilization including proposal writing and program development is also included in the role.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant academic degree within engineering with focus on water and sanitation or in the broader area of environmental science and disaster management, or the equivalent
• Professional WaSH experience of at least 7 years, whereof at least 3 years internationally, preferably from a humanitarian setting
• Experience of program management, humanitarian work and the humanitarian system, preferably from within the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
• Strong experience in capacity building and facilitation skills
• Experience in conducting trainings and evaluations
• Excellent command of English as a working language
• International Driving License (manual transmission)

MERIT QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience from the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement
• Experience working and leading ERU (Emergency Response Units)
• Experience working in emergency response and early recovery in different geographical contexts
• Volunteering experience
• Knowledge of other languages such as Arabic, French, Spanish, Swedish
• HEAT (Hostile Environment Awareness Training) or equivalent security training
• Experience of working and travel in insecure contexts (conflict or complex emergencies)
• Swedish residency and/or Swedish work permit

PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Experience of working in an advisory and coordinating capacity
• Experience in representing an organisation in seminars, panels and/or in the media
• Self-motivated with ability to take initiative and assume responsibility
• Strong analytical abilities
• Strong interpersonal and teamworking skills
• Ability to perform under pressure
  As a Swedish Red Cross employee, we expect you to share the International Red Cross and Red Crescent principles and humanitarian values.

Please refer the Job description for details