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Water, Sanitation & Hygiene/ Intern (International)

Job no: 582635

Contract type: Fellowship

Duty Station: Yaounde

Level: Fellowship

Location: Cameroon

Categories: WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)

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Background / Context

The WASH section which is currently understaffed, is involved in several Humanitarian and System Strengthening projects/Initiatives. It ensures that children have sustained access to water, sanitation and hygiene services, in accordance with UNICEF's global strategies. It also provides strategic and technical support services to the Cameroon Government and CSOs to improve overall sector performance and bring about transformative results for children.

The workload being quite high, the section needs and is looking for an intern with professional and academic orientations in one of the following areas:

Civil or Environmental Engineering, Water Resources Management, Public Health, Environmental Science, Climate science, Climate Finance.

The purpose and objectives of the UNICEF internship programme are:

• ​To provide a framework by which current eligible undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students from diverse academic backgrounds are assigned to UNICEF offices, where their educational experience can be enhanced through practical work assignments.
• To expose the interns to the work of UNICEF.
• To provide UNICEF offices with the assistance of qualified students specialized in various professional fields.

Responsibilities of the Internship:

The candidate with great integrity and having sufficient qualities will be called upon to support the WASH section in the following activities:

• Contribute to the development and establishment of sectoral programme goals, objectives, strategies, and results-based planning, through analysis of WASH needs and areas for intervention, and submission of recommendations for priority and goal setting.
• Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of programming processes by executing and administering a variety of technical programme transactions, preparing materials and documentations, and complying with organizational processes and management systems, to support programme planning, results-based management (RBM), and monitoring and evaluation of results.
• Identify, capture, synthesize, and share lessons learned for knowledge development and to build the capacity of stakeholders.
• Share updates on new developments on WASH and Climate, as well as promoting technical discussions that facilitate knowledge and dissemination among implementing actors.
• Apply innovative approaches and promote good practices to support the implementation and delivery of concrete and sustainable programme results.
• Research, benchmark, and report on best practices for development planning of knowledge products and systems.
• Participate as a resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of clients and stakeholders.
• Work closely and collaboratively with colleagues and partners to collect, analyze, and share information on operational and implementation issues. Suggest solutions, recommendations and/or alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or decision-making. Keep record of reports and assessments for easy reference and/or to capture and institutionalize lessons learned.
• Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, WASH \ data collection and analysis, programme reviews and annual reviews with the government and other counterparts, prepare minutes and reports on results for follow-up action by higher management.
• Monitor and report on the use of sectoral programme resources (financial, administrative, and other assets), verifying compliance with approved allocation, goals, organizational rules, regulations/procedures, donor commitments, standards of accountability, and integrity. Report on issues identified to ensure timely resolution by management and stakeholders. Follow up on unresolved issues to ensure resolution.
• Prepare regular and mandated sectoral programme/project reports for management, donors and partners to keep them informed of programme progress.

Duration:

The intern is needed for a period of 06 months.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:Education: Be enrolled in a degree programme, in a graduate school, or be a recent graduate university degree (bachelor’s or higher) in Civil or Environmental Engineering, Public Health, Environmental Science, Climate Science.Language Requirements: Fluency in English or French is required excellent.

Desirables:Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts. (This criteria is essential as a desirable and should be included in all job postings.)

Deadline: 08 Sep 2025 W. Central Africa Standard Time

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