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Sista ansökan
2025-02-10
Are you the new Emergency WaSH Advisor at the Swedish Red Cross?
Desired starting date: As soon as possible
Type of contract: Full-time, permanent position, six months’ probation
Location: In Stockholm, Sweden, with frequent travel to humanitarian contexts
Background
The first things to ensure in disaster response are clean water and good sanitary conditions. Clean water is needed – not only for consumption – but also for medical care, cooking, personal hygiene, as well as laundry and cleaning. Reliable sanitation is crucial to reduce all types of infection.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) is a core function in Swedish Red Cross (SRC) international response, alongside Health and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). As part of the Red Cross Red Crescent movement, SRC has taken on the responsibility to have the capacity to – on short notice – be able to set up three different types of Emergency Response Units (ERUs) within WaSH*.
We are now looking to find the right person to take on the important role of enabling our Emergency WaSH interventions. The successful candidate will be part of the International Department and report to the Head of the Global Response Unit.
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.
Our culture
To be an employee of the Swedish Red Cross you need to share the core principles and values of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, and you need to sign on to our working culture:
- Drive: we dare prioritize and have the courage to take decisions
- Compassion: we see the individual and listen with curiosity in meetings with others
- One Red Cross: we act for collaboration and co-creation and see to the whole picture
- Development and learning: we try and test new things and reflect, we dare make mistakes
Recruitment process
Closing date for applications is 10 February 2025. Please note that only applications made through our website will be considered.
The position is a full-time permanent staff, with a six-month probation period. Duty station is the Swedish Red Cross headquarters in Stockholm, where we operate from an activity-based environment. Starting date is asap.
Our process includes cognitive and administrative tests, interviews, background checks and references. As the Swedish Red Cross is part of the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct, one of the three references given must be from the candidate’s current or most recent employer. Final candidates will also be screened against EU and UN sanction lists.
Since our ambition is to increase diversity in our organisation and welcome all applicants with relevant profile, though an EU work permit and residence in Sweden is a requirement.
Please note that only applications made through our website will be considered.
For more information about the position, please contact Roger Alonso, interim Head of Disaster Management Unit, Swedish Red Cross: roger.alonso@redcross.se
If you wish to contact our local trade union representatives, you find their contact data here.
We kindly decline any offer of services from recruitment agencies or consultants.