WASH Consultant – International Humanitarian Response Roster

This position will play a key role in positioning CORE’s WASH capacity during an emergency response by providing technical assistance across the program cycle, contributing to CORE’s strategy and proposal development, managing and implementing a gender-sensitive WASH program responsive to the needs of men, women, boys and girls and building and strengthening capacity (mentoring, coaching, training) of staff and partners ensuring that all WASH programs are integrating and meeting humanitarian principles, protection and gender minimum standards.

This position will rapidly be deployed (often within 72 hours of a crisis) in close coordination with CORE’s Sr. Director of Humanitarian Response. This role will provide technical assistance, coordination, and support harmonization of programming needs and operational support for rapid response ensuring CORE’s WASH programming process and procedures are being implemented and lay the foundation for later phases of WASH response and recovery programming, including an exit strategy. 

This role’s responsibilities will be based on organizational needs in the given response context(s) (this ToR may be revised based on shifts in priorities after initial assessment) but will include assessment, design, implementation and reporting of WASH programming in support of individuals, households and communities affected by crisis.

Roster work is available on an as-needed basis (it is not full-time or continuous).

As a Roster Member, you may be requested to deploy based upon the needs of a disaster and the need for your position. Deployment opportunities and length of deployments are not guaranteed and may be unpredictable. Roster Member should be prepared to deploy at moment’s notice.

Compensation will be determined at the time of deployment based on location and anticipated length of service needed. Typically, deployments last from 2-8 weeks.

Main Responsibilities

Scope and Travel

Qualifications

Experience

Skills & Competencies

Background & Safeguarding

Clear pre-employment background check requirements, including local, state, and national criminal records checks, sex offender registries, employment, education verifications and child abuse registry check (if required by state regulations) are required post job offer and prior to employment.

CORE is committed to keeping children and vulnerable individuals safe and has a Zero Tolerance policy for sexual exploitation and abuse. Every CORE employee, consultant and volunteer is bound by CORE’s Code of Conduct and Saf safeguarding Policy. By applying for this position, an applicant confirms that they have not previously violated an employer’s safeguarding, sexual misconduct, (child) sexual exploitation and abuse, or human trafficking policy.