Hand Hygiene and WASH in Schools Consultant, GPD WASH, 6.5 months, CoE Nairobi, Kenya (Remote) # 593463

Working arrangement: remote with travel

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How can you make a difference?

Hand hygiene is a simple yet vital public health measure that can reduce diarrhoeal diseases by up to 30% and respiratory infections by 17%. Yet, 1.7 billion people still lack basic hand hygiene services, and over 600 million have no facility at all. The WHO–UNICEF Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Community Settings, released on October 15, 2025, notes that achieving universal access by 2030 will require rapid acceleration, especially in least developed countries (LDCs). Limited access to water, soap, and alcohol-based hand rubs continue to hinder progress in LDCs. The Guidelines call for sustained investment, policy support, and system strengthening to make hand hygiene accessible in all community settings.

To complement these guidelines, UNICEF has led the development of a Hand Hygiene Implementation Toolkit to provide ministries, implementers, and partners with practical, adaptable guidance to scale effective, inclusive, and sustainable hand hygiene programs in community and school settings. The Toolkit has been drafted and now requires validation through training and testing in diverse country contexts as part of the co-design process.

This consultancy will help to finalize the Implementation Toolkit and support its roll out in person in 2 African countries where UNICEF is programming, as well as its contextualization to school settings. Meanwhile, it will provide technical assistance to country offices on WASH in health care facilities activities, as requested.

This consultancy will complete the following tasks:

Hand Hygiene

•Finalize the Hand Hygiene Implementation Toolkit, including training modules and assessment tool

•Support piloting of the Hand Hygiene Implementation Toolkit through direct support to at least two Country Offices

•Revise the Toolkit, based on input from Country Offices and partners, to prepare for a final public version of the documents

•Develop knowledge/communication products to document the use of the Hand Hygiene Toolkit

WASH in Institutions

•Contextualize the Hand Hygiene Implementation Toolkit for school settings

•Support selected Country Offices in applying the Hand Hygiene Implementation Toolkit in schools

•Support selected countries office (Viet Nam) in SBC concept and framework as well as integrating hand hygiene in the SBC tools

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: ToRTMC0002638.pdf

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

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Advanced university (Master's) degree in Public Health, Environmental Health, Engineering, Social Sciences, Statistics, Economics, or related field.

• Work Experience: A minimum of 8 years of professional experience in the WASH sector and at least 5 years working on behavior change for hand hygiene.
• Prior experience developing curriculum and training content for hand hygiene and WASH in schools programs.
• Prior experience on WASH in health care facilities.
• Prior experience in training, facilitation for adult learners.
• Skills: Proven ability to work under tight deadlines and drive for results.
• Demonstrated capacity to work in a dynamic environment coordinating across different teams and sectors.
• Prior experience working for the United Nations an added advantage.
• Demonstrated experience working in a multicultural environment and demonstrates the core values of UNICEF
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English required. Conversational Vietnamese preferred.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following mandatory documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate financial proposal using this template Financial proposal TMC0002638.docx
• Sample report from previous work demonstrating writing skills and knowledge of hand hygiene programme implementation

Remarks: If the TOR or financial proposal documents are not visible on certain recruitment platforms, please visit our official page Vacancies | UNICEF Careers.

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