Deployable Water Sanitation and Hygiene Specialist in Emergencies at Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for - and respond to - crises and adversity. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Deployable Water Sanitation and Hygiene Specialist in Emergencies

Location: Nigeria

Description

• To respond to the growing unmet needs in emergencies and to strengthen the speed, quality, relevance and appropriateness of our emergency response and readiness work, we have recently created four new global humanitarian capability units, including the new Global Hunger Response and Resilience Unit, under which the food security livelihoods and nutrition, WASH and Cash and Voucher Assistance portfolio is located.
• The Deployable WASH Specialist will be part of the Global Hunger Response and Resilience Unit in the Global Humanitarian Team.
• The post holder will work with technical teams within the other four units, other teams, departments, Country Offices, National Offices (fundraising offices) within the organisation to ensure that all Plan International’s work contributes to strengthening live saving interventions through WASH in addition to Food security, nutrition, livelihood, cash and voucher assistance, anticipatory action, disaster risk reduction, climate change, child protection, education in emergencies in an integrated manner.
• The Deployable WASH Specialist will be required to be deployed to Plan International Country Offices for 75% of the time for a period of up to three months continuously, sometimes into hostile/crisis settings at short notice to provide technical assistance to country offices.
• This position demands technical knowledge, training experience, and work experience in a wide range of humanitarian contexts. 
• As Deployable WASH Specialist you will ensure technical soundness of the WASH interventions in the Hunger and other humanitarian Crisis response covered by the Plan International.
• WASH intervention assistance in the  standalone water, sanitation and hygiene programming and, critically, also the integration of WASH within other elements of Plan’s life-saving intervention including Food Crisis response such as food distribution, school feeding, nutrition, cash and voucher assistance  in addition to education and child protection  and care in health facilities as a fundamental pre-requisite for maximising the effectiveness of these interventions.
• In collaboration with Country Offices, regional management and National Organisations you will advise and support high performing country teams  to improve their WASH intervention approaches, strategy and practice, ensuring specific WASH/GEDSI (Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion) outcomes are included, and explore WASH and integrated programming related funding opportunities, ensuring accountability for meeting targets, and maintaining alignment with the Plan International global strategy.

Application Closing Date
14th November, 2025 23.59 UK.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Note: Please respond to the requirements of the role in your cover letter.