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Technical Advisor, UN System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation
UNOPSUnited NationsTechnicalSenior LevelICA - IICA - Retainer
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**Job Highlight**
The consultant will guide, promote, and support the effective implementation of the UN System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation and its associated Collective Implementation Plan (CIP) by providing policy, strategic, technical, and coordination support, as required.
**About the Region**
The UNOPS Global Portfolios Office (GPO) brings together diverse expertise to help partners deliver impact worldwide. With hubs in New York, Geneva, and Vienna, and expert teams operating globally, GPO leads multi-regional initiatives that advance sustainable development, climate action, and peacebuilding - including in some of the world’s most challenging environments. By leveraging our collective expertise and global networks, GPO supports UNOPS’ strategic priorities and the Sustainable Development Goals across more than 130 countries. We work closely with major global partners - including governments, international financial institutions, and UN agencies - to deliver a wide range of services, such as project management, fund management, hosting services, and HR support.
**About the Country/Multi-Country Office**
As part of the Global Portfolios Office, UNOPS Geneva provides comprehensive solutions in secretariat hosting, operational support, and fund management. We manage global programmes, including the Water, Environment and Climate (WEC) Portfolio, offering project management, procurement, HR, and financial services. Geneva hosts the secretariats of eight global partnerships focused on health (RBM, Stop TB, ATscale), nutrition (SUN), water/sanitation (SHF), humanitarian leadership (GELI), urban development (Cities Alliance), and disaster displacement (PDD). We also provide fund management for EIF and UN Water, and operational support to Geneva-based partners like the Global Fund and UNHCR. The EU-UNOPS Lives in Dignity (LiD) Grant Facility is also based here.
**Job Specific Context**
UN-Water is the United Nations (UN) inter-agency coordination mechanism for all freshwater related issues, including sanitation. The High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP) established UN-Water in 2003 in response to the need for strengthened coordination of United Nations’ work on water and sanitation related issues. UN-Water currently includes more than 30 Members (UN entities) and more than 40 Partners (non-UN system actors).
UN-Water promotes coherence in, and coordination of, water-related UN system actions aimed at the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other relevant policy frameworks, such as the Paris Agreement on climate change, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development and the New Urban Agenda. UN-Water supports the processes related to the UN conferences on water and coordinates the implementation of the recently adopted UN System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation (Strategy).
The Strategy enhances UN system-wide coordination and delivery of water and sanitation priorities across the United Nations system in support of Member States. Through the Strategy, the UN system and its partners, driven by country demand and coordinating through UN-Water, unify the international community’s support to countries for SDG 6.
The Strategy’s Collaborative Implementation Plan (CIP) includes time-bound actions towards the achievement of the Strategy’s outputs and outcomes. These include the post-2030 water agenda, collaboration for joint country programming, and elevating the ambition of UN conferences on water. The CIP shows the respective contributions by UN entities and partners and serves as a common agreed framework to jointly review and monitor progress on the Strategy.
**Role Purpose**
The consultant will contribute to advancing the Strategy’s objectives by supporting system-wide coherence, fostering alignment across UN entities and partners, and strengthening the integration of water and sanitation priorities into relevant UN processes, programmes, and initiatives at global, regional, and national levels. They will assist in translating the Strategy and CIP into actionable approaches, frameworks, tools, and outputs; promoting shared understanding and collective ownership of agreed priorities; and supporting progress tracking, learning, and adaptive implementation.
The roles and responsibilities entail a significant level of travel globally.
**Functions / Key Results Expected**
Under the overall supervision of the Chief Technical Advisor and in collaboration with relevant staff in the UN-Water Technical Advisory Unit and working closely with relevant UN-Water Expert Groups, Task Forces, and Initiatives, the consultant will perform the following duties:
• Support the full and effective operationalization of the St
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