WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene), Heating, and Energy Technical Lead

**Contract Length:** 1 year

**Country Programme:** Ukraine

**Based:** Kyiv (with regular travels to areas where WASH programmes are being implemented)

**Starting date:** ASAP

**Line Manager:** Head of Programme Quality and Development

**People in Need** (PIN) is a Czech-based international non-governmental organization (NGO) that has provided humanitarian and development assistance across more than 40 countries since 1992. Today, PIN stands as one of the largest organizations of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, supporting vulnerable communities in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. PIN empowers civil society, advocates for human rights, and promotes social inclusion both at home and abroad.

## **About the Ukrainian Programme of People in Need**

People in Need (PIN) began operations in Ukraine in 2003 with human rights programs and expanded to humanitarian assistance in 2014. With the full-scale invasion in February 2022, we significantly scaled up our programming across the country. Since then, PIN has reached almost 4 million people, working through a network of local partner organizations.

Today, PIN has its offices and teams in 8 oblasts in Ukraine with more than 500 local and international staff working in Lvivska, Kyivska (head office), Sumska, Kharkivska, Dnipropetrovska, Mykolaivska and Khersonska, Zaporizka, and Donetska oblasts.

PIN's assistance addresses both immediate and longer-term needs of war-affected people, focusing on safe water and sanitation, shelter repairs, protection services, and education in emergencies. Our recovery programming delivers more systemic solutions, including support to district heating systems and renewable energy initiatives.

PIN also provides comprehensive assistance to veterans and their families, including business grants and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), strengthens the quality of education in schools, and advances systemic improvements in social care for the most vulnerable. Funding comes from a diverse range of institutional and private donors.

## **About the role**

Main responsibility of the role is to provide technical support to PIN programme staff on the design, planning, implementation, coordination and technical supervision of Water, Sanitation, Heating and Hygiene (WASH) interventions, with renewable energy and innovative solutions integration, covering emergency, infrastructure rehabilitation, and early recovery, type of programming, implemented in response to the crisis caused by the current military operations and to ensure the WASH programme is implemented in line with PIN global, cluster and relevant technical standards and guidance.

## **Immediate Priorities**

- Support the programme teams with the identification of specific needs assessments on emergency, infrastructure rehabilitation, and early recovery type of WASH interventions. Based on the findings, support the programme team in developing integrated projects linking WASH with interventions with other PIN’s strategic sectors.
- Actively engage and participate in key coordination platforms including the WASH Cluster and two technical working groups – led by PIN – (1) Market-Based Programming for Hygiene (cash and voucher) and (2) Backup and Renewable Energy for WASH.
- External coordination with other stakeholders (i.e. national and international organizations implementing similar programming, governmental institutions responsible for WASH (+Heating) related services, private sector and academia, especially in the field of climate change adaptation, energy safety and sustainability, etc).
- Provide advice on ongoing and future implementation and scale-up strategy & plan for WASH programing informed by the context in Ukraine and relevant technical standards, considering also the early recovery and reconstruction agendas in Ukraine, and identify how it can be incorporated into implementation.

## **Main Duties & Responsibilities**

- Responsible for development and quality assurance of PIN WASH programme, as per PIN global WASH as well as PIN Ukraine framework and strategy
- Update the internal strategic framework on WASH as part of PIN’s country strategy related to emergency needs, basic services, infrastructure, and durable solutions, in addition to , climate change adaptations in Ukraine
- Actively participate in proposal development for all projects with WASH interventions and work with Grants and Reporting department in identification of new opportunities for funding.
- Responsible for preparation of relevant technical documents, required for quality implementation of WASH programme (programmatic frameworks and approaches, necessary implementation and monitoring SOPs, technical guidelines, data collection, targeting criteria, beneficiary selection etc) for PIN WASH interventions in cooperation with MEAL and programme teams.
- Responsible for providing technical and implementation support and guidance to field-based PIN WASH staff as well