Position: WASH Consultant (KM and Data Management)
Employing Agency (Employer): Inductus Limited
Remuneration: Gross compensation budgeted for the position is very attractive. Please note that the offer made to the selected candidate shall be commensurate with qualifications, experience, and salary history. Applicants to mention their current professional fee & expected professional fee on www.inductusjobs.com/un
No. of Vacancy: 1 Position (One)
Duty Station: Guwahati, Assam
Reporting Line:
(1)Administrative Supervision- Inductus Limited
(2) Technical Supervisor- WASH-CCES Specialist
Last Date for Application: 14th May 2026 (Mid-Night)
CONTENT OF TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR)
1. Background:
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) remain critical for public health and well-being across both rural and urban India. Government initiatives such as the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen and Urban), Jal Jeevan Mission, Swachh Vidyalaya, and Swachh Swastha Sarvatra have significantly expanded access to sanitation and safe drinking water since 2014, integrating WASH within broader programmes such as the National Nutrition Mission. However, climate change and environmental degradation pose escalating risks—India faces extreme water stress, widespread contamination of water sources, and substantial economic losses due to pollution and recurrent flooding. These challenges disproportionately impact children, women, and marginalized communities, particularly within schools, anganwadis, and healthcare facilities.
Despite notable progress, the WASH sector continues to grapple with gaps in scheme convergence, inadequate data use, limited implementation capacity at various administrative levels, and insufficient operation and maintenance financing, especially for facilities within education and health systems. UN ORGANISATION Assam collaborates closely with government departments to address these systemic challenges by integrating WASH into Early Childhood Development initiatives, strengthening WASH services in healthcare facilities, and supporting improvements in biomedical waste management. Partnerships with the Department of Women and Child Development and the Health Department emphasize capacity building, regular facility assessments, and implementation of improvement plans aligned with national guidelines to promote sustainable and climate-resilient WASH services.
As part of its broader mandate, UN ORGANISATION aims to ensure equitable and sustainable access to WASH services for all children and communities. Achieving this objective requires strengthened knowledge management systems, robust evidence generation, improved data quality, and systematic documentation of field-level practices. These elements are essential to enhance programme effectiveness, inform policy advocacy, promote cross-learning, and enable the scale-up of successful WASH models. To advance these priorities, UN ORGANISATION seeks to engage a WASH Consultant – Knowledge and Data Management to lead knowledge capture, strengthen WASH data systems, enhance analytics, and improve evidence-based reporting and learning across the WASH programme. The new strategic plan places added emphasis on equity, climate change, and environmentally sustainable WASH facilities and services in institutions. This includes high-level advocacy with government and partners for climate- and disaster-resilient WASH infrastructure, along with strengthened convergence and collaboration with nodal departments.
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