VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Habitat for Humanity Nepal
Position: Project
Engineer
No. of Vacancies: 1 (One)
Date of
Announcement: September 18, 2019
Duration:
December 2020 (Extendable if funding and need permits)
Location: Kavrepalanchok
Reports to: Program
Manager
Field
Visits: Frequent travel to project areas
Core
Function: This position is responsible to deliver as overall subject matter
expert in construction research, implementation, and training. He/she ensures
that Habitat Nepal construction activities are delivered according to Habitat
Housing Quality Standards and the Nepal Government codes and regulations.
Duties and
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for monitoring and construction supervision of Housing Projects implemented through partners
- Involves in construction research and development of appropriate technologies, and leads construction-related training's
- Ensures that Habitat Nepal construction designs meet Habitat for Humanity Housing Quality Standards and/or appropriate government building codes and regulations.
- Ensures construction research, preparation of BOQs, construction/maintenance manuals
- Develop guidelines on selection and quality of materials
- Evaluate quality of materials from local vendors and select the optimum ones
- Provides support for training design, proposal writing and research
- Responsible for delivering or support to quality construction-related trainings as per DUDBC curriculum or any other curriculum as per Habitat Nepal request
- Ensure that partners (engineers, site-supervisors and other staffs) fulfill their duty following their M&E responsibilities and feed into the real time database. Work in close coordination with the Habitat Nepal GIS/Database expert to maintain an updated database
- Ensure timely reporting by providing the necessary information in a timely manner to the project manager/coordinator/supervisor
- Undertake weekly/monthly/quarterly or as per need monitoring visits to the designated implementation areas to support the partner with implementation aspects of the project and/or monitoring visits as per program M&E plan
- Provides subject matter expert (SME) support for GV build implementation, and works in close coordination with the Program GV Coordination Manager, GV Engineer and other GV staff
- Provides supervision and oversight to partner staff, including performance, planning, goal setting, monitoring, feedback, evaluation and development
- Liaison with all related stakeholders on district, municipality and community level to support the project implementation
- Other related duties as assigned by supervisor
Education
Qualification and Professional Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
- At least 3 years of relevant work experience in re-construction, including significant on-site or field experience.
- Monitoring and supervisory experience preferred and importantly WASH related experience
Interested candidates are encouraged to apply with an application letter and
updated resume by September 25, 2019 addressed to:
Human
Resource Department, Habitat for Humanity International, Nepal.
E-mail: recruitment@habitatnepal.org
Application deadline: September 25, 2019
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