Shelter Officer - Infrastructure Maintenance - Azraq - Jordan

 

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

                                                                    Rights Respected, People Protected

 

NRC in Jordan 

Established in 2012 NRC Jordan’s long-term outlook addresses the problems affecting life as a refugee. We work to build the resilience of Syrians, and to relieve the impact on the Jordanian communities that host them.  Syrian refugees in Jordan are struggling. As they contend with difficult living conditions across the country, the obstacles are complex. They struggle to remain registered as refugees, to provide for their families, and to access essential services – including education for their children. The Jordanian communities that host them, meanwhile, feel the impact of hosting high numbers of refugees – with each year that passes, local infrastructure becomes more strained.

 

Shelter Officer – Infrastructure Maintenance - Azraq

 

Role Specific Information

To lead a team of four engineers in order to handle all maintenance requests, and to work on the team development and capacity building.

 

Generic responsibilities:

• Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines.
• Implement delegated Core Competency project portfolio according to plan of action.
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management.
• Ensure proper filing of documents.
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist.
• Promote and share ideas for technical improvement.

   

  Specific responsibilities

• Oversees the maintenance works including supervision of laborers working on the site, providing technical support as required to ensure technical quality and timely response.
• Updating relevant spreadsheets and database for tracking and monitoring maintenance and construction team activities, progress and costs associated with various tasks and preparing technical reports to monitor or evaluate ongoing or completed maintenance and construction work as requested.
• Supporting design projects, including the preparation and review of technical drawings, schematics and diagrams (including using computer aided drafting (AutoCAD), developing clear specifications, BOQs, scope of work and workplans.
• To coordinate with logistic and procurement teams to make sure that all PRs are delivered by them, to follow up on the delivering dates and to compare all these documents with the PR tracker sent by them to make sure that all data are there.
• Sourcing and managing any casual laborers required to support the project, including the preparation of timesheets for laborers.
• Documenting all paper work for each project and task, (Workplan, daily sheets, handing over forms, estimated BOQs, actual BOQs, design plans, technical sheets, laborer sheets, .... etc.).

 

Our Ideal Candidate:

We are looking for candidates with a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with minimum 2 years of experience in a relevant field. Experience from working within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context, Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts, Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities, with some knowledge of English.

We are particularly looking for a positive individual with strong communication and interpersonal skills, who can build trust and confidently navigate both internally and externally at different levels, to have the ability to analyze data and trends for informed decisions and Capacity building skills.

In this position you will join highly motivated and expert staff who are making a difference to the most vulnerable people in the world's biggest displacement crisis.

 

Additional Information:

Candidates are encouraged to apply early as applications will be screened as received and position will close once a suitable candidate is identified.

Contract period: 12 months

Salary/benefits: 1024 JOD (subject to social security and Income tax)

Duty station: Azraq

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NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.

B: Please enter your specific city of residency in Jordan in your application.

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