Construction Engineer, SC5, Cox's Bazar

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WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.  Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

Cox’s Bazar has been home to one of the world’s most protracted refugee situations, with more than 20 years of camp and makeshift site settlement by a Muslim minority from Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State, known as Rohingya. Since the 1990’s, the Government of Bangladesh hosts 34,000 officially registered refugees in two camps in Cox’s Bazar. A further 300,000-500,000 Rohingya refugees, politically referred to as Undocumented Myanmar Nationals (UMNs) have been residing in poor conditions in neighbouring Bangladeshi host communities, including some 77,100 in the two makeshift settlements adjacent to the official camps. Humanitarian partners estimate that the influx of new arrivals since August 2017 is likely to peak at 700,000-800,000.

WFP, in line with this response is planning for a total of 1.009 million people: 700,000 new refugee influx, 34,000 registered refugees, 75,000 of the pre-August influx, and 200,000 of the impacted host communities. Refugees will be assisted through in kind General Food Distribution and E-voucher, with the gradual shift from in kind to CBT assistance starting from December 2017.

WFP is envisioning a large (potentially 10-fold) scale-up of the existing e-voucher programme to meet the food security needs of all of the new refugee influx. In parallel, WFP envisions a cash transfer assistance programme targeting host communities that are suffering under the pressure of the large population increase in the area. The plan for host community assistance is to provide conditional cash transfers with the objective of enhancing livelihood opportunities.

Given the interest of other agencies to also implement cash-based programmes targeted at the same vulnerable groups, WFP is setting up its system so that it could be expanded to a multi-wallet platform, accommodating for other agencies’ transfer needs.

Given the several workstreams of the CBT scale-up, a dedicated CBT officer is urgently needed to manage the WFP eVoucher programme and ensure a solid scale up, in addition to lay the grounds for a potential introduction of cash transfers for refugee assistance.

JOB PURPOSE

To perform specialized and/or standardized policy and programme-related processes and activities to support the effective delivery of assistance packages.  

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

          Under the overall guidance and supervision of Site Engineer, the Construction Engineer will be responsible for the following duties:

• Field based Site Supervision and management of Construction works for WFP.
• Perform regular quality checks.
• Provide timely and strongly worded feedback to contractors.
• Conduct field assessments of sites and structures, produce design solutions and suggestions.
• Produce concept, design and construction documents, drawings and briefs.
• Measure amounts and produce Bills of Quantities.
• Supervise and manage Contractors.
• Lead and manage daily labourers.
• Schedule and plan activities and works.
• Operating out of Cox's Bazar, the Engineer will be involved in a variety of construction, planning and design works related to assistance projects for the Rohingya.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Diploma or Degree Qualified in Civil Engineering, Construction, Planning or Design or other related field.  Or relevant job experience.

Experience: 2-3 years of relevant experience in construction engineering

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Helps teammates articulate WFP’s Strategic Objectives.
•  Be a force for positive change: Suggests potential improvements to team’s work processes to supervisor.
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Explains the impact of WFP activities in beneficiary communities to teammates.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Articulates how own unit’s responsibilities will serve WFP’s mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Trains junior teammates on new skills and capabilities.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Seeks opportunities to work with people from different backgrounds.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Serves as a peer coach for colleagues in same area of work.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Tracks progress toward goals and shares this information on a regular basis with supervisor.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Explores ways to consistently be more efficient and accurate in own areas of work and shares new methods of work with colleagues.
•  Focus on getting results: Focuses on getting results and tracks trends in completion rates for own tasks to identify opportunities for efficiency.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes responsibility for own tasks and notifies supervisor as soon as possible of potential delays in meeting deadlines or commitments.
•  Be Decisive: Independently decides what action to take when faced with critical choices in the workplace or in dangerous situations in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Suggests opportunities for partnering with other units to supervisor.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Identifies opportunities to work with colleagues and partners in the field towards common goals.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Develops an understanding of the value of WFP’s teams and external partners in fulfilling team’s goals and objectives.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Aligns own activities with supervisor’s priorities to fulfill internal and external partner needs.
   

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

Excellent written and oral/communications skills in both English and Bangla

Languages: Fluency in oral Chittagonian/Rohingyan dialect highly desirable

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Contract Type             : Service Contract, SC5

Contract Duration        : 12 months

Duty Station                : Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Nationality                   : Bangladeshi only

Monthly Salary            : BDT. 86,452

Number of post: 5

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

3 October 2018

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Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.