Senior National Officer Engineer - NOB

Jordan, through its Compact presented at the February 2016 London Conference "Supporting Syria and the Region" has now pledged to deliver up to 200,000 working permits to Syrian refugees. While envisaged investments and expanded trade in Jordan resulting from the London Conference will create jobs in the long term, it is of crucial importance to allow for both Syrian refugees and vulnerable Jordanians to secure decent livelihoods in the meantime. To this end, it is proposed to implement Employment Intensive Investment Projects that link decent work with asset creation / maintenance in the communities.

Against this backdrop, the ILO, is collaborating with World Bank and provide technical support to their Municipal Services and Resilience Project (MSSRP 2017-2019) to increase its labour-intensity. The MSSRP intends to scale up activities which started under its predecessor the Emergency Services and Social Resilience Project (ESSRP 2013-2016) which targeted the improvement of infrastructure and service delivery based on the needs of communities hosting Syrian refugees and their municipalities. Municipalities are responsible for functions and services including solid waste collection, construction and maintenance of certain classes of roads, street lighting, slaughter houses, markets, parks, libraries and urban planning. Grants are provided under ESSRP/MSSRP to municipalities for selected categories of projects to enhance these functions and services.

The overall objective of MSSRP is to help Jordanian municipalities address service delivery impacts of the Syrian refugee influx and support investments that generate jobs and improve social and economic conditions in host communities. MSSRP also aims to create jobs through public investment by introducing employment intensive investment strategies. As such strategies are relatively new in Jordan the ILO was approached to provide technical assistance to MSSRP to assess, monitor and increase the employment generation under MSSRP. This support is funded under a separate technical assistance project.

The National Officer will be recruited to help the ILO office Jordan put into action the activities identified. More generally, s/he will promote, develop, backstop and evaluate employment intensive investment strategies within the MSSRP.

Reporting lines

The National Officer will work under the direct supervision of the ILO Jordan country coordinator, and the overall technical guidance by the Resilience and Crisis Response Specialist and DWT Arab States

Director. The position will be based in the ILO office in Amman, Jordan.

• Coordinate the project timely implementation, monitoring and evaluation through management functions, including provision of technical and administrative supervision to the project team in line with the ILO policy, rules and regulations and according to the final project document and work plan. Support the preparation of TORs, timing of inputs and recruitment of international and local consultants;
• Contribute proposals for programme/project development and serve as national programme advisor to the project stakeholders and draft portions of programme and budget proposals, project proposals, programme background, country strategy papers, objectives, project reviews and evaluation;
• Monitor progress of ILO programmes, projects and activities by reviewing, verifying and analysing work-plans, progress reports, final reports and other data for clarity, consistency and completeness;
• Provide technical support to the Governmental partners for the development of guidelines and specifications on labour-based methodologies for different categories of works;
• Organize training programmes and awareness raising activities to improve understanding on Labour Intensive approaches and provide technical support for implementing training needs assessments;
• Provide technical support of employment impact assessments and employment monitoring;
• Participate in Introductory Workshops to introduce the principles of employment generation and LB methods;
• Periodically report, monitor and facilitate the evaluation of all project's components according to the project's document and work plan. Prepare required technical progress reports and ad hoc reports on the status of project planning and implementation for submission to the ILO and the donor;
• Provide technical support during procurement process and contract award to ensure that employment creation remains an objective;
• Provide hands-on technical support on labour-based technology during Project implementation;
• Maintain close cooperation and coordination with government, employers' and workers' organizations in the planning and implementation of activities under the project;
• Perform any other duties necessary as assigned by the ILO Country Coordinator.

First level university degree in Civil Engineering.

At least three years of professional experience in the relevant occupational area. Experience in labour based implementation is a must.

Fluent in Arabic and excellent command of English.

In addition to the ILO core competencies [Integrity and transparency, Sensitivity to diversity, Orientation to learning and knowledge sharing, Client orientation, Communication, Orientation to change, Takes responsibility for performance, Quality orientation, Collaboration], this position requires:

• Familiar with labour-based and local resource-based approaches to infrastructure improvement.
• Understanding of the impact of the Syrian crisis and the need to create local jobs.
• Strong management skills.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, communication and problem solving skills.
• Ability to plan and prioritize own workload.
• Strong monitoring and reporting skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to assume responsibility and to coordinate with others.
• Attention to detail and ability to handle tasks accurately.
• Willing to travel regularly to the project sites (driver license).
• Ability to conduct policy discussion and high-level political processes.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal, to successfully advocate for and mobilize action to promote freedom of association and right to collective bargaining principles.
• Clear commitment to mainstream gender into project activities.
• Ability to lead and work in a team and good interpersonal relations.
• Ability to train and guide personnel.
• Ability to work in diversified environments.
• Ability to work independently with a minimum of supervision.