National Project Field Engineer for Ermera and Liquica

Project #1: GCF-UNDP “Safeguarding rural communities and their physical assets from climate-induced disasters in Timor-Leste.” The mission goal is to safeguard weak communities and their bodily property from local weather change-induced disasters. It goals to deal with present institutional, monetary, and legislative obstacles, growing the local weather resilience of weak small-scale rural infrastructure. Six municipalities, primarily Baucau, Ermera, Aileu, Viqueque Lautem, and Liquica, had been chosen for the mission interventions. The mission has the 2 interrelated outputs beneath that intention to attain the affect potential and create an enabling surroundings/situation for scaling up/replicating the affect past the quick goal areas. 

• Output 1: Climate danger data is developed, monitored, and built-in into insurance policies, rules, and establishments to tell climate-resilient small-scale rural infrastructure planning and administration
• Output 2: Climate danger discount and climate-proofing measures for small-scale rural infrastructure are applied to construct the resilience of weak communities in six precedence municipalities.

UNDP helps Timor-Leste honours its Paris Agreement commitments by supporting increasing the “green economy” to faucet into new alternatives for jobs and companies. It companions with different United Nations companies to supply technical experience to translate methods into motion, set up a monitoring framework for local weather change adaptation and mitigation, and develop plans for transition to sustainable land administration, climate-proof agriculture, biodiversity, reforestation, catastrophe danger discount, and waste administration. By catalyzing SDG and Paris-aligned investments (public and non-public), UNDP delivers client-focused options that reply to quick, mid and long-term restoration and socio-economic improvement priorities, and by leveraging on-the-ground presence and networks, we unlock bottom-up options in direction of lasting impacts on the nation stage, benefitting most deprived and leaving nobody behind.

Project #2: Community Infrastructure for Resilience Project (CIReP)There is a powerful correlation between poverty and entry to important providers and facilities. While round 65 p.c of non-poor households in Timor-Leste have entry to improved sanitation services, almost half of the poor don’t. According to the SDG 6-based evaluation of the WASH knowledge by WHO and UNICEF 2021, sanitation is especially difficult as 43% of the overall inhabitants is disadvantaged of entry to primary sanitation and 14% of the overall inhabitants is disadvantaged of important ingesting water, the next downside (19%) for rural populations. Employment alternatives are minimal as the general public sector is the most important employer, the non-public sector could be very constrained, and the economic system isn’t diversified. 

In response, UNDP has initiated the ‘Community Infrastructure for Resilience Project (CIReP)’ to safeguard rural communities within the focused 4 Municipalities. This mission will concentrate on developing 40 infrastructure models, together with water programs, public bathrooms, bridges, maternity well being facilities, rainwater harvesting programs, gabion/retaining partitions, and group facilities. Better entry to group infrastructures will allow them to have enhanced entry to varied providers. The mission will profit 16000 households and 75000 (47% ladies) people in 4 Municipalities.

Moreover, the Project seeks to strengthen the Resilience of communities in probably the most weak areas, similar to Bobonaro, Ermera, Liquica, and Oecuse.

The interventions will embrace:

Output 1. New group infrastructures are constructed, or previous/broken group infrastructure is rehabilitated based mostly on communities’ wants and priorities. 

Output 2. Men and ladies within the communities are meaningfully engaged within the course of and receive short-term employment via building work. 
 

Duties and Responsibilities

Summary of operate: 

1. Technical assist, planning, and implementation of the mission actions 
2. Monitoring, verification, and reporting 
3. Build partnerships with key stakeholders
4. Knowledge administration and capability constructing 

A. Technical assist, planning, and implementation of the mission actions:

• Conduct website visits to determine the initiatives, conduct feasibility research and detailed engineering surveys, gather required data, and put together design drawings, BOQs, and technical specs. 
• Present technical designs in public session and assist the gathering of knowledge as per authorised ESIA/ ESMP and preparation, submission, and approval of mission paperwork for ANLA license. 
• Ensure that every one FPIC necessities are fulfilled and documented. 
• Support the municipal procurement groups within the procurement course of, together with bid doc preparation, bid analysis, contract doc preparation, and contract award, as mandatory. 
• With the assist from/coordination with the nationwide engineers guarantee the general implementation administration to make sure that bodily building works are accomplished on time, inside funds, and to high quality requirements, together with taking well timed motion to stop potential delays and/or price overruns that may be prevented. 
• With assist from/coordination with the nationwide engineers be certain that the contractor absolutely follows all of the dangers and proposed mitigation measures talked about within the ESIA/ESMP, similar to well being and security. 
• Check and confirm portions of labor achieved and present a report back to UNDP for every fee certificates. 
• Report on the portions of labor ready by the contractors. Local NGOs/CBOs overview fee certificates and monetary progress experiences and help in verifying the portions and measured works. 
• Collate all documentation for the fee requests for every assertion (interim/ultimate) for contractors and tranche/milestone disbursements for native companions similar to NGOs/CBOs. 
• Assist within the inspection preparation for the mission’s substantial completion and snag checklist. 
• Assist in making ready the completion/handover occasion and technical website go to. 
• Ensure that the each day data are saved on the positioning workbook signal on the positioning workbook. 
• Inform the Project Manager of any downside which will come up on-site and with stakeholders, together with contractors and native companions (similar to NGOs/CBOs). 
• Attend weekly and month-to-month website/workplace conferences and take minutes of conferences to be given to the Project Manager. 
• Support the mission supervisor in refining requirements to allow climate-proofing small-scale rural infrastructure and be certain that local weather danger discount measures for small-scale rural infrastructure are absolutely built-in into the planning and budgeting cycles of village and municipal improvement plans.
• Coordinate with different mission parts, similar to agroforestry and DRM, to make sure an built-in strategy. Coordinate with different mission employees, similar to Field Coordinators, Climate Change/ Environment Officers, GIS Officers, and Gender Officers, and present assist as wanted. Provide backstopping assist to the engineering workforce as required. 
• Provide technical steerage and assist to website engineers, contractors, and laborers in building and cash-for-work actions.
• Maintain detailed data of building actions, together with each day website logs, progress experiences, and images of labor in progress.
• Document all cash-for-work actions, guaranteeing correct verification and record-keeping of contributors and funds.
• Ensure that every one building and cash-for-work actions adjust to well being, security, and environmental rules.
• Promote a protected working surroundings by conducting security briefings and guaranteeing all staff use acceptable private protecting gear (PPE).

B. Monitoring, verification, and reporting on actions:

• In coordination with M&E specialist, put together a monitoring plan for the continuing schemes and guarantee joint monitoring via the involvement of the related authorities departments 
• In collaboration with the Safeguard Officer/local weather change and surroundings officer, monitor building works per the contractual provisions and design specs, given schedule/ timeline, and underneath established procedures, together with ESIA/ ESMP, gender-sensitive approaches, and climate-proofing requirements. 
• Ensure that the contractors observe all high quality management measures per the specs, together with the sector and laboratory checks. 
• Verify that the works are in line with the designs, technical specs, and funds and promptly inform them of eventual deviations. 
• Regularly take progress images and collate these in digital codecs for the contract data. Duly preserve an digital library of photographs of the works’ progress. Collate the standard and operational paperwork in digital codecs for the contract data and preserve an digital archive of the works’ progress. 
• Maintain a submitting system for all website memos and directions, measured portions of labor and supplies on website, experiences, and different paperwork and correspondence pertaining to the development actions. 
• Timely preparation and submission of required experiences, together with technical and monetary experiences to PMU and presentation to nationwide and municipal stakeholders. 
• Regular follow-up and monitoring of actions applied and reporting on dangers and mitigation measures. 
• Support making ready periodic progress experiences, website monitoring experiences, stakeholder conferences, consumer handover paperwork, and contract close-out experiences.

C. Build partnerships with key stakeholders: 

• Engage and preserve direct dialogue with nationwide and native authorities, local people leaders, and stakeholders, together with the respective line ministries and departments, to assist the implementation of the mission actions. 
• Contribute to sustaining and strengthening efficient coordination and collaboration with key nationwide and native counterparts (authorities and civil society) and different concerned improvement companions to discover complementarity. 
  Work intently with native authorities and communities to have an effect on the implementation of particular mission actions, together with the coaching, bioengineering demo, and climate-proofing measures utilized to the chosen infrastructure models. 

D. Knowledge administration and capability constructing:

• upport on the capability construct, tips improvement, and coverage strengthening actions as proposed underneath actions 1.3 and 2.1 of the mission. 
• With the coordination and assist from the nationwide engineers, prepare related employees and key stakeholders (together with native contractors, municipal employees, native improvement organizations, and teams) on designing and implementing climate-resilient rural infrastructures, ESIA/ ESMP tips, and gender-sensitive approaches. 
• With the coordination and assist from the nationwide engineers, plan and implement capacity-building and awareness-raising actions for technical employees on the municipalities and administrative posts, in addition to representatives of native NGOs/CBOs and different key stakeholders, on matters masking local weather resilient infrastructure planning and prioritization, local weather change hazards, and catastrophe danger administration. 
• With coordination and assist from the nationwide engineers, contribute to disseminating and sharing greatest practices and classes realized for improvement planning and information constructing, together with ESIA/ ESMP, gender-sensitive approaches, and climate-proofing requirements. 
• With the coordination and assist from the nationwide engineers, present coaching and know-how to personnel and recommendation on good building practices, sound environmental administration practices, and acceptable well being and security requirements throughout building. 
• With the coordination and assist from the nationwide engineers, collaborate and coordinate with MSA/DGDGL and different stakeholders on engineering points. Participate within the Professional Engineering Community, remaining abreast of the newest developments and skilled norms, requirements, instruments, and methodologies. 
• Participate in conferences and associated technical occasions, TWGs, and contribute to discussing climate-proofing measures for rural infrastructure at nationwide and sub-national ranges. 
• The incumbent performs different duties inside their useful profile as deemed mandatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Institutional Arrangement

National Project Field Engineer will report immediately to 2 Project Managers (GCF and CiReP initiatives) in coordination with the National Senior Civil Engineer within the respective municipalities. Extensive in-municipality area visits, consultations, and journey can be required to all of the Sucos and submit administrations to evaluate and monitor civil work building. 

Frequent communication and collaboration with the mission workforce and employees from related nationwide counterparts are required. 

According to this TOR, National Project Field Engineer will carry out duties to facilitate session and dialogue with key counterparts (nationwide and sub-national authorities), companions, and group, together with related organizations in Timor-Leste.