Apply for Technical Coordinator, Dakar, Senegal Job Vacancy | Position

Hardship Level (not relevant for home-based): A (least hardship)

Family Type (not relevant for home-based): Family

Staff Member / Affiliate Type: UNOPS IICA3

Target Start Date: 2025-01-01

Deadline for Applications: December 29, 2024

Terms of Reference

1. General Background

(Brief description of the nationwide, sector-specific, or different related context by which the person contractor will function)

The Regional Bureau for West and Central Africa, based mostly in Dakar, oversees 9 nation operations with a UNHCR presence, together with Burkina Faso, Cameroon, CAR, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal. The Regional Bureau is accredited to ECOWAS and the regional physique for the Central Africa area, ECCAS, and maintains shut liaison with UN regional entities. The area contains nations the place the official language is both English or French. The area has English-speaking and French talking nations. Full proficiency in each English and French is thus obligatory. The skill to speak clearly and successfully, each orally and in writing, in each languages is crucial.

The area is home to roughly 13.1 million displaced individuals. The majority of this inhabitants stays in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, and Chad, lots of whom had been compelled to flee their properties as a result of armed conflicts, intercommunal clashes, persecution, and different severe human rights violations. While there have been some voluntary repatriation actions and small-scale spontaneous returns within the area, the present tendencies in inhabitants actions are anticipated to proceed in 2025 and past, with restricted prospects for options. It could be advantageous to have information of and familiarity with operations within the West and Central Africa area, rising tendencies within the Sahel area and the complete vary of political and humanitarian challenges and alternatives.

The Technical Coordinator will coordinate the settlement planning, WASH, power and atmosphere, local weather motion, and shelter interventions. The incumbent will guarantee compliance of UNHCR insurance policies, guidelines, and laws within the related technical fields. The incumbent will work carefully with the technical sector specialists.

S/he’ll coordinate the technical wants assessments, develop built-in methods taking into consideration neighborhood wants, safety considerations, regional and native context, age and gender, tradition, local weather, environmental situations and out there sources and abilities. S/he may also monitor, help, and supply steering to companions. In addition, s/he would be the face of UNHCR with exterior actors and UN/NGO companions with regard to the coordination of technical initiatives/interventions as a part of inter-agency response efforts.

Given the Regional Bureau’s position in offering managerial oversight, technical steering, and help to operations within the area, the best candidate for the place can have a robust technical capability and expertise of their area of experience. The splendid candidate might be a robust workforce participant, with a service-oriented strategy, flexibility, and proactivity to handle any arising conditions and challenges. They may also be anticipated to coordinate carefully with different models within the Regional Bureau, promote collaboration and variety in a multicultural atmosphere, and contribute to a constructive work atmosphere.

2. Purpose and Scope of Assignment

(Concise and detailed description of actions, duties and duties to be undertaken, together with anticipated journey, if relevant)

• Proactively lead and/or take part in inter-agency fora to make sure that UNHCR’s mandate and programmes are given due consideration and mirrored in linkage on the nation degree, Regional Bureau degree, and on the coverage ranges of humanitarian and growth coordination techniques.
• Contribute or lead the efficient institution and upkeep of coordination mechanisms for the shelter and settlement, WASH, Energy and Environment technical sectors
• In line with the refugee coordination mannequin and globally agreed preparations guarantee well timed and efficient sectoral technical wants evaluation, acceptable planning, prioritization, implementation, reporting and analysis.
• Contribute to joint appeals, regional refugee response plans, regional refugee and migrant response plans, refugee and resilience plans, complete responses.
• Approve venture designing together with preparation of BOQs/specs and costing, perform and supply suggestions, plan of motion, and confirm compliance within the implementation for these technical sectors.
• Coordinate internally and externally the technical interventions and guarantee compliance with technical requirements.
• Lead actively technical interagency working teams and guarantee constructive and amicable relationships with authorities and companions.
• Ensure environmental concerns are taken into consideration for all of the technical interventions deliberate and carried out in settlement, shelter, wash and power programmes.
• Promote the sustainability of technical interventions by native capability constructing and self-help in collaboration with companions within the area. Ensure and lead neighborhood consultations.
• Guide and oversee the procurement of sector associated supplies or gear, together with the event of technical specs for bid paperwork, technical analysis of bids, overview/inspection of the standard of merchandise/works.
• Ensure common reporting and updating of plans.
• Build key strategic partnerships with growth and humanitarian companies in relation to WASH and different community-based infrastructure interventions.
• Lead cross-functional preparation of points and follow-up inside UNHCR within the related substantive models and companies.
• Ensure complete monitoring of technical associated actions is in place.
• Perform different associated duties as required.

The incumbent of the place might be anticipated to journey on missions to distant field-locations, a few of which can have difficult dwelling and dealing situations in addition to safety constraints.

3. Monitoring and Progress Controls

(Clear description of measurable outputs, milestones, key efficiency indicators and/or reporting necessities which can allow efficiency monitoring)

Measurable Outputs

• Establishment and upkeep of coordination mechanisms for shelter, settlement, WASH, Energy, and Environment sectors.
• Documentation of coordination mechanisms and their effectiveness.
• Completion of sectoral technical wants assessments.
• Development and approval of sectoral plans and prioritization paperwork.
• Compliance stories and proposals for venture implementation.

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• Integration of environmental concerns in technical interventions.
• Joint initiatives and initiatives with companions.

Performance Indicators

• Quality and impression of contributions to inter-agency fora.
• Compliance with technical requirements and environmental concerns.
• Community satisfaction and engagement ranges.
• Timeliness and accuracy of procurement processes.
• Quality of procured supplies and gear.
• Outcomes and impression of joint initiatives.

Reporting Requirements

• Progress updates on inter-agency coordination and venture implementation.
• Challenges and mitigation methods.
• Detailed stories on sectoral technical wants assessments and planning.
• Updates on native capacity-building initiatives and neighborhood consultations.
• Comprehensive analysis of technical interventions and their impression.
• Strategic partnership outcomes and future plans.

4. Qualifications and Experience

(List the required schooling, work expertise, experience, and competencies of the person contractor. The listed schooling and expertise ought to correspond with the extent at which the contract is obtainable.)

a. Education (Level and space of required and/or most well-liked schooling)

Required Degree Level: Graduate diploma (MA, MS, or MEng)

Type of diploma: Civil-Engineering, Water and Sanitation Engineering. Public Health Engineering or every other related area

b. Work Experience

(List variety of years and space of required work expertise. Clearly distinguish between required expertise and expertise which could possibly be an asset.)

Essential

• Prior expertise of implementing infrastructure and WASH initiatives in humanitarian context and large-scale emergencies coordinating with companions, and governmental technical departments.
• Prior expertise in designing and implementing community-based initiatives.
• Hands-on venture formulation, planning, supervision, and administration expertise.
• Experience of technical venture administration (together with website supervision, monitoring, high quality management, analysis and many others.) and utility of participatory approaches to facilitate lively participation of communities into the venture cycle and into the development course of.
• Ability to develop initiatives/actions with political consciousness and in due consideration to native context, together with sensitivity to cultural and gender particular wants to make sure that the social and cultural background of the communities is taken into consideration whereas designing, creating and implementing infrastructure works (engineering/ WASH).
• Strong expertise in inter-agency coordination.
• Strong expertise in constructing on present native capability and switch information as acceptable.
• Fluency in each English and French

Desirable

Diverse expertise with UNHCR programming, insurance policies, and requirements, and with sustainable response approaches.

c. Key Competencies

(Technical information, abilities, managerial competencies, or different private competencies related to the efficiency of the task. Clearly distinguish between required and desired competencies)

Functional Skills

CL-Site Governance & Community Engagement

EX- Knowledge Management

EX-Experience in a global capability

EX-Field expertise with UNHCR and/or with different humanitarian organizations

MG-Decision Making

MG-People Management

MG-Planning

MG-Project Management

MG-Team Building

PG-Experience with coordinating with Implementing Partners (Government/INGO/NGO/Corporate)

PG-Monitoring Programmes/Projects

PG-Needs Assessment and Response Analysis

Core Competencies

Accountability

Communication

Organizational Awareness

Teamwork & Collaboration

Commitment to Continuous Learning

Client & Result Orientation

Managerial Competencies

Empowering and Building Trust

Judgement and Decision Making

Leadership

Managing Performance

Managing Resources

Strategic Planning and Vision

Cross-Functional Competencies

Change Capability and Adaptability

Stakeholder Management

Planning and Organizing

Standard Job Description: Required Languages: French

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English

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Additional Qualifications: Skills

Climate Change, Shelter Management, WA-WASH in emergencies

Education

Masters of Science (MS): Civil Engineering

Certifications

Work Experience

Other info: N/AThe English model is taken into account unique and authoritative, translation to different language(s) serve the aim of commercial of native positions the place relevant however should not thought-about as official translationsN/AThis place would not require a practical clearance

Home-Based: No