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For each child, shelter
UNICEF within the State of Palestine (SoP) works to uphold the rights of kids to entry providers and safety, from early childhood via to adolescence. Our goal is to make sure that each child within the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, together with East Jerusalem, irrespective of background or circumstance, has an equal likelihood to fulfil their potential.
In the previous years, UNICEF within the State of Palestine has achieved a excessive attain and engagement via its communication channels. UNICEF-SoP wish to construct on this and proceed partaking with our viewers, who are usually not solely search data however are keen to have vital conversations on essential points regarding kids’s wellbeing and rights.
How are you able to make a difference?
You will report back to Supply and Logistics Manager P4 (Gaza) and you’re accountable for managing the development portfolio and the inhouse engineers of a large-sized nation workplace. The administration of development tasks contains planning, help to procurement, in addition to monitoring of development works on website. You will collaborate intently with UNICEF Programme/ Operations in defining development interventions to satisfy programmatic wants and obtain outcomes for kids and supplies technical and advisory help to Government and companions on development undertaking administration.
Your key capabilities/accountabilities
1. Management of development unit
– Develop the annual work plan for the Construction unit; decide priorities/targets and efficiency measurements and monitor work progress to make sure that outcomes are achieved in keeping with schedule and efficiency requirements.
– Ensure efficient and environment friendly administration of the Construction unit human and monetary sources; guarantee applicable staffing deployment and well timed recruitment in keeping with undertaking’s wants.
– Supervise and coach unit workers; conduct weekly unit conferences; guarantee readability of roles and duties. In collaboration with the Construction Unit in Supply Division, guarantee data sharing and studying is prioritized to be able to constantly construct capability of people and the staff.
2. Collaboration with UNICEF Programme and coordination with Government counterparts
– Review and supply technical steerage on Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA) and its Recovery Framework to Programme sections.
– Establish shut collaboration with Programme sections to place their development intervention via involvement in development undertaking proposals, planning, and preparation of related phrases of reference.
– Provide technical backstopping and help in matter of development undertaking administration to Programme sections.
– In collaboration with the Government counterparts, develop and produce modern cost-effective development designs utilizing native development supplies; compile and replace checklist of finest practices in development and constructing design.
– Attend steering and technical cooperation conferences; put together PPT displays on tasks’ progress; undertake follow-up motion and coordination associated to undertaking implementation and monitoring.
– Keep Programme sections knowledgeable of tasks’ progress and obstacles; draft related sections of undertaking studies required for donors, administration, annual studies, and many others.
3. Preparation of design and technical paperwork
– Explore with entities offering engineering providers (e.g., consultancy engineering companies, authorities engineering departments, engineering universities) the chance of utilizing modular strategy for the reconstruction of broken amenities – Resilient buildings transformable in phases from emergency response, transitional stage (semi-permanent), to everlasting.
– Prepare the scope of development works primarily based on program necessities and website evaluation; outline deliverables, undertaking milestones and fee modality.
– Advocate and help the application of UNICEF norms and requirements (child-friendly, accessibility, greening, MOSS, MORSS, and many others.) to development tasks, making an allowance for blast resistance, native setting and obtainable supplies.
– Ensure with specialised engineering companies the structural integrity of buildings affected by the conflict previous to partaking in any rehabilitation or renovation actions.
– Ensure technical paperwork (design drawings, technical specs and payments of portions) are clear, full and compliant to programmatic necessities; guarantee endorsement of these technical paperwork by related ministries.
– Ensure all permits required for development actions are obtained prior initiating works.
4. Support to procurement course of
– Liaise and coordinate with Supply part to arrange LPA requests and CRC submissions with supporting paperwork associated to development actions.
– Conduct surveys to establish potential development firms and engineering companies obtainable within the native market; set up native Long-Term Arrangements for engineering providers (design and website supervision). Explore the chance of establishing native Long-Term Arrangements for development of modular amenities.
– Prepare the phrases of reference and different tender paperwork for deciding on development firms and supervising companies; attend bidders’ convention and current the technical parts of the tender; reply technical questions raised by the bidders in the course of the tendering.
– Conduct the analysis of technical proposals obtained and draft the analysis report; present help to Supply part on the evaluation of monetary proposals.
– Review the development contracts and related annexes, and make sure the data offered is right and full previous to signature by events.
5. Monitoring of development tasks
– Manage the development dashboard of all ongoing and in pipeline actions and report back to Programme sections on challenges and potential dangers recognized.
– Organize the beginning of development works in coordination with the development firm and the engineering agency.
– Ensure total follow-up to development actions by enterprise common website visits, conducting common technical conferences, monitoring progress and making certain work compliance with norms, requirements, and timeline.
– Ensure efficient monitoring and supervision instruments are developed and applied, to allow monitoring and evaluation of contract efficiency simply undertaken and be certain that contractors and engineering consultancy firms are working in compliance with contractual phrases and circumstances.
– Certify funds and variations; monitor development expenditures and submit monetary standing studies on development actions.
– Provide help to UNICEF Contract Administrator on contract administration, amendments, variations, length extensions, making use of liquidated damages, and many others.
– Organize and take part within the partial, substantial and last reception of works after verifying the correction of all defects.
– Ensure contract close-out in VISION together with accomplished Contract Performance Evaluation; Prepare and submit the ultimate completion report and classes realized to the Construction Unit (SD).
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
Education:
An superior college diploma is required in in civil engineering, development engineering, structure or different related space, or related first-level college diploma (Bachelor’s) at the side of a sound related skilled certification is required. A primary degree college diploma (Bachelor’s) in a related technical subject (as recognized above), at the side of extra two (2) years of related work expertise could also be taken in lieu of a complicated college diploma.
Experience:
A minimal of eight (8) years of related expertise, on the nationwide and/or worldwide ranges, in undertaking administration, website supervision, high quality assurance and/or different directly-related technical fields is required.
Emergency Experience is a bonus
Language Requirement:
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other UN language, ideally Arabic, is taken into account an asset.
For each Child, you show…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the pieces we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to attain outcomes for affect (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others (8) Nurtures, leads and manages folks.
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This place shouldn’t be thought-about an elevated danger function. However, UNICEF reserves the precise to conduct additional vetting/evaluation throughout the scope of child safeguarding as applicable.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our world workforce should mirror the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals below 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of tutorial credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply extra data to conduct a background check.
UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station is required for IP positions and will likely be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may additionally be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice will likely be canceled.
Remarks:
Special Remarks: In the present evolving emergency context, this place will likely be primarily based in Gaza the place medical amenities have been negatively affected and particular person power and/or severe medical circumstances can’t be adequately addressed.
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF’s lively dedication to variety and inclusion is essential to ship the perfect outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates are inspired to apply.
Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.
This is required for all posts requiring a better schooling diploma. “UNICEF solely considers larger academic {qualifications} obtained from an establishment accredited/acknowledged within the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a listing up to date by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The checklist will be accessed at http://www.whed.net/
Only shortlisted candidates will likely be notified and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
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Government workers who’re thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any cause.
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All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the degree of the publish within the related useful space, or an inner/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the publish, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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Construction Manager, P-4, Gaza, State of Palestine, Fixed Term (publish no. 127610)
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