Field Engineer (Wash) KNR

About Islamic Relief Worldwide

Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) is an international, non-profitable, non-governmental humanitarian relief organization with its head quarter in Birmingham, UK. It enjoys consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is a signatory to the Code of Conduct for International Red Cross and red Crescent Moments and NGOs in Disaster Relief. Islamic Relief has been working in Afghanistan for more than 23 years, providing emergency relief and implementing life-changing development projects for some of the most vulnerable people in the country. Islamic Relief set up our first Afghanistan office in 1999. Since then, IRA continued providing assistances in emergency relief, food security, livelihood, education, health, nutrition, shelter, orphan sponsorship, Ramadan and Qurbani programmes.

Job Summary

To ensure the quality and timely completion of WASH intervention at the assigned program area, manage construction related activities through Survey for CPI structures, providing technical assistance to the team and associated vendors and communities. Also, coordinate with other team members and Consortium members, Local CSO’ and local Government agencies to complete the tasks as per the desired results from IR USA funded WISH project application and generate solid evidence and impacts of best practice applied in the project, which are replicable, scalable, and necessary to communicate to donor.

Duties & Responsibilities

The following are the main responsibilities that the role holder will be accountable for:

·        Baseline of WaSH interventions in the project targeted areas

·        Linking WaSH Intervention with health partners program activities and create synergies and impact.

·        Identification of construction sites with relevant designing in the context

·        Identify potential WaSH Intervention sites in consultation with govt: agencies, wash clusters, other sector partners and communities plus field team.

·        Designing integrated work plans in collaboration with teams from other departments/thematic areas.

·        Suggest most relevant sites as per WISH Project application mandate and focus repair of old govt: owned schemes in priority an taking technical approval from PRRD/MRRD

·        Identification and hiring of the construction teams and labour while working in close collaboration procurement/supply chain department.

·        With the support of field team, provide realistic construction estimates, designs and work plans and ensure full cooperation with admin team to fulfil the desired progress within the stipulated time.

·        Ensure Pre, during and post Site records and pictures.

·        Overall supervision and technical support of WASH related activities

·        Monitoring of the WASH activities with reports generation on regular basis

·        Provides training and counselling, as needed.

·        Assures that proper safety standards and precautions are followed.

·        Prepares and maintains records for weekly and monthly reports.

·        Recommends purchase of specialized equipment required for implementation of the WASH activities.

·        Ensuring projects run smoothly and completion within budget and on time.

·        Identify, Analyse, and resolve all technical issues in all files, projects and ensure efficient interpretation of all design drawings and maintain all Quality Control procedures and safety in projects.

·        Prioritize Inclusion in all WASH field work and prepare all hardware WASH with accessibility to person with disability and older age.

·        Ensure WaSH IEC material in compliance with health team IEC and also, in accordance with Global WASH Standards and Three-star approaches in School WASH program.

·        Coordinate with survey team and prepare work schedule as per WASH project to ensure compliance with project drawings and specifications. 

·        Analyse and prepare plans for material requisitions. 

·        Design all work plans and identify and resolve all WASH related issues on site.

·        Document all civil field activities and perform regular inspection to check progress of undergoing works. 

·        Perform quality assurance inspection to verify the work is performed in compliance with the plans and specifications.

·        Processing daily project documentation and construction observations.

·        Preparing correspondence to the Contractor and donor agency.

·        Preparing weekly project status updates

·        Performing other duties as required by the work and assigned by the Project Coordinator

Job Requirements

PERSON SPECIFICATION

It is essential that the post holder shows a good understanding and sympathy with Islamic values and principles as well as commitment to Islamic Relief Worldwide vision, mission and core values.

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications

·        BSC-Civil Engineering  

·        Knowledge of WASH Intervention & practices

·        materials, methods and processes used in the construction with in-depth knowledge about good construction practices.

·        MS Office, Auto CAD, Water GEMS, MS Project

·        Ability to plan, schedule and supervise the work of others.

·        Ability to maintain records and prepare reports.

·        Knowledge of cost analysis, scheduling

·        knowledge of safety and security measures

Experience

·        5-10 years of relevant experience.

·        Proven experience of planning and designing of WASH schemes

·        Proven experience of working with and management of contractors

Key Personal Qualities

·        Have good communication Skills, can effectively communicate with local communities.

·        Can work in Stressed environment and have ability to meet deadlines.

·        Have time management skills.

Desirable:

·        Relevant experience of working with humanitarian/development sector/INGOs

·        Working knowledge of regional languages of Afghanistan.

Submission Guideline

Interested and qualified national female candidates should submit a cover letter explaining their motivation and updated CV to the following:

Field Engineer (Wash) KNR | Jobs.af

The closing date for accepting applications is 07 Nov 2023.

Please clearly state the Vacancy Announcement number and title of the position you are applying for in the subject line. 

Please note that applications received after the closing date will not be considered and only short-listed candidates will be called for written test/interview

Functional Area

Engineering

Countries

Afghanistan

Provinces

Konar

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