VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Organization: Habitat For Humanity Nepal
Habitat for Humanity logo. (PRNewsFoto/HABITAT FOR HUMANITY)
Habitat For Humanity Nepal’s vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live Habitat Nepal operates as part of an international network with a common objective of reducing poverty and eliminating substandard housing and homelessness from the world. Habitat Nepal invites applications from highly qualified candidates for the following position to be fulfilled at Habitat Nepal based in Kavrepalanchowk, Nepal.
Position: Project Engineer
Position: Project Engineer
No. of vacancies: 1(One)
Date of Announcement: September 18, 2019
Duration: December 2020(Extendable if funding and need permits)
Location: Kavrepalanchok
Reports to: ProgramManager
Field Visits: Frequent travel to project areas
Core Function: This position is responsible to deliver as overall subject matter expert in construction research, implementation, and training. He/she ensures that Habitat Nepal construction activities are delivered according to Habitat Housing Quality Standards and the Nepal Government codes and regulations.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for monitoring and construction supervision of Housing Projects implemented through partners
• Involves in construction research and development of appropriate technologies, and leads construction-related trainings
• Ensures that Habitat Nepal construction designs meet Habitat for Humanity Housing Quality Standards and/or appropriate government building codes and regulations.
• Ensures construction research, preparation of BOQs, construction/maintenance manuals
• Develop guidelines on selection and quality of materials
• Evaluate quality of materials from local vendors and select the optimum ones
• Provides support for training design, proposal writing and research
• Responsible for delivering or support to quality construction-related trainings as per DUDBC curriculum or any other curriculum as per Habitat Nepal request
• Ensure that partners (engineers, site-supervisors and other staffs) fulfill their duty following their M&E responsibilities and feed into the real time database. Work in close coordination with the Habitat Nepal GIS/Database expert to maintain an updated database
• Ensure timely reporting by providing the necessary information in a timely manner to the project manager/coordinator/supervisor
• Undertake weekly/monthly/quarterly or as per need monitoring visits to the designated implementation areas to support the partner with implementation aspects of the project and/or monitoring visits as per program M&E plan
• Provides subject matter expert (SME) support for GV build implementation, and works in close coordination with the Program GV Coordination Manager, GV Engineer and other GV staff
• Provides supervision and oversight to partner staff, including performance, planning, goal setting, monitoring, feedback, evaluation and development
• Liaison with all related stakeholders on district, municipality and community level to support the project implementation
• Other related duties as assigned by supervisor
Education Qualification and Professional Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
• At least 3 years of relevant work experience in re-construction, including significant on-site or field experience.
• Monitoring and supervisory experience preferred and importantly WASH related experience
Last date to apply: September 25, 2019
HOW TO APPLY
Please refer to www.habitatnepal.org/careers for the detailed position description. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply with an application letter and updated resume indicating the position applied in subject of the email by September 25, 2019 addressed to:
Human Resource Department
Habitat for Humanity International, Nepal
Email: [email protected]
Habitat Nepal is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates of diverse background, women and persons with disability to apply. Local candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Source: Himalayan Times, September 18, 2019
