Overview
The Infrastructure Senior Manager will provide strategic guidance, technical oversight, and advisory support to infrastructure projects across multiple offices, ensuring adherence to UNOPS standards and fostering effective coordination.
Tasks Summary
- Provide strategic leadership and advisory support for governance, performance, and risk management across the infrastructure portfolio.
- Advise on the design and implementation of portfolio monitoring systems and performance metrics.
- Lead initiatives to improve processes, operational efficiency, and management controls.
- Ensure portfolio performance and governance reporting provides actionable insights.
- Recommend and advise on corrective actions for at-risk projects.
- Provide technical advice to Project Acceptance Committee (PAC) meetings.
- Provide strategic technical advisory and coordination support to Project Managers across the project lifecycle.
- Advise Project Managers on planning, coordination, and monitoring of construction and rehabilitation activities.
- Provide guidance on the development, implementation, and oversight of Quality, Health, Safety, and Environmental (QHSE) plans.
- Support the PMO and Project Managers in consolidating technical data and project information.
- Prepare periodic portfolio-level reports.
- Advise Project Managers in conducting feasibility studies, needs assessments, and preliminary investigations.
- Provide technical oversight and guidance in the preparation of tender dossiers.
- Support Project Managers in defining and managing design requirements, timelines, and deliverables.
- Provide strategic technical input to procurement and project teams during tender preparation and bid evaluation.
- Provide strategic oversight and technical assurance for construction activities.
- Oversee and assure the application of effective quality, quantity, and schedule controls.
- Monitor compliance of construction works with technical specifications and contractual requirements.
- Provide advisory support to Project Managers on the overall management of works implementation.
- Conduct targeted spot checks and high-level reviews of construction progress.
- Support Project Managers in the preparation and quality review of key project and contract documentation.
- Provide strategic oversight and advisory support for robust monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of infrastructure projects.
- Support the integration of results frameworks and M&E plans into project implementation strategies.
- Provide high-level oversight of project performance.
- Ensure timely, accurate, and comprehensive reporting of project and financial performance.
- Maintain oversight of project data management, dashboards, and progress tracking systems.
- Guide project teams to consistently track, update, and report milestones and targets.
- Analyze trends across projects to identify systemic issues and opportunities for improvement.
- Provide strategic oversight and advisory support to ensure quality, compliance, and risk management standards are met.
- Advise and support internal stakeholders to ensure projects comply with audit, regulatory, and corporate quality requirements.
- Collaborate with procurement, supply chain, and project teams to ensure alignment between project delivery and suppliers’ quality management systems.
- Coordinate and oversee quality and risk reviews of key project documents, deliverables, and technical outputs.
- Provide high-level quality assurance for management outputs.
- Identify portfolio-level quality and risk trends and advise on mitigation measures.
- Foster a culture of proactive risk management and continuous improvement.
- Provide strategic leadership to foster a culture of learning, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
- Promote a learning environment within project teams.
- Facilitate engagement with Project Managers to capture and disseminate lessons learned, case studies, and best practices.
- Monitor emerging trends, tools, and good practices in infrastructure and project management.
- Ensure timely documentation and sharing of lessons learned.
- Provide strategic feedback to corporate practice and functional groups on policies, systems, and operational guidance.
- Champion innovative approaches and solutions.
Experience Requirements
- A minimum of 7 years of experience in civil engineering construction management is required.
- A minimum of 7 years of experience in project management is required.
- Knowledge of quality assurance methodologies is required.
- Experience in and knowledge of documenting business/ functional requirements, and performing process mapping/ redesign is required.
- Work experience in post-conflict/ fragile environments is desirable.
- Some experience in the UN system organizations and/or a developing country is desirable.
- Experience of working in multicultural environments or UN system organizations in a developing country is desired.
- Experience in development or humanitarian contexts is desired
- Proficiency in IT systems relevant to the advisory function, with an ability to implement (if needed) as per the requirements, is desired.
Qualification Requirements
- Required Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Civil Engineering, Architecture or related field with 9 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any discipline with 7 years of relevant experience is required.
- Desired Project management certification from a globally recognised institute (for example PRINCE2® Foundation) is desired.
- AutoCAD certification is desirable.
