Project Officer (Flood Mitigation) (P)

Overview

The Project Officer (Flood Mitigation) will coordinate the implementation of flood mitigation projects, providing operational guidance and technical supervision to project staff and partners.

Tasks Summary

• Coordinate overall project implementation, including financial, administrative, and technical aspects.
• Provide operational guidance and technical supervision to project staff.
• Support monitoring and progress against project objectives and coordinate the establishment of an M&E Framework.
• Identify priority areas for project development and contribute to new project proposals.
• Supervise project personnel, consultants, and implementing partners.
• Plan, develop, organize, and deliver capacity building activities.
• Support monitoring and compliance with project partners, staff, and entities.
• Liaise with Government entities, IPs, UN agencies, and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate with other units in the Country Office for smooth implementation.
• Coordinate information management on project activities, including visibility.
• Draft progress reports (Financial, Narrative, and other).
• Participate in relevant conferences, workshops, steering committees, and technical working groups.
• Participate in relevant UN working groups to contribute to mainstreaming migration issues.
• Undertake duty travel as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Experience Requirements

• Master’s degree with two years of relevant professional experience; or University degree with four years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience in supervising the construction of dikes in low-income countries and hard to reach areas, particularly in South Sudan.
• Experience in field supervision of flood mitigation infrastructure construction.
• Experience working on World Bank-financed activities or other Multilateral Development Bank (MDB)-financed projects.
• Experience working in Fragility, Conflict and Violence (FCV)-affected contexts.
• Extensive experience in deep field and hard-to-reach area infrastructure construction, specifically including dikes, drainage systems, culverts.
• Previous experience on dike and flood mitigation infrastructure supervision.
• Experience in working with field team members and Third-Party Contracted field engineers and casual laborers.
• Experience working with contractors and suppliers to implement infrastructure and DRM infrastructure activities.
• Experience and knowledge of understanding detail hydrological and flood modelling findings, design documents and able to implement accordingly.
• Experience on coordinating field team on the implementation of flood mitigation projects.

Qualification Requirements

• Master’s degree in Water Resources Engineering, Hydraulics Engineering, Hydrology, Disaster Risk Management or a related field from an accredited academic institution.
• University degree in the above fields.

Other Details

Languages Required: • Fluency in English is required (oral and written).

Languages Preferred: • Working knowledge of Arabic is an advantage.

Contract Duration: • Initial Contract Duration: 6 months • Contract Type: Special Short Term Graded (Up to 9 months)

Work Modality:

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