Overview
The role provides technical oversight and advisory support for infrastructure interventions, ensuring technical soundness, compliance with standards, and continuity across the intervention cycle.
Tasks Summary
- Conduct day-to-day monitoring of construction activities to ensure compliance with approved designs, work plans, technical specifications, and quality standards.
- Implement and apply quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) measures.
- Identify construction-related quality issues, defects, or risks, and recommend corrective actions.
- Carry out technical assessment/feasibility for climate-resilient infrastructures.
- Provide technical advisory support for climate-resilient infrastructure interventions.
- Review and provide written technical feedback on feasibility studies, engineering designs and drawings, construction work plans, and implementation outputs.
- Review Bills of Quantities (BoQs), cost estimates, and technical specifications.
- Advise on context-appropriate, climate-resilient, and risk-informed engineering solutions.
- Provide technical inputs to support procurement and contracting processes.
- Review the technical aspects of bids and proposals.
- Support UNICEF and partners in responding to technical clarifications during procurement and contracting processes.
- Identify technical and quality-related capacity gaps among local contractors, implementing partners, and relevant counterparts.
- Develop and deliver targeted technical briefings or on-the-job training.
- Support knowledge transfer to strengthen the sustainability and long-term performance of infrastructure investments.
- Coordinate closely with UNICEF programme teams and relevant counterparts.
- Participate in technical and coordination meetings.
- Provide periodically written technical updates and QA-related observations to UNICEF.
Experience Requirements
- At least five years’ relevant experience including in design/supervision of solarized water supply systems, including boreholes, solar-powered pumping systems, storage tanks, distribution networks, and sanitation infrastructure particularly in rural or resource-constrained settings.
- Strong understanding of WASH infrastructure and water quality assurance, with clear awareness of the linkages between water systems, public health, and child wellbeing is desirable.
- Demonstrated experience in on-site construction supervision and quality assurance (QA/QC) is desirable
- Practical knowledge of climate-resilient and risk-informed infrastructure approaches applicable to solar-powered water systems is desirable
Qualification Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Water Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a closely related field.
