Overview
Lead infrastructure projects, ensuring quality, budget, and schedule adherence while driving resilient, safe, and sustainable construction aligned with UNOPS standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee and manage day-to-day site construction activities to ensure compliance with project specifications, approved drawings, and contractual obligations.
- Monitor work progress and contractor performance to ensure timely, cost-effective and high-quality delivery of outputs.
- Enforce compliance with UNOPS quality standards and project-specific quality assurance plans.
- Conduct regular inspections and testing of materials, equipment and works to ensure conformity with design specifications and quality benchmarks.
- Lead the implementation of UNOPS HSSE management systems at the project site, ensuring compliance with organizational and local regulations.
- Track project progress against work plans, milestones and performance targets, providing accurate updates to stakeholders.
- Support the preparation of Interim Payment Certificates (IPCs), contract close-out documentation, and project completion reports.
- Participate in knowledge-sharing initiatives and Communities of Practice (CoPs), contributing insights and lessons learned.
Required Experience
- Relevant experience is work in building construction, site supervision or infrastructure project management or similar fields.
- Experience in quality control, monitoring and reporting within construction projects is required.
- Demonstrable proficiency in the use of collaboration and productivity tools (e.g. MS Office, G-Suite, etc) and web-based management systems are required.
- Experience of working in multicultural environments or UN system organizations in a developing country is desired.
- Experience in development or humanitarian contexts is desired.
- Experience in project documentation, report writing and technical communication is desired.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or related fields with 2 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any of the above or related fields with 0 years of relevant experience is required.
- A globally or nationally recognized professional certificate in Administration is desired.
