Closing date: Monday, 22 February 2016
Vacancy code VA/2016/B5418/9450
Position title Design Engineer - (Building Design Coordinator)
Level ICS-10
Department/office LCR, PAOH, Saint Lucia
Duty station Saint George, Grenada
Contract type International ICA
Contract level IICA-2
Duration 6 months (renewable based on performance and financial availability)
Application period 03-Feb-2016 to 23-Feb-2016
United Nations Core Values: Integrity, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity
Background Information - UNOPS
UNOPS supports the successful implementation of its partners' peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to serve people in need by expanding the ability of the United Nations, governments and other partners to manage projects, infrastructure and procurement in a sustainable and efficient manner.
Working in some of the world's most challenging environments, our vision is to advance sustainable implementation practices, always satisfying or surpassing our partners' expectations.
With over 7,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the logistical, technical and management knowledge they need, wherever they need it.
A flexible structure and global reach means that we can quickly respond to our partners' needs, while offering the benefits of economies of scale.
Background Information - LCO
Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office
Based in the United Nations regional headquarters in Panama City, the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office supports UNOPS operations and projects centres across the region, providing financial oversight of projects, procuring goods and services and managing human resources. The office helps ensure that projects are executed to the highest standards, providing a shared knowledge base and ensuring that best practices and lessons learned are disseminated among projects.
Background Information - Job-specific
UNOPS has been requested by the Government of Grenada to provide project management and technical assistance to the Grenada Houses of Parliament Project. The project objectives include;
- Construction of new houses of parliament building including all associated support facilities and infrastructures such as access road, car park, back-up generator, etc.
- Provision of furniture and equipment
- Provision of technical advice and capacity building
The design coordination engineer will have a minimum of 5 years building design development/construction experience particularly in building design development and coordination mature construction industry. He/she is expected to meet and exceed the organizations performance and delivery goals.
Functional Responsibilities
While UNOPS is not directly accountable for the design development, the design coordination engineer will be specifically responsible to coordinate the development of the final design documentation. He or she will also assist the project manager with producing the project initiation document, and the respective roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders. S/he must be able to apply, with some degree of autonomy, the below duties and responsibilities.
Design Coordination
Facilitate design coordination and contract document preparation through
- The management of design coordination meetings.
- Leading design consultant communication and coordination activities.
- Overseeing contract and design documentation preparation.
- Facilitating design reviews, requests for clarification, document revisions.
- Design document quality checking/reviews.
- Leading design issue resolution.
- Establish solid working relationships with the project board, client and design consultants and construction contractors.
- Manage communications ensuring stakeholders are aware of project activities, progress and exceptions .
- Advise on issues that may impact the achievement of project outcomes.
- Provide advice on FIDIC redbook conditions of contract administration.
- Provide advice on lump sum works contracts.
- Facilitate with the project manager and project FIDIC engineer contract administration, communication, and documentation activities.
- Oversee/lead the development and review of quality, complete and fit for purpose design documentation.
- Ensure that the required design documents are developed within the specified tolerance of time and cost, are complete, checked, fit for purpose and to a high quality.
- Follow UNOPS project management cycle instructions and ensure that all organizational policy is complied with (Organizational Directives and Administrative Instructions) .
- Prepare the following:
- Design reports
- Maintain the following:
- Design documentation
Understand and respect UNOPS sustainability principles
- Look for ways to embed UNOPS sustainability principles in day to day project activities.
- Seek opportunities to champion gender equality at work place.
- Champion and communicate project's sustainability aspects with key stakeholders.
- Understand the principles of the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness and mainstream them into the project plans.
- Look for ways to build capacity of local counterparts.Partnerships and Coordination
- Know the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and seek to contribute within the deliverables of the project.
- Ensure the construction management processes are designed to deliver maximum accountability, transparency and results.
- Contribute to innovation and the adaptation of best practice standards of sustainability and quality.
- Ability to plan and organize the implementation of construction projects;
- Professionalism, integrity and commitment to project demands;
- Good communication skills;
- Ability to work autonomously and in rural zones
- Good team player attitude
- Client orientation
- Technological awareness
- Results orientation
Education
- Master's Degree Title in Engineering, construction management, quantity surveying or other construction related field.
- Bachelor's Degree plus additional years of experience, can be accepted in lieu of a Master's Degree.
- Chartered member of a recognized industry association such as Institute of Engineers is desireable.
- Five years (or more based on academic credentials) of progressive experience in design management and/or design development with focus on building design in either public or private sector organizations.
- Candidate must be fluent in English (speak, read, and write)
Contract type: International ICA
Contract level: IICA 2
Contract duration: 6 months, renewable based on performance and financial availability
For more details about the ICA contractual modality, please follow this link: https://www.unops.org/english/Opportunities/job-opportunities/what-we-offer/Pages/Individual-Contractor-Agreements.aspx
Additional Considerations
- Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time (CET)
- Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
- Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
- Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
- For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
- The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.
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