Quality Control Surveyor Associate, SC6, Cox's Bazar

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WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.  Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

Cox’s Bazar has been home to one of the world’s most protracted refugee situations, with more than 20 years of camp and makeshift site settlement by a Muslim minority from Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State, known as Rohingya. Since the 1990’s, the Government of Bangladesh hosts 34,000 officially registered refugees in two camps in Cox’s Bazar. A further 300,000-500,000 Rohingya refugees, politically referred to as Undocumented Myanmar Nationals (UMNs) have been residing in poor conditions in neighboring Bangladeshi host communities, including some 77,100 in the two makeshift settlements adjacent to the official camps. Humanitarian partners estimate that the influx of new arrivals since August 2017 is likely to peak at 700,000-800,000.

Access to the refugee camps is critical to the humanitarian response where engineering works are undertaken as preventative measures and in preparation to react as required to maintain access.  A Site Maintenance and Engineering Project was established comprising the key stakeholders involved in the construction and use of the camp roads, namely IOM, UNHCR, and WFP. The Project undertakes the following four principal activities:

1. Clearing and strengthening primary drainage channels,
2. Maintaining vehicular access via maintenance, emergency repair and rehabilitation,
3. Materials supply, fabrication, and pre-positioning to facilitate rapid response,
4. Site preparation work.

JOB PURPOSE

To coordinate and control a full range of control procedures support services for a specific professional area of work, to ensure that services are delivered effectively.  

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Head of Engineering unit, the primary and overriding responsibility for the position is to; Monitor and ensure that all procedures for Quality and Quantity (Q&Q) controls control procedures are effective and stringently followed by all staff, project partners, outsourced labourers and contractors, in order to maintain appropriate controls are in place and are properly followed.

The incumbent will be responsible for the following duties:

• Verify the storage, ordering, planned distributions and utilisation of construction materials, fuel, machinery resolving related Q&Q issues and escalating where appropriate, to ensure that the quantities distributed, and the quality of the operation is in line with appropriate standards.
• Prepare field mission reports to document related issues and actions taken and corresponding recommendations.
• Collect and summarise data, collaborating with project partners where required, conduct analysis and prepare reports in order to support operational reviews, implement improvements and inform decision-making.
• Suggest improvements to field monitoring processes and procedures for effective communication flow and efficient operations in addressing Q&Q control issues.
• Provide standard trainings on operational practices, monitoring tools and methods in order to support implementation of proper standards staff development and high performance.
• Analyse field operations, distribution data, related meetings and assessment reports and perform assessments within the area of responsibility to support safe and effective project delivery in order to present detailed recommendations for risk mitigation and facilitation of decision-making.
• Review operational threats and risks in detail and compile accurate reports on Q&Q issues that could adversely impact project implementation, ensure information is accurately collated and sent to senior security staff to support reporting and decision making.
• Maintain and develop recommendations for improving emergency and contingency planning documentation including physical preparations and procedures, to support preparedness for a crisis.
• Any other related task as required

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: BSc/ Master’s in civil engineering/Construction/other related field or relevant job experience and qualification /certification in Quality and Quantity Surveyor  

Experience: 5-6 years of relevant experience

Knowledge & Skills:

• Computer literate in all Microsoft applications
• Fluency in oral Chittagonian/Rohingyan dialect

Language: Excellent written and oral/communications skills in both English and Bangla

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
•  Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
•  Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
•  Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfill the needs of internal and external partners.

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

Strong preference will be given to those who can prove they can operate in fast-fluid environments with limited resources. The ideal candidate will be both detailed-oriented, determined, proactive and impatient to get stuff done. The Engineer must be extremely fast-thinking and efficient.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Contract Type             : Service Contract, SC6

Contract Duration        : 12 months

Duty Station                : Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Nationality                   : Bangladeshi only

Monthly Salary            : BDT. 103,091

Number of post           : 1 (one)

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

15 June 2019

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Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.