World Vision International - Abbottabad
- Job Location: Abbottabad
- Country:
- Positions: 1
- Job Type: Full Time
- Department: Community, Social Services, and Nonprofit
- Last Date: 27 March, 2011
Purpose of the Position
To provide technical oversight to the WV construction projects in Pakistan
Major responsibilities
- Assist Sector specialist to conduct preliminary technical survey for potential geographical intervention area.
- Assist in proposal preparation and grant management of WASH projects.
- Provide technical advice regarding design, construction, or program modifications and structural repairs to managerial personnel.
- Assist
- Assist the sector specialist in overseeing of pre-qualification and bidding of local suppliers and contractors ensuring direct compliance to established standard.
- Analyze survey reports, maps, drawings, blueprints, aerial photography, and other topographical or geologic data to plan projects and activities.
- Assist sector specialist for raising requisitions and to manage projects expenditures.
- Provide skilled assistance to stakeholders, beneficiaries and managers by interpreting and carry out directions for planning and organizing water related projects.
- To supervise the direct implementation, construction and operation activities at project sites, following applicable construction and government standards.
- To provide support to sector specialist in management and ongoing project evaluation and prepare weekly/ monthly reports.
- Estimate costs and prepare specifications for materials used in the field of water engineering works, calculate costs and estimate completion times to prepare tenders.
- Inspect project sites to monitor progress, implement effectively activities and ensure conformance to design specification and sanitation standards.
- Provide information to supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in written form, e-mail, or person.
- Supervise the testing and commissioning of completed works.
CORE CAPABILITIES
1 Achieving quality results and services
Indicators:
1. Completes tasks in a timely, cost effective manner
2. Stays committed to outcomes despite obstacles
3. Solves routine and non-routine workplace problems quickly and efficiently
4. Coordinates continuous improvement processes
2 Practicing accountability and integrity
Indicators:
1. Demonstrates personal integrity and trustworthiness
2. Maximises use of resources to achieve outputs and meet or exceed required standards
3. Demonstrates and advocates awareness and compliance to WV or professional standards when working with all WV resources
3 Thinking clearly, deeply and broadly
Indicators:
1. Identifies gaps, trends, priorities and key issues
2. Develops advanced proposals in sector
3. Leads effective long and short term planning
4. Ensures that effort is focussed on priority areas
4 Building collaborative relationship
Indicators:
1. Encourages strong cooperation within team
2. Deals with conflict to bring co-operation
3. Resolves conflict positively and openly
4. Develops personal networks of effective relationships with external stakeholders, including other NGO’s, donors, government representatives, multilateral agencies and academia
REQUIREMENTS.
Education
- Degree in Engineering, preferably Civil or Construction Engineering or similar.
Experience
- At least 2 years of previous experience in working on construction projects.
- Good command of oral and written English is a must.
- Some computer literacy is needed.
