Regional Senior Portuguese speaking structural / civil / building construction engineer for Guinea-Bissau
Project description
The “Fund for Regional Stabilisation and Development in fragile regions within ECOWAS Member States” (FRSD) addresses Regional Stabilisation through investments and capacity building. The Fund, set up by the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), has two windows:
1) A Financial Cooperation (FC) window for investments that is funded through KfW Development Bank.
2) A Technical Cooperation (TC) window for capacity development, funded through GIZ. The main objective of the project is to contribute to the stability and sustainable development of selected ECOWAS member states through the improvement of living conditions, the strengthening of social cohesion and the promotion of good governance.
To achieve the above objective, the Project will focus on the following intervention contexts:
1. Early response/ prevention: In the context of incipient crises in ECOWAS member states the Project will finance preventive stabilization measures ('early response'). Such preventive measures shall be based on the ECOWAS Warning and Response Network (ECOWARN), which is already well-established as an early warning system but so far suffers from limited early response capacity.
2. Stabilization, recovery and reconstruction: In the aftermath of crises in ECOWAS member states the Project will finance measures for stabilization, recovery and reconstruction. Such crises may include both negative (political violence, large influx of refugees/ IDPs, natural disasters, pandemics, etc.) and positive change (democratic transition).
The Stabilization Fund will thus be both proactive (pre-crisis prevention) and reactive (post-crisis stabilization, recovery and reconstruction) in nature. It bears emphasis that all interventions will be development-oriented in nature, i.e. the underlying rationale will not be to provide humanitarian relief in acute crisis situations but rather to promote medium to long-term stabilization and sustainable development before or after crises. To achieve pre- or post-crisis stabilization effects in ECOWAS member states the following Project activities shall be financed from the Financial Contribution:
Project Component 1: Private sector promotion and employment creation
Project Component 2: Basic service provision and strengthening of resilience
Project Component 3: Promotion of good governance and social cohesion
Project Component 4: Strengthening of implementation capacities
Job description
The RCE will be responsible for:
General planning, i.e.
- reviewing from a professional standpoint realism of workplans and budgets.
- reviewing realism of workplans and budgets.
Construction planning and designs, specifically:
- review and ensure the quality of feasibility studies, tender documents, and Bill of Quantities and ensure that all relevant aspects are included.
- ensure that necessary approvals are obtained.
- verify that national design standards and requirements are considered and applied in the projects.
Technical Support to National Implementing Partners (NIPs) in the following areas:
1. Capacity Building and Training
2. Technical Advisory on design, materials, construction techniques
3. Review and Validation of Plans and Specifications
Progress Monitoring
Construction supervision
Remote Management and Monitoring System
Environmental and Social Impact Monitoring in collaboration with the Environmental and Social Safeguards Expert
Procurement Support in collaboration with Procurement Expert
Qualifications
- University degree in civil engineering / building construction / architecture or similar
- additional training desirable in: project management and public procurement
- Computer skills (MS Office, CAD software)
- Fluent in Portuguese is a must, additionally either English or French
General professional experience:
- A minimum of 5-10 years working experience in similar projects
- Proven experience in the construction/rehabilitation of social infrastructure (schools, hospitals, health centers, etc.)
- Good knowledge of public procurement procedures and/or donor rules
Specific professional experience:
- Management experience
- Profound experience with the construction of communal infrastructure
- Experience with labor intensive construction
- Experience with public procurement procedures
- Capacity building
- Planning, monitoring and supervision of small infrastructure projects, including coordination of various stakeholders (e.g. AGETIPs, NGOs, local government)
- Experience with the management cycle of investment projects in the context of financial cooperation (coordination of approval processes for construction works as an asset)
- Experience in lusophone African Countries
- Ideally experience in KfW funded infrastructure projects
Application
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