Job advertisement: Water and Environmental Sanitation Consultant
HUMAN ACCESS - Taiz Governorate Branch announces its need to employ a water and environmental sanitation consultant in a project to support the integrated response to improve basic services for the most vulnerable communities in the districts of Al-Mudhaffar, Al-Qahirah, and Broom Mayfa’, funded by YHF.
Position: Water and environmental sanitation consultant
Required number: One consultant
Contract duration: 12 months
Location: Taiz Governorate
Job definition: Providing support and technical supervision to implement the project plan
Roles and responsibilities:
1. Technical evaluation and development of bills of quantities, estimated costs, engineering drawings and drawings for the works required for:
- Building the planned number of public water points in the targeted IDP sites.
- Rehabilitation of targeted water projects.
- Building the planned number of toilets for displaced people in the targeted locations.
2. Prepare project tender documents for the above works.
3. Participate in the work of the technical committees charged with opening bids for project tenders for the above works, assess and analyze them technically and financially, and submit reports and recommendations on the results.
4. Participate in handing over work sites to contracted contractors.
5. Count the daily supplies of raw materials (supplies) to work sites, examine their contents, and verify their compliance with the agreed upon specifications and standards.
6. Direct field supervision and supervision of contractors’ implementation of contracted works and verify their compliance with agreed upon specifications and standards.
7. Prepare contractors’ extracts and follow up on their disbursement.
8. Submit the additional works (descriptions and quantities) proposed by him or another party (the contractor, the beneficiaries committee) and the proposed party’s justifications and his point of view on them if they were proposed by another party.
9. Participate in the work of committees examining and receiving completed works from contractors.
10. Participate with the project coordinator in carrying out monthly field visits to implementation sites and evaluate the progress achieved in implementing contractual works.
11. Submit the progress reports and periodic updates required of him on the progress achieved in implementing the contractual works, using the approved forms.
12. Electronic and office archiving of all documents and reports responsible for it and take all necessary precautions to protect them from damage.
13. Preserve the project’s property in his custody and take the necessary precautions to protect them from damage.
14. Carry out the tasks assigned to him within the framework of his work and position, which are not mentioned in this description.
Job requirements
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or one of its branches.
- At least five years in the field of consulting work, including three years in water and environmental sanitation projects.
- At least three years of work in the association or any other local or international organization.
Skills and abilities
- Operational planning.
- Coordination, direction, and technical supervision.
- Effective communication and performance evaluation.
- Preparing and analyzing tables of quantities and specifications.
- Preparing technical reports and abstracts of the executed works.
- The ability to think independently, make decisions, and solve problems, especially in various emergency situations.
- The ability to build positive relationships with official bodies and social entities.
- Good level of working on basic computer applications and engineering design programs.
Other conditions
- Willingness to work fulltime.
- The applicant must not have had any previous convictions related to exploitation, abuse, sexual harassment, fraud, corruption, or conflict of interest.
- Priority will be given to the people of the governorates targeted by the project.
How to apply for a job:
Click here to fill out a job application form
And attach the following:
- A copy of the CV.
- A copy of the ID card, both front and back sides.
- A copy of the academic qualification.
- A copy of certificates of participation in training courses related to the job subject.
- A copy of experience certificates in the field of the job subject of the advertisement.