Modest dwelling Allowance for worldwide UN Volunteer Specialist Civil Engineer in Mozambique
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Description of task title
Civil Engineer
task nation
Mozambique
anticipated start date
30/07/2023
Sustainable enchancment objective
thirteen. local climate movement
Volunteer class
worldwide UN Volunteer Specialist
DoA reserved for individuals with disabilities
No
Host entity
UNDP
form
Onsite
interval
12 months (with likelihood of extension)
quantity of assignments
1
responsibility stations
Pemba
particulars
Modest dwelling Allowance for worldwide UN Volunteer Specialist Civil Engineer in Mozambique
Mission and goals
UNDP is the UN’s world enchancment community, a agency advocating for change and connecting nations to information, expertise and assets, working with them on their very personal options to world and nationwide enchancment challenges. UNDP in Mozambique helps the federal authorities of Mozambique to discover sustainable enchancment, create alternatives for empowerment, notably for women and likely the most susceptible, shield the setting, deal with disasters and construct resilience, set up strategic partnerships; to enhance the customary of life for all residents.
Context
UNDP’s nation Programme priorities have been outlined with nationwide counterparts in alignment with the 5-yr authorities plan (PQG), the United Nations enchancment assist Framework (UNDAF) 2017-2020, the priorities of the UNDP Strategic Plan, and the Istanbul Programme of movement for least developed nations.
Early restoration is an important aspect of an environment nice humanitarian disaster response as a basis for constructing resilience in submit-disaster settings. simply as emergency aid actions are essential to saving lives by responding to in all likelihood the most pressing human wants, integrating an early restoration strategy inside humanitarian operations is essential to the foremost efforts of a group to get elevated. It prepares the underside for an environment nice ‘exit method’ for humanitarian actors and contributes to ‘sturdy options’ by establishing the backside on which nationally-led enchancment occurs after a disaster. UNDP has developed a unfold of interventions that take into account three interlinked and transformative pillars:
(a) Sustainable and inclusive financial transformation;
(b) Resilience and pure assets administration;
(c) Good governance, peace and social cohesion. UNDP’s imaginative and prescient of the cyclone restoration programme arises from key factors associated to enchancment, governance and resilience. It has three important strands: assist the communities get elevated from the affect of cyclone and floods and rebuild their property and livelihoods with a take into account women and individuals with disabilities; develop nationwide capacities and strategies to plan and implement the restoration programme; construct group and nationwide resilience to minimize again the affect of disasters.
Cyclone Kenneth made landfall as a class 4 cyclone on 24 April 2019, with eye of the storm hitting shut to Quiterajo in Cabo Delgado Province. The affect however was devastating inside the precept areas hit collectively with Macomia, Ibo, Mucojo, Quissanga, Palma, Mecufi, Pemba (metropolis and District) as properly as to Erati and Nacaroa Districts in Nampula pr
process description
all by way of the delegated authority and underneath the supervision of PMU supervisor or his/her designated mandated consultant(s), the UNV – Civil Engineer will carry out the following duties: set up and lead in collaboration an evaluation for particles and strong waste administration, primarily based on preliminary work achieved by UNDP by way of the emergency response to Cyclone Kenneth;
Develop a method for particles and waste administration and promote each fast as properly as to medium to future initiatives with affect on livelihoods, environmental sustainability and native governance; Design UNDP mission on particles and strong waste administration inside the disaster affected areas collectively with outcomes and monitoring frameworks arrange and supervise the implementation of quick affect programme actions to assist group stage particles clearance and disaster waste administration;
assist ongoing work on the underside associated to waste administration and one other civil engineer works. Oversee the enchancment work achieved by companions and contractors on group infrastructure, collectively with the customary and quantity of the supplies, constructing strategies and works ending.
Conduct subject visits and put together assessments of rehabilitation/constructing interventions, collectively with price range and funds of portions current extreme quality assurance of mission intervention, collectively with actions utilized by contractors and implementing companions consider and assess technical design paperwork for constructing interventions, offering substantive technical inputs and extreme quality assurance, as requested
current efficient assist all by way of all phases of the tendering processes; as requested Monitor and supervise the progress and adherence to plans, requirements, schedule and price range of rehabilitation/constructing works; Contribute to current teaching to native contractors for performance constructing on Public constructing pointers and construct again elevated guidelines symbolize UNDP in related conferences/teams the place particles and disaster waste administration is a
Eligibility standards
Age
27 – eighty
Nationality
Candidate should be a nationwide of a rustic besides for the nation of task.
requirements
Required expertise
three years of expertise in working inside the related subject of livelihoods, particles and waste administration. arms on related expertise in particles and waste administration, with expertise on environmentally sustainable and disaster-menace resilient requirements and approaches for waste administration in emergency/disaster response and restoration;
related expertise in Mozambique or inside the SADC-PALOP nations shall be a bonus and/or inside the current of companies and advice inside the waste administration subject and in environmental safety;
means to establish modern approaches and practices to beat superior and particular situations encountered inside the sector; information of particles/waste pure and institutional setting in creating nations could be an asset fully different desired/crucial required technical information glorious oral and written expertise; glorious drafting, formulation, reporting expertise;
sturdy communication expertise and expertise to work together with differing types and ranges of stakeholders; information of and expertise in disaster and submit-battle contexts;
sturdy diplomatic expertise in dealing with counterpart relations; earlier expertise with UN is an added benefit and good information of UNDP guidelines and procedures is fascinating; strong complete pc literacy, collectively with proficiency in diverse MS office purposes (Excel, phrase, and many others.)
space(s) of expertise
Engineering and constructing , disaster and emergency response, enchancment programmes
Driving license
–
Languages
Portuguese, stage: Fluent, Required English, stage: Working information, Required
Required training stage
grasp diploma or equal in grasp’s diploma in civil engineering or every fully different related subject.
Competencies and values
–
fully different information
dwelling situations and remarks
Mozambique has a complete inhabitants of about 29 million people and is positioned on the southeast coast of Africa. To the East, is the Indian Ocean, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia is to the north, to the west is Zimbabwe and South Africa and to the South, Swaziland and South Africa.
the complete space of Mozambique is 799 380 Km sq. from North to South. it is tropical sizzling and humid. the most properly appreciated and wettest months in Maputo are December to February, when the frequent every day minimal temperatures are round 22°c and the frequent every day highs of 30°c. The rain season is between October and April. Winters (June to August) are mild with the frequent every day temperature starting from thirteen°c to 24°c. fundamental well being services and meals can be current in each place.
the safety state of affairs is reliable, however some precaution is required on the identical time. Communication and transport companies can be found at diverse prices. meals, household commodities and clothes is extra likely to be current in shops and native markets at low-cost prices. An entry visa is required for all vacationers and should be obtained from Mozambican Embassy earlier to travelling. The metical is the native foreign money and commerce cost stands at USD 1 equal to about sixty five meticais (MZM) as per December 2019. enterprise banks are operational inside the nation and Visa playing cards are accepted in very restricted accommodations.
Inclusivity assertion
United Nations Volunteers is an equal alternative programme that welcomes purposes from licensed professionals. we’re dedicated to attaining range by method of gender, care protected traits. As an aspect of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to fight any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and particular person dignity, with out distinction of a particular person’s race, intercourse, gender identification, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, incapacity, being pregnant, age, language, social origin or fully different standing.
notice on Covid-19 vaccination requirements
chosen candidates needless to say occupational teams might even be topic to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, collectively with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in holding with the relevant host entity coverage