Infrastructure Specialist,
Dhaka
UNOPS - United Nations Office for Project Services
Closing date: Friday, 13 July 2018
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Contribute to development and piloting of frameworks, tools and methodologies for resilience building in infrastructure systems of LGED
- Provide the local context/ local specific applications/ customizations of the UNOPS tools on -resilience building infrastructure (asset management, failure analysis, build-back-better approaches)
- Work closely with the international experts in the development, implementation and roll out of the different approaches and methodologies
- Lead in the advisory technical link and coordination between international experts and LGED, ensuring pilot frameworks, tools and methodologies are relevant, applicable, customized while ensuring it follows international best practice and standards;
Support the development of manuals and other capacity building tools for increasing knowledge and applied understanding of resilience;
- Facilitate the technical consultations, reviews and workshops together with international experts on standardizing policies related to designs, compliance, quality assurance and project implementation on gender sensitive resilient infrastructure
- Ensure customization, co-development, ownership and capacity transfer in the development related manuals, processes and tools
- Provides content reviews and advise on the tools, processes and standards developed;
- Coordinate with Team Leader and experts on the all technical training, workshops content designs, approach and program.
Support the development and implementation of professional program for LGED junior and mid-level engineers
- Provide technical input to the team in developing the professional program curriculum of LGED Engineers
- Lead in the review and provide input on the technical aspect of the professional program for engineers
- Support technical content delivery related as maybe agreed and required
Provide advisory and technical support in strengthening strategic partnerships of UNOPS among key stakeholders
- Provide technical support to the Team Lead in identification of needs and opportunities for partnership where UNOPS can engage to be able to support resilient national infrastructure development
- Identify needs and opportunities for partnership where UNOPS can engage to be able to support resilient national infrastructure development,
- Create concepts and ideas (thought leadership) which can be shared with donors for funding;
- Support the design of new projects and the initial phases of new projects.
- Represent the CTA/Team Leader in infrastructure related meetings/conferences/joint UN Programs in Bangladesh as maybe requested