Shelter Technical Officer

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors. The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world's largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs.

NRC is looking for Shelter Technical Officer in our office in Kurakhove, Ukraine.

Job description:

• Ensure compliance with NRC policies, guidelines and standards
• Ensure compliance with Shelter strategy, tools, handbooks, guidelines and standards
• Ensure that all shelter projects (repair, rehabilitation and/or reconstruction) are implemented in a timely manner and according to strategy, proposals, budgets and plans, and in line with NRC policies and donor requirements
• Shelter specific technical responsibility for the quality control and monitoring of project activities
• Shelter specific technical responsibility for project documentation of technical activities of Shelter project(s)
• Provide specific technical support and capacity building towards project staff
• Assess, promote and document ideas for technical improvement and further program development options
• Contributes to Shelter specific protection risks and needs analyses
• Ensure that the project is implemented in adherence with the requirements of the partnership agreement
• Contributes to designing of protection response to identified risks and needs
• Do structural assessments of buildings and propose technical solutions for materials assistance, repair, rehabilitation and/or reconstruction, and provide technical information for development of work plans, technical specifications, bills of quantities (BoQs), cost estimates, structural drawings (CAD), and tender documents for procurement of construction services.
• Review and analyze contract claims and variation orders, assess the completion of works, and prepare recommendations for payments, and interim and final payment certificates
• Provide technical support to contractors and beneficiaries, supervise construction works, and ensure that quality of materials and workmanship is according to technical specifications
• Involve and inform communities and local authorities about the activities and ensure that all projects are in line with national guidelines and regulations
• Break down the annual operational plans into weekly, monthly and quarterly implementation plans
• Coordinate with humanitarian actors and other relevant partners vis a vis project implementation
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist
• Ensure that procurement, development and distribution of materials and equipment are timely and according to procedures
• Ensure correct data tracking for all interventions and prepare periodic progress reports and other documents as required
• Assist and support the direct line manager in drafting reports of any kind
• Assist with any other duties assigned by line manager as and when required.

Qualifications:

• Experience from working within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Intermediate in English, both written and verbal
• 3 years' experience from working as a civil engineer
• Higher education, within architecture or structural engineering or related field of study
• Documented results related to the position's responsibilities
• Knowledge of computer programs: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, AutoCAD
• Excellent time management skills and ability to perform under tight deadlines
• Valid driver's license
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Fluency in spoken Russian or Ukrainian
• Willingness to work in demanding, stressful situations under difficult living conditions with respect for basic security rules.

Personal qualities:

• Planning and delivering results
• Working with people
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Handling insecure environments

We offer:

Contract period: till the end 2019 with the possibility of extention.

Salary/benefits: According to NRC country policy, medical insurance, training opportunities

Duty station: Kurakhove, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine

The deadline for application is 30.05.2019