Contracts Manager (Construction) P-4, Fixed-term # 116951 – Copenhagen, Denmark

 

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each baby, all over the place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

 

For each baby, an Schooling

 

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each baby, all over the place, in all the things the group does — in applications, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing probably the most deprived and excluded youngsters and households, interprets this dedication to youngsters’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all youngsters have a chance to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any baby has an unequal probability in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There’s rising proof that investing within the well being, schooling and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all youngsters the chance to satisfy their potential but in addition will result in sustained development and stability of nations. This is the reason the concentrate on fairness is so important. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all youngsters, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Conference on the Rights of the Little one, whereas additionally supporting the equitable growth of countries.

 

Strategic workplace context:

UNICEF Workplaces have interaction in building to handle programmatic wants and to determine or develop its operations. UNICEF normative and help operate on building sits in Provide Division, by its Building Unit. The target of the Contracts Supervisor – P4 (Building) is to bolster, lead and handle the strategic route of Provide Division’s normative building function to work with different elements of UNICEF in attaining the strategic Targets by leveraging the programmatic affect of building actions.  This place is imbedded within the Contracting Middle in Provide Division, and stories to the Chief of Contracting Middle. One Contracts Specialist – P-3 and one Contracts Officer – P-2 report back to this place.

 

How will you make a distinction?

 

This place is accountable for main the Building Unit to pursue the strategic strategy for the Building unit and building in UNICEF.

This strategy focuses on establishing and rolling out steerage for planning, organizing and contracting that help the worldwide strategic objectives and programmes. Specifically, concentrate on sustainability, localization , emergency preparedness and response, and local weather motion and resilience. This contains wholistic issues for expanded photo voltaic, digital and connectivity agendas supporting studying and well being programmes for youngsters and their communities.

 

You’ll be accountable for: 

 

Administration of the Building Unit

• Present clear instructions and targets to the Building Unit and its employees, based mostly on Organizational technique and coverage.
• Preserve a wholesome, respectful, protected and safe work setting that complies with United Nations Safety Administration System (UNSMS) provisions for the responsibility station.
• Guarantee completion of PERs of employees reporting to this put up, an annual profession dialog with every employees, and the recording of studying actions of their growth plan.

 

Drive the normative building workstreams to help strategic programme outcomes.

• Work with different UNICEF divisions and exterior companions to develop an formidable technique of leveraging building to vary for the longer term.
• Direct the development unit exercise plan in help of the worldwide methods for programmatic affect.
• Direct the groups evaluate and steerage to international locations on the challenge portfolio critiques (LPAs)

 

Present technical help on particular building tasks to places of work globally and information in direction of sustainable approaches. Lead the unit to;

• Overview excessive profile building tasks shared by places of work to advise and supply steerage on utilizing sustainable and inexperienced options for design and building.
• Present technical help to Middle Chief for discussions with Divisions and Sections on features associated to planning, procurement, partnerships and execution of building tasks.
• Lead help engagement (usually along with the authorized workplace) on building related to severe reputational dangers, claims and litigations.
• Discover the likelihood and feasibility of partaking in sustainable and strategic building tasks applied by UNICEF globally.

 

Set up and norms, steerage, instruments and data retention that enhance the standard of building in UNICEF and concentrate on programmatic affect and sustainability.

• Increase steerage and recommendation to places of work engaged in building to make sure that their tasks present constructive, efficient and protected setting for youngsters.
• Guarantee efficiency specs of various infrastructures can be found for places of work to adjust to whereas making ready challenge designs and implementing their building actions.
• Discover, information and promote the utilization of renewable vitality sources in particular schooling services that serve digital schooling.
• In collaboration with the technical groups in Provide Division and PG help growth and implementation of photo voltaic technique by establishing steerage and instruments on electrification parts for building.
• Improve steerage and instruments on inexperienced/sustainable building are in place to information workplace engineers on making use of the important thing rules of sustainability to their building actions.
• Scale-up greatest practices skilled by COs for various building actions. Roll out a communication and data sharing technique to help the efforts.
• Proceed to develop coaching alternatives for building colleagues; advance the UNICEF building neighborhood for data sharing, development, expertise and profession growth to each meet UNICEFs wants in a well timed and high quality method.

 

Networking and partnership:

• Construct and maintain shut working relationship with UNICEF Divisions and Sections on points associated to building. Together with to discover the likelihood and acceptable modality of introducing and increasing youth and neighborhood engagement in building for sustainability, as a part of wider programmatic skill-building and engagement efforts.
• Actively discover and develop work with different divisions and inter-agency efforts to most effectively, collaboratively and successfully pursue the UNICEF sustainable building agenda, whereas guaranteeing that UNICEF’s place, pursuits and priorities are absolutely thought of and built-in.

 

Some other duties or assignments as requested by the supervisor.

 

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have…

 

Schooling

• A complicated college diploma in civil engineering, building engineering, structure or different related space, or related first-level college diploma (Bachelor’s) along with a sound related skilled certification is required.

 

A primary stage college diploma (Bachelor’s) in a related technical subject (as recognized above), along with further two (2) years of related work expertise could also be taken in lieu of a complicated college diploma.

 

Work Expertise

• Minimal eight years {of professional} work expertise together with a minimum of three years {of professional} expertise on the worldwide stage, with a concentrate on main technique growth, managing folks, challenge portfolios and contract administration, oversight, supervision and monitoring, and stakeholder administration of building tasks; of which a minimum of 5 years in creating international locations.

 

Expertise within the following technical fields is a powerful asset:

• Public procurement rules, monetary and authorized features of building points, ethics and danger administration of building tasks.
• Constructing building business for low and middle-income international locations;
• Building in city and rural settings;
• Participatory planning and implementation on building;
• Planning and supply of capability constructing actions;
• Offering institutional help. Growing normative steerage.

 

Languages

• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset. 

 

For each Little one, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the things we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

 The core competencies required for this put up are:

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages Individuals (1)
• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drive to attain impactful outcomes (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

 

Practical Competencies:

• Formulating Methods and Ideas
• Analysing
• Relating and Networking
• Deciding and Initiating Actions
• Making use of Technical Experience
• Planning and Organizing
• Following Directions and Procedures

 

In the course of the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should mirror the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations. UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further data to conduct a background verify.  

 

Remarks:

UNICEF solely considers larger academic {qualifications} obtained from an establishment accredited/acknowledged within the World Larger Schooling Database (WHED), an inventory up to date by the Worldwide Affiliation of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Academic, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO). The checklist may be accessed at: http://www.whed.net/

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which will likely be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities staff which can be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the proper to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service. 

Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.