Supply & Construction Officer, (NOA), Caracas, Venezuela, #127209, (Temporary Appointment)

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Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, in every single place, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

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UNICEF Venezuela’s CO is at present within the want of the institution of a Building unit that can help the CO within the articulation of a building and rehabilitation technique that entails planning, producing SOPs, assurance of the implementation of building and procurement procedures and pointers, generate KPIs and a observe up and monitoring instruments.

In the mean time, greater than 20% of the workplace contracts are associated to building and rehabilitation of faculties, hospitals and different sort of establishments.

The Building Unit will probably be and addition to the Provide & Logistics staff and can work in shut coordination with programme.

 

How will you make a distinction?

Abstract of key capabilities/accountabilities

• Assist in preparation of building annual workplan
  • Assist within the creating of the annual work plan for the development actions; help in figuring out priorities/targets and efficiency measurements and help in monitoring work progress to make sure that outcomes are achieved in keeping with schedule and efficiency requirements.
  • Put together and acquire data required for the annual work plan on common actions, ongoing initiatives and others within the pipeline.

 

• Collaboration with UNICEF Programmes/Operations in building operations
  • Present technical help in matter of building undertaking administration to Programme/Operations sections; present data to Programme on building associated actions to incorporate them of their AWP.
  • Present help to Programme /Operations sections by involvement in building undertaking proposals, planning, and preparation of related phrases of reference.
  • Attend technical cooperation conferences; put together PPT displays on initiatives’ progress; undertake follow-up actions in relation to undertaking implementation and monitoring.
  • Present Programme/Operations sections with data on initiatives’ progress; undertake acceptable actions to beat technical obstacles put together studies on initiatives’ progress.

 

• Preparation of building tendering paperwork
  • Assist in drafting the scope of building works primarily based on Programme/ Operations necessities, funds and website limitations; outline deliverables and fee modality.
  • Apply UNICEF norms and requirements (child-friendly, accessibility, MOSS, MORSS, and many others.) to building initiatives, considering the native setting and out there supplies; confirm if compliance with inexperienced constructing requirements is required in coordination with DFAM Area Assist Unit.
  • Elaborate RFPs for building initiatives and RFQs or ITBs for minor rehabilitations.
  • Elaborate RFPs for LTAs and prequalification of distributors.
  • Elaborate technical and industrial analysis codecs. 

 

• LTA & Contract monitoring
  • Supervise all building contracts and building associated LTAs.
  • Create dashboards for monitoring expiry dates and funds utilization.
  • Always evaluate LTA technique and shut communication with vendor and programme to ensure an in depth industrial relationship.

 

• Vendor sourcing and diversification technique
  • Create a vendor sourcing technique that ensures having building firms in every state.
  • Have a whole data of the development market and diversify the portfolio of building initiatives.
  • Create a database of building firms and repair engineering firms within the nation.

 

• Assist in monitoring building initiatives
  • Take part within the kick-off assembly of building works with the development firm, the engineering agency and related authorities counterparts.
  • Present shut monitoring on building actions by enterprise common website visits and conducting common technical conferences; observe up progress for every exercise per milestones and evaluate website supervision studies to make sure work compliance with norms, requirements, and timeline; confirm high quality and precautions on well being and security requirements on floor.
  • Use efficient monitoring and supervision instruments to make sure simply evaluation of works high quality, progress, and efficiency of engineering corporations and building firms throughout all the period of the undertaking.
  • Certify funds/variations and compile supporting paperwork; monitor building expenditures and progress certificates; put together and keep related desk for every building exercise.
  • Present help to UNICEF Contract Administrator on contract administration, amendments, variations, period extensions, making use of liquidated damages, and many others.; compile and archive undertaking paperwork, minutes, correspondence, directions, and many others.
  • Take part within the partial, substantial and remaining reception of works after verifying the correction of all defects through the DLP; put together and situation related certificates.
  • Put together Contract Efficiency Analysis; present help to UNICEF Contract Administrator on contract close-out in VISION; draft the ultimate completion report with the teachings realized.

 

• Coordination of building technique with implementing companions
  • Coordinate the development technique with implementing companions in accordance to UNICEF Pointers and procedures associated to building.

 

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

• An university diploma is required in enterprise administration, administration, provide chain administration, economics, civil engineering, building engineering, structure, or different related space.
• A minimal of 1 (1) 12 months of related skilled expertise on the nationwide and/or worldwide ranges, in procurement processes, undertaking managing, high quality assurance and/or different straight associated technical fields is required.
• Understanding of improvement and humanitarian work.
• Emergency expertise a bonus.
• Fluency in Spanish.  Intermediate stage of English is required, however full fluency is most popular. 

 

For each Youngster, you show…

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: UNICEF Values

 

UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to realize outcomes for influence (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

Through 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 kids and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, 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 using versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals 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 kids. 

 

Remarks:

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UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which will probably be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Must you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice will probably be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and will probably 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 offer further data to conduct a background test.

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