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Job Title: Technical Coordinator

Organisation: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. UNHCR’s mandate under the Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is to lead and co-ordinate action for international protection to refugees; seek permanent solutions for the problems of refugees and safeguard refugee rights and well-being. UNHCR has an additional mandate concerning issues of statelessness, as it is given a designated role under Article 11 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Job Summary:  The Technical Coordinator coordinates in complex refugee situations the Settlement planning, WASH, Energy and Environment, and Shelter interventions.

The incumbent will ensure compliance of UNHCR policies, rules and regulations in the relevant technical fields. The incumbent will work closely with the technical sector specialists.

S/he will coordinate the technical needs assessments, develop integrated strategies taking into account the community needs, protection concerns, local context, age and gender, culture, climate, environmental conditions and available resources and skills. S/he will also monitor, support, and provide guidance to partners. In addition, s/he will be the face of UNHCR with external actors and UN/NGO partners with regard to the coordination of technical projects/interventions as part of inter-agency response efforts.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Proactively lead and/or participate in inter-agency fora to ensure that UNHCR¿s Mandate and programmes are given due attention and reflected in linkage at the country level, bureaux and at the policy levels of humanitarian and development coordination systems.
• Contribute or lead the effective establishment and maintenance of coordination mechanisms for the shelter and settlement, WASH, Energy and Environment technical sectors
• In line with the refugee coordination model and globally-agreed arrangements ensure timely and effective sectoral technical needs assessment, appropriate planning, prioritization, implementation, reporting and evaluation.
• Contribute to joint appeals, regional refugee response plans, regional refugee and migrant response plans, refugee and resilience plans, comprehensive responses.
• Approve project designing including preparation of BOQs/specifications and costing, carry out and provide recommendations, plan of action and verify compliance in the implementation for these technical sectors.
• Coordinate internally and externally the technical interventions and ensure compliance with technical standards.
• Lead actively technical interagency working groups and ensure constructive and amicable relationships with government and partners.
• Ensure environmental considerations are taken into account for all the technical interventions planned and implemented in settlement, shelter, wash and energy programmes.
• Promote the sustainability of technical interventions through local capacity building and self-help in collaboration with partners in the field. Ensure and lead community consultations
• Guide and oversee the procurement of sector related materials or equipment, including the development of technical specifications for bid documents, technical evaluation of bids, review/inspection of the quality of products/works.
• Ensure regular reporting and updating of plans.
• Build key strategic partnerships with development and humanitarian agencies in relation to WASH and other community based infrastructure interventions.
• Lead cross-functional preparation of issues and follow-up within UNHCR in the relevant substantive units and services.
• Ensure comprehensive monitoring of technical related activities is in place.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal applicant must hold a degree in Civil-Engineering, Water and Sanitation Engineering Public Health Engineering or other relevant field
• At least nine years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 8 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 7 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree
• Prior experience of implementing infrastructure and WASH projects in humanitarian context and large scale emergencies coordinating with operational partners, governmental technical departments. Prior experience in designing and implementing a community-based projects. Hands-on project formulation, planning, supervision and management experience. Experience of technical project management (including site supervision, monitoring, quality control, evaluation etc.) and application of participatory approaches to facilitate active participation of communities into the project cycle and into the construction process. Ability to develop projects/activities with political awareness and in due consideration to local context, including sensitivity to cultural and gender specific needs to ensure that the social and cultural background of the communities is taken into account while designing, developing and implementing infrastructure works (engineering/ WASH). Strong experience in inter-agency coordination. Strong experience in building on existing local capacity and transfer knowledge as appropriate.
• Diverse field experience and familiarity with UNHCR programming.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested candidates should apply online at the link below

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Deadline: 21^st April 2022

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