Site Engineer - Life and Hope Association
BACKGROUND
Life and Hope Association (LHA) is a non-governmental, non-profit and independent association founded in Gaza in 1996. LHA aims at contributing to the development and empowerment its beneficiaries toward a sustainable society based on the real and active participation for the beneficiaries specially the youth, children. and vulnerable groups.
JOB SUMMARY
In partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and funded by Global Affairs Canada GAC, LHA will start a project titled Resilient Families: Multi-Sectoral Humanitarian Response for Gazan Families in Crisis (2022-2023), LHA will target 300 HH, living in conflict-damaged or substandard shelters, with shelter rehabilitation and repair assistance.
The project will provide shelter repair/ rehabilitation within the shelter cluster min. standards and will incorporate environmental learning practices and risk mitigation in its shelter response, particularly safe management of asbestos, integrating environmentally friendly technologies into shelter rehabilitation and repairs. The shelter component of the project promotes the choice and dignity of the HH by offering a self-help approach that was preferred by the family, through which the family uses restricted cash assistance to directly implement prioritized repairs or rehabilitation.
LHA is recruiting candidates for the following position:
- Position Title: Site Engineer (SE) – Full time
- No. of available positions: ( 3 )
- Place: LHA Office, Jabalia
- Period: 16 Months
- Reports to: Project Coordinator (PC).
- Start Date: As soon as possible
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct social and technical assessments for potential beneficiary households.
- Lead consultation discussions with households to identify rehabilitation needs.
- Conduct regular field visits to monitor the quality of the implemented rehabilitation.
- Maintain up-to-date documents and records related to all aspects of duties and responsibilities.
- Assist in on-going collection of monitoring data.
- Follow up construction and rehabilitation activities.
- Conduct a local market assessment and preparing Bill of Quantities.
- Good knowledge of data collection methods using tablets applications.
- Ensure safety and security standards of construction and rehabilitation activities.
- Liaising with NGO's, vendors, and subcontractors.
- Ensure the engagement of all household members in the discussion of the rehabilitation plans.
- Support the dissemination of the LHA Safeguarding Policy & Code of Conduct and Ethics to staff members, project beneficiaries, employers, service providers, and relevant community members, including mechanisms to safely make reports or provide feedback and ensure compliance with this policy and immediately notify supervisor of any concerns
- Perform any other tasks and duties as necessary throughout the life of the project.
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Architectural engineering.
- Two years of professional experience in similar project.
- Work experience in rehabilitation of housing unit’s projects.
- Knowledge of donor regulations and compliance.
- Good writing and communication skills in both English and Arabic.
- Good computer literacy.
- Ability to work under pressure and within a team.
- Understanding of protection in humanitarian context.
- A resident of North Gaza or Gaza governorate.
آلية التقديم
Interested and qualified candidates can apply online through Apply Now
Deadline for submitting applications 18/02/2022, no later than 15:00
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please