Organization: CTG – Committed To Good
Location: Pibor
Grade: Level not specified – Level not specified
Occupational Groups:
Engineering
Closing Date: 2025-01-14

Overview of CTG

CTG offers a quick and affordable solution for development and humanitarian missions, staffing and assisting humanitarian initiatives in fragile and conflict-affected nations worldwide. Since operations started in 2006, we have placed over 20,000 employees worldwide, with prior success in 17 countries spanning the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia.

From obstetricians to cleaners, mechanics to infection experts, CTG hires, deploys, and oversees the best individuals with the necessary expertise to carry out development and humanitarian initiatives. We are also adept at responding quickly to emergencies, like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The capacity to mobilize quickly is essential for effective project execution; CTG can source and deploy anybody, anywhere, in less than two weeks, and has done so in as little as 48 hours on many occasions.

Multilateral organizations save time and money with CTG’s effective and flexible HR, logistical, and operational services. We take care of all HR-related concerns for our clients, allowing them to concentrate on their primary offerings.

Overview of position

The successful candidate will assist with the construction, rehabilitation, and supervision of flood mitigation infrastructure in specific counties related to the Enhancing Community Resilience and Local Governance Project (ECRP-II) under the direct supervision of the National Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Project Engineer, the overall supervision of the DRM Project Officer, the general direction of the ECRP Program Manager, and the administrative supervision of the Head of Sub Office (HoSO), in coordination with field teams.

The ECRP-II project’s flood protection infrastructure building operations are formulated using a community-participatory, government-led methodology that prioritizes local project ownership. The majority of the project sites are in rural areas, and the incumbent is required to travel often in order to monitor many sites at once. To enable them to promptly supervise the subprojects in their respective counties, the chosen candidates will be stationed at the County Head Quarter. Among the types of ECRP-II flood infrastructure are:

Dikes: main hydrological data gathering, community and local government consultation, dike construction monitoring, reporting, and physical survey to determine dike alignments.

Ports or docking points: expanding the docking area, improving access, and building and renovating docking points

Flood-resilient roads and bridges: hydrological survey for culvert and ditch identification, bridge size, flood crossing point identification, rising embankment, and implementation activity supervision.

Flood water pumping station: fuel management, pumping site dewatering, and other operational tasks.

Additional flood prevention and associated infrastructure facilitation tasks include surveying, leveling, and gathering primary data.

Responsibilities:

• Support and facilitate planning and implementation of ECRP-II flood protection infrastructure activities including development of Standard Operating guidelines, project manuals and templates, staff training modules and construction and supervision scheduling
• Conduct survey and identifying flood intervention measures in the selected counties
• Provide technical support and primary data collection for  design review and modifications of flood intervention and accsess improving infrastructures.
• Monitor and supervise flood protection infrastructure construction operations including daily supervise the activities, regular visits to sites, conduct meetings with the contractor and giving necessary instructions to keep the project on track.
• Facilitate meeting with local administration.
• Coordinate construction of dike, ports, docking points, roads, crossing points, culverts, bridges, etc
• Supervise the Field Engineers within an area of responsibility, including inputs for performance evaluation and assisting in resolving team (or community) conflicts
• Monitor project implementation by undertaking regular visits to the areas of operation, checking that materials, tools and workmanship meet quality requirements, and labour is properly utilized in compliance with the contract specifications. Follow up on scheduling with contractors and prepare completion certificates.
• Review and ensure the quality and timeliness of documentation from the Field Engineers’ construction inspection reports including measurement and quantity calculations, quality assurance, daily labour usage, photos, documentation of change variances, and progress reports
• Provide all necessarily inputs for ESS by coordinating with safeguarding officer
• Ensure that Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) requirements are being followed with regular reporting using the HSSE forms
• Communicate clearly and in a timely manner to the Supervisor any breaches of HSSE, quality, scope or environmental management
• Maintain cooperation and communication with local community development committees, government officials, local partners and any other community groups as required
• Coordinate closely with the community engagement teams to ensure community participation in infrastructure activities, avoiding conflict, and supporting Operation & Maintenance capacity building activities as relevant.
• Abide by the principles of a respectful work environment free of harassment and retaliation, and that promotes the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).
• Perform such other duties as may be assigned.

Project reporting

Reports to the line manager.

Key competencies

• Prior experience on dike construction supervision and coordination
• Understanding on general hydrology, hydraulics, infrastructure construction considering the risk of flood
• Ability to work independently with sound decision making skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to mentor and strengthen junior technical staff
• The staff is expected to be flexible to change duty station when needed
• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience in engineering or construction management of infrastructure projects including dikes, canals ports, roads and building structures
• Experience with infrastructure design and project management is required
• Experience successfully managing field engineers and contractors is required
• Computer literacy in Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel required, additional skills in CAD, GIS and data collection software is desirable
• Experience with construction in remote field locations is an asset

Team management

This role has no team management responsibility.

Further information

• Please provide in addition to your CV and Cover letter a Supplementary Page that clearly states
• Design of flood or other engineering infrastructure:
• Preparing Cost Estimates and BoQ for engineering infrastructure (dikes, roads, ports, etc):
• Supervision of flood protection or other engineering infrastructure:
• Designing and generating BOQ for roads, dikes and other flood-related infrastructures

The years of experience you have with each discipline:

• Dikes:
• Roads, drainage system
• Bridges, culverts or crossing points
• Construction management
• Geotechnical

Disclaimer:
· At no stage of the recruitment process will CTG ask candidates for a fee. This includes during the application stage, interview, assessment and training.
· CTG has a zero tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) which is outlined in its Code of Conduct. Protection from SEA is everyone’s responsibilit
· CTG encourages all candidates applying for this advertisement to ensure that their candidate profile is up to date with up to date experience / education / contact details, as this will help you being considered further in your application for this role.

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