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Construction Management Information System Coordinator
Project Overview
The Kaizen Company (Kaizen) is an international development consulting firm and an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven organizational and institutional performance improvements and establish communities of practice that facilitate peer-to-peer learning and the achievement of shared goals. We aspire to transform the nature and impact of development assistance and work to strengthen organizations and institutions through innovative approaches to organizational development, reform, and change.
The Kaizen Company is seeking applications for a Construction Management Information System Coordinator
position under a USAID-funded activity in Jordan. The Enhancing School Management and Planning (ESMP) Project objective is to develop sustainable system and process improvements related to school planning, design, construction, and maintenance and enhance the staff capabilities within Jordan’s Ministries of Education (MOE) and Public Works and Housing (MPWH) to improve the school management and planning process, and the quality of school environments in Jordan.
The scope of this project is to provide assessment expertise, technical assistance, capacity building, collaboration, facilitation, and training to targeted stakeholders and counterparts to improve existing management systems and procedures used by the Government of Jordan (GoJ) in the education sector, improve performance and sustain these improvements.
Purpose of Assignment
ESMP is working with MoE and MPWH to develop and adopt a Construction Management information system that covers school infrastructure planning, design, construction, and defects liability periods. The purpose of this assignment is to provide daily coaching and support for the MPWH and MoE staff in the digital transformation phase.
The CMIS coordinator will coordinate and collaborate with the ESMP team to identify relevant technical improvement opportunities and coach MPWH and MOE in achieving intended objectives.
Scope of Assignment
- Coach and support the MoE and MPWH counterparts during the digital transformation phase and the adoption of the Construction Management Information system (CMIS)
- Conduct daily checks on data completeness and quality on the newly introduced CMIS
- Assist in identifying improvements in construction project management, resulting in greater alignment on contract work schedules and actual completion.
- Assist MPWH and MOE in utilization and analyzing CMIS data to improve contract and project management, providing support as needed.
- Contribute to identifying, disseminating, and sharing best practices and lessons learned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or Cost Engineering.
- Critical thinking abilities with strong analytical and systematic skills.
- Effective cross-cultural interpersonal skills.
- A cultural understanding of project management.
- Possession of logical thinking with strong analytical and systematic skills.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft, Google Suite, and Smartsheet products.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both Arabic and English.
At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment where everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal opportunity employer.