All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and beliefs shall guide our actions and relationships.

The Construction Officer will manage the maintenance and the construction of transitional Caravan Shelter units in Zaatari camp.

Roles and Responsibilities

Generic responsibilities (max 10)

• Provides direction, assigns tasks and gives instructions to staff, specifies their individual work plans and evaluates individual team members’ performance. Or Provides directions, assigns tasks and gives instructions to daily laborers and/or contractors and evaluates individual performance.
• Supports the assigned staff in their professional development, identifies training needs, supports staff to achieve the objectives defined in their learning development plans.
• Monitors the progress of the activities of assigned staff and ensure they are implemented conform planning and quality standards.
• Develops with the assigned team, Monthly activity plans.
• Ensures compliance with NRC policies CC tools, handbooks and guidelines.
• Identify, analyses and evaluate processes and gaps in the implementation of activities and make recommendations for improvement .
• Reports over the activities achieved provide analysis over the activities performed and signal bottlenecks.
• Daily coordination with the UNHCR Technical unit regarding all reported Allocated, Urgent and Vacant damaged shelters.

Specific responsibilities

• Responsible for the implementation of NRC’s shelter rehabilitation, maintenance and new shelter construction team activities in Zaatari camp.
• Oversee the maintenance work including supervision of laborers working on the site, validate the cases provided that are requiring maintenance and verify the required materials and tools and provide technical support as required to ensure technical quality and timely response.
• Updating relevant spreadsheets and databases for tracking and monitoring maintenance and construction team activities, progress and costs associated with the various tasks and preparing technical reports to monitor or evaluate ongoing or completed maintenance and construction work as requested.
• Supporting design projects, including the preparation and review of technical drawings, schematics and diagrams (including using computer aided drafting (Auto-Cad), developing clear specifications, Bills of Quantities and Scope of Works, and work plan as required.
• Supporting the procurement of goods or services required for the project; including the development of detailed specifications for goods/services needed, raising Purchase Requests, tracking their deliveries, conducting supplier visits or market surveys and verifying the receipt of goods to ensure they meet the specifications of the goods ordered and preparing Goods Received Notes (GRNs) drafting and inputting into final works reports to verify the satisfactory completion of works.