Job description

Duty Station(s)

Amman, Jordan

Duration: 12 months Role Purpose The Infrastructure Specialist provides strategic technical advisory and coordination support to infrastructure Project Managers (PMs) across the full project lifecycle, ensuring compliance with corporate rules, procedures and standards; and provides technical advice and support to all infrastructure projects across the Hub.

Functions / Key Results Expected

1. Infrastructure Project Technical Support

•Provide strategic technical advisory and coordination support to infrastructure Project Managers (PMs) across the full project lifecycle, from feasibility and design to construction and handover, ensuring compliance with UNOPS standards, quality requirements, and performance objectives.
•Advise PMs on planning, coordination, and monitoring of infrastructure activities to ensure timely, cost-effective, and high-quality project delivery.
•Support PMs in the implementation of their infrastructure projects with a focus on quality assurance and quality control.
•Provide guidance on the development, implementation, and oversight of infrastructure-related plans, ensuring alignment with UNOPS policies and international standards.
•Advise PMss in conducting feasibility studies, needs assessments, and preliminary investigations, including supervision of external consultants, and review recommendations to inform strategic decisions on project scope and prioritization.
•Provide technical oversight and guidance in the preparation of tender dossiers, ensuring the completeness and quality of technical documentation including drawings, Bills of Quantities (BoQs), specifications, and applicable standards.
•Provide strategic technical input to procurement and project teams during tender preparation and bid evaluation, ensuring alignment with project objectives, technical standards, and UNOPS best practices.

2. Design Management

•Support the PMs to outline design requirements for procurement of design services, including concept, preliminary and final stages, where applicable.
•Support the PMs in managing the design plan so that all associated deliverables are available on time, and to the required quality.
•Review designs for all infrastructure projects prior to submission to the HQ Design Review when needed.
•Liaise and coordinate with the Regional Infrastructure Advisor on any technical matters in relation to design management, as well as with other relevant stakeholders within the Amman Hub as needed.

3. Construction Supervision

•Provide strategic oversight and technical assurance for construction activities across infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment with approved scope, quality standards, cost parameters, and delivery schedules.
•Guide PMs to ensure that all infrastructure projects have effective quality control systems in place.
•Support PMs to ensure that the overall management of works implementation is completed on time, within budget and to quality standards.
•Support PM in reviewing needs assessment, organize preliminary studies/ assessments.
•Provide expertise and support in terms of the implementation of standards and frameworks - including gender mainstreaming standards - procurement and contract modality selection and management, Quality Control, Health and Safety and Environmental Management System.

Skills

Skills Instructional Design, Project Management, Site Supervision, Stakeholder Management, Technical Direction.

Education Requirements

Required

•An advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or related field is required

Desired

•First-level university degree (Bachelor’s or equivalent) in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or related field in combination with 2 additional years of relevant professional experience, may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree
•Certification in a recognised project management methodology, preferably in Prince2 or PMP, LEAD, AutoCAD, and a knowledge of programme management methodology (e.g. MSP)
•Professional certification in engineering or similar (CEng, PE, or equivalent)

Experience Requirements

Required

•At least 6 years progressively responsible experience in infrastructure design, project management and implementation including at least 3 years of experience as a Project Manager in infrastructure projects is required.

Desired

•Demonstrated experience in implementing and supporting infrastructure-related projects in developing or conflict/post-conflict countries
•Knowledge and/or experience with gender mainstreaming in infrastructure.
•Prior experience with the UN and/or international organisations in the development/ humanitarian sector is desired

Langauge Requirements

English, Fluent, Required.

Arabic, Fluent, Required.