Post Title: Engineer Field Assistant

Organization: Welthungerhilfe (WHH)

Location: Afrin**,**Jandairis- Dana in Idlib

Duration: until 31 March 2024 (Full Time)

Starting: As soon as possible

**Application closing Date:**23.08.2023

Background:

Welthungerhilfe is a private, non-profit-making, politically independent and non-denominational organization that supports people living in deprivation and poverty, irrespective of the color of their skin, their religious beliefs or their worldview. WHH is working in the fields of development cooperation and humanitarian aid, relief aid, rehabilitation, and reconstruction.

Welthungerhilfe (WHH) operates inside Idleb, Syria since 2017 remotely from regional office in Gaziantep/Turkey through implementing partners. WHH implements projects directly inside Syria since 2018, as well. Welthungerhilfe set up an office in A’zaz, Syria in 2018 in order to start direct implementation of projects in the fields of emergency response humanitarian and relief aid. Ever since, Welthungerhilfe has distributed food baskets, food&hygiene and agricultural vouchers in the IDP camps in A’zaz. Welthungerhilfe aims to sustain the humanitarian aid projects, and increase the resilience of IDPs in the region.

Overall Roles:

Reporting to the Field Engineer, the Engineer Field Assistant will be responsible for assessment, measurement, preparing BoQs and monitoring the rehabilitation and construction activities, follow up the implementation of the infrastructure, conduct quality checks and follow up on a daily basis with the contractor or contractor representatives on any quality, sensitivity or safety-related issue, in addition to carrying out needs’ assessments, prepare the Topographic studies, technical studies, and technical evaluations.

The tasks of the Engineer Field Assistant shall be:

• Support the Field Coordinator and the Field Engineer in community consultations, FGDs, Stakeholder meetings, identifying and prioritizing community projects ensuring full participation of community people as well as relevant authorities and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to collecting data during needs assessments, baseline studies and periodic studies, and feedback findings to the stakeholders for small community projects.
• Collect information needed for technical assessments, Engineering studies and designs for various Shelter and infrastructure activities in shelter units, collective shelters, or construction sites within communities and IDPs camps.
• carry out the topographic survey activities for the infrastructure for the community.
• Conduct field visits to carryout site studies and mapping activities
• Participation in the preparation of the study of engineering and detailed plans for the parts of the project in different locations and technical conditions books and specifications
• Report any issues faced during the implementation of activities to the field Engineer and propose solutions or risk mitigation measures.
• Contribute to the preparation of Shelter, wash and infrastructure projects BoQs including roads gravelling and construction of rainwater.
• Assist in preparing projects documentation including completion certificates, logs, reports in hard and soft copies for payment to contractors.
• Executing engineering tasks that may be requested by management.
• Inspect quality of all materials used in the implementation work and ensure their compliance with the specifications in coordination with the field engineer and give the technical opinion.
• Verification of quantities of materials and works provided by the contractor at the work sites.
• Close monitoring of the different implementation steps of infrastructure projects in the field.
• submitting weekly/daily progress reports on the infrastructure activities, contract status, and beneficiary participation to the field engineer.
• contribute to drafting lessons learned upon the project completion and submitted to the shelter engineer.
• communicate and coordinate with the camps managers and local authorities of the daily activities in the camps and communities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
• More than two years of Shelter, WASH, CCCM, Infrastructure experience in an NGO is desired.
• Experience in using mapping software (e.g., GIS).
• Experience in using AutoCAD and/or Civil 3D.
• Previous experience in camps and/or community infrastructure projects.

Position open to Syrian nationals only

• Civil Engineering intermediate institute certificate.
• Minimum two years’ experience in the implementation of infrastructure work.
• Minimum one years of Shelter, WASH, CCCM, Infrastructure experience in an NGO.
• Familiarity with the minimum construction standards in Humanitarian interventions (e.g., Sphere).
• Good knowledge of report writing.
• Good knowledge of the humanitarian context in Northwest Syria.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Excellent communication skills in Arabic, a good level of English in reading and writing.
• Experience in working on surveying devices (Total Station – Nevo).
• Good knowledge of survey and topographic works.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office (Excel & Word).
• Willingness to work on-site, and travel to projects sites all the time.
• Able to communicate, collaborate and share tasks with other WHH teams, and other NGO field staff.
• Flexibility, willing to assist in other areas of work as relevant and needed.

Social Skills;

• Ability to work in a team.
• Gender and Cultural Sensitivity

Language Skills:

• • Fluency in Arabic is required. – Working knowledge of English is advantageous.

Familiarity with Local Context: Candidates who have work experience and knowledge of the local context in Familiarity with the northern area of Aleppo and Idlib governorate.