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About United Nations World Food Programme

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis. We are committed to promoting diversity and the principle of equal employment opportunity for all our employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of religion or belief, ethnic or social background, gender, gender identity and disability.

ABOUT WFP:

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. 

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:

The hunger crisis in Afghanistan is unfolding at a rapidly, with over half the country’s population of 40 million now facing acute food insecurity—the highest number the humanitarian community has ever seen in Afghanistan. Work opportunities are shrinking, with most households now reporting just one day of work per week. This comes on top of the worst drought in years, which is especially concerning for the 85 percent of the population who rely on agriculture for livelihoods.

Preventing and mitigating a drastic increase in hunger and malnutrition is the aim of WFP in Afghanistan which can only be achieved through the scaled up and sustained complementary food security and nutrition interventions, combined with a scale-up of resilience interventions to safeguard gains. WFP has embarked on a significant month on month scale-up of its crisis response and resilience programmes across the country, ensuring that the programme is delivered at the right scale and time, targeted to the right areas. WFP is also actively following up on evolving trends to pre-empt hotspots, while guaranteeing quality and maximum impact of the programme through the monitoring of these hotspots to be able to support continued donor advocacy.

Job Description

1. Complete designer risk assessments for all proposed designs and carry out designer constructability reviews and reports;
2. Draft standard, specific and detailed Specifications as required;
3. Develop project budgets or preliminary and detailed costs estimations to implement civil, structural, electrical, mechanical or special systems within the projects (including feasibilit studies, or project schedules, or bids). Work-time estimates could be also required;
4. Assist in the preparation and of construction contract documentations;
5. Review of as-built drawings of the existing WFP infrastructure and RFS projects, and provide comments and recommendations;
6. Support the field engineers, including undertaking missions to the field in support of projects, including emergencies;
7. Attend meetings and prepare and review reports, minutes and correspondence;
8. Liaise with stakeholders, both internal and external to the organization as directed;
9. Undertake administrative tasks as required, and provide project management services for the projects where and when requested;
10. Undertake construction supervision and preparation of site reports for various security, country office and logistics projects; and,
11. Operate computer-assisted engineering software and equipment to perform engineering tasks.

Skills Required

• Attention to details & Technical Skills

Submission Guideline:

This vacancy announcement is for Afghan nationals only and WFP encourages especially Afghan females and Afghans with disabilities to apply.

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