Bangladesh: Project Associate

Recently, the UNOPS, UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Women developed the joint programme in Bangladesh which aims to sustain the resilience of human and economic development in Bangladesh through inclusive, gender-responsive disaster management and risk-informed environment. This joint programme focuses on developing national capacities in the areas of: risk-informed and render-responsive development planning, capacities to address mega-disasters in gender responsive manner, improved capacities of selected public institutions to achieve resilient institutions through risk-informed, gender-responsive infrastructure systems, enhance women’s leadership disaster response and management; and finally, to strengthen community-level preparedness, response and recovery capacities.

Under the Joint Programme, UNOPS, in particular, is providing technical assistance to Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) and other public institutions to achieve resilience outcomes through designing and constructing risk-informed, gender-responsive infrastructure system and lay the foundations for long-term resilience actions in socially inclusive infrastructure systems in Bangladesh. In particular, UNOPS will contribute to the achievement of the overall programme by:

• Strengthening LGED asset management system and decision making capacities for determining priorities associated with new development, maintenance and/or retrofitting of existing assets;

• Strengthening project evaluation criteria and capacities within LGED and other divisions, improve coordination and reduce duplication;

• Creating an applied understanding and capacity to introduce the concept of failure analysis to enhance build-back-better in reconstruction;

• Strengthening LGED professional capacities for Junior and mid-level engineers in the areas of design, construction and management/maintenance of resilient infrastructures;

Within this context, UNOPS is a need of Project Associate that will provide support to the project implementation in the areas of liaison, reporting, training and coordination.The Project Associate shall have a direct reporting line to the Team Leader and will support the overall coordination of activities with the implementing partners, assist in report preparations and coordination of training activities.

The Project Associate will report to the Team Leader. She/he will be expected to conduct regular missions to field to monitor and interact with project stakeholders in the implementation of the project activities. She/he will support the UNOPS Project Team Leader to develop and strengthen coordination, documentation and reporting mechanisms of the project, in order to ensure;

1. a timely and consistent reporting on project implementation, both for internal and external purposes;
2. a regular coordination with the key partners especially government counterparts for the smooth implementation of the project;
3. support for the logistics and operation requirements for training, workshops and consultations;
4. a creative communication about JP-NRP Project achievements in Bangladesh; and
5. an effective use of financial and human resources for monitoring and reporting purposes.

For more information and to apply, please visit: https://jobs.unops.org/pages/viewvacancy/VADetails.aspx?id=15320#1