The department of IRC International is accepting applications for a vacant position announced in the daily newspaper Classified Source on the date of 07 December, 2023.
IRC International
Date Posted:
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07 December, 2023
Department:
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IRC International
Category | Sector
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INGO
Newspaper:
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Classified Source Newspaper
Education:
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Bachelor
Total Vacancies:
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Details in attached ads
Vacancy Location:
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Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa KPK, Pakistan
Job Type:
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Full Time
Expected Last Date:
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14 December, 2023
Vacant Positions: Field Engineer
FIELD ENGINEER
Currently, the IRC International Peshawar is seeking a Field Engineer employee.
JOB Description: Field Engineer
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
IRC has been working in Pakistan for over 30 years, and manages and delivers large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, protection, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. IRC works in partnership with local government and non-governmental organizations and currently works in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces.
IRC Pakistan will be implementing five years “leveraging Inclusive WASH For Empowerment in Pakistan (LIFE-Pakistan) project i.e. Water For Women Fund supported by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian government.
With an overall goal of gender equitable and socially inclusive WASH services for improved health conditions of marginalized groups, this project aims to directly improve the lives of 168,000 beneficiaries in 75 villages in three districts of KP, Pakistan.
The project will reach its goal through three pillars:
Inclusive community level WASH
Improved WASH governance
Strengthened decision making around WASH.
The project will focus on schools and health centers that serve communities, as well as community and household WASH. A process of participatory training and discussion will be utilized to strengthen women’s role in the community, and will be supported with life skills training and gender protection programming. Knowledge management and learning through ongoing monitoring, periodic evaluations and research will keep the project on track, provide evidence for advocacy for improving legislative environment, and draw learning for future programing.
Job Overview/Summary: This role would specialize in the management of engineering operations on daily basis. He/ She would have a more strategic role, planning, researching and developing new ideas, and streamlining engineering operations.
Major Responsibilities:
Evaluating the environmental impact and risks connected to the WASH infrastructures in the Environmental Health project.
Find ways, means and innovate to reduce the hazards of poor wash services in the target area.
Introduce cost-effective solutions (WASH) and highlight it to the government and other stakeholders.
Monitoring progress of EH infrastructure during each phase of the project.
Project Engineer will ensure that all construction sites meet legal/standardized guidelines, health and safety requirements, and keeping in view universal access guidelines.
Project engineer is responsible for ensuring that designs and solutions are developed in consultation with communities, and are designed to meet the community’s needs, with sufficient and effective feedback on designs from the clients.
Project Engineer is responsible for professional/technical engineering designs/drawings and review standards, surveys and inspections.
Provides technical assistance and consults with other Governments departments and sister organization regarding engineering functions and site selection & development.
Provides interpretations of construction codes, State laws and departmental/organizational policies and its translation or reflection in IRC work.
Provides guidance to the IRC-EH team on code compliance keeping in view the IRC standard operational procedures.
Supervision/development/review the following.
WASH infrastructure both in schools and villages
Technical aspects of the project related to Environmental Sanitation
Inclusive WASH approaches
DRR/DRM resilient WASH infrastructure
Development of BOQs
Designing and construction of water supply schemes,
Designing and construction of solid/liquid waste management system.
Designing of different types of hand washing facilities.
Assess potential risks, provide advice and resolve creatively any emerging problems/deficiencies during implementation of EH project.
Supervise all the technical assessments and monthly evaluations of engineering activities and report all the activities to District Project Manager in a timely manner.
Carry out other such tasks as assigned by supervisor.
Interested candidates should email their CVs (necessary documentation as per attached adverts) before the closing date: 14 December, 2023, The job title must be explicitly mentioned in the Subject applied for the post by the applicant. IRC International provides Equal Opportunity to all equally qualified candidates.
