National Consultant at UNICEF

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National Consultant

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Employer: UNICEF

Employment: Full-Time | Contract

Place of Work: Addis Ababa - Ethiopia

Posted date: 6 hours ago

Deadline: July, 08/2025 (7 days left)

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Job no: 581936

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, protection

Ethiopia is situated in the Horn of Africa and is the second most populous country on the continent with an estimated population of 115 million. It borders six African countries: Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan, and covers 1,104,300 square kilometers. Approximately 85 percent of the population lives in rural areas. Ethiopia represents a melting pot of ancient cultures with Middle Eastern and African cultures evident in the religious, ethnic, and language composition of its people.

Over the past two years, children and their families across Ethiopia faced multiple and complex emergencies, such as the conflict in the northern Ethiopia and the drought, which resulted in millions of people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. UNICEF has programmes in Child Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Social Policy, and Education and serves over 15 million children in Ethiopia. Join UNICEF Ethiopia to contribute to improving the lives of children and women.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

How can you make a difference?

Background:

UNICEF recently rolled out several construction and Rehabilitation contracts and are in the process of initiating more, in the coming weeks. Primarily, the rehabilitation of 97 Health facilities across Afar, Amhara and Tigray have commenced, with very limited in-house oversight. UNICEF is also in the planning and solicitation stages for the reconstructing 45 WASH-in-school facilities in Somali and Afar and 15 Secondary schools in across 5 regions under the GPE-STEP project. With all these projects ongoing and rolling out simultaneously, as well as ongoing Ops and urban construction, there is an urgent need to increase the team number to support with the coordination and supervision of the construction works and to ensure UNICEF’s direct oversight.

Objectives:

The consultant will primarily provide technical support and day-to-day coordination of the ongoing EU-Health construction/rehabilitation works with field colleagues and serve as the technical point of contact for the GPE-STEP construction related activities, and all other construction tasks assigned by the construction Manager, including supervision and quality control for the construction and rehabilitation of Schools and Health Centers in other regions. The consultants will assess gaps and propose courses of action, identify, and assess partners, and ensure that UNICEF Contractors are executing the work as per the required scope, specifications, quality standards and timeline.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide Day-to-Day coordination Supervision of all UNICEF construction/rehabilitation works within area of assignment.
• Coordinate the activities of implementation of stakeholders involved with the construction/rehabilitation of the EU funded Health facilities.
• Coordinate GPE-STEP construction related activities, including reviewing assessment and design submittal from the LTA engineering services contractor.
• Support the solicitation of construction contractors and ensure UNICEF supported constructions/rehabilitations are done in line with the agreed terms, i.e., time and quality.
• Facilitate site progress meetings and report findings to the Construction Manager.
• Support quality supervision during the construction and rehabilitation of all assigned projects.

Work Assignment Overview

Before the commencement of the activities, the consultant shall prepare a detailed work plan and submit it to UNICEF Construction Manager for approval.

Tasks/Milestone:

• Facilitate coordination meetings, review assessment and design submittals, and conduct site visits to ensure design meets the actual needs for the ongoing UNICEF-EU Health construction activities and the GPE-STEP, including LTA engineering services contractors and construction contractors.
• Review the overall action plan for the GPE and the ongoing EU Health projects with the Sections and procurement teams and propose solutions for the provision of technical submission and criteria for selection.

• Review and update work plans and construction bids, provide inputs to RFI responses, develop risk registers, and highlight mitigation measures.
• Chair the technical evaluation committees for the evaluation of construction services for GPE 45 WASH in Schools facilities in Afar and the 15 Secondary schools across Oromia, Afar, Somali, Amhara and Tigray
• Conduct Construction Kick-off Meetings and sites handover 45 WASH-in-School facilities and 15 Secondary Schools. This will include travels to sites
• Review and revise the Construction Unit Dashboard and make sure it is automatically synchronizing with the Power-BO on the ETH Supply and Procurement SharePoint.
• Construction Supervision and Quality Assurance for EU Health
• Construction Supervision and Quality Assurance for GPE-STEP WASH-in-School Construction
• Construction Supervision and Quality Assurance for GPE-STEP 15 Secondary Schools
• Construction Closeout - Facilitate the closure of the EU-Health and GPE construction, including conducting the inspection of the completion of the construction.

Deliverables/Outputs:

1. Submit to the Construction Manager for detailed reports following design review, site progress visits and/or coordination meetings (10 days)
2. Submit the Technical evaluation criteria for GPE Construction evaluations. (11 days)
3. Submit to the Construction Manager, risk registers and updated summary workplans for ongoing EU health construction works, and the Pending GPE STEP Construction for both (20 days)
4. Submit to the construction manager for approval TEC consensus meetings minutes, and summary TEC evaluation report. (20 days)
5. Conduct Construction Kick-off Meetings and sites handover 45 WASH-in-School facilities and 15 Secondary Schools. This will include travels to sites (19 days)
6. Submit to UNICEF Construction Manager a fully functional Construction updates Dashboard and automated Power-BI Data platform (20 days)
7. Submission of report on field visit and site progress meetings for the ongoing EU-Health facilities construction to ensure the quality of the works is performed in accordance with the technical specifications.
8. Submission of report on the progress of the works is in accordance with the contractor's work schedule. This includes initiating and documenting changes in the order of procedures. (45 days)
9. Submission of report on field visit and site progress meetings for the ongoing GPE-STEP WASH -in-school facilities construction to ensure the quality of the works is performed in accordance with technical specifications.
10. Submission of report on the progress of the works is in accordance with the contractor's work schedule. This includes initiating and documenting changes in the order of procedures. (42 days)
11. Submission of report on field visit and site progress meetings for the ongoing GPE-STEP WASH in-school facilities construction to ensure the quality of the works is performed in accordance with the technical specifications.
12. Submission of report on the progress of the works is in accordance with the contractor's work schedule. This includes initiating and documenting changes in the order of procedures. (43 days)
13. Submit to UNICEF Construction Manager substantial completion inspection reports for each project, with a detailed list of items to be corrected during the defect warranty period (20 days)

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum Qualifications required:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in construction engineering or related fields is required.
• A university degree in Accounting, Administration, management, or related fields is an asset.

Qualification:

• At least 7 years (seven years) of work experience in construction management and supervision in humanitarian context is required.
• Experience supervising Construction and Rehabilitation of Education and Health Facilities in Afar, Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia is an asset.
• Prior work experience in working with the Regional Health and Education Bureaus
• Good analytical, negotiating, communication and advocacy skills, report writing skills, Literacy in Microsoft and other computer systems is required,
• Operational knowledge of AutoCAD is required.

Language Proficiency:

Fluency in English is required and knowledge of another Ethiopian local language or languages is an asset.

Duty Station: Addis Ababa, OFFICE BASED.

Please note that applications submitted without a fee rate will not be considered.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

Core Values:

• Care
• Respect
• Integrity
• Trust
• Accountability
• Sustainability

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

To view our competency framework, please visit  here.

 UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates and persons with disability are encouraged to apply.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

Advertised: 01 Jul 2025 E. Africa Standard Time

Deadline: 08 Jul 2025 E. Africa Standard Time

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