The overall purpose of the assignment is to contribute to a strong
technical gui...
The overall purpose of the assignment is to contribute to a strong
technical guidance, capacity building and improved organizational effectiveness
of LGED in the development and piloting of frame works, methodologies for
resilience building in infrastructure.
This post will entail technical thought leadership in resilient
infrastructure and strong bias towards capacity building and knowledge transfer.
The objective is to work closely with counterparts in LGED and other experts to
increase knowledge and applied understanding of resilience in the context of
government department.
The infrastructure advisor will support the Chief Technical
Advisor/Team Leader in working closely with international and local experts
towards the development of manuals and capacity building tools on resilient
infrastructures. He/She will be the
technical link between LGED and all other experts for developing/mainstreaming
resilience within LGED’s policies and standards. In addition, he/she will
support the CTA/Team Leader in strengthening of strategic partnerships with
UNOPS, LGED and Donors.
The National Infrastructure Advisor will also be expected to act
as technical resource person in the conduct of capacity building training and
workshops for to LGED Engineers and other partners in the aspects related to
infrastructure planning, design, implementation and standards.
Specific Objectives
Contribute to development and piloting
of frameworks, tools and methodologies for resilience building in
infrastructure systems of LGED
- Provide the local context/ local
specific applications/ customizations of the UNOPS tools on -resilience
building infrastructure (asset management, failure analysis, build-back-better
approaches)
- Work closely with the international
experts in the development, implementation and roll out of the different
approaches and methodologies
- Lead in the advisory technical link
and coordination between international experts and LGED, ensuring pilot
frameworks, tools and methodologies are relevant, applicable, customized while
ensuring it follows international best practice and standards;
Support the development of manuals and other capacity building
tools for increasing knowledge and applied understanding of resilience;
- Facilitate the technical consultations,
reviews and workshops together with international experts on standardizing
policies related to designs, compliance, quality assurance and project implementation
on gender sensitive resilient infrastructure
- Ensure customization, co-development,
ownership and capacity transfer in the development related manuals, processes
and tools
- Provides content reviews and advise on the
tools, processes and standards developed;
- Coordinate with Team Leader and
experts on the all technical training, workshops content designs, approach and
program.
Support the development and
implementation of professional program for LGED junior and mid-level engineers
- Provide technical input to the team in
developing the professional program curriculum of LGED Engineers
- Lead in the review and provide input
on the technical aspect of the professional program for engineers
- Support technical content delivery
related as maybe agreed and required
Provide advisory and technical support
in strengthening strategic partnerships of UNOPS among key stakeholders
- Provide technical support to the Team
Lead in identification of needs and opportunities for partnership where UNOPS
can engage to be able to support resilient national infrastructure development
- Identify needs and opportunities for
partnership where UNOPS can engage to be able to support resilient national
infrastructure development,
- Create concepts and ideas (thought
leadership) which can be shared with donors for funding;
- Support the design of new projects and
the initial phases of new projects.
- Represent the CTA/Team Leader in
infrastructure related meetings/conferences/joint UN Programs in Bangladesh as
maybe requested