The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners' peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Mandated as a central resource of the United Nations, UNOPS provides sustainable project management, procurement and infrastructure services to a wide range of governments, donors and United Nations organizations. With over 6,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the logistical, technical and management knowledge they need, where they need it. By implementing around 1,000 projects for our partners at any given time, UNOPS makes significant contributions to results on the ground, often in the most challenging environments.
Background Information - Job-specific
On 24 February 2022, the military of the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine, with strikes across the territory of Ukraine. Since then, Russia’s invasion imposes a severe humanitarian and socio-economic toll, global energy and food crisis, large-scale destruction of the country's infrastructure, and disruptions in the provision of critical services and degradation of social fabrics and communities’ ties, triggering one of the world’s most significant forced displacements.
Severe attacks on energy and critical infrastructure facilities leave millions of people without electricity, water or heating supply, struggling to access water, food, health services, materials to repair homes, among others. The continued attacks cause substantial damage to the country’s economy and agricultural production, and also affect the poorest countries worldwide.
UNOPS support to partners spans the humanitarian-development nexus from emergency response to building back better, across the housing, health, education, transport, energy and mine action sectors, through infrastructure, procurement and technical assistance / project management interventions, with the ultimate aim of supporting the country on its EU accession and in its achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
UNOPS implements the project REPOWER which envisages procurement of vehicles and specialized machinery, including but not limited to truck-mounted concrete mixer, emergency repair vehicles, electric vehicles for emergency teams, excavators. The project is funded by the World Bank. The project task is to arrange procurement of this equipment to the designated recipients, and for this task UNOPS requires the services of a technical expert.
The selected expert would also be involved into activities of other UNOPS projects which procure specialized vehicles (backhoe/telescopic loaders, excavators, trucks, emergency repair vehicles), buses, vans, minibuses, car trailers, ambulances etc, vocational training workshop equipment and heavy machinery to create a modernized educational facility (welding and automotive workshop equipment, electrical workshop equipment, industrial training equipment, etc.).