Project background
The EU-IGAD COVID-19 Response project aims at supporti...
Project background
The EU-IGAD COVID-19 Response project aims at supporting the efforts of the Ministry of Health and immigration/border authorities to mitigate and control the spread of COVID 19 while enabling the continuity of trade and cross border movements especially movement of vulnerable populations and goods, but also humanitarian support.
Integrating screening and triage facilities in existing border services will help to ensure this continuity through the physical separation of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 cases from other patients. Such measures will enable existing border facilities to remain functional through effective triage, access control, screening, isolation and separation for treatment.
Through this project, the Ministry of Health will benefit from the increased access to health care and socio-economic support for vulnerable groups as well as ensuring essential health services and systems are in place at the borders which are a part of the critical supply chains are safe for trade and are in line with the region’s immediate and longer-term response priorities for managing the risks of transmission.
EU-IGAD COVID-19 Response: funded by the European Union, managed by UNOPS, coordinated by IGAD and implemented by GIZ, IOM, TMEA, UNICEF and UNOPS
Position background
The Civil Engineer is part of the UNOPS infrastructure team and is required to assist the Project Manager (Technical Team Leader) to manage and coordinate the day-to-day activities and outputs of the infrastructure team, including the UNOPS, Consultants and Contractor teams. The Civil Engineer is therefore required to have extensive practical experience of performing project management roles as well as practical construction activities of supervising works to ensure that both UNOPS Quality Assurance requirements are being met, and that the Contractor carries out their quality control functions effectively.
The project is managed from the UNOPS KEMC Uganda office.
The duty station for the Civil Engineer is Juba in South Sudan with field stations at Nimule and Renk.