UNOPS in South Asia
UNOPS in Sri Lanka provides
technical, operational and admin...
UNOPS in South Asia
UNOPS in Sri Lanka provides
technical, operational and administrative support to 5 countries in the South
Asia region: Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. UNOPS’ work in
this region focuses on the construction and operation of high quality
sustainable infrastructure and sustainable procurement, project management,
timely provision of services, and the use of most relevant technologies. One of
the main focuses on UNOPS work in South Asia is to reduce the vulnerability of
population to unsafe infrastructure, maximise the impact of public investments
in infrastructure, and improve the effectiveness and financial viability of the
public services delivered out of key public infrastructures. Such projects
provide social and economic benefits to vulnerable populations across the
region, and contribute to poverty eradication. Projects target a range of
sectors such as education, health, urban development, environmental services,
climate change mitigation, as well as a range of “soft” support in Capacity
Building, operations and maintenance of public assets, local governance, etc.
Recently, the UNOPS, UN Development Programme
(UNDP) and UN Women developed the joint programme in Bangladesh which aims to
sustain the resilience of human and economic development in Bangladesh through
inclusive, gender responsive disaster management and risk informed environment. This joint programme focuses on developing
national capacities in the areas of:
risk-informed and render-responsive development planning, capacities to
address mega disasters in gender responsive manner, improved capacities of
selected public institutions to achieve resilient institutions through
risk-informed, gender-responsive infrastructure systems, enhance women’s
leadership disaster response and management; and finally, to strengthen
community-level preparedness, response and recovery capacities.
Under the Joint Programme, UNOPS in particular
is providing technical assistance to Local Government Engineering Department
(LGED) and other public institutions to achieve resilience outcomes through
designing and constructing risk-informed, gender responsive infrastructure
systems and lay the foundations for long-term resilience actions in socially
inclusive infrastructure systems in Bangladesh. In particular, UNOPS will
contribute to the achievement of the over-all programme by:
- Strengthening LGED asset management system
and decision making capacities for determining priorities associated with new
development, maintenance and/or retrofitting of existing assets;
- Strengthening project evaluation
criteria and capacities within LGED and other divisions, improve coordination
and reduce duplication;
- Creating an applied understanding and
capacity to introduce the concept of failure analysis to enhance
build-back-better in reconstruction;
- Strengthening LGED professional
capacities for Junior and mid-level engineers in the areas of design,
construction and management/maintenance of resilient infrastructure;
Job Specific
The Infrastructure
and Project Management Analyst (IPMA) anchor the development of guidance
documents and technical training materials for LGED as part of the technical
assistance. The IPMA will liaise with
the UNOPS technical specialists and key stakeholders and leadership with the
partner LGED to develop the guidance documents as well as collect, consolidate
and incorporate input and feedback from relevant personnel/ partners.
Coordination and
integration of all inputs from all sources and maintaining consistency is an
integral part of the assignment.