Water Field Monitor

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UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

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With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

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UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

UNOPS Hub in Amman

The UNOPS Hub in Amman implements projects in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen, in partnership with bilateral donors, national governments, and other UN agencies.  With an established presence across the region, the office runs operations including large-scale procurement, project development, and technical management, and provides financial, human resources, and infrastructure-related services. The functional objective of UNOPS Hub in Amman is to deliver its projects in an efficient and effective manner and in line with the principles, rules and regulations of UNOPS, in order to support the response to the current needs and national priorities in the region.

Since 2012, UNICEF Jordan Country Office has been playing an integral part of the humanitarian response for Syrian refugees in Jordan. As WASH sector lead, UNICEF is leading the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene promotion assistance to the refugees in camps as well as in host communities, including schools and other institutions. Zaatari Refugee Camp is among the main locations where UNICEF is providing humanitarian WASH assistance which hosts more than 80,000 refugees.

In Zaatari refugee Camp, UNICEF is providing water at a daily average of 3,800,000 litres. This is provided through three boreholes operated within the camp covering the whole the daily supply, and number of privately owned external boreholes, contributing the remaining daily supply. Currently, water is pumped from the boreholes to the distribution points through main pipelines and pump stations. The water supply from the network doesnot cover the needs of the NGOs and institutions inside the camp. In addition to water supply, UNICEF is also manging wastewater networks which collects a daily amount of 2000 to 2500 m3 through main pipelines and two pump stations. Collected wastewater is being pumped on 24 hours basis to the camp treatment plant.

While all the above activities are conducted by implementing partners, there has been significant bottlenecks regarding the effective service deliver by these partners. Although majority of the problems of quality service delivery are related to water supply, the other WASH components also present some major constraints.

Against this background, UNICEF put together an independent team to conduct daily monitoring of the major UNICEF supported service delivery projects in the camp, with the sole aim of improving the quality and effectiveness of the services provided. This structure has not only improved overall quality of results, but also enhanced a cordial relationship between right holders and duty bearers, particularly in the area of water supply. Based on this experience, UNICEF has decided to expand this monitoring structure to other WASH components it supports in the camp.

- Under the Supervision of the Networks O&M Manager.

The Water Field Monitor is expected to fullfil the following tasks and responsibiltes :

- Track and monitor the water supply through trucking in response to daily complaints from the community.

- Work closely with the operation engineers and hotline team to address all water trucking needs in response to any complaints or supply issues in the network.

- Manage the water quality checkpoint at the Camp Gate completely and ensure tracking and quality testing for all coming trucks.

- Responsible for monitoring quality for all water trucking inside the camp including response to complaints, private supply, and institutions.

- Prepare daily and weekly reports on water market and gate chekpoint quality sampling and testing.

- Act as focal point for gate quality checkpoint with SRAD, NGOs, MOH and anyother stakeholders.

- Coordiante with SRAD on rejection of unapproved and contaminated water trucks at the gate.

- Attend all operational and WASH meetings and contribute to the monitoring of water supply through trucking to NGOs and institutions inside the camp.

- Liase with the contractor on the water trucking to all NGOs and institutions inside the camp if they are not getting private water supply.

- Coordinate with the contractor on water quality testing inside the NGOs and institutinos locations.

- Follow up with MOH on quality testing for water inside NGOs and institutions if they are supplied by UNICEF’s contractors and partners.

- Ensure that all water supplier are delivering water from approved wells and according to national standards.

- Update and manage the master list of trucks drivers and report any misbehaviors or illegal driving actions to UNICEF and SRAD if needed.

- Record and track all the required tests and samples for water quality parameters and ensure having proper documentation for all tests results and findings.

- Technical competency

-  - Drive for results

- Analytical

-  - Reliable and able to work under pressure

-  - Capable of working in a multi-national/cultural environment

-  - Excellent communications skills

   - Strong organizing ability

   - Flexibility

   - Ability to learn

   - Initiative

• Bachelor degree in Civil /Mechanical/ Water/ Environment Engineering. OR a diploma in Water Engineering or Water Quality Management with additional 3 years of relevant experience.
• 2 years of working experience in water quality and management
• Experience in refugee camps context is an asset.
• Computer skills ( Word, Excel, PowerPoint …etc)
• Knowledge of water quality testing and sampling methods and techniques.
• Fluency of both English and Arabic is required.

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.