Kenya Multi Country Office manages a growing portfolio of engagements, including...
Kenya Multi Country Office manages a growing portfolio of engagements, including associated strategic and operational risks. The KEMCO sub-region currently consists of an established Operation Centre in Nairobi/Kenya which manages a portfolio of engagements in multiple countries in East and South Africa. This includes primarily transactional projects in partnership with the Nairobi based UN Agencies, UN-Habitat and UNEP, and multiple ‘operational’ projects in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and several island states.
KEMC has its own Technical and Design Services Unit (TSU) which comprises a core group of technical staff supplemented by experts employed on a retainer basis. The group conducts feasibility studies and assessments and engages in design and monitoring work. The core group’s skills include Civil, Structural, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Architects, Design Associates and Quantity Surveyors. Senior Civil Engineer-Retainer will provide additional capacity in core disciplines as well as GIS and sector specific expertise (roads, healthcare, heritage etc).
UNOPS undertakes a number of infrastructure projects in the Africa region. The purpose of this role would be to provide hydrological inputs where required, including undertaking hydrological studies to determine design flows as input to design of drainage networks and structures such as roads, dams and bridges. S/he will be expected to use specialist computer modelling and statistical applications and techniques to compute run offs and forecast peak flow so that structures can be adequately sized.
The consultant will be prepared to travel to any site in or around the countries under KEMC as required and as UNDSS permits (including but not limited to Kenya, Angola, Botswana, Eritrea, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe).