The Project is due to start in September 2021 and over a period of five years it...
The Project is due to start in September 2021 and over a period of five years it aims to improve access to clean and safe water, hygiene and sanitation and increase the resilience of targeted communities affected by the 2010 floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces in Pakistan. The project has been designed as a programme and includes three components which must be integrated in a holistic, complementary and coordinated manner to maximise the project impact. The three objectives are:
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Improved quality and reach of water supply services and increased access to community and household sanitation (WASH related infrastructure)
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More effective, gender-responsive and transparent WATSAN services through enhanced capacity of government entities and communities (capacity enhancement)
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Reduced waterborne diseases and improved resilience of communities through improved community and household hygiene practices (community awareness and behavioural change)
The project team will include a Senior Project Manager (whom the Deputy Project Manager will work-shadow), various field and site engineers, a capacity building expert and a M&E expert, as well as a number of project support staff.
The Deputy Project Manager will be responsible for providing overall technical and programmatic support for the planning, implementation, management, and monitoring of project activities and will be assisting the Senior Project Manager in the day to day running and operations of all field locations and project activities. S/he will be responsible to abide by the administrative instructions, plans , procedures and security policies of UNOPS and the UN Security Management System.
The Deputy Project Manager will work-shadow the Senior Project Manager and will deputise when the Senior Project Manager is on leave or absent. The Deputy Project Manager will assist the Senior Project Manager to ensure that the project outputs are delivered within the specified project tolerances of time, cost, quality, scope, risk and benefits. He/she is expected to meet the organization’s performance and delivery goals.
The Deputy Project Manager will assist the Senior Project Manager in creating the Implementation Plan, using the Project Initiation Document (PID) and the Legal Agreement and keeping in mind of the terms, conditions, and the respective roles and responsibilities of the partners/stakeholders, in order to ensure the project outputs are capable of meeting the business cases for both UNOPS and the partners.
The Deputy Project Manager role will be based in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. There will be frequent visits to the project field locations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces, as well as to the capital in Islamabad.