Construction Foreman

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

Background

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of the largest humanitarian agencies in the world, providing relief, rehabilitation, and post-conflict reconstruction support to victims of oppression and violence. IRC has worked for over seven decades in the world addressing both the immediate, lifesaving needs of conflict-affected people in an emergency and the reconstruction needs in post-conflict societies. IRC is committed to a culture of results-oriented leadership, innovation in all aspects of our work, creative partnerships, and detailed accountability to those we serve.

Job Scope:

With the direct supervision of the Health and Nutrition Manager (from the perspective of the whole Health and Nutrition project nature and goal) and Construction manager (from the perspective of profession: construction quality) at field, as well as technical oversight of the technical team in Addis Ababa the Construction Foreman is responsible for the timely construction and rehabilitation of Health Facilities and any other work required by the project in Target Woredas and maintenance of Partially damaged health and Nutrition sites.

Major Responsibilities:

- Support the Health and Nutrition Manager in preparing detailed activity implementation plans for the construction and maintenance of Health and Nutrition project. - Prepare specification, BOQ and engineering cost estimate for all constructions in the project using clear take off sheets. - Review and certify payment requests from contractors. - Initiate procurement (Purchase Requests) for all construction materials, labor to construct Health Facilities including Hospitals, Health Centers, Health Post and Temporary Latrines. - Supervise construction of HFs to ensure the HFs are constructed as per the plan, BOQ, specifications and agreed quality standards. - Identify maintenance need of HFs and estimate the budget requirements for each HFs. - Inspect quality of procured construction materials on delivery to IRC warehouse. - Ensure the required quantity of construction materials are delivered to construction sites. - Document and monitor in and outflow of construction materials from IRC warehouse. - Mobilize, coordinate, and handle labor, material, and equipment at the site level. - Monitor proper utilization of the project materials and ensure accurate and effective use of resources, ensuring that all resources/assets in the project are handled in line with IRC and Donor policy. - Keep daily records of construction progresses, material and labor utilization and prepare and submit a monthly progress report. - Supervise and collect the required information during follow-ups of the project progress and the project output in the community. - Prepare completion reports and as-built drawings of completed learning spaces. - Properly document type of community contributions and convert to monetary values to measure amount of community contributions in monitory values

Qualifications

- Degree/Diploma in Construction, Engineering, or related field from universities or Technical and Vocational Training Centers and/or above. - O years of experience as a BSc degree holder and 1 years for Diploma - Knowledgeable in drawing with AutoCAD software - Ability to communicate with architectural drawings. - Knowledgeable with preparation of construction specifications, Bill of quantities (BoQ), engineering cost estimation for construction materials and labor

- Primary certificate of education and one-year experience in similar position - Self-motivated, honest, responsible, punctual, ability to work under pressure and in team with low supervision - Fluency in English and Somali language is a mandatory.

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