Functional Responsibilities
Reporting to the Principal Project Manager, the Infrastructure Advisor will provide technical expertise to support the project’s infrastructure maturity vision in Niger. In addition, he/she will contribute to the development of the project’s infrastructure strategy, ensuring that initiatives are aligned with overall objectives and promoting effective and sustainable implementation.
The Infrastructure Advisor is responsible for, among other things, the following functions:
Procedures:
- Lead the project infrastructure maturity vision
- Support the Project Manager and Site Engineers in liaising with key stakeholders including contractors and beneficiaries.
- Oversee the overall planning and monitoring of activities, while supporting the regular updating of project plans based on actual progress.
- Ensure immediate communication with the Project Manager regarding the management of risks and issues related to the project.
- In collaboration with the Project Manager, support the conduct of overall quality control of the work and ensure compliance with UNOPS quality standards.
- Support, facilitate and oversee provisional and final acceptance of project work.
- Ensure quality assurance of work progress declarations issued by companies and countersigned by the project manager and site supervisors.
- Provide technical interface and coordination for the UNOPS programme with all partners and stakeholders as required.
- Deliver presentations on technical aspects of engineering and assessments as required.
- Provide technical assessments and analyses to enable the project manager and stakeholders to make informed decisions.
Delivery and performance:
- Work with the country management team to ensure effective working arrangements and communication, highlighting potential areas for improvement.
- Ensure that the project complies with UNOPS procedures and requirements defined by headquarters
- Ensure that approved project plans (including milestone establishment) remain within tolerances set by project boards.
- In collaboration with the Project Manager, facilitate the production of required deliverables, monitor progress and resource utilization, and initiate corrective actions if necessary.
- Establish strong relationships with government entities and development partners involved in infrastructure planning, design and implementation.
- Successfully facilitating the signing of partnership agreements
- Advise the Project Manager on all infrastructure issues and any deviations from project/programme plans.
- Monitor risk and issue management to maximize benefits for customers and stakeholders.
- Review product quality and ensure products are accepted.
- Provide specific support for design management, including design review to manage quality, cost and schedule risks.
- Provide specific support for procurement of infrastructure-related activities to manage associated risks.
- Identify and report potential business opportunities for UNOPS and, where appropriate, support the development of such opportunities.
- Identify and report threats to the internal viability of UNOPS SNMC
Knowledge management
- Participate in relevant Communities of Practice.
- Actively engage with other project managers and the PM community to share case studies, lessons learned and best practices on the Knowledge System.
- Strengthen SNMC’s knowledge and culture of the UNOPS infrastructure approach through regular knowledge sharing events and platforms.
- Contribute to regional knowledge sharing activities where appropriate.
- Provide feedback to practice managers on policies, supporting guidance with the aim of continuous improvement of UNOPS policies.
- Complete lessons learned as per report format, and lead lessons learned workshops related to infrastructure and infrastructure projects at SNMC.
- Incorporate lessons learned from others into the planning format.
