Afghanaid is a British humanitarian and development NGO established in 1983. It is headquartered in Kabul and is currently working in four provinces: Badakhshan, Samangan, Ghor, and Daykundi. We also work through partners in nine others: Herat, Faryab, Jawzjan, Sar-i-Pul, Nooritan, Bamyan, Takhar, Ghazni, Nangarhar and Paktia. For 4 decades, Afghanaid has developed its thematic expertise and the capacity of its staff in correspondence with the evolving needs of the country, international best practice, and opportunities for innovation. Our work supports four pillars of sustainable development: providing basic services; strengthening sustainable livelihoods and food security; adapting to climate change and reducing disaster risk, and emergency humanitarian assistance. Three guiding principles are mainstreamed in all our work to ensure its contribution to sustainable development: gender and inclusion, good governance and community development, and conflict mitigation and peacebuilding.

Responsibilities:

• The leading engineer will be acting as PC of the project and has the responsibility of overall project management and implementation on provincial level.
• Lead and manage engineering teams through all phases of project lifecycles.
• Provide technical and operation guidance and support the technical team of the project in assessing, surveying, designing, and where relevant procuring and contracting of suppliers.
• Conducting the subsequent supervision and monitoring of all project activities and assigning adjustments based on monitoring findings. 
• Developing, updating project monitoring plans, activities and achievements including problems and unresolved issues. Assure that unresolved issues are addressed as soon as possible.
• Create and maintain coordination with all relevant departments particularly with project sector department in the province.
• Participation in all project relevant coordination meeting on provincial level and reporting the minutes of those meeting to the project manager.
• Participate in all process of beneficiary’s selection, preparation of beneficiary list according to the selection criteria and ensure transparency and equity in beneficiary selection.  
• Organize, monitor, and develop capacity of the Shelter Implementation Team, counterparts and ensure capacity development of shelter beneficiaries.
• Provision of technical advice to shelter engineers and through the shelter engineers to beneficiaries during construction and repairing of their shelter.
• Provision of technical advice for using construction materials and ensure quality of materials procured.
• Supervise the timely delivery and quality of the shelter materials and the timely completion and quality of the shelter construction. This will include, among others, the following tasks:
• Participation in the procurement process of materials, materials quality check, materials storage and stock management, materials distribution, team mobilization, and supervision and monitoring. 
• Prepare and submit reports (weekly, monthly, mid-term, and completion) as required.
• Working closely with the technical team of the project to ensure the shelter related aspect of the shelter programming is delivered to the entire communities.
• Discuss project activities regularly with local communities and beneficiaries and receive their feedback on the activities.
• Maintain good liaison with the local authority’s province level, district level, project partners and communities.
• Conduct regular field surveys and assessments; map information and ensure documentation.
• Identify and document good practices/lessons learned; bring to the attention of project officer and recommend solutions.
• Prepare monthly progress reports on community mobilization and training submission to project officer.
• Ensure adherence to Afghanaid operational policies, procedures, and standards and guidelines.
• Perform any other task assigned by the supervisor(s)      

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS, COMPETENCIES, VALUES AND ATTITUDES

• Ability to deal with difficult, often challenging work situations.
• Behavioural role model for peers and fellow team members.
• Competent to work with significant levels of autonomy and able to meet tight deadlines.
• Sensitivity to gender issues.
• Fluent in Dari, Pashto and good English (written and oral).
• Personal integrity, sense of humour, intuitive and self-motivation
• Evidence of a highly developed computer literacy
• Committed and honest in his work
•  Proven leadership and team management skills
•  Strong knowledge of software development methodologies
•  Experience with system architecture and design
•  Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
•  Strong communication and interpersonal skills
•  Previous experiences in leading a technical team.
•  Experiences of mentoring junior engineers.
•  Be able to handle conflicts within your team.

 Be able to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment

Education & Professional Qualification

Bachelor’s degree/ master degree from a well-recognized University in civil engineering, or another relevant area or equivalent professional experience.

Work Experience

At least 5 years’ demonstrable experience in civil engineering and engineering team, of which at least two years should be in team lead position with national or international organisations.

Professional Skills, Competencies, Values and Attitudes

Afghanaid seeks a responsible and dependable technical team leader with strong initiative, judgment

Please create your portal account and submit your application by filling the Afghanaid standard job application form by no later than 21 May 2025. Your covering letter and CV should be in PDF format Your CV should be no more than 4 pages and include 3 professional references including your current employer.

Afghanaid has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Afghanaid is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer that does not discriminate based on race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.

We invite qualified candidates to apply for the position through the Afghanaid HR portal. Please click on the link below to complete your application.

Link for the Afghanaid HR portal: https://afghanaid.odoo.com/jobs/detail/lead-engineer-23