Technical Officer, Infrastructure, Humanitarian Development Coexistence Nexus, HCMP

Job Description

Title: Technical Officer, Infrastructure, Humanitarian Development Coexistence Nexus, HCMP

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:
∎ At least 1 year
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):NGO, Development Agency

Published: 4 Jun 2025

Education:
∎ Diploma in Civil Engineering from any reputed university/institution

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ KNOWLEDGE:
∎ • Technical knowledge of rural infrastructure construction, shelter, sanitation, and public facility development.
∎ • Understanding of construction monitoring, BoQ interpretation, and site safety protocols.
∎ • Familiarity with humanitarian standards.
∎ SKILLS:
∎ • Skilled in interpreting construction drawings and technical instructions.
∎ • Hands-on experience with layout, measuring, and supervising civil works.
∎ • Good verbal communication and team coordination.
∎ • Basic record-keeping and reporting ability using mobile tools or notebooks.
∎ COMPETENCIES:
∎ • Reliability, discipline, and strong work ethic in field environments.
∎ • Problem-solving attitude and attention to construction quality.
∎ • Cultural sensitivity and respectful communication with workers and community members.
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Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Supervise daily implementation of infrastructure construction works, ensuring alignment with approved drawings and instructions.
∎ Provide technical guidance to masons, laborers, and community workers during excavation, masonry, reinforcement, and finishing works.
∎ Monitor construction progress, workmanship, and safety compliance on-site.
∎ Support in site selection, layout work, marking boundaries, and interpreting design documents at the field level.
∎ Maintain daily activity logs, site visit notes, and photographic documentation.
∎ Support construction and distribution works across WASH, Shelter, Education, Livelihoods, and other sectors as required.
∎ Ensure materials delivered to sites meet quality standards; report discrepancies to the Senior Technical Officer at once.
∎ Maintain basic records of daily labor, material usage, and equipment at each site.
∎ Submit daily updates to supervisors on task completion, challenges, and site needs.
∎ Assist in filling out checklists for infrastructure quality and compliance monitoring.
∎ Identify early risks in construction delays or substandard work and suggest corrective actions.
∎ Communicate with community members and workers respectfully, ensuring their understanding of construction activities and timelines.
∎ Liaise with volunteers and community focal points.
∎ Support community-led infrastructure activities with technical assistance and presence on-site.
∎ Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme's goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.
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∎ The Technical Officer, Infrastructure is responsible for daily, hands-on supervision of construction and infrastructure activities at the camp and host community level. Reporting to the Senior Technical Officer, the role will ensure that small-scale infrastructure activities—such as shelters, access roads, drainage, training centres, health and community centres, and WASH-related works—are implemented according to technical specifications, safety standards, and project timelines. The role plays a critical part in ensuring quality and accountability at the grassroots level.
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∎ Field-Level Construction Support and Supervision
∎ Supervise daily implementation of infrastructure construction works, ensuring alignment with approved drawings and instructions.
∎ Provide technical guidance to masons, laborers, and community workers during excavation, masonry, reinforcement, and finishing works.
∎ Monitor construction progress, workmanship, and safety compliance on-site.
∎ Support in site selection, layout work, marking boundaries, and interpreting design documents at the field level.
∎ Maintain daily activity logs, site visit notes, and photographic documentation.
∎ Support construction and distribution works across WASH, Shelter, Education, Livelihoods, and other sectors as required.
∎ Quality Monitoring, Reporting, and Material Management
∎ Ensure materials delivered to sites meet quality standards; report discrepancies to the Senior Technical Officer at once.
∎ Maintain basic records of daily labor, material usage, and equipment at each site.
∎ Submit daily updates to supervisors on task completion, challenges, and site needs.
∎ Assist in filling out checklists for infrastructure quality and compliance monitoring.
∎ Identify early risks in construction delays or substandard work and suggest corrective actions.
∎ Coordination and Community Interaction
∎ Communicate with community members and workers respectfully, ensuring their understanding of construction activities and timelines.
∎ Liaise with volunteers and community focal points.
∎ Support community-led infrastructure activities with technical assistance and presence on-site.
∎ Safeguarding:
∎ Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme's goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.
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Skills & Expertise:

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Weekly 2 holidays
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
∎ • Health & Life Insurance
∎ • Paternity/ Maternity leave
∎ • others as per Organisation policy.
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Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Contractual

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

Read Before Apply:

BRAC believes that everyone we work with including our staff, programme participants, partners, and the communities have the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). We uphold human dignity and inclusion for all, regardless of age, race, religion, gender, disability, ethnic origin, or socio-economic condition. As an equal-opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from gender-diverse individuals and people with disabilities

Selected candidates will have to go through a rigorous reference and background checking process which may include police verification

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Company Information:
∎ BRAC
∎ BRAC 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
∎ brac is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.
Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.

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∎ BRAC 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
∎ brac is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.

Application Deadline: 15 Jun 2025

Category: NGO/Development