Nour Al Najjar, Project Officer (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene WASH & Livelihood)

Nour Al Najjar

Project Officer (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene WASH & Livelihood)

World Vision International

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Master's degree, Civil Engineering Department- Master Program in Environmental and Renewable Energy Engineering
Experience
10 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :10 years, 7 Months

Project Officer (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene WASH & Livelihood) at World Vision International
  • Jordan - Amman
  • My current job since July 2019

Project Officer (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene WASH & Livelihood) - two projects
Ensuring the quality of the implementation of the livelihood activities and the capacity building components of World Vision’s project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
-Designing, supervising and implementing Energy and Water, Hygiene and Sanitation projects such as; waste water treatment systems, Photovoltaic systems, energy efficiency measures, and HVAC systems, for most vulnerable schools in Jordan.
-Participating in data collection and reporting as required.
- Leading a team of two for the youth-led research component to construct 3 research papers.
- Developing project planning documents including; technical drawings, BOQ, contracts, specifications, contractor instructions, and TORs.
- Ensure quantity/quality control and time schedule consistency.
- Support and monitor the partners’ implementation of the project activities
- Delivery of soft skills training, counselling, job readiness, technical training and the linkage to labor market.
- Coordinate the designing, planning, monitoring and implementation of the project capacity building component.
- Facilitate the networking, coordination and collaboration between different project stakeholders
- Support and supervise the youth participating in the livelihoods research.
- Partnership management.

Renewable Energy Engineer at World Vision International
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 2016 to April 2018

Design, supervise works on site, inspect, liaise regularly with contractors, commission projects, study feasibility and take over engineering projects such as; photovoltaic systems, solar thermal systems, grey water systems, water network construction in host communities while complying with engineering standers, in a 3 yearlong - 8 million project, which was the biggest in world vision Jordan.

- Leading waste water testing analysis while making sure that water quality abides by national guidelines for water irrigation through liaising with water authorities such as Ministry of water and irrigation and regional water authorities’ laboratories.
- Perform wastewater treatment process calculations.
- Support and monitor contractors and construction works, evaluate project implementation, and conducting site monitoring through field inspection progress reports and provide support to the team.
- Ensure quantity/quality control and time schedule consistency.
- Supervise health, site safety compliance, and environmental management activities.
- Liaising with external stakeholders, local contractors, delegation employees, international partners, and host communities.
- Provides technical needs assessments though contributing in mapping methodologies and data collection.
- Conducting Energy audits in addition to energy efficiency solutions for the office.
- Developing project planning documents including; technical drawings, BOQ, contracts, specifications, contractor instructions, and TORs.
- Conducting site monitoring through field inspection reports plus technical needs assessment.
- Liaising with local contractors/local, international partners and host communities.
- Documents and registry keeping for; payment register, variation register, site safety inspection register, drawing register, and site diary.
- Developing project planning document including; bill of quantity, specifications, contractor instructions, drawings and TORs.
- Assisting project manager in liaison with admin, procurement, and finance departments, and assisting senior project engineer with documentation, meetings preparation and site

Sales Associate at Samsung Electronis
  • Jordan - Amman
  • April 2012 to March 2016

Samsung Electronics Levant
Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2016
Sales Associate
Worked with Samsung electronics as sales associate during my bachelor degree to finance my studies. I technically assisted customers in selecting and purchasing required products in a diverse and changing environment, keeping customer requirements as a priority.

- Manage register and inventory through optimizing warehouse organization.
- Reporting directly to line manger through daily, weekly and monthly reports.
- Provide accurate information of product features, pricing and after-sales services.
- Report customer feedback to management.
- Attend product training sessions on weekly basis.
- Manage purchase orders and documentation.

Education

Master's degree, Civil Engineering Department- Master Program in Environmental and Renewable Energy Engineering
  • at German Jordanian University
  • September 2020
Higher diploma, Humanitarian Emergency Response
  • at Oxford Brookes University
  • August 2017

60 credit hours that includes the following: • Certified Advanced Field Training Humanitarian Operations Program with Save the Children International –March 2017 – at KASOTIC (The King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center) in Jordan, it was a 14 days excessive training in sever conditions for a crisis, it was all field, UN camp simulation in a disaster hit area. • Certified Child Safeguarding and Child Protection training by Save the Children International. • Familiar with Sphere Standers and Codes. • Anti-Fraud Session by Save the Children International. • IFRC – Stay Safe Certificate. • IFRC – Code of Conduct Certificate. • Certified Emergency Foundation Course (Humanitarian Operations Program) for two weeks with Save the Children International –Feb 2016 in Jordan, it was a training that included sessions which are (HR, Finance, Logistics, operations and security, Advocacy, proposal writing, SitRep writing...etc) it also included scenario simulation for a crisis. • First Aid and CPR course. • GPS and Mapping course.

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Power Engineering
  • at Balqa' Applied University Jordan
  • February 2016

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Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
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