TVET Modern Spaces Manager

TVET Modern Spaces Manager, Education Practice

Who We Are 

IREX is a global development and education organization. We strive for a more just, prosperous, and inclusive world—where individuals reach their full potential, governments serve their people, and communities thrive. With a projected annual portfolio of more than $150 million and more than 750 staff worldwide, we work with partners in more than 100 countries in four areas essential to progress: cultivating leaders, empowering youth, strengthening institutions, and increasing access to quality education and information. 

IREX seeks qualified candidates for the position of TVET Modern Spaces Manager to provide managerial leadership to the USAID Forsah TVET Activity in the West Bank and Gaza. The TVET Modern Spaces Manager is primarily responsible for providing oversight of modernization renovations, ensuring that engineering and infrastructure activities incorporate cross-cutting themes of greening, energy efficiency, digitization, and accessibility while complying with local and international regulations.  

The TVET Modern Spaces Manager will provide coordination oversight to small-scale infrastructural improvements of selected TVETs premises, from inception through implementation stages, ensuring proper order and integration of drafted plans, energy audits and environmental compliance, procurement and contracting of resources and services, and acquisition of proper permits and approvals. The position holder will ensure the modernization construction work is of high quality and achieves the project objectives and themes; he/she is responsible for ensuring that lessons derived through implementation of projects are well articulated, documented and disseminated both internally and externally. The position holder works closely with management, partners, and vendors to ensure coordinated efforts.  

We are doers. Our decades of on-the-ground experience help us create greater impact, practical recommendations, and lasting partnerships. 

Are you the next member of our team? 

Your Daily Tasks 

• Reporting to the Chief of Party, work with project managers and partners to provide technical and administrative leadership for assigned program components to ensure successful achievement of objectives and targets. 
• Collaborate with infrastructure, energy, and inclusion implementers, including team members, partners, sub awardees, contractors, and consultants, to ensure high-quality, cross-cutting, and compliant implementation of renovation and minor construction projects. 
• Ensure adherence to relevant USAID regulations, country laws, rules, policies, and procedures.  
• Oversee renovation and minor construction activities carried out by program consortium partners, aligning with USAID Environmental Compliance and Procedures. 
• Guide integrating appropriate environmental compliance into designs and ensure compliance with environmental threshold decisions, monitoring, and project mitigation measures. 
• Work closely with partners and stakeholders to ensure coordinated and compliant activities in alignment with construction and environmental regulations. 
• Co-design and/or co-facilitate Environment Compliance training for participating communities, fostering buy-in and securing necessary documentation for environmental compliance reporting. 
• Develop, implement, and/or recommend effective maintenance and safety programs, procedures, and guidelines. Conduct inspections to ensure program facilities are well-maintained for optimal safety. 
• Liaise with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to ensure that infrastructure activities meet cross-cutting programmatic themes, including inclusion, greening, digitization, and safe learning spaces.  
• Liaise with colleagues and partners to ensure coordination of efforts across activities. 
• Assist in budget preparation and management for construction/renovation activities, including tracking expenditures, inventory, and procurement of authorized supplies and equipment. 
• Ensure procurement and contracting procedures align with USAID, organizational, and local specifications and regulations. 
• Provide technical assistance in specialized areas. 
• Draft and review program reports, updates, success stories, monitoring tools and other program documentation. 
• Travel as necessary and needed. 
• Other support duties as needed. 

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Your Background & Skills 

• Bachelor’s degree (master’s preferred) in engineering, architecture, construction management, or a related field. 
• Minimum of 7+ years’ experience in designing and developing construction projects, project management, onsite supervision, and contractor management; prior experience on USAID projects is an asset. 
• Familiarity with USAID Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs) or other international donor regulations and procedures preferred. 
• Expertise in construction management. 
• Experience in preparing and conducting reviews of designs, specifications, and procurement documents. 
• Knowledge of local and international (IBC 2018) engineering and building codes and standards. 
• Familiarity with climate aware approaches (i.e. LEED, BREEAM, etc.) 
• Commitment to access and inclusion approaches to modernizing spaces, including gender equity, social inclusion, and digitization. 
• Ability to work in a multicultural, multi-ethnic environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity and gender. 
• Experience in developing environmental procedures and guidelines. 
• Capability to manage multiple priorities and complete tasks/projects in line with stated deadlines. 
• Able to work both independently and as a team member, demonstrating initiative, meeting deadlines, and adapting to changes. 
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and collaborate with various stakeholders, including youth, government ministries and officials, NGOs, donors, the private sector, and community-based institutions. 
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, including conflict resolution abilities. 
• Demonstrated communication, problem-solving, and management skills. 
• Strong representational and organizational skills. 
• Dedication to inclusive programming that encourages full participation regardless of gender, disability status, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other marginalized status. 
• Proficiency in spoken and written English and Arabic. 
• You must have unrestricted authorization to work in Palestine. 

We conduct background checks on all successful candidates. 

This position is eligible for Telework. The eligible employee is a regular, full-time Palestine-based staff who works from a worksite outside the Palestine office for one or more days a week.   

This position is not eligible for Immigration Sponsorship. 

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EOE – Equal Opportunity Employer 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets.