Overview
The National Programme Officer - Road Maintenance will assist in planning, programming, and implementing ILO technical assistance activities related to road maintenance, focusing on routine maintenance and spot improvements within the Rural Access and Agriculture Marketing Project (RAAMP). The role aims to support sustainable routine road maintenance systems and spot improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure timely provision of personnel, consultants, civil works contracts, training, equipment, and other resources for the project maintenance component.
- Participate in overall program planning to ensure coordination with other project components.
- Assist in assessing the capacity of government agencies and identifying capacity gaps.
- Prepare and conduct technical training for national staff, contractors, and community groups.
- Ensure standard conditions of employment reflecting the ILO decent work agenda are achieved in infrastructure works.
- Review existing information and rural roads database systems and provide capacity development inputs.
- Introduce and promote appropriate technologies for employment-intensive work methods in rural road rehabilitation and maintenance.
- Assist in quantity surveys, preparation of designs, cost estimates, bidding documents, and civil works contracts.
- Develop on-site and off-site training modules.
- Secure and monitor quality assurance measures.
- Report, monitor, and evaluate maintenance works.
- Promote project visibility through high-level communications with stakeholders.
- Represent the ILO technical team when needed.
- Perform other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.
Required Experience
- At least two years of experience in managing rural Road’s infrastructure works.
- Of which 1 year related to employment intensive rural road rehabilitation and maintenance, project formulation and management.
- Proven experience in working and engaging with governments’ agencies, private sector contractors, donor agencies, and a heterogeneous team composed of consultants, specialists, and local collaborators of different educational and cultural background, in remote/difficult settings.
Qualifications
First level university degree in civil /highway engineering or another relevant technical field.
