Overview
The Senior Project Assistant - Road Maintenance will provide technical support to State Project Implementation Units (SPIUs) for routine road maintenance and spot improvement activities, contributing to sustainable road maintenance systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with SPIUs in data collection, road condition surveys, and updating rural roads inventory.
- Assist SPIUs in pilot testing of routine road maintenance models and tracking activities.
- Participate as a resource person in technical trainings and assist in capacity building for Road Maintenance Groups and contractors.
- Integrate Decent Work Elements into Maintenance and Operation Manuals.
- Apply technical design standards, prepare designs, cost estimates, and bidding documents.
- Advise counterpart agencies, contractors, and communities on local resource-based work approaches.
- Organize community consultations.
- Review contractors’ work programmes, methods statements, and material sources.
- Assist in conducting regular inspection and measurement of works, quality control, and as-built drawings.
- Process payments, maintain expenditure plans, and update works budgets.
- Inspect working conditions at construction sites for occupational health and safety.
- Assist in the development and maintenance of computerized information systems for monitoring and reporting.
- Provide capacity building inputs and technical advice regarding rural road works maintenance.
- Assist in the organization of conferences, seminars, workshops, training sessions, and meetings.
- Perform other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.
Required Experience
- At least 6 years’ experience with demonstrated experience in the field of employment intensive rural road rehabilitation/construction/ maintenance.
- Extensive experience in the development and implementation of employment-intensive (labour-based) public works and a solid understanding of the ILO decent work agenda.
- Experience in Rural Roads Maintenance, training of and working with local contractors.
- Good knowledge of community and project stakeholder consultations and mobilisation.
- Skills development and institutional strengthening.
Qualifications
Completion of secondary school education, plus relevant trainings/education in the civil engineering, highway engineering Field.
