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Programme Officer Road Infrastructure & Road Safety
- Department: Infrastructure
- Directorate: Transports & Telecommunications
- Grade: P5
- Salary Scale: USD 80,335.83 - USD 89,325.91
- Supervisor: Director, Transports & Telecommunication
- Reference: ECW-COMM/REC/INFRA-P003/2010
- Duration: 2 Years, Renewable
- Closing date: 26-06-2010
Under its cooperation Agreement with the African Development Bank for implementation of the Nigeria-Cameroon Highway Project and implementation of the Regional Programme for Roads Infrastructure, the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States, is to recruit one Programme Officer, Road Infrastructure & Road Safety and one Programme Officer Transport Facilitation & Policy to reinforce the capacity of the Transport Division of the Directorate of Transport and Telecommunications.
Duties and responsibilities
- Develop short, medium and long term programme and plans for construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of road infrastructure in ECOWAS region;
- Develop implementation plan for road safety programmes in collaboration with member states;
- Coordinate and monitor implementation of the Nigeria -Cameroon Highway Project and other Regional Road Infrastructure development in the ECOWAS region;
- Produce literature and conduct awareness campaigns on Road Safety;
- Draw up term of reference for studies in road infrastructure and coordinate such studies;
- Organize donors' meetings in the area of road infrastructure development and follow up outcomes of such meetings;
- Perform other related duties as may be assigned by the director of transport & Telecommunications and the Principal Programme Office, Transport.
Qualifications/Experience/Skills
- A Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Building Engineering, Construction or related fields with at least 10 years post qualification experience in the area of road infrastructure.
- He / She must have worked at senior level of Supervision, Planning and Programming in a Directorate of Highways. Experience in regional or international organization is an added advantage.
- Membership of relevant Professional association is an advantage.
- Ability to write and present articulated reports.
- Ability to work in a multicultural team.
- Good ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with senior government official , donors, international agencies and professional associations in the road transport sector.
- Sound experience in the planning, preparation and coordination of road infrastructure development and road safety programmes.
- Must be computer literate.
- domains for as low as $0.79 and more
Age
Candidates must not be fifty (50) years old or over at the point of recruitment and must be a citizen of one of the ECOWAS member states.
Languages
Must be fluent in one of the official languages of ECOWAS: English, French and Portuguese. A working knowledge of a second official language would be an advantage.
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