2 Job Positions at RWANDA TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENTAGENCY (RTDA): (Deadline 12 May 2023)

2 Job Positions at RWANDA TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENTAGENCY (RTDA): (Deadline 12 May 2023)

Coordinator Under Contract at RWANDA TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENTAGENCY (RTDA): (Deadline 12 May 2023)

Job description

Reporting channel: reports to the Director General

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the overall attainment of RTDA mission & vision
• Manage the SPIU and provide effective steer in the development and implementation of the project in all aspects (technical, fiduciary, M&E, …)
• Lead the needs identification, planning and budgeting process for the funded activities to be implemented, and ensure that all activities are planned, budgeted for, and executed in line with project agreements in a timely manner, meeting key projects milestones established;
• Ensure the SPIU team’s effective delivery of the projects against the Financing Agreements, including the formulation and periodic review and update of the Projects Implementation Plans, as needed, furnishing requisite reporting to different development partners;
• Ensure adherence to development partners guidelines and procedures and effective disbursement of projects funds;
• Establish and maintain effective, inclusive, and collaborative coordination and working relationships with development partners and other key project stakeholders, serving as the main interlocutor on issues related to the overall project design and implementation;
• Promote activities enhancing awareness of the projects and contribute to knowledge-sharing, representing the project in relevant internal and external fora as and when needed;
• Design an overarching risk mitigation plan for projects and regularly review the performance to ensure that risks are adequately identified, and that mitigation is effectively and promptly applied, including but not limited to those related to fiduciary, stakeholder engagement, environmental and social aspects of the project;
• Staying abreast of sectoral-wide development that may reasonably be expected to impact the projects, including but not limited to action taken by Government or other donor-funded activities in the road development subsector;
• Ensure delivery against cross-cutting projects priorities and commitments related to citizen engagement, gender and inclusion, climate adaptation and mitigation, etc.;
• Support RTDA to attain clean audit
• Perform any other relevant tasks as assigned by the DG

Transport Safety Senior Engineer Under Statute at RWANDA TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENTAGENCY (RTDA): (Deadline 12 May 2023)

Job description

Reporting: Transport Safety Senior Engineer reports to the Director of Traffic Management Unit
Duties and Responsibilities
The transport Safety Senior Engineer is responsible for:
1. Following up and monitoring the issues related to road safety on Rwandan Road network;
2. Initiate, coordinate and report the implementation of road safety related policies, strategies and plans;
3. lead the road safety data collection / recommend appropriate improvements, conduct road safety related studies and follow up on their implementation;
4. Provide active support to stakeholders for road safety projects /activities (
5. Provide technical support for safety of inland water transport;
6. Identify and collect existing road safety information on both paved and unpaved road network;
7. Prepare network referencing and inventories (i.e. road furniture age, as built data, rehabilitation, and upgrading history);
8. Prepare proposed limits for the road safety performance indicator (i.e. trigger level for intervention, vertical sign illumination, shading off horizontal marking, black spots, bridge protection, and any other hazardous features;
9. Propose road safety development by means of new installation, rehabilitation or upgrading, whilst ensuring that all National road networks conform to acceptable standards of road safety;
10. Initiate and supervise the road safety audits are carried out in the entire network including installation of road safety features such as road horizontal and vertical signs and necessary traffic calming features;
11. Initiate and follow up on the development and regular updating of specifications to keep RTDA in the forefront of technological improvements and innovation;
12. Establish the framework wherein all division feed in data for the road safety planning and management. The data include; investigation, survey, design, construction, rehabilitation, maintenance;
13. Liaise with Department of Traffic police for collection of accident data and processing it for road network inventory;
14. Liaise with other divisions in RTDA and stakeholders in road safety related projects and activities;
15. Verify if past and future data are processed for inclusion in a network management System to be used for the planning and implementation of road design, rehabilitation and construction works;
16. Review and submit five-year road safety and environmental network development plans and roll-out plans for paved and unpaved roads and recommend programs and budgets for roads construction, upgrading and rehabilitation;
17. Verify if all designs and other services carried out by consultants and in-house staff are properly reviewed, checked and maintained in respect of meeting all the road safety standards in accordance with the defined procedures;
18. Identify and develop road safety database for network management system;
19. Perform any other duties as may be assigned by a competent authority.