6 Job Positions at KIGALI CITY: (Deadline 24 October 2023)

6 Job Positions at KIGALI CITY: (Deadline 24 October 2023)

SPIU Coordinator Under Contract at KIGALI CITY: (Deadline 24 October 2023)

Job description

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Overall coordination of all projects, staff and consultants working in CoK/SPIU;
• Responsible for ensuring that all projects are implemented to schedule and budget and all executed in accordance with project concept, approach and documentation;
• Submit and present monthly, quarterly, and annual projects reports for all CoK projects and Development Partners Interventions;
• Builds and strengthen partnerships with stakeholders in government and development partners as well as service providers;
• Take a lead in the preparation of draft programs/project proposals under SPIU for review by MINECOFIN and the concerned development partners;
• Responsible for reporting monthly, quarterly and annual progress to CoK and for compiling Quarterly Reports to Development Partners;
• Overall responsibility for planning and engineering aspects of the project activities and reporting on progress and problems arising on project execution.
• Mobilise funds for project implementation;
• Hosts all the concerned appraisal/supervision missions of the development partners;
• Coordinates Project Monitoring and Evaluation and Reporting;
• Fiduciary Management of day today CoK/SPIU operations;
• Verify and approve payments under CoK/SPIU
• Report to the City Manager

2 Job Positions of Urban Settlement Improvement Specialist Team Leader Under Contract at KIGALI CITY: (Deadline 24 October 2023)

Job description

Main Responsibilities
Overall coordination of different technical activities of the project. For instance, the staff will ensure that all the project components of a given project are implemented in well-coordinated manner to meet the overall project objectives. Furthermore, the person will liaise with different institution and stakeholders to ensure the coherence and complementarity between different programs and/or projects implemented by those institutions and which are in relation with a specific project implemented through the SPIU of the City of Kigali

Detailed tasks /responsibilities

• The Urban Settlement Improvement Specialist Team Leader will ensure the coordination of different activities done by the staff for a given project
• This staff will also ensure that a given project and its sub projects are implemented as per the schedule, the budget, the project concept, approach and any other project document agreed upon by all the stakeholders
• The staff will have to report on project progress and problems arising. The reports shall be submitted to the concerned institutions and/or persons in accordance with the schedule specified in each project documents, City of Kigali reporting schedule, and any other schedule that might be given to him/her.

• Assist and advise the programme manager on technical issues for a specific project
• Make a close follow with different stakeholders involved in a specific project to ensure that their responsibilities towards the project are fulfilled on time schedule established

Traffic Management Specialist Under Contract at KIGALI CITY: (Deadline 24 October 2023)

Job description

Key duties and Responsibilities
– Planning, promoting, providing, coordinating and managing transport data and information as well as traffic management in Kigali;
– Supervise and coordinate travel demand forecasting and traffic network assignment analysis; connectivity, accessibility and mobility analysis of the road network;
– Lead and coordinate transport and travel data collection and analyses, as well as supervise and monitor the development and management of a transport database;
– Prepare Road traffic management, control and development concepts including an optimal traffic management system and traffic order for public areas considering pedestrian and bicycle interests, organising and coordinating road reconstruction works and organising closing works;
– Prepare and develop concepts for intelligent transport systems, operating intelligent transport management and automatic vehicle actuated signal control systems;
– Guide and lead the process of integration of the management and supervision of traffic system, particularly in public and private transport orders, priorities and coordination;
– Provide active support and assist the proliferation of public transport, pedestrian and bicycle transport, creates a balance between the development and operation of an integrated transport system;
– Provide technical assistance and work with consultants in improving arterial traffic flow and reduce fuel and other related costs to motoring public through signal timing, planning, design and installation of computerized traffic signal systems and other traffic system projects and pay parking system;
– Establish a framework where all Divisions and Units feed in data for the road planning and management. The data include; investigation, survey, design, supervision service, construction, rehabilitation, maintenance, and road safety;
– Collect and process road network inventory and condition data for inclusion in a network management System to be used for the planning and implementation of road design, rehabilitation and construction works;
– Perform all duties related to road management, incl. traffic lights, ordering, and control, parking and taxi operation management;
– Perform any other duties as may be assigned by a competent authority.
– Reports to the Program Manager in charge of Infrastructure Development and Urban Mobility Program.

Public Transport Specialist Under Contract at KIGALI CITY: (Deadline 24 October 2023)

Job description

The Public Transport Specialist is responsible for:

• Working on all aspects of the conceptual, detailed and functional designs of the Multimodal Bus Terminal and DBL development in order to ensure quality and a good structure of the operation plan for the terminal, DBLs and feeder networks
• Participating in the regular bi-weekly meetings in person or online with the design teams, track the work progress of the design team. Participate in meetings with the Development Partners. Review the design team deliverables and monthly progress reports.
• Formulate public transport plans and strategies, providing inputs and advisory support.
• Prepare the annual, medium- and long-term public transport infrastructure and services programs
• Advise on prioritizing and budgeting of public transport projects/activities.
• contract management of public transport services and consultancies, including areas such as preparation of technical contracts, supervision etc.
• Assess the conformance, quality, appropriateness, and cost-effectiveness of relevant public transport studies to international best practice
• Develop relevant ToRs for public transport development projects and studies
• Participate in strategic public transport operations, services, planning, technology integration, contractual and any other topic associated with public transport planning, design, construction, and operations
Prepare communication briefs in collaboration with CoK communication office on public transport initiatives, strategically and effectively develop communication plan and materials to suit the different readership within and outside public transport domain.
• Participate in supervision of the overall design and implementation of public transport infrastructure and operations, route definition for the City of Kigali urban and rural roads networks. Support in the development of criteria, application instructions, procedural manuals, and contracts for public transportation services.
• Supervise the design and implementation of public transport services for the City of Kigali urban and rural roads networks and assist in entering into and management of franchising contracts with public transport operation companies to provide public transport services in Rwanda in collaboration with the regulatory authority;
• Participate in planning appropriate fare structure for public transport services and assist in securing, allocating and disbursing the finances required for all authorized activities of the public transport services and establishing the framework for the fare system and tariffing levels for the public transport offer Identify public transport options with potential to increasing passenger transport opportunities, including outcomes associated with tourism, economic development, education, health and community development;
• Prepare regular reports and technical notices, as and when necessary, on status of physical and financial execution of public transport projects and develop criteria, application instructions, procedural manuals, and contracts for public transportation services;
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor
• Reports to the Program Manager in charge of Infrastructure Development and Urban Mobility Program.

Social Safeguards Specialist Under Contract at KIGALI CITY: (Deadline 24 October 2023)

Job description

Key duties and responsibilities
• Ensure provisions of social safeguard policies and requirements are considered in all studies under the project.

• Work with consultants to develop all safeguard documents required for the project and review the quality assurance of safeguards instruments prepared by consultants.

• Reviewing Project Preparatory Technical document reports and recommendations to assess the extent to which they address the social safeguard issues related to resettlement and providing advice and assistance to project teams to address any shortcomings.

• Work with the consultant to prepare and review Resettlement Plans and Resettlement Frameworks to assess compliance with the Policy on Resettlement and support City Engineering department in meeting compliance requirements, and to recommend measures to mitigate and manage any risks.

• To supervise and implement the resettlement action plans and regularly report on implementation progress. Keep the public in general informed of the project schedule through public meetings:

• Preparing guidelines, handbooks, and instructions on the social safeguard policies. Disseminate the Environmental and Social Management plans to ensure that the public is aware of the project impacts and mitigations during implementation phase.
• Undertaking reviews and preparing monthly progress reports on social safeguard assignments.
• Establish and redress grievance mechanisms as well as consolidating a grievance database of all project sites under which the project is implemented and maintain it updated
• To ensure all social safeguards related modules are incorporated in the training and capacity building programs at all levels;
• To coordinate and liaise with Development partners to ensure effective mainstreaming of social safeguards issues into the implementation of project activities.
• To ensure that project activities are consistent in their approaches to social safeguards principles, thereby supporting full blending at the operational level.
• To be part of the training and raising awareness sessions with the communities about GBV, SEA, VAC, HIV/AIDS, Labor Influx prevention.
• Defining and subsequently monitoring suitable social safeguards indicators for the project.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor
– Report to CoK/ SPIU Coordinator