Project description
Position: International long-term expert / Team Leader
Project-Status: on-going
Project Title: Drought Resilience in the Karamoja sub-region
Country: Uganda, Karamoja.
Project duration: 07/2022 – 06/2028
The project objective is that “Settled and migrating livestock keepers have improved production base and drought resilience”.
The project is to support remedying the core problem through investments in water storage infrastructure (earth dam, valley tanks), improvement of services for livestock producers, proper operation and maintenance (O&M) of infrastructure and sustainable watershed / water resources management. To reach the project’s objective and fulfil the social safeguard standards (participation, FPIC), technically the project (and thus the IC) has two main fields of action (apart from general project management tasks):
a) Infrastructure and other investment activities (“engineering”) and
b) Participatory processes (“soft measures and safeguards”).
Job description
Essential tasks of the consultant team:
a. Initiation and implementation of a participatory process, presumably via contractors (e.g. NGOs), and supervision of their activities; this participatory process is anticipated to be of a long-term nature.
b. Detailed design of water storage infrastructure, elaboration of related tender documents for contractors
c. Support to contracting of an independent social compliance auditor to audit safeguard activities
d. Set-up of overall and annual work plans
e. Financial and procurement management (financial plans, procurement plan, operations manual etc)
f. Elaboration of an appropriate O&M concept for the water storage infrastructure (funding and implementation)
g. Elaboration of Terms of Reference for ESIA/ESMP consultant, and supervision of related activities
h. Supervision of contractor works
i. Contracting of NGOs and other service providers for the implementation of soft measures and safeguards, and oversight/monitoring of their activities
j. Guaranteeing the application and fulfilment of relevant KfW Guidelines; correspondent advice to MWE
k. Contract management, project public relations, regular M&E, reporting, backstopping and other general issues.
Qualifications
The TL should have the following qualifications and competences:
• Postgraduate university degree in engineering (civil/water/hydraulic)
• At least 10 years of practical professional experience in areas such as water resource infrastructure, water resource management, rural engineering, irrigation
• Experience in management of donor funded infrastructure projects (studies, design of hydraulic infrastructure, accompanying measures for similar sized infrastructure, i.e. dams and reservoirs)
• Experience as team leader / coordinator / project manager preferably in similar comprehensive long-term project assignments;
• Distinct experience in social and environmental safeguards and management;
• Work experience with donor-funded projects; experience with German Financial Co-operation would be a strong asset;
• Work experience in countries with similar socio-economic conditions, especially in the east African region.
Contact Person
Guilherme Benevides Guilherme.Benevides@gfa-group.de
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