1. Job Title: Social Scientist Specialist

Job responsibilities

Reporting: Social Scientist Specialist reports to the Corporate Services Division Manager.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Social Scientist Specialist is responsible for:

• Ensuring social safeguard by coordinating, planning, organizing, analysing, and reporting the social-economic related effects from construction and maintenance projects of transport infrastructure as well as implementation of transport services initiatives;
• Support the linkage of project preparation to transport development initiatives with economic development goals, and specifically human cantered development;
• Determine affordability and access to transport for different populations, as well as providing information on appropriate technological solutions to deal with the social and physical realities of grass root communities;
• Safeguard projects compliance with laws/regulations with regards to labour;
• Develop measures to ensure Environmental Health and Safety (ESHS) on transport projects are implemented;

• Identify the spatial and poverty dimensions of inadequate access to employment opportunities in project areas and propose project job creation framework in line with existing laws and regulations. Review of ESIA (Environmental and Social Impact Assessment) on transport projects and therefore coordinate the Measure the socio-economic impacts of the transport projects and other transport Projects throught surveys conducted before, during and after the project implementation; 
• Evaluate the mitigation measures to prevent or minimize the negative socio-economic impacts of the transport projects as proposed in the Environmental Impact Assessment studies and monitor their implementation;
• Develop strategies and programs for resettlement for people to be affected by transport projects;
• Monitor the public consultation meetings and citizen engagement with the beneficiaries of projects;
• Lead the mainstreaming of all social aspects in projects formulation and after the implementation of projects;
• Conduct social analysis to guide gender targeted interventions and to create community-based road maintenance groups and micro enterprises;
• Handle social claims related to transport projects;
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by a competent authority.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Health Sciences, Sociology with 3 Years of relevant experience

• Master's Degree in Sociology, Civil Engineering, Social Sciencies with 1 Years of relevant experience

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2. Job Title: Urban Transport & Regional Integration Program Manager

Job responsibilities

Reporting channel: reports to the SPIU Coordinator

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinating the implementation of urban transport development program with specific focus on NST-1, the Government of Rwanda 7 years program, presidential pledges and cabinet resolutions,
• Coordinating elaboration and keeping updated strategies, work plans and budgets as well as cash flows guiding implementation at the road project level;
• Identifying windows of opportunity to further develop the urban transport development program and all its components;
• Monitoring progress and outcomes of all funded projects of the urban transport program by ensuring that programs and projects are delivered on time with required quality standards and in the available financial means/budget;
• Ensuring that technical and financial reports are timely submitted to all stakeholders including but not limited to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, the Ministry of Infrastructure and development partners according to timelines agreed upon with all concerned institutions (monthly, quarterly and annual);
• Making proposals and taking actions to remove any bottlenecks that might arise during program implementation;
• Providing technical and administrative support to implementing partners (supervision missions and contractors, etc.) and ensuring active participation of local authorities in the decision making and program monitoring (province and district authorities);
• Organizing and facilitating stakeholder consultations and program review meetings as required,
• Conduct field visits and meetings as required to verify project activities relative to stated targets for concerned program and projects;

• Coordinating closing out activities for any project of the program which include preparation of project completion report, final financial and technical reports, and the handing over of all documents as required. The Project Completion Report comprises, but is not limited to, a detailed overview of the technical and financial achievements, lessons learned, and good practices in line with project appraisal documents or evaluation reports;
• Providing strategic and technical guidance to engineers under his/her direct responsibility;
• Support RTDA in obtaining clean audit
• Perform any other relevant tasks as assigned by the SPIUC/ RTDA Management

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Pavement Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Roads Construction Engineer, Construction management with 5 Years of relevant experience

• Master's Degree in Pavement Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Civil Engineering, Road Engineering, construction Management with 3 Years of relevant experience

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