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Road Sefaty Specialist at City Of Kigali , Rwanda - Closing Date : 01/04/2025

By BIENVENUDO Empire
Thu, 27-Mar-2025, 12:12

Event Details:

Exams to be conducted

1:Written

2:Oral

Reports To

Sustainable Urbanization Project Manager

Job responsibilities

Key duties and responsibilities

. Following up and monitoring the issues related to road safety on Kigali urban Road network;

• Initiate, coordinate and report the implementation of road safety related policies, strategies and plans;

• lead the road safety data collection, recommend appropriate improvements, conduct road safety related studies and follow up on their implementation;

• Provide active support to stakeholders on road safety projects /activities.

• Provide technical support for safety of public transport and non-motorized transport users.

• Identify and collect existing road safety information on both paved and unpaved road network;

• Prepare network referencing and inventories (i.e. road furniture age, as built data, rehabilitation, and upgrading history);

• 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;

• Propose road safety development by means of new installation, rehabilitation or upgrading, whilst ensuring that all City of Kigali road network conform to acceptable standards of road safety.

• 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;

• Initiate and follow up on the development and regular updating of specifications to keep COK in the forefront of technological improvements and innovation in road safety;

• Establish the framework wherein all division feed in data for the road safety planning and management. The data include: investigation, survey, design, construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance;

• Liaise with Department of Traffic police for collection of accident data and processing it for road network inventory;

• Liaise with other divisions in COK and stakeholders in road safety related projects and activities;

• Verify if past and future data on road safety are processed for inclusion in a network management system to be used for the planning and implementation of road design, rehabilitation and construction works.

• Review and submit five-year road safety and environmental network development plans and roll-out plans for paved and unpaved roads and propose budgets and road safety programs to be initiated in road construction, upgrading and rehabilitation;

• 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.

• Identify and develop road safety database for network management system.

• 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

Qualifications

Master's in Civil Engineering

3 Years of relevant experience

Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering