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Vacancy id	VAC-23134
Job title	VAC-23134 National Road Surveyor
Location	All over Somalia as per operatonal requirement(s)
Apply by	10-Feb-2025
Start date	16-Feb-2025
Duration	10 months
Number of vacancies	1
Qualification	Bachelor’s in surveying technology, land surveying, civil engineering or a relevant discipline or a masters in the same discipline, a registered or licensed surveyor with a recognized institution is required (essential).
Sector experience	Minimum of 7 Years year/s of demonstrable relevant experience in topographic surveying works for those with a bachelors degree, a master’s degree holder would be an asset & may substitute for 2 of the required years of experience experience (essential).
Geographical experience	Minimum of 7 year/s of experience in Somalia (essential).
Languages	Fluent in English (essential). Fluent in Somali (essential).

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CTG overview	CTG staff and support humanitarian projects in fragile and conflict-affected countries around the world, providing a rapid and cost-effective service for development and humanitarian missions. With past performance in 17 countries – from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia, we have placed more than 20,000 staff all over the world since operations began in 2006. CTG recruits, deploys and manages the right people with the right skills to implement humanitarian and development projects, from cleaners to obstetricians, and mechanics to infection specialists, we’re skilled in emergency response to crises such as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Key to successful project delivery is the ability to mobilise at speed; CTG can source and deploy anyone, anywhere, in less than 2 weeks and have done so in 48 hours on a number of occasions. Through our efficient and agile HR, logistical and operational services, CTG saves multilateral organisations time and money. We handle all our clients’ HR related issues, so they are free to focus on their core services. Visit www.ctg.org to find out more
Overview of position	Somalia Urban Resilience Project II (SURP II) is a municipal governance & infrastructure development project financed by the World Bank & its partners, aimed at improving access to urban infrastructure & strengthening municipal governance in Somalia. The government of Somalia, through the Benadir Regional Administration (Mogadishu) representing multiple cities has selected our client to provide the consulting services for the urban transport infrastructure works to be executed by the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) of the respective municipalities under the project. The works involve construction of urban roads to bitumen standards, construction of bridges / drainage works & installation of streetlights, by the contractors engaged by the respective PIU. Our client assists the PIU’s in the contracts management, supervision of works implementation by the contractors as well as in other technical areas related to the project activities. The scope of our clients engagement is to provide technical assistance to the PIUs in the works implementation & contracts managements in the areas of design review, technical supervision, performance monitoring, quality control etc., as well as contributing to PIU’s capacity building.
Role objectives	The Surveyor will be assigned to one of the cities & will report to the Resident Engineer. S / he will be responsible for all surveying tasks related to the SURP II works implementation of the assigned city & reporting to the Resident Engineer. The Surveyor’s specific tasks will include: Checking the accuracy of established control points & measures to ensure acceptable level of accuracy is maintained throughout the project. Check & verify works undertaken by the contractor to ensure works implementation are as per the design drawings & specifications. Carry out topographic surveys of roads & generation of digital elevation models, maps & drawings from the survey data as directed by the Resident Engineer. Carrying out field measurements in support of maintaining works progress records, preparation of work quantities for the bill payments & management of variation claims etc. Preparation of survey reports & any other relevant documents as may be required / directed by the Resident Engineer. Generation of outputs on GIS platforms for use by the project team & other stakeholders. The Surveyor will also be required to interpret any survey data, maps & GIS outputs received from stakeholders. Ensure the accuracy of the survey equipment through testing, calibration & be the custodian of survey equipment & tools availed to him / her. Management of all survey records generated by the project with the responsibility for the final hand over to the client. On the job training of the counterpart staff provided by PIU on engineering surveying tasks.
Project reporting	This role reports to the Resident Engineer.
Key competencies	Minimum bachelors in surveying technology, land surveying, civil engineering or a relevant discipline or a masters in the same discipline, a registered or licensed surveyor with a recognized institution is required. Minimum 7 years of experience in topographic surveying works for those with a bachelors degree, a master’s degree holder would be an asset & may substitute for 2 of the required years of experience. Experience in undertaking surveying of at least 1 infrastructure projects within the last 3 years, with a similar level of duties & responsibilities expected to be performed under this position TOR. Proficient in using latest surveying equipment such as geodetic / real time kinetic GPS, total station, automatic level & ability to upload / download data & generate topographic maps & contours. Demonstrated experience in data handling on GIS platforms as well as dealing with satellite imagery information. Proficient in engineering, survey & GIS software such Autodesk, AutoCAD & Civil 3D, ArcGIS (or other similar software) Prior & relevant experience in East Africa (preferably in Somalia) is desired. Fluency in written & spoken English & Somali is required.
Team management	The Road Surveyor is expected to supervise the survey team mainly consisting of labour management activities.
Further information	Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply for this role.
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