Labour Intensive Public Works Specialist Job Opportunity at

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Regularly review cost estimates of schedules of materials, labor, transport, tools and bill of quantities to ensure correctness and reflection of actual requirements.
• Keenly verify expenditure against physical progress of sub projects.
• Guide in the preparation and revisions of budgets and cost estimates to reflect current needs and prices as well as costing of community inputs.
• Work closely with sector staff in subproject appraisals, monitoring, assessments, inspection and certification to ensure quality of output.
• Keenly monitor progress of on-going subprojects for adherence to sector standards and specification and agreed implementation strategies and project targets.
• Draw up terms of reference to serve as basis for engaging facilitators/consultants who may assist in the supervision of subproject implementation.

 Key Result Areas: 

• Reviewing of cost estimates of schedules of materials, labour, transport, tools and bill of quantities;
• Verify expenditure against physical progress of sub-projects;
• Monitoring progress of on-going projects;
• Drawing terms of reference for engaging Consultants who may assist in sub-projects;
• Reviewing of sub-project requests submitted by the Districts

 Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The ideal candidate for the World Bank NUSAF3 Labour Intensive Public Works Specialist career opportunity should hold a First Degree in any of the following fields: Engineering (Water or Civil), Environment, Forestry, Agriculture, Social Sciences from a reputable University
• Additional training in Labour Intensive Public Works program (LIPWP) and Water shed Based Development (WSBD) are added advantage
• At least eight years’ experience Public Works Program or similar programs in a large public or private organization.

How to Apply: 

All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send cover letters and updated CVs via email only to hr@opm.go.ug

Note:

• Please indicate the Post Title in the Subject line when applying
• Submitted copies should strictly be in PDF and all in one document
• Relevant academic documents will be required at the interview stage.
• Only E-mail applications will be accepted
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Deadline: Friday, 1^st July 2016