Infrastructure and Project Preparation Expert

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Infrastructure and Project Preparation Expert

Main field of expertise:

Infrastructure Project preparation management

Who we are:

The EU-financed Project of technical Assistance for the Support to Rural and Regional Development (SRRD) will contribute to the diversification of the economy in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The project team consisting of 6 long-term experts and several short-term specialists will support the Ministry of Economy through capacity building in preparing regional development plans, which are focussed on the support of economic development through the improvement of selected agri-food value chains. The project will be implemented in Baku and three rayons: Goychay (for persimmon), Shamakhi (for grapes and wine) and Khachmaz (for tomato) and other crops. In addition to Regional Development Plans investment proposals for infrastructure measures and Pre-Feasibility Studies for the selected value chains (VC) will be prepared.

The project is implemented by an European consortium of consulting companies.

Qualifications and skills required:

Minimum:
• At least University degree as civil engineer or equivalent professional experience for at least 5 years;
• Fluency in oral and written English (at least level 2 on a scale of 1 [excellent] to 5 [basic]);
• Fluency in Azerbaijani language.

Preferred requirements:

• Specialisation in planning public and business infrastructure is an advantage.

General professional experience

• At least 5 years of professional experience in the field of infrastructure;

Specific professional experience:

Minimum:
• At least one project record in a building site for a public infrastructure;

Preferred requirements:

• Familiarity with the infrastructure construction contracts in Azerbaijan is desirable;
• Familiarity with preparation of bill of quantities and cost estimates;
• Conversant with the use of GPS and GIS applications.

Tasks to be contributed to:

Under the overall co-ordination of the Project Team Leader, the Non-Key Horticultural Long-term Expert (female/male) shall co-operate with the Senior Horticultural Specialist (KE2) and the Senior Rural and Regional Development Planning Expert (KE3) to implement the following activities foreseen by the Project Terms of References.

• Organize and deliver training, training-seminars and on the job place training on to prepare, monitor and implement infrastructure projects on specialization, value chain development, investments appraisal, cost-benefit analysis and pre-feasibility studies for staff of beneficiary and stakeholders (including public and private sector);
• Based on the selected value chains to analyse requirements for improvement of government services, technical advice requirements for investments and financing needs;
• Preparation of Methodological Guidelines on how to design complex regional projects;
• Work on projects database and project preparation/appraisals for potential public-/ agro-support infrastructure projects, including cost-benefit analyses and preliminary Environmental and Social Impact Assessments;
• Elaborate three pre-feasibility studies for the improvement of agro-food value chains for the products tomato, grapes, grape juice and wine and persimmon;
• The current availability of credit and financing, for the types of activities and investments identified in the value chains development plans, will be appraised, to identify limits and gaps but also opportunities not yet explored especially for small farmers and operators;
• Based on the appraisal and gaps identification a proposal will be developed to improve the financing of the various segments of a value chains, possibly with a holistic approach encompassing the functions mentioned in the Project Result.

Period of fee-based contract: 

30 months (April 2017 – September2019), 22 working days /month up to 540 working day.
Place of work / duty station:
Baku with travel to Khachmaz, Shimakhi and Goychay

Applications:

Please send us a motivation letter (up to 3 pages) and your Curriculum Vitae by e-mail to the Team Leader, Mr. Stefan Rosenow ( [email protected] ) until March 29, 2017, Baku time

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