poverty in the world. BTC contributes to the efforts of the international community and works
towards a society that provides present and future generations with sufficient resources to build a
sustainable and fair world.
Its 650 staff members in Brussels and overseas embody the commitment of the Belgian State and
other development partners to international solidarity. They support more than 300 cooperation
projects and programmes in some 20 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
In view of the the further development of its activities the BTC is currently looking for a (m/f):
International Expert in water resources and
sanitation management – RWANDA
Programme to supply drinking water and sanitation
in the Nyaruguru, Huye and Gisagara districts of the Southern Province
Ref: RWA/08/064-2
Location: Huye (Rwanda)
Duration of contract: 13 months (July 2011 – July 2012)
Probable starting date: as soon as possible
Monthly salary package: between 4.914,58 EUR and 7.095,74 EUR (this includes the gross
monthly salary and the expat benefits: hardship allowance and expat allowance). The salary is
calculated, depending on the composition of the family and the number of years of relevant
experience.
Project:
The general objective of the programme is to “contribute to the improvement of the living conditions
of the rural populations”
The specific objective of the programme is to “sustainably improve the access to drinking water and
the sanitation conditions of the rural populations of the Nyaruguru, Huye and Gisagara districts in
the Southern Province”.
The project aims at ensuring access to drinking water and at improving the sanitation conditions of
a population of about 300,000. It consists of a set of activities that aim at achieving the following
two results:
1. Drinking water supply is improved through drinking water master plan studies and the
construction of almost 340 km of water supply networks;
2. Hygiene and sanitation conditions have improved through the construction of 850 latrines in
schools and health centres.
Project activities started in January 2007 and will end in January 2013.
Position:
The Programme to supply drinking water and sanitation in the Nyaraguru, Huye and Gisagara
districts of the Southern Province (PEPAPS) is a significant, coherent whole at the scale of the
three districts concerned. For its implementation, three successive funding agreements have been
concluded by the Rwandan State.
Each funding agreement is implemented by BTC in association to the donor (Kingdom of Belgium
or European Union) through a service delivery contract.
BTC is steering this programme. It is represented by a Delegate to co-management (Delco), in comanagement
with the Rwandan administration, represented by the Intervention manager (DI).
Moreover, the project team consists of 19 other people (17 Rwandans and 2 Junior Assistants)
In this context, the Technical Assistant will be responsible for supporting the existing team to
ensure the following tasks:
1. For sanitation:
a. Organising regular meetings with the projects engineers made available to the districts;
b. Verifying control mission(s) of the quality of the latrine construction in the field;
c. Organising work meeting with the districts to follow up the progress of construction in
function of the planning provided;
d. Verify and validate the payment requests for the works and the control mission(s);
e. Ensuring the follow-up of the payment of the invoices for works and control missions;
f. Informing and ensuring the necessary reporting to the Monitoring and Evaluation unit
and to project management;
g. Assist and cooperate with the districts in the preparation of the calls for tenders, in
launching and awarding the contracts and in their performance.
2. For training of, on the one hand the private operators and hydrological engineers, and, on
the other hand, the district agents:
a. Inventorying the different bodies existing in Rwanda or in the region that could supply
technical, administrative and financial training;
b. Identifying the shortcomings of private hydrological engineers and operators chosen by
the districts and the district agents;
c. Establishing a training plan for the operators, hydrological engineers and district agents
in function of the progress of the supply works and establishing the Terms of Reference
for a services contract;
d. Launching the call for tenders procedure and following up all the administrative
procedures for awarding the contract until signature of the contract
e. Supporting, verifying and validating the training work (progress, follow-up of the
payments…);
f. Evaluating the know-how acquired during the training session;
g. Informing and reporting to the Monitoring and Evaluation unit.
3. For the water and sanitation master plan:
a. Contribute to the preparation of the water and sanitation master plan under the
authority of the project leader/Delegate to co-management.
Profile:
· Specific hydraulics or equivalent university training - Engineer (A0 or A1);
· At least 5 years of experience with drinking water and sanitation; minimum 2 years of
international experience;
· Ability to conduct a dialogue between actors, to work in a team with good listening skills;
· Good writing skills in French and English;
· Experience in Africa in the area of drinking water or sanitation and in master planning is an
advantage.
Interested?
Please apply not later than April 27th 2011, through our web site www.btcctb.org. Use our
Standard CV and a letter of motivation to apply. You can find the model of our Standard CV on the
page Jobs of our website. If you have any additional question, don’t hesitate to contact us at 02/505
18 65.
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