Job Title: Transport Planning Consultant – ITDP Uganda Jobs 2021
Organization: ITDP Africa
Duty Station: Uganda
ITDP Africa Profile:
ITDP first began working in Africa in the late 1980s, bringing bicycles to midwives and women farmers in Mozambique to improve their mobility and productivity. In 1998, ITDP launched Afribike, a program in South Africa to distribute bikes to poor communities and healthcare workers. This paved the way for the Access Africa program, which has assisted thousands of people with opportunities for work, education, and improved access to essential services such as health clinics.
Over the years, ITDP Africa has worked with cities in designing and implementing high-quality bus rapid transit (BRT) systems, bike networks, and pedestrian projects. These include: the Dar es Salaam BRT, or DART, which opened as the first world-class BRT in East Africa in 2016; Johannesburg’s silver-standard Rea Vaya BRT; and Cape Town’s bronze-standard MyCiTi BRT.
Today, ITDP works throughout Africa from our central regional office in Nairobi, Kenya and additional offices in Egypt, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania. Our larger, ongoing projects include helping to plan, improve, and/or expand the BRT systems in Cairo, Dar es Salaam, Kigali, Kampala, Addis Ababa, and Nairobi, as well as the Addis Ababa NMT.
Job Summary:
The Transport Planning Consultant will play a key role to support conceptualization, design, and implementation of sustainable transport solutions. The Consultant’s primary work areas will include street design review, technical analysis for BRT and public transport improvements, bikeshare planning, and TOD assessments. The job will entail a significant amount of field work, including site visits and surveys. The Consultant will work closely with governments, consultants, and partner organizations.
The Transport Planning Consultant will be based in Kampala and will report to the Country Manager, Uganda. The candidate will work closely with ITDP staff and international experts.
Roles and responsibilities
- Provide technical input to the on-going processes in preparation for BRT including the review of the BRT designs.
- Liaise with consultants to prepare conceptual designs for infrastructure elements along BRT corridors, including street cross sections, intersections, stations, and terminals.
- Facilitate discussions and provide technical input on all public transport, NMT, TOD and road safety initiatives that the city is undertaking.
- Provide technical input on the ongoing construction of urban street improvement projects.
- Liaise with relevant stakeholders, including MoWT, KCCA, MoKCC&MA, MoLHUD, regional transport offices, and project consultants.
- Conduct surveys and site visits.
- Prepare plans, designs, and reports for sustainable urban mobility projects.
- Prepare TORs for studies related to mobility and urban development.
- Help organise training workshops for government officials and consultants.
- Other duties as required.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in transport planning, transport engineering, city planning, or other relevant field required.
- Two to three years of relevant professional experience.
- Familiarity with transport planning, including survey design and management; demand analysis; and network planning.
- Experience in street design and drafting using AutoCAD, spatial analysis using GIS software, and data analysis using Microsoft Excel and Access required.
- Familiarity with the Adobe suite preferred.
- Excellent speaking and writing skills in English.
- Strong commitment to advancing ITDP’s mission and to environmental and social justice.
- Ability to communicate well and make presentations.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects, even when under pressure.
- Ability to maintain high standards while contributing pragmatic ideas.
- Availability to travel frequently
How To Apply for ITDP Uganda Jobs 2021
The salary will be commensurate with experience. Interested applicants can apply by sending the following information to africa-jobs+apply@itdp.org with “Transport Planning Consultant, Uganda” in the subject line:
- Resume and cover letter
- Samples of written and visual work
- An idea about improving the public transport system in Kampala
Closing Date: Open until filled
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