Deadline: 21 December, 2021

Location: Abidjan, Ivory Coast

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is seeking to fill the role of Principal Road Safety Specialist.

AfDB’s mission is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs), thus contributing to poverty reduction.

Responsibilities

• Lead, devise, maintain and revise the road safety strategy of the bank in
  consultation with internal stakeholders, taking into account the long-term road safety trends in the continent’s transport and logistics development
• Ensure the appropriate implementation of the strategy through communication and advice to all relevant stakeholders in the bank, particularly operations functions, and define a monitoring framework
• Identify and develop any necessary policies to underpin the strategy
• Consult as necessary with external partners, regional, and non-regional member countries on the form and efficacy of the strategy
• Work with other specialists in the transport and logistic division
• Manage a team of consultants to develop and maintain the bank’s expertise on road safety
• Devise the bank’s contribution to key road safety themes and represent the bank at global, regional and national conferences and workshops on road safety
• Coordinate and work alongside key partners, such as other multilateral development banks (MDBs), the United Nations organisations, African Union Commission (AUC) and Africa Transport Policy Programme, to design road safety programmes and solutions in line with SDGs and other initiatives
• Publish major studies and reports on road safety, taking into account the comparative advantage that the bank can bring to bear to any specific subject or theme
• Convene associated workshops and media events to solidify learning across Africa
• Develop and maintain, in collaboration with partners, publications and road safety information, both African and global
• Act as a focal point for providing technical advice to RMCs on road safety and lead dialogue with governments in advancing institutional reforms, building human and financing capacities for sustainable road safety in Africa
• Lead the development of technical assistance programmes, providing cutting edge advice on road safety policy, strategy and the choice of focus areas and interventions towards creating sustainable systems
• Provide expertise support to operations staff based in the regions on the development and implementation of road safety interventions and ensure that appropriate coordination of actions in supporting clients during the project procurement, execution and monitoring phase
• Provide direct support to operations staff in the field, particularly, on safety consideration of bank-financed-road projects, giving adequate insights on the impacts of road safety audit and the benefits for incorporating it in the upstream during project development stages
• Identify appropriate road safety training for internal and external stakeholders
• Manage and achieve demanding KPIs on road safety
• Develop and safeguard the bank’s brand as a source of road safety knowledge for Africa by detailing the quality of output expected from the division and ensuring that it is attained

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Transport/Traffic Engineering, Highway Engineering, Civil Engineering, Transport Planning or a related discipline with specialised road safety trainings
• Six years, minimum, of experience in road safety with proven ability to work in the transport sector at multilateral financial institutions with sound experience in developing countries
• Highly developed technical and strategic knowledge and skills on road safety
• Ability to make sense of complexity and to express this simply, both in writing and orally
• Effective consultation and advisory skills, coupled with a client orientation to ensure relevancy
• Interpersonal skills and ability to vary the use of them according to audience
• Ability to lead a team of specialists and to take forward projects, often in collaboration with other partners
• Attention to detail, to create quality output and to set standards for the team
• Mentoring skills
• Ability to manage and mobilise resources and allocate budget and resources to achieve results
• Ability to articulate clear objectives, set ambitious but achievable targets and monitor execution and results
• Ability to communicate effectively (written and oral) in English or French
• Competence in the use of standard MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint) and preferably SAP

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