Position : Deputy Team Leader
Person-Months : 48, intermittent
Location : Yangon

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The project’s objective is to bring more efficient and safer movement of goods and people along the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) East-West Economic Corridor (and also North-South Economic Corridor) in Myanmar. Department of Highways (DOH) will implement the proposed project through its Project Management Unit (PMU). The executing agency (EA) is the Ministry of Construction (MOC) of the government. The project will be implemented over a 7-year period, from 2019 to 2025. The project has three key outputs:
(i) Output 1: GMS highways improved;
(ii) Output 2: Yangon-Mandalay expressway safety improved
(iii) Output 3: Detailed design for other highway projects

Professionally qualified civil engineer, or equivalent, preferably with 15 years’ experience in road construction, of which preferably 10 years should be spent on site in the contract administration and supervision of road and bridge works.

Responsibilities:

The Deputy Team Leader will be responsible to the Team Leader for the effective implementation of the project and for managing the relationship between the PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CONTRACT SUPERVISION (PMCSC) and the PMU. The expert should have demonstrated satisfactory performance if he/she was involved in work for Ministry of Construction in the past 5 years.