Transport Planner at United Nations (UN) WCESA

Responsibilities

The expert will be assigned to the Ministry of Transport (MOT) under the supervision of the National Project Coordinator (NPC), the Deputy Minister for Roads, and the overall supervision from the Chief of Water, Natural Resources and Small Islands Branch, UN WCESA . The expert will co-operate with the other United Nations personnel and officials of the MOT. In particular the expert will contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the project, namely: (i) National Transport Strategy (NTS) development and implementation; and (ii) Strengthening Public Administration (assist in the process of strengthening the administrative capacities) of the Ministry of Transport; (MOT). In this context the expert will perform the following functions:

(1)Assist the MOT in identifying and evaluating related issues, in preparing work programmes, terms of references, proposals for sector policies, and other papers as deemed necessary

Competencies

1) Professionalism: Knowledge and understanding of geographic information systems and related fields.

• Ability to provide technical and procedural advice in a wide range of transport planning issues.
• Ability to integrate knowledge with broader strategic, policy and operational objectives;
• Conceptual and strategic analytical capacity to understand cartographic/GIS production and mapping and  very important GIS applications for road planning and management.

2) Solid understanding and demonstrated professional competence to promoting sustainability through integrated transport policies, planning and organizing:

• Ability to effectively assess/develop GIS programmes for road planning and management.
• Establish priorities, and ensure timely delivery of results
• Ability to coordinate inputs from a variety of sources and synthesize those inputs into a well-constructed
  briefs/reports; ability to plan and organize own work, manage conflicting priorities and work under
  pressure and ability to plan and organize technical meetings

QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in civil engineering, transport planning, or related appropriate specialty or a related field.
• A first level university degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Work Experience

1. 1. A minimum of Seven years of progressively responsible experience in transport planning and/or cartography/ Geographic Information System.
   2. The expert should be familiar with information systems for road planning and management including GIS database systems and applications.
   3. Knowledge and experience in geographic information system design and development, geo-database design and management, software programming languages and project management tools are desirable.
   4. Professional experience in the work environment of a national road administration, and work experience in Saudi Arabia would be an additional advantage.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of Arabic is desirable.

Other Skills

• Excellent computer skills, working knowledge of office automation software and practical knowledge of information technology (IT) are desirable.
• Knowledge and practical experience of the following GIS software is required: ArcGIS (ArcInfo, ArcEditor, ArcView, and its extension),ERDAS Imagine; Web mapping technology (WMS, WFS, etc); RDMS (Oracle, Informix, MS SQL Server).