Ministry of Energy and Water

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

National Individual Consultants

Organization: Project Coordination Unit (PCU)

Project: Irrigation Restoration and Development Project (IRDP)
Reference No.: MEW/PCU/REOI/325
Announcement Date: 21- Nov-16 Closing Date: 12-Dec-16
Nationality: Afghanistan Duration: one year (Likely to be extended)
The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Ministry of Energy & Water has applied for a grant from the
International Development Association toward the cost of Irrigation Restoration and Development
Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this grant to payments for hiring the
services of following qualified national individual consultants.
S/
No

Brief details of
the consultants
position

Position: MIS
Developer
Specialist
Vacancy No: C-695
No. of Post: Three
Duty
Station:
Ministry of Energy
and
Water,
Kabul(One
for
WRD and two for
PCU) , with travel
to Herat, Kandahar,
Mazar-e-Sharif,
Jalalabad
and
Kunduz regions
Objectives:
to
Develop a new MIS
system for PCU/
IRDP and MEW.

Job Description/Duties and responsibilities

I.

II.

III.

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V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

Together with the Senior MIS/IT Specialist, and the

other MIS developers, undertake a detailed user
requirements analysis of each department of PCU,
and ministry in the long run;
Together with the Senior MIS/IT Specialist, and the
other MIS developers, participates in the
development, programming, testing, debugging and
implementation of new features, modules and
functionalities of IRDP-IMIS;
Manages, designs, creates, produces and maintains
technical documentation for relevant computer
application systems and products; manages and
administers changes to technical documentation in
accordance with prevailing change management
procedures;
Individually test the database applications and ensure
that the applications work as a system;
Serves as team member in projects dealing with the
planning, specification, design, development,
implementation and maintenance of simple computer
application systems; liaises with users to define and
specify requirements;
Contributes to feasibility studies, systems analysis,
design, development, implementation and evaluation
and testing of online MIS improvements and new
features;
Provides guidance to new/junior staff. plans day-today work and supervises other staff as required;
assists in the implementation of new technologies
Together with the PCU and MEW departments,

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Required
Qualification
and Experience
BS in
computer
science
Master is
advantage
A minimum
of 5 years of
experience
in the field
of web
programmin
g, database
design and
development
using PHP,
Apache and
MySQL. Online
GIS
application
designing is
an advantage.

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X.

XI.
XII.
XIII.

XIV.

XV.
XVI.

Position: Assistant
Surveyor
Vacancy No: C-642
No. of Post: One
(1)
Duty
Station:
Mazar
with
extensive field visits
to all provinces
within one region.
Objectives:
I. Ensure
implementation
of high standards
technical survey
as
per
the
instruction
of
Design Engineer
on civil works
contract.
II.

Develop
and
implement
effective
field
surveying system
to
improve
documentation,
analysis
and
reporting of the
surveyed works
all as per the
globally accepted
standard

develop standard data collection forms and reports;

Integrate any new requirement into IRDP-IMIS;
Together with the GIS Specialist, integrate the GIS
and remote sensing applications into the developed
IRDP-IMIS;
Ensure that all data collection by all departments of
PCU and MEW is done using the standard forms;
Assist in the cleaning, validation and entry of data
into the DMIS database;
Ensure the developed MIS is capable of producing
information of IRDP and other related statistics and
report for all stakeholders;
Develop, maintain and promote data standards within
the departments of PCU, MEW and donor
community;
Train a ender users staff of PCU and MEW in
regional office of IRDP;
Carry out other tasks as directed by the IRDP
management;

1.

Perform survey and leveling with data collection (maps,

benchmark levels, etc.) required for design of irrigation
schemes.

2.

having practical familiarity with the basic surveying

practices, likewise chain surveying, compass surveying,
traversing, plane table surveying, leveling and contouring,
book keeping etc.

3.

conducting survey using theodolite, total-station, GPS, DGPS, level and other standard equipments for civil works
contracts and plotting the collected data

4.

conducting trigonometric survey to establish the Bench

Mark at safe commanding locations and data analysis as
per requirements

5.

Conduct joint survey with the contractor, community for

proper handing over of the site to the contractor at the
start

6.

checking structure layout set out by the contractors, site

levels, angles etc before, during and after the construction
activities to confirm the contractors Interim/final Payment
certificates and completion of construction as per
designed drawing levels and dimensions.

7.

conducting setting out works on the site as per the design

drawings

8.

setting out curves at site all as per design drawing.

9.

Conducting and preparing Longitudinal Section and cross

section of each canal under the project with reference to
the established bench marks or establish additional bench
marks as per requirements.

10. Conducting and prepare topographical maps of the

irrigation sites and irrigation fields as per requirements
for design purpose.

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Possess
Technician
Survey
degree
from a recognized
institute.
Well
conversant
with
the use of standard
survey
and
leveling
instrument
and
knowledge of data
analysis
and
plotting. Possess
relevant working
experience of 5
years. Fluency in
English (speaking
and
reporting),
Dari or Pashtu is
essential.
Full
computer literacy
and knowledge of
professional
programs on the
subject
is
a
prerequisite.

practices.

11. perform any other duties as required by the PCU Director.

The Project Coordination Unit (PCU) of Project: Irrigation Restoration and Development Project (IRDP)
under Ministry of Energy and water now invite National eligible consultants to indicate their interest.
Interested eligible candidates must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the
services and are invited to submit their CV (Curriculum Vitae), including employment records, description
of similar assignments carried out, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills etc.
The covering application letter should indicate that he meets all the required qualifications and
experience (as mentioned above) quoting references to various paragraphs of CV to demonstrate this.
A consultant will be selected in accordance with Section V Selection of Individual Consultants procedures
set out in the World Banks Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank
Borrowers (May 2004 as revised in October 2006 and May 2010).
Interested eligible consultants may obtain further information from the address below during the office
hours 08:00 am to 16:30 pm from Saturday to Wednesday or by e-mail.
Expressions of interest must be delivered or sent by e-mail to the address below no later than
12-Dec-16
Eng .Nasir Ahmad " Ahadi"
Director, Project Coordination Unit (PCU),
Ministry of Energy & Water, Darul Aman Road, Kabul Afghanistan.
E-mail add Nasir Ahmad Ahadi [ahadi.nasir@eirp-afg.org]
Copy to saeed.azizullah@eirp-afg.org

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