ASSISTANT SURVEYORS position with DAI (896 Views)

About DAI

DAI works at the vanguard of international development, uniting technical excellence, consummate project management, and uncompromising customer service to solve our clients’ most complex problems. Since 1970, DAI has worked in 150 developing and transition countries, providing comprehensive development solutions in areas including crisis mitigation and recovery, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS, avian influenza control, and water and natural resources management. Clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and host-country governments.

Job Summary

Background:
The purpose of the Regional Afghan Municipalities Program for Urban Populations (RAMP UP) is to create effective, responsive, democratic, transparent, and accountable municipal governance in the fourteen provinces that comprise the International Security Assistance Force’s (ISAF’s) Regional Command East. RAMP UP - RC EAST will: (1) increase the capacity of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) municipal officials, (2) markedly improve the delivery of municipal services to citizens in target municipalities, and (3) increase municipal capacity to enable, support, and sustain economic growth. As a result of the RAMP UP- EAST, Afghan citizens will receive better services, understand the responsibilities of municipal leaders, play an active role in the municipal decision-making process, and see local governance structures as legitimate.

General Objective:
Assistant Surveyors in RAMP UP EAST will work under direct supervision of Municipal Team Leaders and will be responsible to conduct survey of available properties in the municipalities including measuring, recording and filling up the survey instrument with needed data. Daily plan for survey will be developed with GIS technician, municipal counterpart, and team leader and assistant surveyors will execute them. Surveyors will also help in data entry of the collected data in database systems.

Duties and Resposibilities

Specific Objectives and Duties:
The Assistant Surveyor will perform the following functions, but not limited to:

• Understand daily/weekly survey plan;
• Conduct house to house or property to property survey and fill up survey instrument with needed data;
• Measure house, boundary wall and others and note the length and width in the survey instrument;
• Enter completed survey data in database systems;
• Verify and edit entered data with survey document; and
• Any other relevant tasks assigned by the Team Leader.

Qualification

Qualifications:
• Minimum High School (12th grade) graduate or higher degree in related field is highly preferred
• At least 1 year of similar experience.
• Prior work experience in property registration is preferred.
• Strong preference will be given to local provincial candidates.

Reporting: The Assistant Surveyor will report to the Municipal Team Leaders.

Submission Guideline

To Apply: Please send your CV and cover letter to DAIRAMPUPEAST2011@gmail.com incule Assistant Surveyor and preferred duty station Jalalabad or Ghazni in the subject line of the application.

APPLICATIONS WITHOUT SPECIFIED DUTY STATION WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

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