Wanted highly motivated a local lawyer experienced in law drafting in a busy office for international project.

Wanted highly motivated a local lawyer experienced in law drafting in a busy office for international project.

The project involves providing technical support and capacity building at governmental level to a number of Mongolian institutions connected to the Road sector development. The successful candidate will be expected to work on their own initiative with a team of experts and display a high level of interpersonal skills.

Duties include:

• Draft amendments to a road law
• participating in and commenting on working group meetings

The assignment is a short-term one for 2-3 weeks.

The successful applicant is expected to work full time and maybe on week-ends and over-time.

Must be fluent in professional Mongolian and English, written and oral both. Applicants need extensive knowledge of office software applications, especially word processing.

Preference will be given to applicants with higher educational qualifications, experience (other things being equal) and an interest or background in the project area though desirable is not essential.

Interested applicants should send their CVs to the following e-mail address: mongoliaproject@vicroadsip.com 

CC: mongolia.roads@gmail.com

 no later 5 p.m. on Wednesday, October 03, 2012.

Only preselected candidates will be contacted for an interview.

PS: No phone calls/visits please.

Periodic Road Maintenance Workshop - 21Sep12, Corporate Hotel, Ulaanbaatar

Office Manager Wanted for International Project (re-advertised)

Wanted highly motivated Office Manager - Mongolian-English / English-Mongolian translator / interpreter in a busy office for international project.

The project involves providing technical support and capacity building at governmental level to a number of Mongolian institutions connected to the Road sector development. The successful candidate will be expected to work on their own initiative with a team of experts and display a high level of interpersonal skills.

Duties include:

• Organizing/participating in and translating on Meetings/Workshops
• Written Mongolian-English / English-Mongolian translation of training materials and reports
• Building vocabulary and glossary on the project related topics
• Filing
• Monitoring the project finances at the local level including Petty cash management
• Report layout/writing/printing.
• Answering phone calls / arranging meetings
• manage the team Google calendar
• Oral Mongolian-English / English-Mongolian simultaneous and/or consecutive interpreting during official meetings / training / workshops
• assure the team members with equal access to the project information for distribution
• must be efficient in using Skype or Yahoo messenger texting and conferencing and educate the team members if needed.

Must be fluent in professional Mongolian and English, written and oral both. Applicants need extensive knowledge of office software applications, word processing, spreadsheets and graphics.

Preference will be given to applicants with higher educational qualifications, experience (other things being equal) and an interest or background in the project area though desirable is not essential.

Interested applicants should send their CVs to the following e-mail address: mongoliaproject@vicroadsip.com 

CC: mongolia.roads@gmail.com

 no later 5 p.m. on Monday, September 17, 2012.

Only preselected candidates will be contacted for an interview.

PS: No phone calls/visits please.

Road Sector Capacity Development Project presentation for UB city Mayor Mr Erdene Bat-Uul 09Aug12

Road Sector Capacity Development Project presentation for UB city Mayor Mr Erdene Bat-Uul 09Aug12
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Looking for a Mongolian partner in key business processes know-how

Looking for a local company/NGO that knows what it is to define key business processes and map and document those processes. Interested businesses are welcome to get in touch. Mongolia Road Sector Capacity Building Project http://autozam1.blogspot.com/

Wanted Mongolian-English translators in Melbourne, Australia

Wanted Mongolian-English speaking translators in Melbourne, Australia. 

We are looking for Mongolian-English technical translators currently based in Melbourne area to interpret/translate for a high level official from Department of Roads, Mongolia who are visiting VicRoads in the state of Victoria. 

Please look at below details.

Position:

-          Experienced, qualified technical translators who are comfortable with simultaneous and/or consecutive interpreting from English to Mongolian and vice versa.

Period:  5-days in late August       

Interested applicants should send their CVs and quotations to the following e-mail address: mongoliaproject@vicroadsip.com  before July 31, 2012. No phone calls please.

Wanted Mongolian-English speaking translators in Oakville/Toronto, Canada.

We are looking for Mongolian-English technical translators based in Toronto area to interpret for two Mongolian Road Engineers who are visiting Road Association in Oakville, Canada. Please look at below details.

Position:

-          Experienced, qualified technical translators with road engineering terminology who are comfortable with simultaneous and/or consecutive interpreting from English to Mongolian and vice versa.

Period: 5-days in late July.

Interested applicants should send their CVs and quotations to the following e-mail address: mongoliaproject@vicroadsip.com before July 15, 2012. No phone calls please.

Lecture: Consulting Services and Road Maintenance

Lecture:	Consulting Services and Road Maintenance
Date:	24 and 26 April 2012
Venue:	MUST - Mongolian University of Science and Technology,  6th floor, Room #611
Duration:	1.5 hours each Lecture
Attendees:	MUST Students and Staff
Trainers: Facilitator:	Manmohan Ruprai and Steve Pattinson Ms. Bolorma

1. Consulting Services

Date	Time	Contents	Lecturer
24 April 2012	13.00-14.30	This lecture will summarize subjects listed below: §  Purpose of the Lecture §  Current Rules and Regulations for Consultancy Services in Mongolia §  What are the types of consulting services? §  International Guidelines §  International Practice §  Rationale for Registration of Firms and Individuals §  Parameters Relevant for Registration §  Practices in other Countries §  Development of Consultancy Services in Mongolia	Manmohan Ruprai

2. Road Maintenance

Date	Time	Contents	Facilitator
26 April 2012	9.20-10.50	This lecture will detail subjects listed below: §  What is road maintenance §  Why is maintenance important §  What are the three types of maintenance §  A comparison Mongolia and Australia §  Best Practice – A Stitch in Time §  Routine Maintenance §  Periodic Maintenance §  Rehabilitation §  Maintenance by Contract	Steve Pattinson

Significance of Consulting Function

The Public Procurement Law of Mongolia defines consulting services as:

"Consulting services" mean expert services provided by the contractor based on specialized expertise and skills as to prepare and implement a project, conduct training, provide technical assistance, conduct a research and analysis, work out a design, and supervise the contract execution;

Background:

Engineers are engaged in a variety of technical activities culminating in the production of goods and services. Consulting engineers engage in the application of science and technology in research and development, design, construction, production and provision of infrastructure e.g. power, roads, railways, water supply, waste management, drainage, etc. Their tasks include conceptualization, investigations, designing, planning, implementation, testing and the like within the framework of acceptable norms and standards evolved for ensuring the health, safety and welfare of the public. Consulting Engineering Entities (CEE) are groups of engineers, supported by others, that perform specific engineering functions. Their responsibility has numerous dimensions: technical, economic, legal and public. For such an important function, there ought to be a framework for ensuring quality and accountability in the work of CEEs.

This seminar will cover subjects listed below:

§  Purpose of the Workshop and Framework for Consulting Services and Firms

§  Current Rules and Regulations for Consultancy Services in Mongolia

§  What are the types of consulting services?

§  International Guidelines

§  International Practice

§  Outsourcing Consultancy Services

§  Rationale for Registration of Firms and Individuals

§  Parameters Relevant for Registration

§  Statutory Registration

§  Practices in other Countries

§  Development of Consultancy Services in Mongolia

References will be made to PPLM and other laws regarding the Provisions for Procurement of Consulting Services for selection of consultants.

TA-7844: Mongolia Road Sector Development Project Inception Workshop

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TA-7844: Mongolia Road Sector Development Project

TA-7844 Project Introduction PPT

Slides of the Project introduction PPT presentation made on the Annual Road Managers' Forum conducted on 23 March 2012 in Blue Sky Tower, Ulaanbaatar. 

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Mongolia: Road Sector Development to 2016

Date:	February 2012
Type:	Reports
Country:	Mongolia
Subject:	Transport and ICT
ISBN:	978-92-9092-486-9 (print), 978-92-9092-487-6 (web)

Description

Mongolia’s growth is set to accelerate in the next decade, as its vast mining resources start to be put into large-scale production. This has greatly improved its prospects for prosperity and poverty reduction. However, to realize its full potential, Mongolia will need to transform its society, economy, and administration.

This report discusses how the context of road sector policy and road infrastructure investments will change, and the ways the sector can best prepare to fulfill its new role. Given the country’s road infrastructure needs, the road sector will be expected to implement massive highway investments in a short time and then to consistently maintain the new highways at a high standard. However, Mongolia’s current small-scale road sector will unlikely have the capacity to scale up and deliver upon such expectations without extensively modernizing its financing mechanisms, business processes, organization, and education systems. This report therefore argues that Mongolia’s government needs to implement a comprehensive capacity development program for the road sector for about 5 years.

This study looks into the sector’s financial dimension, the techniques and processes followed for road maintenance and construction, and the role of human resources management and education. It tries to understand why sector performance improvement has been slow, even though many sector issues and apparent solutions have been considered in the past. Reflecting on lessons from international experience, it outlines a range of policy options for decision makers and proposes an agenda until 2016.

Contents

• Foreword
• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Increasing the Road Sector’s Contribution to Development
• Financing the Road Sector
• Modernizing the Management of Road Assets
• Increasing the Value for Money of New Investments
• Building Modern Institutions
• Fostering the Development of the Road Industry
• Implementing a Capacity Development Program
• Appendix: Mid-Term Road Sector Capacity Building Program

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Introduction of the Road Sector Capacity Development TA Project

Objectives of the Technical Assistance

The overall objective of the capacity development technical assistance (CDTA) is to increase the capacity and performance of Mongolia’s road sector by initiating the implementation of the Roadmap over a period of two years. The consultant is expected to give an equal priority to on-the-job training and policy advice/production of directly usa- ble outputs. The international consultants will train their counterpart staff in the DOR and UB DOR and their counterpart local consultant in  their fields of competence through on-the-job training. To facilitate change, the consultant will also organize stakeholder retreats and facilitate policy-makers’ meetings as needed. The specific objectives of the technical assistance are described the following sections.

1.  Scope of Works (Consulting Firm)

Output 1:      Strengthen Road Agencies’ Organization and Human Resources

The main objective of this task is to help the Department of Roads (DOR) and the Ulaan Baatar  Department of Roads (UB DOR) develop the organization, management principles processes and human capacity needed to meet their growing work program. During the planning phase, the consultant will seek to answer the following question: “what is needed for the DOR and UB DOR to implement  government’s medium-term road investment plan and increase maintenance works?”

Output 2:      Restructure the Road Fund and Reestablish the Road Board

The main objective of this task is to assist the MRTCUD and the DOR restructure the Road Fund with the two following objectives: (i) the Road Fund should have sufficient earmarked resources to cover road routine and periodic maintenance; and (ii) a Road Board composed of a majority of user representatives should control use of Road Fund proceeds to finance maintenance, but not take a  managing role. The Road Board is expected to also hold an advisory role in sector management. In  the first phase, the consultant will propose and seek agreement of the stakeholders on the financial terms and governance mechanisms for Road Fund and Road Board restructuring, as well as prepare draft legislation and related regulations.

Output 3:      Increase DOR’s Project Management and Procurement Capacity

The main objective of this task is to increase DOR’s capacity to manage road construction projects and contracts, through on-the-job training.

Output 4:      Set-up an Outsourced Road Supervision System

The main objective of this task is to help the DOR outsource and manage road works supervision and foster the use of better quality assurance systems by contractors.

Output 5:      Implement a Road Periodic Maintenance Program

The DOR has developed with assistance from ADB1a road asset management system, and prepared a five-year periodic maintenance plan. The consultant’s objectives will be to help the DOR implement and evaluate a first paved road periodic maintenance program, and help prepare a second year program. This will be the first time periodic maintenance is performed in Mongolia, so that public and private companies do not have experience, and would anyway require training.

Output 6:      Define a Road Maintenance Strategy and Standards for UB City

The objectives of this task are to help UB DOR prepare a road asset management plan and standards, improve maintenance practices and advise on the setting up of an urban road maintenance company (currently road maintenance is partly done by a multipur- pose urban maintenance company, for low levels of efficiency).

Output 7:      Strengthen DOR’s Project Planning and Evaluation Capacity

The objectives of this task are to help MRTCUD and the DOR improve project planning and evaluation capacity, and particularly help update the road master plan.

Objective 8: Set up Regular Training and Re-training Programs

The objectives of this task are to help the DOR set up, deliver and maintain a regular training  and  re-training  program  for  road  engineers  and  mid-level  managers.  This should be coherent with DOR and UB DOR’s HR development program, but also would target non-DOR staff.

Output 9:       Develop Local Capacity for Road Sector Technology Transfer

The main objective of this task is to establish independent Road Research Institute to increase Mongolia’s capacity to transfer and adapt foreign technologies in the road sector. In the first phase, the consultant will propose an institutional structure, organization, procedures for capacity transfer, and  define a medium-term road sector technology transfer and research plan.


Objective 10: Monitor Roadmap Implementation and Communicate with the Public

The main objectives of this task are to raise stakeholders’ awareness and help them monitor Roadmap implementation.