Location: Maseru, Lesotho
The Roads Directorate invites applications from suitably qualified and experienced candidates for the position of Director Road Network Development (DRND).
Scope of Responsibility
Reporting to the Director General, the Director, Road Network Development has overall technical, financial and managerial responsibility for the Road Network Development Division. The role leads the construction, upgrading and rehabilitation of roads and bridges to the required standards while ensuring compliance with applicable social, environmental and safety requirements. The Director supervises, manages and monitors work undertaken by contractors and force-account teams (if need be), ensuring compliance with specifications, quality standards, quantities and financial obligations.
The principal duties and responsibilities are set out below.
1. Road Construction, Upgrading and Rehabilitation
- Supervise and monitor road and bridge construction, upgrading and rehabilitation undertaken by contractors and force-account teams.
- Ensure that all works comply with specifications, approved quantities, quality standards and financial obligations.
- Assist with the preparation and updating of standard procedures for road and bridge construction, upgrading and rehabilitation.
- Identify suitable sources of construction and maintenance materials, including quarry sites, and request the relevant authority to reserve the required land.
- Ensure that adverse environmental impacts are mitigated and affected areas are rehabilitated in accordance with environmental guidelines.
- Assist in preparing strategic road network development plans.
- Ensure that road and bridge construction, rehabilitation and maintenance works are properly executed and supervised.
- Supervise tasks assigned to senior staff members within the division.
2. Contract and Quality Management
- Assist in procuring contractors to execute, and consultants to supervise, road and bridge construction, upgrading and rehabilitation works.
- Manage contracts for the development of road projects.
- Ensure that as-built drawings are properly prepared.
- Ensure that quality assurance procedures are followed for all road and bridge works.
- Review, amend and recommend contracts/proposals for the construction, rehabilitation and upgrading of the primary and secondary road networks.
- Participate in reviewing and approving the classification of road construction contractors and maintain an up-to-date register.
- Provide technical support, on a consultancy basis, to district and community councils developing road and bridge projects.
3. Performance Management
- Ensure that designs and other services delivered by consultants and in-house staff are properly reviewed, checked and maintained in accordance with defined procedures and applicable standards.
- Establish and maintain modern management and control systems to support effective planning, design and supervision throughout the Division.
- Hold monthly management meetings to review the Division’s operations, systems and procedures.
- Review the Division’s physical work plans and report to the Director General.
- Monitor monthly progress with the relevant Principal Engineers, investigate delays or problem areas and ensure that appropriate corrective action is taken.
4. Stakeholder Communication
- Maintain direct liaison with development partners, foreign organisations and government departments that work with, propose to work with, or have recently completed assignments for the Division.
5. Human Resource Management
- Ensure the effective functioning and discipline of the Division and, where misconduct occurs, undertake corrective action and recommend appropriate disciplinary proceedings sanction to the Director General for approval.
- Manage staff transfers and recommend confirmations, training approvals, advances and related personnel matters for all staff within the division in accordance with Directorate’s policies.
- Identify specific training needs for officers and staff within the Division and work in consultation with the HR Office to offer capacity especially for programmes identified through the performance management exercise.
- Assess whether staff development supports specialist career paths and the effective use of new technologies.
6. Financial Management
- Ensure that annual budget estimates for all divisional works are prepared by the prescribed deadline.
- Review budget estimates and request appropriate allocations from the Director General.
- Monitor divisional expenditure against approved budget grants and prevent unauthorised overspending.
- Where additional appropriations are required, ensure that applications are submitted in good time.
- Use annual budget allocations effectively and avoid concentrating large expenditures in the final months of the financial year.
- Ensure that all revenue arising from Directorate operations under the Director’s control is fully recovered and deposited in accordance with Directorate procedures.
Qualifications and Experience
- A university degree in Civil Engineering from a recognised institution.
- A postgraduate degree in Civil Engineering or a related field, Project Management, or an MBA will be an advantage.
- At least ten years’ experience in road infrastructure management, particularly road and bridge maintenance, upgrading and rehabilitation.
- At least five years’ senior management experience in road and/or bridge technology and maintenance within government or the private sector.
- Demonstrated change-management experience in government and the private sector will be a distinct advantage.
- Knowledge of project management and contract management is mandatory.
Required Skills and Personal Attributes
- Proven leadership, team management and people-management skills.
- Strategic, business-management, planning and organisational capability.
- Sound specialist knowledge, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of the legal framework within which government operates.
- Performance-management and human-resource-management skills.
- Effective presentation and public-speaking skills, with the ability to represent the Directorate across business, government and community sectors.
- Understanding of consultative processes and customer-service strategies.
- Effective written and oral communication, negotiation and computer-literacy skills.
General Information
Location: Maseru Headquarters
Accountability and complexity: High
Working environment: Office-based and field assignments
Application Requirements
Applicants must submit the following:
- Certified copies of educational certificates and transcripts.
- Curriculum vitae.
- Copy of national identity.
- Professional membership certificate (if available).
Closing Date: 30 November 2026
Submission Email Address: [email protected]
Late applications will not be accepted. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
Applications must be addressed to the Chairperson, Roads Directorate HRSE Committee.
Physical Address
Roads Directorate
Corner of Senate and Lepoqo Streets (opposite Brown’s Cash & Carry)
Industrial Area, Maseru