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Project Manager
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Date posted
May 21, 2025
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Closing date
May 21, 2025
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Hiring location
Hargeisa
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Qualification
Degree
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Experience
10+ Years
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GOVERNMENT OF SOMALILAND
MINISTRY OF ENERGY AND MINERALS
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION UNIT
SOMALI ELECTRICITY SECTOR RECOVERY PROJECT –SESRP-
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Country: Government of Somaliland
Name of Project: Somali Electricity Sector Recovery Project
Project ID: P173088, IDA-D9310
Assignment Title: Project Manager
Type of Appointment: Individual Consultant
Reference No.: SO-MOEM-484075-CS-INDV
Place of Assignment: Hargeisa, Somaliland
1. Background
The Government of Somaliland has received a grant from the World Bank to implement the Somali Electricity Sector Recovery Project (SESRP). The Project Development Objective of SESRP is to increase access to electricity services and to re-establish the electricity supply industry in the Project Areas.
The Ministry of Energy and Minerals (the Ministry) has established a Project Implementation Unit (PIU) to carry out the day-to-day activities of project planning, coordination, and implementation of the Somali Electricity Sector Recovery Project.
The project comprises of the following four components: (i) Sub-transmission and distribution network reconstruction, reinforcement, and operations efficiency in the major load centers of Hargeisa; (ii) Hybridization and battery storage systems for mini grids; (iii) Stand-alone solar off-grid access to public institutions (Health and Education); (iv) Institutional Development and Capacity Building.
The MoEM intends to hire individual a Project Manager (PM) to support PIU in managing, coordinating, and supervising in designing, supplying, construction and commissioning of project activities related to the installation of Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage Systems (SPV +BESS) including interconnection of the same to the existing felicities.
2. Scope of Work and Responsibilities:
As MoEM is implementing the project of increasing access to electricity services and to re-establish the electricity supply industry in the Project Areas. The project is supporting activities aimed at the hybridization and optimization of existing mini grids. It will support installation of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) systems at existing diesel-based generation stations in selected load centers.
The Project Manager (PM) will support the PIU throughout the project lifecycle, from contract effectiveness to commissioning, ensuring technical compliance, quality assurance, and timely delivery. Responsibilities include leading design reviews, site supervision, progress monitoring, and attending factory and commissioning tests. The PM will manage contract administration, payment certifications, change orders, and ensure adherence to environmental and social safeguards. They will also oversee the preparation of key project documents such as reports, snag lists, and completion certificates. Importantly, the PM will support technology transfer and capacity building of PIU staff in contract management.
The Project Management shall perform all tasks specified in the detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment that can be found at the following website: https://moem.govsomaliland.org/article/tor-sesrp-project-manager-wb-comments-final-05may2025-final or can be provided upon submission of an application in person or by e-mail provided below.
Skills and qualifications
1. Selection Criteria:
Selection shall be based on qualification and experience of the candidate and followed by an interview. The minimum qualification, experience and skills should include:
Bachelor’s degree in electrical power engineering / electrical and electronic engineering, and (MSc. degree of Electrical power / electrical and electronic engineering will be an added advantage).
At least 10 years of relevant practical experience and shall have successfully managed at least five (5) similar projects (scope and magnitude), including design, supply, and installation contracts including SPV+BESS.
Demonstrated practical experience in contract management, construction supervision, and project procurement, particularly in the energy sector and preferably with experience in World Bank Procurement Regulations.
Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
2. Duration:
The duration for the assignment is six (6) months period, subject satisfactory performance as evidenced by performance reviews and need for the services. The consultant shall report to the PIU Project Coordinator. The assignment is expected to commence on 30 June 2025.
3. The Ministry of Energy and Minerals now invites eligible Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in providing these services. Interested Individual Consultants must submit their Curriculum Vitae (CV) indicating that they are qualified to perform the services.
4. The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraphs 3.14, 3.16 and 3.17 of the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers: Procurement in Investment Financing Goods, Works, Non-Consulting and Consulting Services dated July 2016 and revised in November 2017 and August 2018, November 2020, September 2023 and February 2025 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.
5. A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Individual Consultants Selection method set out in the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations.
How to apply
Interested Consultants may obtain further information including detailed Terms of Reference at the address given below from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm Hargeisa time (Excluding public holidays).
Expressions of interest (EOI) and CV must be delivered (in person or by e-mail) in a written form in three (3) hard copies (if not by e-mail) to the address below by 10th June 2025 at 14:00 PM (Hargeisa Time) – Subject marked clearly as – Application for Project Manager-SESRP-Somaliland.
Attention: The Project Coordinator,
Ministry of Energy and Minerals
Somali Electricity Sector Recovery Project
Project Implementation Unit
Road #1, 26 June Avenue in Sha’ab Area,
Opposite the Presidential Palace,
Hargeisa, Somaliland
Republic of Somaliland
Email: procurement@moem-sl.com and copy coordinator.sesrp@moem-sl.com
Overview
Somaliland has an ancient history and civilization
For a long period in the past, Somaliland had well-established trade links with the rest of the world particularly ancient Egypt (the Pharaohs), the Romans, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian sub-continent
Commodities like hides and skins, frankincense and myrrh, ivory, gums, feathers were traded in exchange for consumer products such as sugar, tea, dates, clothes etc
It was uniquely the hub of spices trade (Frankincense and Myrrh)
The trade links to the Middle East and East Asia existed via the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean routes. The Republic of Somaliland is located in the Horn of Africa
It has the Gulf of Aden to the North and shares borders with Djibouti in the West, Ethiopia in the South and Somalia in the East
It has an area of 176,119 square Kilometers and a coastal line which stretches up to 800 Km along the Red Sea
In terms of area it would have ranked 37th in Africa, which means there are 18 countries with smaller areas than Somaliland in the continent
It is home to a population of four million
The capital, Hargeisa, is a metropolis with an estimated population of over one million
The national language is Somali but both English and Arabic are widely spoken. Somaliland, due to its strategic location near Bab el Mandeb, at the entrance to Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, has always been of interest for strategic and commercial reasons
In the mid16th century, the great Ottoman Empire annexed the port of Zeila and provided protection, at a cost collected through customs and other charges, for Arab, Persian and Indian merchants who serviced the trade requirements of the surrounding area and the Abyssinian hinterland
In 1870 the ambitious Khedive Ismael I of Egypt, whose country was nominally part of the Ottoman Empire, obtained the Ottoman Sultan’s authorized rights over Zeila in exchange for paying an annual fee of sterling pounds 18,000
The Khedive in due time acquired the coast between Bulhar and Berbera without reference to the Sultan. In 1877 Britain signed a convention recognizing the Khedival annexation of all the East African coast north of Ras Hafun (the promontory of land jutting out into the Indian Ocean south of Cape Gardafui). The agreement stipulated that no portion of this area should be ceded to any foreign power and that British consular agents should be appointed at places on the coast
The Sultan of Turkey, hitherto not very interested in any land east of Zeila, generating, however, a piqued interest of the Ottoman Empire. As Egypt had opened the Suez Canal in 1869, Egyptian interest shifted more on the coastline rather than the interior
At coastal locations lighthouses, harbors, piers, blockhouses, and barracks were constructed, and running water supplies engineered
Some of these facilities have lasted until recently. In 1884 Egypt was facing the Mahdist revolt in the Sudan and for financial reasons (dictated by Britain) had to curtail its projects along the Somaliland coast
By agreement with Britain the Egyptian flag remained flying in Somaliland but Egyptian troops and officials were withdrawn and replaced by very few British troops, ships and officials from Aden. With the departure of the Egyptians and the possibility that other colonial powers had their eyes trained on the potentials of the Somaliland coasts and its hinterland, Britain had to act fast
The British colonial office expedited Major A
Hunt of Great, representing his government, to draw up protection treaties with several Somaliland clans
Britain wooed Somaliland clan leaders with a promise of protection, guaranteeing them full support in case of an attack from other neighboring territories, which were then occupied by other Europeans (See the Map of Africa by Treaty written by Sir E
Hertslet)
On their part, the clan elders of the day refused to grant the British the right to land unless they agreed to their terms.
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