Jan Bijl is a Civil Engineer with over 20 years work experience in international development. For most of his professional carreer he has worked in Sub Saharan Africa and spent more than 10 years in Mozambique. Jan joined OCA in 2008 as a shareholding Partner and is OCA's Director for the African Region.
Over the last 15 years, Jan has worked in various positions as (Chief) Technical Adviser, at the office of the Provincial Engineer and to the Engineering Department of the National Road Administration in Mozambique. He further worked for the Road Training Centre in Mozambique, responsible for the training programme / curriculum development and management of training courses (both formal and on-the-job). At the Road Training Centre, which is also a registered Road Contractor, he has been managing site supervision of contract works on spot improvement, routine maintenance, periodic maintenance and rehabilitation.
Jan has worked on longer term positions in road design, supervision and training in Tanzania and more revcently syupported the teams in Myanmar and Cambodia in the project preparation and design of rural roads programmes under KfW.
Jan is an experienced adviser and team builder and is able to create a dynamic work environment aiming at bringing the best out of people. He is proficient in project and personnel management (planning, monitoring and reporting), organisation of meetings, seminar facilitation, training needs analysis and the preparation and delivery of courses.
