Senior Project Manager (Roads & Infrastructure) - Athena Properties Ltd at Centum

Job description

Mission:

Athena Properties Limited, a leading real estate development company in East Africa is a subsidiary of Centum Investment Company PLC. With a vision of becoming Sub-Saharan Africa’s lifestyle developer of choice, Athena focuses on large scale mixed-use Developments with the most recent one being the Two Rivers Development.

The role of the Head of Project Management will be to ensure assigned projects are completed within budgets and schedules while meeting client needs, business & investment objectives as stipulated in the Approved Athena project development manual. The role holder is expected to provide leadership for the Athena project management function by managing, coordinating, and organizing staff development within Athena.

Outcomes:

• Within the first 10 days, the role holder expected to clearly understand and contribute to all project development processes and draw a work-plan to deliver all committed results.
• He/ she will be in-charge of responding to on-going project opportunities and constraints to adhere to plan.
• Within the first 15 days, the role holder shall review all assigned projects and maintain orderly records and documentation to allow for real time reporting and accountability to the Athena management, partners, client and investors.
• He/she will be in-charge of project management and supervision.
• Within the first 20 days, the role holder shall coordinate multiple & complex teams of internal staff and external consultants including architects, engineers, environmental consultants, lawyers, surveyors, contractors, tax and finance team
• Within the first month, the role holder shall continually research and stay on top of industry trends to promote innovation and seek process and quality improvements.
• The role holder will be expected to always expedite due diligence and securing of statutory approvals for proposed developments.
• The role holder shall coordinate design team during design and engineering phase to achieve expected results.
• In addition, they shall coordinate the construction management team to ensure on time and on time delivery and attend construction inspection and ensure quality control.
• The role holder shall manage project budget.
• This is inclusive of preparation of budgets and management of change orders and invoicing.
• He/ she shall ensure all are approved, contracted and paid on time to maintain progress.
• The role holder shall Prepare responses to RFQ’s and RFP’s for projects. He/ she shall solicit and manage vendor and contractor services for ongoing projects