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Digby Wells Environmental Recruitment 2023/2024
Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for Digby Wells Environmental Recruitment 2023/2024.
Digby Wells is one of the largest environmental consulting firms in Africa focused on the resources sector.
We are recruiting to fill the following position below:
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Job Title: Team Lead: Project Coordination
Introduction
At Digby Wells Environmental, we are passionate about what we do. We are extremely fortunate to be able to Make A Difference in the lives of our colleagues, our clients, the communities we work in and the environment.
The successful candidate will be required to support Project Managers to achieve the functional areas of project management technical excellence, financial management, and maintenance of the project management system.
Duties & Responsibilities
Project Administration
• Overall responsibility to maintain the proposal and project file and network directory.
• Coordinate all project meetings (internal and external) and where necessary attend these meetings.
• Ensuring all meetings are properly documented in a set of minutes and minutes distributed to all attendees/project team members.
• Maintain and update document control systems that are in place.
• Maintain contracts, subcontractor agreements and variation orders.
• Ensure central filing system is controlled and make certain all documentation is on file.
• Update all project related schedules, i.e. MS project schedule and work in progress.
• Ensure the project team understands the schedule and required deliverable due dates.
• Track the deliverables and ensure deliverables targets are met within the required schedule.
• Project Financials – Generate invoices and backup financial documentation for the project. This will include updating project status, budget, and tasks, and monitoring costs versus percentage completed.
• Project Communication – Ensure that all aspects of administration and coordination are communicated effectively to the project team.
• Project Logistics – Coordinate the requirements for travel/mobilization of projects.
Team Management
● Facilitate the appropriate onboarding process for all new employees.
● Contribute to the performance management and probation processes for the team.
● Provide mentorship to and development of the team.
● Report on team’s performance at various levels.
● Assist with workload and resource management for the team.
● Ensure that the team achieves revenue targets.
Business Development and Marketing
● Identifying business opportunities and ensure that a client-centric approach is maintained at all times.
● Identify leads and organize, plan, and track proposals in response.
● Co-ordinate and submit proposals.
Desired Experience & Qualification
Skills
• Excellent MS Word and Excel skills, at the level where you could teach other people how to use the programs. Can you do VLOOKUPS, Macros, fancy formulae, and create styles, templates, and databases?
• Organisational skills come naturally to you.
• International Foundations and Management.
• Management Advancement Programme (MAP).
• In possession of a valid driver’s license.
Qualifications
• Standard 10/ Grade 12.
• Certificate in Project Management or other relevant certificate would be advantageous.
Work Experience
• Five or more years in the relevant field, preferably within consulting would be beneficial.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should send CVs to careers@digbywells.com if they meet the above criteria.