Programme Manager - Construction
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies is a startup revolutionizing education across Africa with a truly unique business model. The company has launched a large-scale franchise-like network of ultra low-cost for-profit private primary schools across Africa.
Our schools profitably deliver high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, enabling local school managers to operate their school businesses profitably, while creating a highly successful business at the central level.
We have launched 37 schools in Kenya, with approximately 35 more opening in January and plan to rapidly scale the Company to serve more than 1 million students across continents.
About this position
The individual must be very comfortable using project management tools and must have managed projects with complex resource allocations. Relevant experience in the field of construction will be an added advantage.
More specifically:
- The
individual will be managing anywhere from 10-30 construction projects
simultaneously. These projects are not complex, but the deadlines are
tight (less than 6 weeks) and the resources are limited. As a result it
will be very important to know exactly how every resource is prioritized
and allocated for every hour of every day.
- Working
in informal settlements can be very challenging and often requires many
last minute changes to the priorities and schedules. The individual will
need to be comfortable making last minute adjustments and redeploying
resources to meet the priorities of the company.
- Besides
ensuring that resources are moving tasks forward in the correct places,
the Programme Manager will need to ensure that we have timely payments to
suppliers, fundis, and labourers. This means ensuring the work is done and
scheduling the payments in time, so that the Finance team has time to
process the payment and Site Manager has time to pay his team before they
break for the day.
Other responsibilities include:
- Timely
decision-making for effective allocation/re-allocation of resources within
priorities that change on a day-to-day basis.
- Definition
of a regular system of review of work progress and resource allocation in
order to provide a useful overview of the whole of the ongoing
construction work.
- Create
master work programmes, based on baseline nested work programmes, for all
on-going projects.
- Collect
and collate weekly work plans from the field, into the programmes and
evaluate project status for decision making on resource allocations.
- Prepare,
based on the programmes, schedules of labour, materials, payment and other
information as required.
- Prepare
daily, weekly and monthly reports on resource utilization for review by
the Construction Team.
About You
- Minimum
of 8 to 10 years experience in project management, including projects that
have multiple resources that need to be scheduled in and out of the
project over the life cycle of the project to optimize costs.
- An
expert level knowledge of how to effectively use Gantt charts, including
complete fluency in Microsoft Project or equivalent program. You should
also be able to create Gantt charts with Excel.
- Must
be able to manage competing demands, accept criticism and constructive
feedback, while being extremely adaptable and flexible.
- Excellent
writing and oral communication skills are required
- Ability
to identify potential problems, conflicts, and delays before they become
an issue and communicate them clearly to the Head of Department.
- Good
people management skills that result in timely completion of deliverables.
- Demonstrated
ability to solve problems.
- Advanced
knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
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