Project Manager
UAE, United Arab Emirates
Job Description
Seeking a Project Manager to support our efforts in the Sub-Saharan region.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Mechanized infantry military leadership experience - officer level Responsible for planning the project in order to accomplish its goals within constraints such as time, cost and agreed quality standards.
- Act as the principal point of contact for the client and will ensure all contact between the training team and the host nation military leadership has been coordinated with the client.
- Must anticipate and catch deviations from a plan or schedule early and keep all participants informed.
- Identifies, logs, analyses and manages potential and actual issues and risks, taking corrective action by tackling day-to-day issues head on and reviewing how more serious issues and risks might impact on scope, schedule, quality and cost.
- Identifies where and when management of issues and risks or accommodating altered requirements will involve extra time or extra resources and where efficiencies can be made.
- Must be courteous and polite in written and oral communication, and be able to get ideas across in a non-confrontational manner in one-to-one situations, small groups, and before large audiences.
- Identifies the need for resource, and should subsequently take on team management responsibilities in relation to the resource available to the project.
- Exercises good judgment in whether tasks should be broken down into smaller detail or not.
- Provides his/her team with direction and vision, including motivating them to perform, listening to people, providing feedback, recognizing strengths and providing challenges.
- Responsible for bringing the project to a close, which may include creating an end of project report or evaluation document, holding ‘sunset’ meetings and activities, and capturing and using relevant lessons learned.
- May need to generate many types of documents, including requirement specifications schedules project reports, communication (email) records, design specifications, meeting agendas, minutes and status reports.
- May need to create a structure for project documentation and remain conscientious in using it and ensuring that the rest of the team understands and uses it.
- Must be prepared to travel extensively.
- Time will be split between the US and Africa.
- Five years of directly related experience managing projects involving equipment procurement and training in an austere environment valuing at least $10,000,000.
- Management experience shall be defined as serving as the highest ranking company official deployed in-country and responsible for a project.
- One or more years’ experience working in sub Saharan Africa.
- French language skills - desirable Bachelors degree or project management qualification
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Job Detail
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Job IdJD1403142
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IndustryNot mentioned
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Total Positions1
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Job Type:Full Time
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Salary:Not mentioned
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Employment StatusPermanent
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Job LocationUAE, United Arab Emirates
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EducationNot mentioned