1.    Project Delivery & Execution

•    Manage assigned projects from contract award through implementation, commissioning and close out, ensuring readiness for handover.

•    Establish and maintain a clear delivery plan (scope, programme, resources, interfaces and constraints) aligned to approved governance and delegations.

•    Drive delivery against approved scope, contract requirements, and applicable quality and HSE standards, escalating deviations promptly.

•    Coordinate consultants, contractors and internal support functions to resolve blockers and maintain momentum towards milestones.

•    Monitor progress, identify delivery risks early, and implement recovery actions to protect time, cost and quality outcomes.

•    Confirm completion of testing, commissioning and acceptance activities and ensure project documentation supports operational use and maintenance.

2.    Contractor & Contract Management

•    Administer consultant and contractor contracts in accordance with agreed terms and conditions, ensuring roles, responsibilities and authorities are clear.

•    Manage contract communications and instructions through the approved process, ensuring timely issuance, acknowledgement and record keeping.

•    Enforce compliance with specifications, drawings, applicable standards, and approved methodologies, and ensure required approvals/permits are in place.

•    Manage change control, including scope clarifications, variations and contingency usage, coordinating inputs for approvals and maintaining a clear audit trail.

•    Monitor contractor performance against programme, quality and HSE commitments; agree corrective actions and follow up to closure.

•    Support commercial management activities, including progress measurement, payment recommendations, and early identification/escalation of claims and disputes.

3.    Stakeholder Management

•    Serve as the primary point of contact for Client Ministries and key stakeholders for assigned projects, maintaining a clear view of expectations and priorities.

•    Develop and implement a stakeholder engagement approach proportionate to project complexity, including meeting cadence, decision points and communications channels.

•    Provide clear, timely and accurate updates on progress, risks, issues and upcoming activities, ensuring stakeholders understand impacts and required actions.

•    Facilitate workshops and site meetings as required to confirm requirements, resolve interfaces, and secure timely decisions and approvals.

•    Manage stakeholder concerns and sensitive issues proactively, escalating where appropriate and ensuring commitments are tracked to closure.

•    Coordinate with internal teams to support formal communications, community/utility engagement, and change management activities.

4.    Risk & Issue Management

•    Identify, assess and manage project risks and issues throughout the delivery lifecycle, ensuring ownership, actions and due dates are assigned.

•    Maintain current risk and issue registers for assigned projects, with clear descriptions, impacts (time/cost/quality/safety), and mitigation/response plans.

•    Implement mitigation strategies and corrective actions, coordinating inputs from contractors, consultants and internal support functions.

•    Monitor early warning indicators (e.g. programme slippage, non-conformances, resource constraints, claims signals) and initiate recovery actions.

•    Escalate significant risks, delays, HSE incidents, or contractual concerns to the Senior Project Manager in line with governance and delegation requirements.

•    Contribute to structured lessons learned by capturing root causes, agreed actions, and improvements to prevent recurrence across the portfolio.

5.    Site Oversight

•    Undertake regular site visits to verify progress against the programme, confirm workmanship quality, and observe HSE compliance.

•    Chair or attend site progress meetings as required, ensuring actions are assigned, tracked and closed out within agreed timeframes.

•    Coordinate with the Site Engineer to confirm inspections, testing and quality assurance documentation (ITPs, NCRs, checklists) are completed and filed appropriately.

•    Identify emerging site constraints (access, utilities, permits, materials, weather impacts) and coordinate timely resolutions with relevant parties.

•    Direct and support the Junior Project Manager on site coordination, progress measurement, and stakeholder/site interface management.

•    Report site observations, non-conformances, and HSE concerns promptly, ensuring corrective actions are agreed and verified.

6.    Coordination & Decision-Making

•    Lead coordination across contractors, consultants, utilities and internal teams to resolve interfaces and remove delivery blockers.

•    Drive timely decision-making by preparing clear options, impacts and recommendations within delegated authority, escalating when required.

•    Facilitate resolution of technical, commercial and stakeholder issues through structured meetings, action tracking and follow through.

•    Confirm dependencies and hand-offs between work packages and projects, ensuring alignment to programme objectives and sequencing constraints.

•    Maintain decision and action logs for assigned projects to support governance, accountability and audit requirements.

•    Promote a collaborative, solutions-focused approach across project teams, reinforcing safety, quality and delivery standards.

7.    Monitoring & Reporting Oversight

•    Review and validate project status reports prepared by the Planning Unit, confirming that narrative, milestones and metrics reflect actual progress.

•    Confirm the accuracy of reported progress, risks, issues, decisions and actions, ensuring that owners and dates are captured and realistic.

•    Provide timely inputs to programme-level reporting, including key achievements, upcoming activities, constraints and support required.

•    Monitor performance trends (schedule, cost, change, quality and HSE) and trigger corrective action plans where performance deviates from baseline.

•    Support governance forums by preparing project updates and participating in reviews, audits and assurance activities as required.

8.    Project Closeout

•    Plan and manage project close out activities, ensuring completion of contractual requirements and all project deliverables.

•    Coordinate formal handover to the Client, including commissioning records, as built information, O&M manuals, training, and acceptance certificates.

•    Confirm completion of punch list items and outstanding defects prior to handover and agree processes for any residual works.

•    Oversee the defects liability period, ensuring defects are logged, tracked and closed out in accordance with contract timelines.

•    Support final account activities, including confirmation of variations, claims resolution inputs, and final payment recommendations as required.

•    Contribute to post project evaluations and lessons learned, capturing outcomes, performance insights and recommendations for future projects.

WORKING CONDITIONS/ ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS    

    Office and field-based role

    Regular site visits required

    Exposure to construction environments