Project Manager Job in Nairobi Kenya

Employer: A leading Interior Design House in Nairobi.

Project Manager

Supervisor: Project Director

Position Function

The Project Manager is responsible for ensuring end-to-end successful delivery of the organizations services to clients, ensuring outcomes that are high quality, innovative and user-friendly.

The key functions of this position include project management, client relationship management and team leadership.

The Project Manager balances scope, time, cost and quality while maintaining a positive environment that promotes individual development and high performance standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan: Plan and manage projects ensuring that these are delivered on-time and on-budget.
• Scope: Assess client needs and relevance of specifications, participate in risk assessment, evaluate scope of project and assess integration of information into a viable design layout. Review deliverables prepared by design team before passing to client and guide customer decisions.
• Time: Ensuring that key decisions are made within the programme guidelines and timelines.
• Cost: Ensure client and internal budgets are adhered to while collaborating externally (with sub-consultants) and internally (finance personnel).
• Quality: Maintain professionalism, deliver service, be available at all times and ensure quality standards are met.
• Has overall responsibility for Client Relationship Management by managing third-party partner and/or vendor relationships as necessary; and ensuring ongoing client satisfaction by managing peer-level client relationships and resolving issues, while identifying opportunities for improvement and making constructive suggestions to change.
• Manage risk over the project lifecycle.
• Ensure the timely finalization of the organization’s and relevant sub-consultants’ engagement modalities
• Conducting weekly site meetings and supervision for all on-going projects.
• Ensure key project-wide roles and responsibilities are defined. Ensure the use of best practices and apply lessons learned from previous projects.
• Managing information processing system and ensure its accuracy and documentation.
• Ensuring organizations values are carried through in projects by maintaining honesty and transparency in all dealings.
• Provide regular briefings on status of projects to senior management.
• Carry out any other duties as required from time to time commensurate with the role.

Professional Qualifications

• B.A. Design or Architecture, Project Management, M. A. Design
• 5-7 years’ relevant work experience

Skills required

• Should exhibit a strong ability to oversee the project management process from end to end, including initiating, planning, executing and closing projects.
• Management skills:

1. Has the ability to manage and coordinate the project management process in terms of time, costs, quality, change, risks and issues.
2. Must be a team leader who is also an effective delegator and is results oriented.
3. Strong track record in successfully managing staff, clients, consultants and liaising with contractors where applicable
4. Interpersonal skills: Must be a people person with ability to interact with other firm’s members, sub-contractors.

• Communication skills: Effective written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Be proactive and demonstrate a high level of initiative
• Be an effective problem solver
• Have ability to consistently see the big picture
• Have a strong appreciation for design and services elements.
• Have a commitment to excellence in service, quality and design, and have business acumen.
• Be proficient with relevant computer software.

If you meet the above criteria, and would like to be a part of the team, please send an application with a detailed C.V stating your experience, current remuneration, list of at least 3 referees, day-time telephone numbers and email address to :- jobs@truenorthcareermap.com on or before Friday, November 18th, 2011.

Only short listed candidates will be acknowledged

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