Job Title: Project Manager – Telecoms Solutions
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time
Job Description
- We are recruiting a full-time Development Project Manager for the Telecom Solutions sector team.
- You will actively support CBE’s investments in solar-hybrid assets for telecommunications infrastructure throughout Africa by coordinating development of large-scale energy solutions deployments between various CBE departments (business development, engineering, regulatory, ESG, and finance) as well as external partners and stakeholders.
- You will take responsibility for the successful development of each of your projects to ‘shovel ready’ and ensure seamless integration with the implementation team.
- You will report to the Project Development Director, Telecoms and form a key part of the fast-growing telecom sector team.
Primary Responsibilities
- Coordinate and track efforts between internal departments and external stakeholders
- Ensure timely development of the project and ensuring seamless handover to the implementation team
- Develop and manage the project development plan including all associated inputs and activities;
- Develop and manage the project development and implementation budgets
- Take full ownership and responsibility for developing projects from award through to commercial close in line with baseline project plan and budget, including:
- Lead stakeholder engagements and meetings;
- Oversee and manage all activities on the project development plan including all inputs and workstreams from internal and external parties;
- Maintain a holistic understanding of the status of the project in relation to development budget, project costs, performance impacts, permitting and licensing risks and schedule impacts;
- Continually identify and manage project risks (land/political/technical/regulatory/financial/supply chain) and develop corresponding mitigation strategies;
- Continually seek project optimizations relating to cost, timeline, project performance and anything else that may result in a greater financial return for CBE and/or better outcome for the customer;
- Manage the customer approval of system design and design interfaces with customer infrastructure in collaboration with the CBE Engineering team;
- Manage any customer enabling works or customer led development activities to ensure alignment in terms of quality and timelines relating to CBE’s delivery of the project;
- Manage the licensing and permitting process and approvals in collaboration with the CBE regulatory and ESG teams;
- Maintain the integrity of our ESMS in all aspects of the project to ensure that we are striving towards the highest possible ESG performance.
Required skills and qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
- Formal project management training and demonstrable experience
- Commercial aptitude and excellent communication skills
- 5+ years work experience in project development or project management in energy and/or telecoms
- Good technical understanding of energy projects, project finance, and
- Writes clearly, professionally, and without grammatical errors
- Highly competent in common project management methods and software tools
- Highly competent in both Excel and Powerpoint.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and qualifications:
- Work experience in telecom sector
- Good commercial understanding of the solar IPP model including an understanding of project finance
- Good understanding of the licensing and permitting procedures for energy projects;
- Good grasp of project the key concepts of project documents including development agreements, PPA/ESA, EPC and O&M contracts, financing agreements, etc.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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