Job Description

This position is aimed at driving the long-term sustainability strategic objectives and priorities which are: Development Impact Effectiveness, Financial Sustainability, Customer Centricity and People.

The Head: Project Development is a change agent tasked with leading a team of future thinkers with a specific focus on:

• Understanding the key sector drivers, impact of and potential for disruption in sectors.
• Creating / generating a broader portfolio of new industrial investment opportunities.
• Actively cultivate new business in order to robustly expand the Clients project pipeline.
• Proactively develop strategic partnerships on projects taking bold initiatives to create alliances for promoting and developing project opportunities.
• Provide project oversight to mitigate risks and ensure project success throughout the project development cycle.
• Prioritising opportunities for project development.
• Leading successful development outcomes for pilot projects and commercializing and scaling outcomes.
• Assisting projects through development life cycle.
• Identifying opportunities to unlock industrial development to foster economic growth, regional integration, extending the industry to create and preserve jobs and sustain economic development.
• Responsible for the overall management and leadership of the unit.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualification: relevant Post Graduate engineering degree or equivalent qualification.
• Finance qualification would be an advantage.
• Project management qualification and project development experience would be an advantage.

Knowledge Skills

• Preferably 10 -12 yearsxc3xa2xe2x82xacxe2x84xa2 relevant experience in project conceptualisation, development and implementation
• 8 years of Project Finance and/or Corporate Finance experience.
• At least 5 yearsxc3xa2xe2x82xacxe2x84xa2 experience at a leadership level and management of teams
• Solid experience in interacting and presenting to Senior and Executive leaders and the Board.
• Experience in engaging, managing and negotiating with relevant specialist bodies, government institutions, industry associations etc.
• Client management expertise
• Experience with sectoral analysis, marketing, technical and other relevant non-financial aspects of project development.

Financial/Shareholder Returns

• Optimise the balance of financial and development returns on Orginisations risk capital in projects
• Achieve a high success rate on projects engaged in
• Crowd in risk capital to priority projects
• Leverage concessionary off-balance sheet funding to achieve lower blended pricing for clients and effectively share risk

Internal /Operational Processes

• Define and implement strategic objectives of the unit
• Ensure that the strategies of the SBU are aligned with that of the Corporation and its mandate
• Provide strategic leadership and guidance
• Develop and manage the project origination / opportunity sourcing approach to develop a broader portfolio of jobs-rich and value-adding clients and projects.
• Actively cultivate new business, including the expansion of industrial firms with high growth potential
• Proactively develop strategic partnership on projects
• Contribute to industry policy decision making
• Provide project oversight to mitigate risks and ensure project success
• Deepen the project development methodology and capabilities
• Manage the project development budget and allocate resources in line with strategic priorities

Customer Focus Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain influential relationships with strategic stakeholders (government, industry forums, clients, regulatory authorities etc.)
• Optimise service delivery in a manner that address clientxc3xa2xe2x82xacxe2x84xa2s needs
• Present the strategic objectives and operational plans of the unit to key decision making stakeholders within the Corporation (Executive Committees, the Shareholder and the Board)
• Liaise, communicate and promote the unit externally

Learning, Leadership People Growth

• Provide strategic leadership and management to ensure high performance and delivery
• Ensure the effective management of human resources in the unit, including employee motivation and development
• Protect the interest and wellbeing of employees and establish suitable communication lines
• Oversee the implementation of talent management initiatives within the division (Employee Engagement, Mentoring and Coaching and Succession Management)
• Provide leadership that fosters a culture consistent with the Corporationxc3xa2xe2x82xacxe2x84xa2s values
• Drive and embed transformational leadership imperatives and enabling a culture of performance, delivery and a people first culture.

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