Environment Team Leader - PDS Recruitment

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Description

ENVIRONMENT TEAM LEADER

Job purpose: 

To provide leadership, management and delivery of energy environment services in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to support the business activities of the Energy Environment Sub-division.

Accountabilities:

Principal accountabilities:

• Lead the delivery and growth of Environment and Social services within the Energy Environment Sub-Division
• Develop and implement Business Plans for SSA
• Coordination of responses to Expressions of Interest, Requests for Proposals and Invitations to Tender 
• Financial responsibility and project director/manager of large environment and social projects
• Review and approval of sub-division outputs

Management accountabilities:

• Line management responsibility for all team staff (currently 4 staff)
• Accountabilities include resource planning, resource allocation; recruitment; performance management,; training and development, sickness and grievance procedures; health and safety 
• Coaching and development of staff

Other accountabilities:

• Responsible for compliance with quality, environment and safety systems
• Maintain and develop The Company's team support to Power unit in the SSA
• Work alongside other environmental teams to undertake business development, win and resource work in the most efficient and effective way for The Company
• Deliver relevant aspects of the Sub-division Business Plan
• Deputise for Sub-divisional manager when requested

Job Role:

Role responsibilities:

• Project coordinator for the delivery of environmental services in the SSA region with support from wider group in UK and rest of the world; 
• Undertake ad-hoc environmental advisory services to in-house PWR team in Johannesburg; 
• To be a local environmental resource for all power projects managed from SA or Brighton; 
• Contribute to the production of proposals for the region; 
• To provide a point of contact for other group services in the region social / air quality; and 
• Liaise with group Sub-Saharan representative to support any BD activity in the region. 

Areas of work are: 

• Environmental and social impact assessment, environmental management and monitoring and environmental action planning.
• Environmental due diligence and Equator Principle compliance reviews for international financing institutions;
• Input into site selection / route selection studies; and 
• Provide environmental advisory services as part of engineering services to developers and utilities.

Qualifications (essential):

• Good first degree
• Second degree in relevant discipline
• Membership of a relevant professional body

Competencies / skills (essential):

• Extensive relevant postgraduate work experience in environment or sustainability disciplines
• Technical leadership - technical and analytical skills; conceptual thinking; decisiveness; customer focus
• People management - delegating responsibilities and accountabilities; managing performance; motivating staff; creating open communication
• Programme management - programming and planning, resource allocation; financial management; contractual acumen
• Business development - business planning; business development
• Communication and teamwork - speaking and writing persuasively; facilitating meetings
• Personal effectiveness - managing time; gaining commitment

Competencies / skills (desirable):

• Experience of line-management of environmental teams
• Working knowledge of environmental consultancy
• Technical knowledge of environmental impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment, social impact assessment, due diligence audits, environmental policy and legislation
• Experience of working on African and international projects / assignments
• Ability to develop and manage customer and client relationships