Junior Consultant - Public Private Partnerships at Turner & Townsend

Purpose of the role 

• To assist in the delivery of Advisory services to meet the business objectives.
• To assist with delegated business development/market development tasks.

Place of work

• This role will be Johannesburg based, with a South African and Regional focus.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

-  Assist with the activities related to the management of Projects as directed to meet client and business objectives including the following:
-  Assist to provide the necessary capacity to meet the technical objectives for Projects.
- Assist to comply with Business Management System (BMS) requirements. BMS compliance – review Commission (project/activity/task) Execution Plan (CEP)/Project Execution Plan (PEP) on all commissions you work on to ensure BMS compliance.
- Assist Business Unit to comply with Turner & Townsend’s Risk Management processes
- Assist Business Unit to comply with Risk mitigation measures defined in the Commission Execution Plan
- Maintain effective communication with both client peers, consultant peers, colleagues and your manager.
-  Assist to ensure commercial contracts commissions where you are involved are in place with all clients/sub-consultants in line with company policy.
- Support the development of allocated sector/service/client Pursuit Marketing Action Plans.
- Ensure the Contact and Marketing Database (CMD) is regularly updated as required.
- Provide and update contact and lead information for incorporation onto the CMD.
- Assist with Project Management and administrative requirements such as monthly reporting and invoicing requirements i.e., updating the fee invoicing tracker which informs deliverables invoicing to both Client and for the subconsultants, preparation of the monthly lumpsum invoicing which informs raising invoices to clients and assisting on the management of payment of invoices to sub-consultants
- Assist with the preparation of tenders both from an administrative and content perspective.
- Keep Project library up to date.
- Maintain Client Care schedule up to date as required.
- Support marketing initiatives.
- Update the Project Database.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:
- Relevant technical degree – BSc Construction Management/BSc Engineering/BCom Economics/BCom Accounting 
- 1-3 years working experience preferably on large projects or programmes across diverse sectors (alternative procurement such as (BOT, PPP, DBOM, DBOT), infrastructure projects, procurement in the public sector)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent MS Office skills (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio)
- Excellent analytical problem-solving ability
- Competent in systems thinking, process analysis and optimisation
- Some understanding of the National Treasury Procurement Regulations including Treasury Regulation 16 (PPP Regulations) and the Municipal PPP Regulations.
- Management Consulting experience will be highly advantageous
- Experience in procurement and supply chain management, and alternative procurement will be advantageous
- Experience of working within the broader African market will be advantageous
Ability to work in large multi-disciplinary and -skilled teams consisting of members internal and external to the employer