Purpose
- The Infrastructure Projects Programme Manager provides strategic programme management, commercial oversight, governance, and executive support to the Director: Infrastructure Projects.
- The role ensures that the infrastructure portfolio is effectively planned, coordinated, monitored, and controlled from a programme, financial, procurement, and contractual perspective.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (NQF7) in Construction Management, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Architecture or any relevant field
- At least five (5) years’ experience in infrastructure project delivery.
- Experience managing complex capital programmes.
- Strong experience in construction contracts, cost management, procurement, and commercial administration.
- Experience in higher education, government, or large institutional infrastructure environments advantageous.
Recommended Requirements
- Professional registration with SACPCMP, SACQSP, ECSA, SACAP or equivalent.
- Postgraduate qualification in project management, infrastructure management, or business administration
- Driver’s license
- Willingness to work outside normal working hours
Duties
Infrastructure Programme Management
- Develop and maintain an integrated infrastructure programme management framework.
- Consolidate information from Senior Project Managers to provide the Director with a complete portfolio view.
Monitor:
- Project progress
- Milestones
- Expenditure
- Procurement status
- Contract performance
- Risks and constraints
- Identify programme-level challenges requiring executive intervention.
- Support the Director in strategic infrastructure planning and prioritisation
Infrastructure Financial Management and Cost Control
- Provide programme-level financial oversight of infrastructure projects.
Work closely with the Quantity Surveyor to monitor:
- Project budgets
- Cost reports
- Forecast final costs
- Cash flows
- Expenditure trends
- Budget deviations
Review of financial implications that include:
- Variations
- Extension of time claims
- Compensation events
- Scope changes
- Contract amendments
- Provide early warnings to the Director on potential cost overruns.
Monitor: Contract Management and Commercial Oversight
- Maintain strong knowledge of construction contracts, including JBCC, NEC, and other relevant infrastructure contracts.
- Provide programme-level oversight of contract administration.
Monitor:
- Contract compliance
- Contractor performance
- Payment processes
- Claims
- Variations
- Dispute risks
- Work with Senior Project Managers and Quantity Surveyors to ensure contractual matters are properly managed.
- Ensure that contractual decisions are supported by appropriate commercial analysis
Variations and Change Management
- Establish a governance process for managing variations and scope changes.
- Review variation submissions and ensure:
- Proper motivation exists
- Financial impact is understood
- Budget availability is confirmed
- Approval processes are followed
- Track cumulative project changes and their impact on programme budgets.
- Report significant variations to the Director.
Supply Chain Management and Procurement Coordination
- Work closely with Supply Chain Management to ensure procurement supports infrastructure delivery objectives.
- Monitor procurement plans for:
- Professional teams
- Contractors
- Specialist consultants
- Infrastructure-related services
- Ensure procurement timelines align with project implementation schedules.
- Provide input into infrastructure procurement strategies.
- Monitor procurement risks affecting project delivery
Collaboration with Quantity Surveyor
- Reviewing cost plans and project budgets.
- Monitoring project affordability.
- Analysing financial impacts of design changes.
- Reviewing contractor payments and financial progress.
- Supporting value engineering initiatives.
- Ensuring alignment between programme objectives and cost management.
- (The Quantity Surveyor remains professionally accountable for quantity surveying functions and reports independently to the Director.)
Executive Reporting and Governance
Prepare high-level infrastructure reports for:
- Director
- Executive committees
- Governance structures
Provide analysis on:
- Financial performance
- Project delivery status
- Contract risks
- Procurement challenges
- Strategic decisions required
- Maintain programme dashboards and management information systems.
Infrastructure Projects Office Management
- Manage and develop the Infrastructure Projects Officer.
- Maintain programme records, systems, and reporting processes.
- Coordinate programme meetings and reporting cycles.
- Ensure effective document control and information management
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