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Job Summary:

• We are seeking an experienced Management Consultant with 8-10 years of expertise in developing and implementing ESG strategies, with a particular focus on internal processes, employees, and culture. This consulting role involves working with Zutari clients to develop and implement ESG strategies, lead change management initiatives, and drive sustainable improvements tailored to each client’s needs. You will play a pivotal role in aligning ESG initiatives with client’s core business objectives, managing change processes, and embedding sustainability into client’s operations and culture. Your expertise will help guide Zutari clients through evolving regulatory landscapes and best practices, ensuring that ESG efforts not only meet compliance requirements but also add strategic value.
• This role is suited to a highly motivated, purpose-driven professional with a passion for creating meaningful change and advancing sustainability within businesses. The ideal candidate will have a strategic mindset and a deep understanding of how to operationalise ESG across an organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy Development & Execution
• Lead the development and implementation of organisational sustainability strategies focused on fostering a sustainable culture within an organisation.
• Establish ESG frameworks and initiatives that align with industry best practices and contribute to long-term organisational resilience.
• Conduct assessments of current practices, identify areas for improvement, and develop actionable roadmaps that enhance the organisation’s internal approach to sustainability.
• Strategic Integration of ESG: Incorporating ESG goals directly into the business strategy, governance, and performance measures, ensuring that sustainability is central to the organisation’s growth and success.
• ESG Reporting & Compliance
• Develop and implement internal ESG reporting processes to track progress, measure impact, and demonstrate accountability in sustainability efforts.
• Stay updated on sustainability regulations, standards, and trends, ensuring organisational compliance and best practice alignment.
• Lead reporting efforts to facilitate transparency, foster accountability
• Business Development & Consulting
• Serve as a subject matter expert for clients seeking to enhance their organisational sustainability culture, acting as a trusted advisor and consultant.
• Build relationships with potential clients to drive new business opportunities by showcasing expertise in sustainability strategy, change management, and organisational transformation.
• Conduct workshops, trainings, and presentations on organisational sustainability topics to foster client understanding and inspire meaningful action.
• Added advantage if candidate can:
• Change Management
• Drive change management initiatives to support the integration of sustainable practices within the organisation.
• Design and implement change management strategies that align with ESG objectives / projects, ensuring smooth adoption of new processes and behaviours.
• Develop frameworks and tools to guide employees through sustainability-related changes, emphasising communication, readiness, and resistance management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed sustainability considerations into daily operations, policies, and procedures.
• Support corporate communications on sustainability performance.

Qualifications:

Required

• Degree in Environmental science, Business Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• 8-10 years of experience in business improvement, ESG strategy, sustainability consulting, organisational development, and change management with a focus on sustainability.
• Strong understanding of ESG standards, sustainability frameworks (e.g., GRI, SASB, UN SDGs), and regulatory requirements.
• Proven experience in ESG strategy development, sustainability reporting, and corporate governance, with a track record of leading internal initiatives that drive cultural change, improve organisational processes, and enhance the employee experience through sustainability-focused improvements.

Advantageous

• Professional Certifications and Courses (Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Certification, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Certification etc.)
• Regulatory Knowledge
• Experience in consulting and business development with the ability to identify client needs and tailor solutions effectively.
• Expertise in change management principles and experience designing and implementing change strategies.
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new industries, client environments, and business challenges.
• Strong analytical abilities to assess complex situations, analyse data, and develop insights and recommendations.

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Job Summary

• This role requires an exceptional hunter who will grow the Resource Business Unit, responsible for sales, revenue generation and year on year growth, growing the business and building and maintaining deep client relationships to ensure the execution of the Zutari group strategy. Together with a team of Client Managers this role leads hunting and securing opportunities in relevant markets. This role requires meeting operational requirements which includes sales, managing revenue, quality of sales, profitability, cost of sales and client satisfaction. The target sectors will be Mining, Oil and Gas, and Manufacturing.
• Role responsibilities
• Financial Management:
• Generate revenue at acceptable margins to achieve a sustainable, profitable future for Business Unit
• Formulation and implementation of the Business Unit’s annual sales budget
• Achievement of annual financial targets
• Risk Management:
• Effective governance and compliance in Business Unit
• Ensure efficient risk management
• Health & Safety
• Ensure Zutari Health & Safety Compliance on proposals.
• Winning Work:
• Win sufficient work for delivery in Business Unit, developing and executing on market strategies enabled by technologies to meet market needs
• Sense the market to ensure we are well positioned for market changes and can respond with unfair advantage to generate revenue
• Responsible for leading the contribution to winning work through repeat work, client proposals and tenders in conjunction with business leaders
• Client Relationships:
• Pursue and cultivate trusted advisor relationships with Business Unit clients to drive value for Zutari and our clients
• Build new and leverage existing relationships to identify new opportunities for Business Unit
• A client value focused leader who builds and nurtures client relationships.
• Competency Development:
• Contribution to and sharing of knowledge
• Optimising workloads, resource management and capability building

Minimum requirements

• 12+ years relevant experience
• Registration with relevant professional body
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant Engineering Field
• Advanced degree (Masters, MBA,PhD)
• Strong leadership and commercial experience

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Role responsibilities:

As proposal consultant, you will:

• Plan, develop and manage proposals and pursuits for the Africa market
• Analyse Request for Proposals (RFPs), tender and client requests to understand client needs and submission requirements, and share this with relevant technical leads
• Research background on projects / opportunities, clients, and competitors in various markets and industries
• Actively participate in go / no-go decisions
• Develop, brainstorm and implement win strategies
• Coordinate, manage, edit, integrate and format inputs from subject matter experts
• Create and customise CVs and project case studies
• Source or write non-technical content and tailor generic content
• Brief the graphic design team for more specialised graphics, when required
• Create well branded, enticing documents and graphics in accordance with Zutari’s brand
• Ensure bids are compliant with client requirements and evaluation criteria and do internal evaluation prior to submission
• Contribute to the development of commercial offers
• Ensure Zutari’s governance processes are followed during proposal and pursuit development process
• Manage the entire effort, conduct pre-submission reviews and ensure bids are submitted on time
• Participate in post submission reviews and share lessons learned for continuous improvement
• Contribute to our team’s efforts to share proposal best practices across the Zutari business, including creating and adding information to the team library
• Be a trusted advisor to the business with regards to proposals

Qualifications and experience:

• Degree or diploma in communications, marketing, humanities or related disciplines
• At least 10 years’ experience in proposals and pursuits preferably at a professional services firm (engineering, consulting, finance, legal or construction)
• Experience in proposals and Expressions of Interest for donor funding agencies like the World Bank, European Union and United Nations preferred
• Exceptional MS Word and PowerPoint skills
• Excellent writing and editing skills; exposure to technical writing beneficial
• Experience with design and document layout
• Understanding of good corporate governance and a good understanding of due diligence processes
• Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) certification beneficial

What type of person are we looking for:

• Tactful, able to work in a team with excellent communication skills
• Able to cope with substantial pressure and responsibility
• Strong analytical and exceptional problem-solving skills
• Able to manage conflicting priorities and deadlines 
• Highly organized and meticulous – strong attention to detail
• Excellent project management skills
• Innovative and creative
• Self-motivated
• Someone with integrity

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Role Responsibilities

• Update project monthly cash flow and liaise with finance.
• Update and submit the monthly executive reports.
• Prepare and assist with board and steercom presentations.
• Audit coordination.
• Manage Prism budgets.
• Reviewing, approving and rejecting purchase requisitions submitted by procurement specialist
• Update data on cost control system
• Review & apply for commitment status and funding with each package manager
• Correct coding errors on SAP & Prism
• Package fund optimization and identification of potential savings
• Initiate Declaration of Reserve, Request for Allowances, and Internal budget transfers
• Project Controls Costing and Funding Memo's
• Monthly cost and finance reporting.
• Integrate schedule and cost data
• Routinely convene workshops between all planning and costing personnel to ensure alignment and that all project scope is covered within the monthly reports.
• Integrate the schedule and the cost within Prism and review the impact of the project performance indices.
• Publish all project approved changes within Prism
• Generate project package manager reports
• Ensure P6 and Prism G2 alignment
• Analyse project earned value indices

Skills required

• Knowledge of Prism and SAP an advantage.
• Desire to actively broaden your experience and expertise in line with the core expertise
• Client interface level of responsibility on a project basis in conjunction
• Ability to advise clients on strategic matters, key cost drivers, project costs and added value
• Knowledge and understanding of construction and engineering project costs
• Experienced in client, consultant and contractor facing roles and working as a member of a busy team. Used to working to tight and ever-changing deadlines
• Managing interfaces with design and construction teams
• You should possess a willingness to continue to develop your career through ongoing self-learning and our training programme

Minimum Requirements

• A relevant qualification, BSc (Qs), AACE or BTech or Engineering Degree qualification
• Previous experience of providing complete estimating/cost control function on major projects
• Expert understanding of estimate requirements in engineering & mining projects
• Registration with AACE an advantage   
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Experience with cost engineering software

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Role responsibilities 

• Responsible for wind resource measurement and analysis
• Execute the WTG Layout design and site suitability
• Conduct the Wind energy production assessments
• Will be responsible for building the team through training and moving
• Wind Energy Engineers engineering technical support to designers of underground or overhead wind farm collector systems and prepare and develop site specifications. Create or maintain wind farm layouts, schematics, or other visual documentation for wind farms.
• Support the optimization of the layout of wind farm access roads, crane pads, crane paths, collection systems, substations, switchyards, or transmission lines.

Minimum requirements 

• Qualified BSC Mechanical or Electrical Engineer
• Minimum of 5 – 10 years’ experience

Experience

• Wind resource measurement and analysis
• WTG Layout design and site suitability
• Wind energy production assessments
• Ideally WindPro / WAsP
• Supporting projects in South Africa, and into greater Africa
• Project Development
• Due Diligence

Skills

• Strong analytical and statistical skills
• Technical report writing
• Comfortable interacting with clients and wider project teams
• Energy and performance analysis for solar would-be beneficial
• We believe that a diverse workforce is a key to our business success.  We seek the best people for our jobs based on their skills, qualifications, and experience.  We embrace the principle of equal opportunity in employment, and we work towards eliminating all forms of unlawful discrimination in our employment practices.  In support of diversity and the equal opportunity principle, preference will be given to individuals from designated groups within South Africa.