Director - Project Development - Education & Real Estate School Construction

Director - Project Development - Education & Real Estate School Construction

What You Will Do : 

- Build a strategy around identifying real estate options for expansion of service centres (schools) specific to Andhra Pradesh.

- Build a strategy around construction of schools specific to Andhra Pradesh.

- Deliver up to 50 new academies per cohort on time and within budget.

- Build and manage a team of construction supervisors that will oversee work at individual sites. These supervisors are responsible for hiring and managing all local labour (unskilled and skilled), tracking delivery and use of all construction materials, and ensuring the buildings are built per code.

- Coordinate structural designs and building to ensure all academies are 100% safe and up to the needed building standards. This may require hiring a full-time structural or civil engineer and/or architect to oversee the structural drawings and designs of each academy.

- Oversee the work needed to get all permits from local and state authorities for building, occupation, safety, etc.

- Closely monitor financial requests and expenditures at all points in the Development process from purchasing supplies to labour rates on site to ensure that construction is completed within budget and with no fraud. Payments to vendors and workers will require your approval and you will work closely with our Finance Department to design and use internal controls to minimize financial leakage.

- Ensure procurement and delivery of construction materials - from steel and cement to paint - by Supply Chain either locally or centrally in a cost-effective fashion.

- Oversee the procurement or construction of classroom furniture, such as pupil desks, and delivery to each new academy before class starts.

- At times, personally negotiate long-term leases for promising parcels of land that would be good sites

- Repair or expand existing academies when extra classrooms are needed.

- Over the medium-term, investigate new or revised engineering and design processes to ensure we are delivering the best possible schools within the financial model required for us to be sustainable.

- Seek guidance and best practices from other Development Directors to ensure you are following our processes

What You Should Have : 

- Degree(s) in Management, Real Estate Management, Civil Engineering or Construction from a recognized university

- Minimum of 10 years experience working in a construction development role, or closely with the real estate industry as a business leader

- Minimum of 3 years- experience leading a team and experience motivating a field-based team to achieve targets

- Strong understanding of building/planning codes and local permitting processes in Andhra Pradesh

- Appropriately registered with the relevant professional bodies

- Very detail-oriented, organized, and hands-on; willing to travel frequently at short notice to get things done

- Strong project management skills and experience - overseeing multiple deliverables at numerous sites. Key to this are computing skills especially in Excel.

- Knowledge and experience managing construction-related supply chain