17 Project Execution jobs in Eastern Cape

Brief Role Description

The core purpose of this position is to conduct project feasibility studies for local production activities in Africa as well as to drive, plan and implement production facilities in Africa.

This position will also act as project manager, on new business and strategy development, lead inter-divisional teams across brands and cultures and to drive and co-ordinate company African footprint.

The incumbent will also negotiate with external partners such as governmental authorities and production partners as well as engage with key stakeholders and determine internal and external factors affecting mid- (<5 years) to long-term (>5 years) needs. The position will also be required to establish and evaluate scenarios for Board decision.

Possible Tasks within this Role

To conduct project feasibility studies for local production activities

To lead an inter-divisional team across brands and cultures

Assume responsibility for the tracking and monitoring of project milestones as agreed by the Board of Management.

Anticipate issues and identify solutions and alternatives in advance by reviewing open tasks and deadlines as well as motivating and encouraging team members in order to ensure targets are fulfilled.

Represent the company within the Group as well as externally

To negotiate with external partners such as governmental authorities and production partners

To engage with Group, Regional, Local and external stakeholders to formulate, implement and monitor the Corporate regional strategy.

Identifying new business opportunities to promote sustainable development in African markets

Managing the evaluation as well as implementation of new projects, primarily local pro-duction activities, in Africa.

Supporting management in preparing, scheduling, coordinating and monitoring of internal resources to ensure the effective execution of assigned projects.

Assisting management by acting as an internal consultant on new business and prioritized projects by engaging with stakeholders and determining internal and external factors affecting mid to long term needs.

Qualification requirements

Degree or Diploma in one of the fields of Economics, Business Administration, Finance, Engineering or equivalent

Experience needed

Minimum 5 years’ experience in project management or strategy environment

Essentials

Negotiating and decision-making experience at a senior level

Financial analysis capability

Automotive experience an advantage

Ability to operate across a wide range of complex business segments

Ability to think, plan and execute at a strategic project management level

Sound decision-making ability

Ability to communicate with and lead teams at all levels

Ability to plan, execute and make decisions on projects and initiatives according to approved KPIs

Ability to monitor and track project progress, to anticipate, identify and resolve major issues and to report and escalate these to the Board or Steering Committees

Leading and motivating inter-divisional teams in a pressurized environment.

Conflict management ability

Experience in representing the Company, locally and internationally, at any level.

Ability to operate and negotiate across cultural lines

Ability to present to multi-national groups at all levels (Heads of Government, Ministers, CEO’s etc.)

Ability to analyze external environment, draw relevant insights and anticipate trends

Ability to develop, analyze and present scenarios

Up to ZAR 350,000 salary on a full time, permanent employment contract. Fully remote working anywhere in South Africa! 33 Days Paid Leave and Benefits. Exciting high growth product, relied on by leading global brands, particularly within sports. Working with the latest hardware, tech stack and tools.

Storyteller is a high growth B2B SaaS platform, which allows companies to integrate Stories into their owned and operated platforms. Popularized by Instagram and Snapchat, Stories are perfectly suited for boosting user engagement, audience retention, and driving advertising revenue.

Our end‑to‑end platform gives companies a best‑in‑class Stories experience in days with native iOS, Android, and Web SDKs, publishing tools, analytics, and ad support.

We work with many globally recognised clients, particularly within sport, so if you're a sporting fan this could be a great fit!

What can you expect?

As a Support Operator, you'll be part of a supportive and innovative team that values collaboration and creativity. You'll have the flexibility of working remotely, with variable hours to cover events around the world and ensure 24-hour coverage. You'll engage with exciting sports clients, providing you with unique insights and experiences in the sports industry.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to:

Run live content management for clients, ensuring timely and accurate delivery.

Generate engaging content tailored to client needs.

Provide exceptional customer support to enhance client satisfaction.

Ensure strong quality control over client content, maintaining high standards.

What's important to us:

Reliable access to consistent internet.

Flexibility to work varying hours and weekends.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Strong attention to detail.

Experience in support or customer success.

Experience ensuring high quality for customers

A can-do attitude with a willingness to dive in and add value to our customers.

A proactive approach to contributing across the business.

What’s nice to have:

Experience working in a fast-paced environment

Experience creating or improving support or QA processes

Experiencing working in a SaaS environment

Firstly, you will be asked to complete an online video, which will involve answering a mixture of questions.

Secondly, if your video interview goes well, you will be invited for an interview with Alex, our Senior Project Manager. Depending on the outcome of this interview, you will be sent a follow-up task, which will give you an idea of what your day-to-day might look like (which you will be compensated for).

Up to ZAR 350,000 salary on a full time, permanent employment contract. Fully remote working anywhere in South Africa! 33 Days Paid Leave and Benefits. Exciting high growth product, relied on by leading global brands, particularly within sports. Working with the latest hardware, tech stack and tools.

Storyteller is a high growth B2B SaaS platform, which allows companies to integrate Stories into their owned and operated platforms. Popularized by Instagram and Snapchat, Stories are perfectly suited for boosting user engagement, audience retention, and driving advertising revenue.

Our end‑to‑end platform gives companies a best‑in‑class Stories experience in days with native iOS, Android, and Web SDKs, publishing tools, analytics, and ad support.

We work with many globally recognised clients, particularly within sport, so if you're a sporting fan this could be a great fit!

What can you expect?

As a Support Operator, you'll be part of a supportive and innovative team that values collaboration and creativity. You'll have the flexibility of working remotely, with variable hours to cover events around the world and ensure 24-hour coverage. You'll engage with exciting sports clients, providing you with unique insights and experiences in the sports industry.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to:

Run live content management for clients, ensuring timely and accurate delivery.

Generate engaging content tailored to client needs.

Provide exceptional customer support to enhance client satisfaction.

Ensure strong quality control over client content, maintaining high standards.

What's important to us:

Reliable access to consistent internet.

Flexibility to work varying hours and weekends.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Strong attention to detail.

Experience in support or customer success.

Experience ensuring high quality for customers

A can-do attitude with a willingness to dive in and add value to our customers.

A proactive approach to contributing across the business.

What’s nice to have:

Experience working in a fast-paced environment

Experience creating or improving support or QA processes

Experiencing working in a SaaS environment

Firstly, you will be asked to complete an online video, which will involve answering a mixture of questions.

Secondly, if your video interview goes well, you will be invited for an interview with Alex, our Senior Project Manager. Depending on the outcome of this interview, you will be sent a follow-up task, which will give you an idea of what your day-to-day might look like (which you will be compensated for).

Up to ZAR 350,000 salary on a full time, permanent employment contract. Fully remote working anywhere in South Africa! 33 Days Paid Leave and Benefits. Exciting high growth product, relied on by leading global brands, particularly within sports. Working with the latest hardware, tech stack and tools.

Storyteller is a high growth B2B SaaS platform, which allows companies to integrate Stories into their owned and operated platforms. Popularized by Instagram and Snapchat, Stories are perfectly suited for boosting user engagement, audience retention, and driving advertising revenue.

Our end‑to‑end platform gives companies a best‑in‑class Stories experience in days with native iOS, Android, and Web SDKs, publishing tools, analytics, and ad support.

We work with many globally recognised clients, particularly within sport, so if you're a sporting fan this could be a great fit!

What can you expect?

As a Support Operator, you'll be part of a supportive and innovative team that values collaboration and creativity. You'll have the flexibility of working remotely, with variable hours to cover events around the world and ensure 24-hour coverage. You'll engage with exciting sports clients, providing you with unique insights and experiences in the sports industry.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to:

Run live content management for clients, ensuring timely and accurate delivery.

Generate engaging content tailored to client needs.

Provide exceptional customer support to enhance client satisfaction.

Ensure strong quality control over client content, maintaining high standards.

What's important to us:

Reliable access to consistent internet.

Flexibility to work varying hours and weekends.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Strong attention to detail.

Experience in support or customer success.

Experience ensuring high quality for customers

A can-do attitude with a willingness to dive in and add value to our customers.

A proactive approach to contributing across the business.

What’s nice to have:

Experience working in a fast-paced environment

Experience creating or improving support or QA processes

Experiencing working in a SaaS environment

Firstly, you will be asked to complete an online video, which will involve answering a mixture of questions.

Secondly, if your video interview goes well, you will be invited for an interview with Alex, our Senior Project Manager. Depending on the outcome of this interview, you will be sent a follow-up task, which will give you an idea of what your day-to-day might look like (which you will be compensated for).

Department/Faculty: Academic/Bath Spa University partnership (BSU)

Location: (On-site): Stratford

Type of Contract: Full-Time, Permanent (40 hours per week) - (N.B. sponsorship is not offered for this role)

Our Vision: Changing lives through education.

What We Do: GBS is a higher education provider, working in partnership with several of the UK’s leading higher education providers to offer a range of sector-relevant courses across ten campuses in London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. As part of our partnership with BSU, we offera wide range of modern courses across business, construction, computing, project management, psychology and counselling.BSU students graduate as engaged global citizens who are ready for the world of work. 96.1% of graduates find themselves in work or further study within six months.

Weare currently seekingLecturers to teach part of ourMSc (Hons) Project Management programme. Due to our delivery model, we require flexibility to teach during weekdays, evenings and at weekends. You may also be required to teach on undergraduate programmes in Project Management and Construction Management.

Do you have a background in teaching any of the following?

• Project Management Principles and Methodologies
• Leadership and Professional Development
• Innovation and Technology in Project Management
• Strategy, Risk and Uncertainty in Project Management

As a Lecturer in Management at Global Banking School, you will deliver modules in the above areas primarily as part of our MSc in Project Management.You will develop and deliver comprehensive course materials, undertake all aspects of learning, teaching and assessment of students and keep up to date with latest developments in your field and student support practices.

Responsibilities include:

• All aspects of planning, delivering, and assessing student work, ensuring that all learning outcomes are met
• Developing, updating, and improving course materials as appropriate
• Using a variety of learning and teaching methods/materials
• Actively engaging in staff development activities, peer observations, meetings and other administrative duties
• Understanding and keeping up to date with latest developments in your field and student support practices
• Working towards a range of clearly defined objectives for student attendance, continuation, completion, satisfaction and student progression
• Design, plan and deliver teaching sessions as required by the Faculty.
• Design assessments and assess student work, ensuring that all learning outcomes are met.
• Provide timely and constructive feedback to students.
• Provide academic support and guidance to students.
• Develop, update, and continuously improve course materials.
• Keep up to date with best practice in learning and teaching and ensure that your teaching reflects best practice and embeds technologies that enhance the learning experience.
• Contribute to the design, development, delivery, review and enhancement of programmes of study within the Faculty and across GBS.
• Develop productive working relationships with colleagues within and external to GBS.
• Participate in internal and external events, such as programme reviews, open days, outreach activities, and partner visits.
• Undertake a reflective programme of staff development which includes teaching observations, directed study, workshop participation and experiential learning.
• Support and engage in the creation, application and/or dissemination of new knowledge in your field of study and/or in higher education practice.
• Engage with the GBS performance management programme, meeting a range of clearly defined objectives for student attendance, continuation, completion, progression and satisfaction.
• Act as a Module Leader or undertake other administrative/management duties, commensurate with the level of the appointment, and as determined by the Dean or Deputy Dean.
• Take on other responsibilities as required to support the work of GBS, which may include acting in a more senior capacity as part of a programme of professional development.

About you:

• You will hold a PHD degree in a relevant subject area
• You will have previous UK HE lecturing experience in the wider subject area
• You will be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge of relevant subject matter
• You will have experience supervising student work and providing support and feedback
• You will have experience of accurate reporting and abilityto maintain thorough and organised student records
• You will be able to work under pressure, plan and prioritise own workload to meet tight deadlines
• You will have excellent communication, interpersonal and team-working skills
• You will be able to work with diverse groups of people

Desirable:

• You will hold a Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice or equivalent teaching qualification (or commitment to enrol on a teaching programme during the probationary period and complete within three years) or Fellowship of HEA (or international equivalent)
• You will have experience of design / development of academic or professional education programmes or equivalent

What We Offer:

• Annual discretionary bonus
• Performance based salary review
• Tuition reimbursementfor career development
• 25 annual leave days plus 8 days bank holidays
• Ability to buy or sell additional annual leave days
• 1-day extra annual leave day per year of service (up to 5 days)
• Employee discounts platform
• Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
• Pension scheme with NEST and the option of pension salary sacrifice
• Employee referral bonus scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme

Staff Testimonial:

“GBS has greatly supported my professional development by offering me a chance to teach diverse, non-traditional students and by sponsoring my FHEA application, which has been invaluable in consolidating my teaching practices.” ( John Traichaisit, Consultant Lecturer)

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Job Description

Hours per week: 10-20

Interview process: 2 interviews

Start date: ASAP

For international contractors, this is structured as a freelance engagement. For those based in the US, it is classified as a W2 engagement.

The Reddit Collectible Avatars program is an innovative initiative designed to engage the Reddit community through unique and creative digital collectibles. This program offers artists and creators the opportunity to design and share their own avatar collections, which users can purchase and utilize across the Reddit platform. It emphasizes originality, creativity, and community interaction, allowing users to express themselves with distinct, personalized avatars designed and sold by Reddit Creators.

We are seeking a dedicated Operations Coordinator to support operations on the Collectible Avatar Creator Program. This role involves overseeing various operational tasks, ensuring smooth workflows, and maintaining high standards of efficiency and effectiveness in our processes.

• Review Queue Monitoring: Regularly monitor the review queue, identifying items approaching their service level agreement (SLA) deadlines, and coordinate with relevant team members to address these promptly. This task requires approximately 1-2 hours per week.
• Escalation Queue Processing: Examine the engineering and design escalation queues for hidden items and flag unoriginal work or AI-generated content, dedicating around 1 hour per week to this task.
• Staging Pipeline Oversight: Monitor the staging pipeline to identify and resolve any stuck items by requesting upload retries, a task taking about 15 minutes weekly.
• Community Management: Add newly onboarded artists to the r/CollectibleCreators subreddit and moderate the r/CollectibleAvatars and r/CollectibleCreators forums. This role involves around 10 minutes per week for adding artists and 1 hour per week for moderation, depending on the level of activity.
• Dynamic Layout Updates: Regularly update the shop’s dynamic layout, requiring approximately 15 minutes of attention each week.
• Zendesk Queue Monitoring: Oversee the creator Zendesk queue, dedicating around 6 hours per week to ensure timely and effective support responses.
• Modmail Coordination: Manage creator modmail communications, a task currently taking around 15 minutes per week, with a note to possibly phase this out in favor of Zendesk consolidation.
• Onboarding Support: Assist with creator onboarding issues, such as addressing Persona false positives and stripe resets, with time commitment varying from 0 to 10 minutes weekly.
• Contractor Liaison: Review the work of TELUS contractors, responding to their inquiries as needed, which requires about 30 minutes per week.
• Content Organization: Manage updates for HCA and other tutorial content, which occurs sporadically.
• Enforcement and Legal Response: Coordinate the enforcement of artist bans and handle responses to takedowns, with time commitments varying based on need, approximately 1 hour per ban and 4 hours per takedown.

• Proven experience in operational coordination or a similar role.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Proficient in using digital tools and platforms for task management.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

This role is crucial for maintaining the operational integrity and efficiency of our projects. The ideal candidate will be proactive, detail-oriented, and capable of managing various tasks in a fast-paced environment.