179 Project Officer jobs in South Africa

A proudly South African insurance company that offers affordable products and services for life, funeral, savings, and retirement is seeking a Project Manager to support, manage, oversee, and enable the Sales projects, programs, and structured work efforts through various methods and practices around provisioning the Sales division. The goal is to improve overall PM maturity and track and report the conformance to plans and expectations.

• Manage project programs within timeframes and define major deliverables to meet desired goals and outcomes, ensuring all projects are managed appropriately within the sphere of control.
• Manage the Sales Calendar, program, and change requests to ensure delivery.
• Prioritize projects for the achievement of sales goals.
• Provide leadership in the recommended resolution and/or escalation of issues that may impact project scope, schedule, or budget.
• Ensure on-time delivery with quality of the entire portfolio of Sales projects across different functional areas.
• Identify and manage the delivery risk control process, pursue issue and risk resolution, and communicate status and escalations to stakeholders and operational management.
• Identify and understand issues and concerns; obtain and compare information from different sources to draw conclusions, develop and evaluate alternatives and solutions, solve problems, and recommend a course of action.

• Translate the Sales Strategic medium to short-term goals and objectives to align with project objectives.
• Lead the identification and implementation of project management processes, methods, tools, guidelines, and standards to establish a stable framework that supports all projects and stakeholders to improve the probability of successful project delivery.
• Facilitate the agreed-upon process that develops plans and prioritization.
• Liaise with participants/users periodically to gauge the progress of the project.
• Provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to participants or users where necessary.
• Build and maintain relationships between Regional Managers, Divisional Heads, and key stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor.
• Regularly review and evaluate opportunities to improve project management best practices to achieve the best results.
• Track and report on project portfolio performance, providing a comprehensive and prioritized view of all projects.
• Monitor project operational and capital expenses to ensure achievement of cost efficiency and act to correct any adverse variances.
• Develop and manage the project/program budget by executing a high degree of financial discipline across the portfolio of projects.
• Develop and track the benefit realization report.

• Lead regular interactions with the executive sponsor to inform, alert, negotiate, and maintain a continuing good relationship and shared vision for the program outcome.
• Share lessons learned and best practices across projects, building relationships with stakeholders and brokering relationships at all levels.
• Request ongoing feedback from participants or users regarding project delivery; promote effective teamwork between business units.

• Manage the Sales online activities.
• Manage the rendering of financial services conducted in accordance with FAIS.
• Manage compliance with impacting legislation.
• Manage the online sales complaints resolution process.
• Oversee the management of the quality assurance process.

• Report to the Sales Executives and various committees providing status and forward-looking recommendations where necessary.

Formal Education

• Degree (FSCA recognized)
• Relevant project management qualification

• Regulatory Examination Level 5: Representatives
• Regulatory Examination Level 1: Key Individuals
• 120 credits on NQF level 5 CPD

• 3 – 5 years’ management experience in the financial industry
• 2 years project management experience

Should you not receive a response within 14 days, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

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

Employer company TotalEnergies Renewables Southern Africa

Domain Secretarial/Administrative Support

Type of contract Fixed term position

Experience Minimum 3 years

TotalEnergies gross low-carbon power generation capacity worldwide is currently close to 10 gigawatts. TotalEnergies targets 35 GW of a renewable generation capacity in 2025 and will continue to expand its business to become a leading international player in renewable energies with a target of 100 GW by 2030.

About TotalEnergies Renewables International Middle-East & Africa (TTE-RI MEA):

• Very competitive environment with Tier 1 renewables developers’ competitors;
• Very large Projects – up to 2GWp.

About TotalEnergies Renewables International (TTE-RI):

• TERI operates in a strong growth and highly competitive environment.
• TERI maintains a high growth rate, both organic and by acquisitions, on a global geographical scope, often relying on tight schedule complex transactions with high financial, legal and execution stakes.

These stakes require permanent coordination with business entities, the Branch and Company.

Summary

This position requires a highly organized and proactive Project Officer to support the Asset Management team in the Renewable Energy sector. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the smooth execution of administrative, coordination, and reporting tasks across a portfolio of renewable energy assets, including solar PV, storage and wind projects.

Key Responsibilities

Project Coordination & Support

• Assist in the day-to-day administration of renewable energy projects under asset management.
• Coordinate meetings, prepare agendas, take minutes, and follow up on action items.
• Maintain project documentation, schedules, and trackers.
• Assist in lifecycle project management activities during each stage of each asset’s lifecycle.
• Implement gap analysis markers in collaboration with HQ, and each project lead, during each stage of each asset’s lifecycle.

Data Management & Reporting

• Collect, compile, and analyze operational and performance data from assets.
• Lifecycle data collection to ensure investment durability.
• Be involved in projects from early development and construction phase.
• Supporting each project lead in collecting and managing all related data, during each stage of each asset’s lifecycle.
• Track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs), availability, and energy yield
• Support the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual asset performance reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure data accuracy and integrity across asset management systems.
• Maintain accurate records of compliance, environmental, and technical documentation.
• Support reporting to the Buyer, Lender, Shareholders and other stakeholders

Compliance & Documentation

• Maintain up-to-date records of permits, contracts, warranties, and compliance documentation.
• Assist in ensuring compliance with regulatory and environmental standards.
• Assist in ensuring internal compliance requirements are met.
• Support environmental and social compliance monitoring in line with PPA and CTA requirements.
• Assist with Internal Control governance and keep each asset’s documents up to date (share registers or certificates, property deeds, licenses, operating authorizations, etc.)
• Record management of General Meetings or Board meetings, internal/external powers of attorney, management committee decisions, etc.), same for joint ventures (incorporated or not).
• Implement the predetermined methods to store these documents, taking into account the applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Stakeholder Engagement and Compliance

• Liaise with internal teams (engineering, finance, legal, etc.).
• Support communication and coordination with service providers and contractors.
• Assist in liaising with offtakers, lenders, landowners, local communities, and other external stakeholders.
• Participate in site visits and inspections to the extent required.
• Track operational budgets and assist in reviewing service provider invoices.
• Support contract management, including PPAs, O&M agreements, and land leases.
• Assist with insurance claims and warranty processes.
• Manage document control and filing systems in Share Point
• Support procurement processes, including purchase orders and invoice tracking.
• Assist with onboarding of new team members and contractors

Any other tasks and responsibilities that may be reasonably required from this position.

• Diploma or degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• 2–4 years of experience in a project administration or coordination role, preferably in the energy, infrastructure, or engineering sectors.
• Experience in renewable energy or asset management is a strong advantage.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Technically astute, particularly in MS Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• CoPilot applications (willing to learn)
• Experience with project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera, SAP or similar) is a plus.
• Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Team player with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Diligence, determination, resilience and agility.

TotalEnergies values diversity, promotes individual growth and offers equal opportunity careers.

TotalEnergies is an equal opportunity employer and all applicants that meet the specified criteria will receive consideration for employment without discriminating unfairly on any arbitrary ground, including but not limited to race, gender, sex, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religious conscience belief, political opinion, culture, language, marital status, or family responsibility.

Employer company TotalEnergies Renewables Southern Africa

Domain Secretarial/Administrative Support

Type of contract Fixed term position

Experience Minimum 3 years

TotalEnergies gross low-carbon power generation capacity worldwide is currently close to 10 gigawatts. TotalEnergies targets 35 GW of a renewable generation capacity in 2025 and will continue to expand its business to become a leading international player in renewable energies with a target of 100 GW by 2030.

About TotalEnergies Renewables International Middle-East & Africa (TTE-RI MEA):

• Very competitive environment with Tier 1 renewables developers’ competitors;
• Very large Projects – up to 2GWp.

About TotalEnergies Renewables International (TTE-RI):

• TERI operates in a strong growth and highly competitive environment.
• TERI maintains a high growth rate, both organic and by acquisitions, on a global geographical scope, often relying on tight schedule complex transactions with high financial, legal and execution stakes.

These stakes require permanent coordination with business entities, the Branch and Company.

Summary

This position requires a highly organized and proactive Project Officer to support the Asset Management team in the Renewable Energy sector. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the smooth execution of administrative, coordination, and reporting tasks across a portfolio of renewable energy assets, including solar PV, storage and wind projects.

Key Responsibilities

Project Coordination & Support

• Assist in the day-to-day administration of renewable energy projects under asset management.
• Coordinate meetings, prepare agendas, take minutes, and follow up on action items.
• Maintain project documentation, schedules, and trackers.
• Assist in lifecycle project management activities during each stage of each asset’s lifecycle.
• Implement gap analysis markers in collaboration with HQ, and each project lead, during each stage of each asset’s lifecycle.

Data Management & Reporting

• Collect, compile, and analyze operational and performance data from assets.
• Lifecycle data collection to ensure investment durability.
• Be involved in projects from early development and construction phase.
• Supporting each project lead in collecting and managing all related data, during each stage of each asset’s lifecycle.
• Track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs), availability, and energy yield
• Support the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual asset performance reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure data accuracy and integrity across asset management systems.
• Maintain accurate records of compliance, environmental, and technical documentation.
• Support reporting to the Buyer, Lender, Shareholders and other stakeholders

Compliance & Documentation

• Maintain up-to-date records of permits, contracts, warranties, and compliance documentation.
• Assist in ensuring compliance with regulatory and environmental standards.
• Assist in ensuring internal compliance requirements are met.
• Support environmental and social compliance monitoring in line with PPA and CTA requirements.
• Assist with Internal Control governance and keep each asset’s documents up to date (share registers or certificates, property deeds, licenses, operating authorizations, etc.)
• Record management of General Meetings or Board meetings, internal/external powers of attorney, management committee decisions, etc.), same for joint ventures (incorporated or not).
• Implement the predetermined methods to store these documents, taking into account the applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Stakeholder Engagement and Compliance

• Liaise with internal teams (engineering, finance, legal, etc.).
• Support communication and coordination with service providers and contractors.
• Assist in liaising with offtakers, lenders, landowners, local communities, and other external stakeholders.
• Participate in site visits and inspections to the extent required.
• Track operational budgets and assist in reviewing service provider invoices.
• Support contract management, including PPAs, O&M agreements, and land leases.
• Assist with insurance claims and warranty processes.
• Manage document control and filing systems in Share Point
• Support procurement processes, including purchase orders and invoice tracking.
• Assist with onboarding of new team members and contractors

Any other tasks and responsibilities that may be reasonably required from this position.

• Diploma or degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• 2–4 years of experience in a project administration or coordination role, preferably in the energy, infrastructure, or engineering sectors.
• Experience in renewable energy or asset management is a strong advantage.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Technically astute, particularly in MS Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• CoPilot applications (willing to learn)
• Experience with project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera, SAP or similar) is a plus.
• Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Team player with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Diligence, determination, resilience and agility.

TotalEnergies values diversity, promotes individual growth and offers equal opportunity careers.

TotalEnergies is an equal opportunity employer and all applicants that meet the specified criteria will receive consideration for employment without discriminating unfairly on any arbitrary ground, including but not limited to race, gender, sex, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religious conscience belief, political opinion, culture, language, marital status, or family responsibility.

People of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are encouraged to apply.

Full time – fixed term position for 12 months

Based in Alice Springs with extensive travel to NPY lands

Generous Leave Entitlements; free access to employee assistance program, further salary packaging benefits

Relocation Assistance provided

ABOUT US

Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council was founded and is still led, governed and directed by women from the NPY region. It was created to give a voice to women across 26 desert communities in the cross-border regions of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Today, we continue to provide progressive, innovative and evidence-based work in service delivery, advocacy and support.

At its core NPY Women’s Council is about family and community – walytja. Our purpose is to work with women, children and their families of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara region in central Australia. Our role is to work side by side and help increase their capacity to lead safe and healthy lives with improved life choices.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The NPY Women’s Council (NPYWC) Youth Program works with children and young people aged 10-25 and their families. Our service model consists of the following: case management, leadership and education, youth diversion and recreation as well as advocacy and collaboration.
The main activities of the NPYWC Youth Program are to:
Work with young people and their communities to provide enjoyable, educational recreation activities.
Provide case management support to young people and their families using a family orientated client centred framework.
Advocate for better resourcing and support where there are gaps in services and programs for young people, advocate for social change.
Develop specialised projects to meet the needs of young people across the NPY region.
Develop local staff to deliver the programs.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role will support young people of the NPY region to engage in employment and education. This will be done by working Malparara way with Anangu staff and other NPYWC teams, including the KP program, boarding school program and the Assistant Manager.
Working Malparara way is essential to the way we work at NPYWC. This role is critical in supporting this cultural way of working.
A primary focus of this position is supporting young people to attend the Iwara Program.
The employee will provide the highest standards of service to clients at all levels by modelling service excellence that meets the needs of clients and enhances the profile of NPYWC.

ABOUT YOU

You will have willingness to engage in leadership courses and youth work or other relevant training and development and engage in mentoring young people.

This is a unique chance to work for an organisation that takes a grassroots approach to community development. You will have the privilege of working closely alongside Anangu families and communities and get to experience an amazing landscape and part of the world. This is an extraordinary opportunity to learn about yourself, another culture and grow professionally at the same time.

You will receive a comprehensive orientation program as well as best practice supervision and professional development that includes vicarious trauma, case management and four-wheel drive training. We also provide critical incident debriefing and a range of counselling services to support you.

TO APPLY

Please apply on our website:

A detailed position description can be found here: Project Officer – Iwara

For initial enquiries about the role, please contact Youth Services Manager, Johannes Scheiber on 0419 931 590

Please note we will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and suitable candidates may be appointed prior to the ad closing.

Due to the number of applications we are only able to respond to candidates who have been shortlisted.

Salary match Number of applicants Skills match

Your application will include the following questions:

Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Australia? How many years' experience do you have as a project officer?

To help fast track investigation, please include here any other relevant details that prompted you to report this job ad as fraudulent / misleading / discriminatory.

People of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander descent are encouraged to apply

Due to the nature of this role, applicants are required identify as female

Based in Alice Springs with some travel to NPY lands

Salary packaging benefits

Relocation assistance available

ABOUT US

Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council was founded and is still led, governed and directed by women from the NPY region. It was created to give a voice to women across 26 desert communities in the cross-border regions of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Today, we continue to provide progressive, innovative and evidence based work in service delivery, advocacy and support.

At its core NPY Women’s Council is about family and community – walytja. Our purpose is to work with women, children and their families of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara region in central Australia. Our role is to work side by side and help increase their capacity to lead safe and healthy lives with improved life choice

ABOUT THE TEAM

‘Atunypa Wiru Minyma Uwankaraku’ Service works from a ‘holistic and relational’ standpoint, and is structured so that caseworkers are supported to develop relationships in the communities in which they work using a community development approach. We recognise that this is our key tool for individual and community engagement. ‘Casework’ is thus very broad in its scope and ranges from working with individuals in crisis and short-medium term follow-up (including supporting clients through the legal system), to working with women and their families in recovery and with longer term goals, through to a variety of community-level and other group activities driven by community members.
Caseworkers are supported by the Community Programs Team (CPT), which is made up of project workers who have specialist skills in Anangu culture and language, community development, legal advocacy and education and narrative therapy. The Malparara-Malparara project sits within this team.
The Malparara-Malparara project is a group of Anangu women who have come together to create culturally safe ways of engaging in healing and violence prevention work, with an emerging focus on engaging with young
women. Supporting the work of the Malparara- Malparara project are two project officers, the community programs team leader and an Anangu Support Worker (ASW) who provides cultural guidance to the Malparara-Malparara project workers and DFVS staff more broadly.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a project officer of the Malparara-Malparara project, you will collaboratively plan and facilitate regular workshops with other project staff, the ASW and Anangu participants, and support these participants to use learnings from the workshops to engage in primary prevention and healing work in remote community locations.
Guided by the NPYWC Ngapartji-Ngapartji Working and Learning Together Workforce and Capability Framework, you will support Anangu employment within the DFVS through the collaborative delivery of Anangu led, remote based violence prevention and healing activities, including On Country picnics and overnight camps. You will be required to travel to remote locations as a part of this work.
You will also support Malparara-Malparara group participants to feed their reflections back to the broader DFVS to help guide the practice of the service, and you will contribute to the facilitation of the ongoing evaluation of the project using a developmental evaluation approach.

You will work collaboratively within the Malparara-Malparara team, and report directly to the Community Programs Team Leader.

ABOUT YOU

You will have relevant qualifications in Social Work, Community Development or other relevant field. You will Demonstrated knowledge of community development and its application in a remote Aboriginal context.

NPY Women’s Council is led and governed by women from the NPY region and follows strong values and high principles that guide our work. We provide a comprehensive orientation program, best practice supervision, professional development that includes vicarious trauma and a range of counselling services to support you.

In addition to this we offer a generous remuneration package. You will receive an above award salary, salary packaging benefits, generous annual leave package, 3 weeks of personal leave (to care for you and your family) and a retention bonus.

TO APPLY

Please complete the form on our website:

A detailed position description can be found here:

For initial enquiries about the role, please contact Heather Smith, Manager DFVS on 08 8958 2345

Please note, we will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and a suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Salary match Number of applicants Skills match

Your application will include the following questions:

Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Australia? How many years' experience do you have as a project officer?

To help fast track investigation, please include here any other relevant details that prompted you to report this job ad as fraudulent / misleading / discriminatory.

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