Senior Project Manager (Technical)

Company Overview: Dar, the founding member of the Sidara group, is an international multidisciplinary consulting organization specializing in engineering, architecture, planning, environment, project management, facilities management, and economics. Sidara operates in 60 countries with 20,500 professionals, Dar connects people, places, and communities through innovative solutions to the world\’s most complex challenges. We deliver projects from inception through completion, embracing challenges to empower communities worldwide. Urban Initiatives is an internationally recognised urban design and planning consultancy based in London. We work across the full urban spectrum: from strategic thinking at wider city, town and district level to development of specific urban design solutions at neighbourhood, block, street and building scales. Learn more at Urban Initiatives | Designing & Creating Iconic Places and Dar Group becomes Sidara We are looking to appoint Senior Project Managers to help us deliver an expanding workload of high profile and exciting projects in the Middle East, Africa and further afield. These positions are full time, based in Central London, and suitable for talented, enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals with a minimum of 10 years post qualification experience in urban design and masterplanning in a relevant practice environment. Applicants should have experience of project managing large scale masterplanning projects, and in client facing interaction, presentation and report writing. The role will involve working as a project manager in close collaboration with Urban Initiatives’ leadership team on a range of masterplanning projects primarily in the Middle East and Africa. The role will include overseas travel. Experience of project managing large scale masterplanning commissions in the Middle East and /or Africa; A creative approach to urban design and masterplanning; A professional approach to client management; Fluent written and spoken English; Excellent command of written and spoken English. They will also need excellent people managing skills together with experience of managing project initiation, sub-consultants, budgets and project programme and coordination. Good graphic skills (Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign) and proficiency in 2d and 3d cad softwares such as AutoCad / Civil3d, Sketch-up and ArcGIS are also important. Presentation of a portfolio and a description of past key projects and career milestones is a requirement for the interview. Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates ~ Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: ”