Cape Town: Project Planning Manager posted by MH Solutions

The main purpose of the role:
This role suits a natural planner and facilitator who thrives on bringing structure, alignment,and clarity to complex projects.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, manage, and maintain project schedules, ensuring all interdependencies are captured.
• Facilitate planning sessions, workshops, and progress check-ins to maintain structured and realistic schedules.
• Act as the central coordination point for project planning, ensuring that everyone is aligned to milestones and deliverables.
• Identify planning gaps, risks, and conflicts and escalate them for resolution.
• Track progress and ensure continuity across all project workstreams.
• Provide regular planning updates and reporting to ExCo and ManCo.
• Foster collaboration and accountability within the team to maintain project momentum.
• Work closely with ExCo, ManCo, and project team members to align individual plans with overall project timelines.

Requirements:

• 5+ years’ experience in project planning, coordination, or program management roles.
• No previous technical energy sector experience required but must excel at structuring, facilitating, and coordinating planning activities to ensure continuity and delivery across the project.
• Demonstrated success in working with senior leadership teams on strategic projects.
• Experience in cross-functional stakeholder engagement and facilitation.
• Relevant qualification in project management, business management, or related field (advantageous but not mandatory).
• Competence with project planning tools (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, Asana, or similar).