Property Management Intern at Absa

Property Management Intern at Absa

Dar es Salaam

Job Description

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Job Summary

Deliver Corporate Real Estate Solutions (CRES) managed services under signed contract

Job Description

CRES Strategy and Engagement (5%)

• Develop detailed analysis and reporting of the Real Estate portfolio, maintenance costs and CRES projects to inform the Operations strategy

Property Management (30%)

• Support the Property manager to Ensure that property portfolios are appropriately managed on a day-to-day basis including oversight of both capital investment projects and engineering projects.
• Premises and properties accountability through tracking and owning all issues end to end.
• Provision and maintenance of furniture, fittings, and equipment, including periodic tracking and verification of fixed asset movement.
• Ensure lease information is complete and accurate
• Ensure vendor invoices are received, documented and after payments provide proof of payment.
• Together with The Property Manager, ensure compliance with local and Group SHE regulations

Deliver service excellence to stakeholders (15%)

• All queries received are tracked and processed and any pending queries are escalated to the line manager with reason for not being able to accomplish
• Ensure third parties complaints are handled according to laid down procedures on complaint handling
• Institute and analyse periodical internal customer perception survey to improve customer satisfaction
• Maintain excellent liaison with other suppliers and internal customers (staff)
• Ensure 100% projects completed on time

Administration (50%)

• Together with the Property Manager Develop meaningful MI that will assist the stakeholders in tracking performance
• Ensure availability of accurate and reliable information when requested
• Build and maintain an effective relationship between Commercial Services Unit and all other Business functions
• Administration of Property Management helpdesk

Risk and Controls Objectives

• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Absa
• Operational Risk Framework and internal Absa Policies and Standards
• Manage risk and control effectively by applying applicable risk frameworks and embedding a positive risk culture
• Understanding of own role in the end-to-end processes in which you play a part, including applicable risks and controls.
• Adhere to Absa’s policies and procedures applicable to own role, demonstrating sound judgement and responsible risk management.
• Report all risk events / incidents / issues using the defined process for your business area and help to understand why these happened and how to prevent them in future.
• Proactively look for ways to improve the control environment by considering what could go wrong in the processes you operate and how errors could be prevented.
• Continuous and proactive engagement with regulatory bodies, unions where applicable
• All mandatory training completed to deadline

Technical skills / Competencies

• Tertiary qualification in the building sciences
• Professionally qualified to at least degree level
• Proven experience in project management
• Proven ability as self-starter, with track record of achievement of goals and targets
• Experience of interpretation and development of management information
• Analytical and financial understanding of service cost models and lifetime cost of acquisition

Knowledge, Expertise and Experience

• A candidate should be a holder of bachelor’s degree in Architecture/Quantity Surveying/Construction Management/Building Engineering or any other relevant discipline.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree: Architecture, Bachelor’s Degree: Quantity Surveying (Required)

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