Civil Works/Finishing Assistant Package Manager

at Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN)
Location Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of
Date Posted June 14, 2025
Category Management
Job Type Full-time
Currency TZS

Description

The position

AGA KHAN EDUCATION SERVICE TANZANIA

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

Aga Khan Education Service, Tanzania (AKES, T), is a private, not for profit, service company registered under the Companies Act and operates three schools in Tanzania. The vision of AKES, T is to provide accessible, world-class education, which prepares students to become self-confident, articulate, open-minded and ethical young people with academic qualifications to enable them to make productive contributions to their own community and their wider society. AKES, T is part of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of private development agencies working to improve living conditions and opportunities for people of all faiths and origins in specific regions of the developing world.

AKEST is currently seeking qualified, dynamic, open-minded, committed, effective and experienced candidates to fill the following vacant positions at Central Office (Construction Project)

Civil works/finishing Assistant Package Manager
Job summary
The Civil Works Package Manager Assistant will support the Civil Works Package Manager in planning, coordinating, monitoring, and reporting on civil works activities. This role is instrumental in ensuring that all project components are executed on time, within scope, and in line with quality and safety standards.
Key Responsibilities
  • Assist the package manager in ensuring the design is technically appropriate, acceptable, and cost-effective.
  • Achieve the project’s desired quality standards as defined by the project drawings and specifications and match the existing.
  • Ensure the desired EHS standards.
  • To achieve smooth, well-coordinated and trouble-free construction for each project phase, assist the package manager in ensuring the contractors coordinate with each other and other contractors on site.
  • Assist the package manager in liaising with Design Teams (Architects / Engineers/Quantity Surveyors) when required.
  • Assist the package manager in the Preparation of Plant Schedules / Program / labour resources.
  • Assist the package manager in the Verification and Countersigning of Material requisitions for each of the projects.
  • Identifying and ensuring that an effective receiving and storage system for materials and plant is established and maintained.
  • Minute all progress meetings for the project

The requirements

Qualifications

  • A construction engineer, architect, civil engineer, or project manager with at least three years of relevant experience in design and/or construction management.
  • Excellent English language skills.
  • Excellent organizational and planning skills.
  • Familiarity with the programming and scheduling of building projects.
  • Relevant qualifications to suit the role.
  • At least 3 years of assistant package management in a construction project management setting, preferably in educational facilities
  • Proven records in delivering civil works or finishing work packages from inception to operation.
Closing date for applications: 25th June 2025.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Aga Khan Education Service, Tanzania is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network

Sector

Social Development

About the Agency

The Aga Khan Education Services (AKES) is one of the largest private, not-for-profit, non-denominational educational networks in the Global South. AKES currently operates over 190 pre-primary, primary, secondary and higher secondary schools and more than 100 non-formal education programmes in diverse geographic locations in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda and the United Arab Emirates. Most schools offer their respective country's national curricula, with some schools in East Africa and Bangladesh also offering the International Baccalaureate (IB) and the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE). AKES employs over 6,500 teachers and staff and educates over 104,700 students

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