Job Description

Key Responsibilities

- Provide overall leadership and strategic direction for the urban development programme.
- Lead planning, implementation and monitoring of multiple urban infrastructure projects/work packages.
- Develop and maintain the overall Programme Management Plan, implementation strategy and delivery roadmap.
- Ensure projects are delivered within approved scope, budget, schedule and quality standards.
- Coordinate with ULBs, state departments, government authorities and other institutional stakeholders.
- Review and approve project implementation plans, schedules, budgets and resource requirements.
- Establish programme-level KPIs, milestones, monitoring mechanisms and reporting systems.
- Monitor progress of individual projects and identify critical delays, bottlenecks and interdependencies.
- Provide strategic guidance for corrective and preventive actions.
- Oversee project management consultants, design consultants, contractors and other technical agencies.
- Review technical proposals, designs, DPRs, tender documents, contract packages and implementation methodologies.
- Ensure effective procurement and contract management in accordance with applicable government procedures and contractual requirements.




- Monitor financial progress, expenditure, cash flow and budget utilisation.
- Review variations, claims, extensions of time and other contractual matters.
- Ensure compliance with applicable central/state government guidelines, urban development policies, environmental requirements and statutory regulations.
- Facilitate coordination between technical, financial, procurement, social, environmental and institutional teams.
- Lead programme-level risk identification, mitigation and escalation.
- Establish quality assurance and quality control mechanisms across projects.
- Review programme-level MIS, dashboards, progress reports and management reports.
- Present programme status, key risks and strategic issues to senior management/client authorities.
- Support government agencies in institutional strengthening and capacity building.
- Ensure effective knowledge management, documentation and transfer of knowledge to client/ULB teams.
- Resolve high-level technical, contractual, institutional and stakeholder issues.
- Represent the programme in meetings with senior government officials, funding agencies and other key stakeholders.

📌 Programme Director (Jaipur)
🏢 Assystem
📍 Jaipur