Deputy Design Manager - Luxor

Takween Integrated Community Development (Takween-ICD) is an urban development firm established in 2009 in Egypt by a dynamic team with extensive experience, in response to a foreseen growing demand for innovative urban solutions in a world where it is predicted that by 2030, 60% of the world’s inhabitants will be living in urban centers. Takween-ICD provides project planning, design, and implementation services to a range of local and international clients. Takween-ICD fields of interventions include integrated urban development and upgrading; heritage management and conservation; community development and mobilization; and direct involvement in participatory design and construction activities.

In January of 2021, Takween will be starting a new Project in Esna, Visit Esna. This project objective is to put Esna on the tourist map through a number of conservation, marketing, and economic interventions. 

Position

Provide technical assistance and supervise in-house technical teams and external consultants --under the supervision of the Unit Manager-- to produce full and integrated architectural/urban design packages (from concept to tendering stages) in areas of architectural design, participatory design of public open spaces, urban upgrading, architectural/urban conservation, and urban planning/redevelopment of existing urban areas.

Program Management / Technical Responsibilities

• Supervise collection of primary/secondary data, documentation of the different targeted sites, field surveys, and analysis/assessment of the existing site conditions to produce accurate and reliable documentation packages (photographic, measured drawings, condition surveys, etc.) and site analysis studies.
• Supervise, review and approve –in consultation with the different project teams and consultants—the development of design options to produce environmentally / financially sound, and architecturally appropriate intervention packages (from concept to tendering stages) including design drawings, specifications, Bills of Quantities, Cost Estimates, etc.
• Develop –under the supervision of the Unit Manager— Requests for Proposals (RfPs) for the different projects’ consultants to ensure the clarity of the required scope and its compliance with the projects’ requirements.
• Interface with the different projects’ consultants and review/approver their work throughout the different design and implementation stages to ensure the quality and timeliness of their agreed deliverables as well as their compliance with the approved codes and building regulations.
• Suggest and approve –under the supervision of the Unit Manager and in consultation with the implementation teams—materials and fixtures’ samples to ensure their fulfillment of the design objectives and compliance with the approved codes and building regulations.
• Ensure the proper documentation of before and after intervention conditions and of different design and implementation stages (through photography, videography, written narratives, drawings, etc.) to produce rehabilitation manuals, process documentation materials, as-built drawings, etc.

Administrative and Financial Management

• Review consultants’ contracts, requests for payments, and claims --in compliance with Takween and the clients’ policies and procedures—to ensure the proper management of consultants’ contracts and the timely implementation of the Unit activities.
• Supervise the archiving of the projects’ data (documents, drawings, sketches, field notes, photographs, digital materials, etc.) to ensure the proper maintenance and accessibility of the projects’ archives.

Human Resource Management

• Oversee and evaluate the performance of subordinate staff and manage their workloads to ensure their motivation, their effective performance, and the proper implementation of the company's HR policies.

Communication and Reporting

• Track and report to the Unit Manager progress of technical activities through production and tracking of time schedules to i) monitor technical progress vs. approved time schedules and budgets, ii) analyze the results based on the facts achieved, iii) forecast future technical achievements, and iv) carry out necessary adjustments and rescheduling to meet the Unit's scheduled objectives and deadlines.
• Supervise the preparation and timely submission of technical progress and final reports required by the unit management and the different project stakeholders to ensure the accuracy, quality, and timeliness of the required reports and materials.

Assistance to Higher Management Levels

• Participate in planning and formulating the Unit’s multi-year programs under the supervision of the Unit Manager and assist in preparing the Unit’s annual program of activities to achieve Takween’s overall goals and to achieve the Unit’s annual objectives.