Project investment and development manager

We are seeking a Investment and Project Development Manager to act as a strategic and operational extension of the Investment Team across a portfolio of development initiatives

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic support for the Investment Team:

• Act as a strategic and operational partner to the Investment Team across active and pipeline development projects;
• Support the Investment Team in managing priorities across project development, partnerships and investor engagement;
• Prepare briefing notes, decision memos, meeting materials and executive summaries;
• Protect the Investment Team’s time by filtering and coordinating operational and commercial matters;
• Ensure strategic discussions are translated into clear actions, owners and timelines.

2. Portfolio coordination across development projects

• Maintain visibility across multiple projects data center township industrial park and related opportunities;
• Track milestones, risks, decisions and dependencies across projects;
• Coordinate internal teams and external parties to align on priorities;
• Support portfolio-level planning and sequencing of resources, advisors and workstreams;
• Prepare materials for internal reviews, investment committees and senior leadership discussions.

3. Advisor and consultant governance core responsibility

• Serve as the central coordinator for all advisor and consultant engagement across the portfolio;
• Translate project needs from the Investment Team and functional leads into clear scopes of work;
• Coordinate advisor onboarding, SOWs, fee proposals and contract routing;
• Maintain a central advisor consultant register including:
  • project assignment
  • scope and deliverables
  • contract status
  • fee structure budget
  • milestone dates
  • renewals terminations
• Track advisor performance, deliverables and timelines;
• Enforce governance standards including:
  • no work without approved scope contract
  • no unapproved fee changes
  • no informal side commitments
• Support periodic advisor reviews (retain, revise, replace, exit) across projects.

4. Portfolio coordination across development projects

• Maintain visibility across multiple projects data center township industrial park and related opportunities;
• Track milestones, risks, decisions and dependencies across projects;
• Coordinate internal teams and external parties to align on priorities;
• Support portfolio-level planning and sequencing of resources, advisors and workstreams;
• Prepare materials for internal reviews, investment committees and senior leadership discussions.

5. Commercial and contract coordination

• Work with procurement, legal and finance to maintain contract discipline across advisors and consultants;
• Coordinate scope, fees and commercial terms within approved budgets and governance requirements;
• Standardise contract templates (MSA, SOW) and approval workflows;
• Track contract milestones and validate invoices against scope and deliverables;
• Flag risks relating to scope creep, advisor duplication, unclear deliverables or budget overruns.

6. Cross functional execution management

• Coordinate across development, utilities, permitting, technical, procurement, legal, finance and other functional teams;
• Maintain action trackers, decision logs and escalation lists;
• Drive accountability across workstreams and follow up on overdue actions;
• Support stage-gate readiness across feasibility, design, budget and pre-construction;
• Improve coordination rhythm and reporting quality across all teams.

7. Reporting and executive communications

• Prepare concise weekly and monthly updates for the Investment Team and senior stakeholders
• Build structured reporting on:  
  • project and portfolio status
  • advisor consultant status
  • risks and decision bottlenecks
  • commercial exposure and key commitment    
• Ensure information is decision oriented and not just activity reporting

1. Experience

• 7 to 15 years of experience in one or more of the following:
  • Project Development Manager or strategic operations
  • project or program management
  • infrastructure or real estate development
  • commercial project controls roles
  • management consulting with strong execution exposure
  • investment platform operations in real assets
• Experience working on complex multi-stakeholder projects involving investors advisors and external partners;
• Experience in developing heavy environments such as:
  • real estate development
  • infrastructure
  • industrial projects
  • utilities energy
  • data centers preferred but not required
• Strong exposure to commercial and contract processes not necessarily a lawyer.

2. Skills and capabilities

• Excellent executive communication written and verbal;
• Strong commercial judgment and contract process discipline;
• Ability to operate with senior stakeholders investors partners advisors leadership;
• Strong organizational and project coordination skills;
• Ability to work across multiple projects without losing clarity;
• High quality follow through and attention to detail;
• Comfortable handling ambiguity and building structure where needed;
• Strong prioritization and escalation judgment.

3. Personal attributes

• High trust and discretion;
• Calm composed and reliable under pressure;
• Diplomatic but firm able to push back professionally;
• Highly organized without becoming bureaucratic;
• Strategic thinker with hands on execution mindset;
• Strong interpersonal maturity and executive presence.

4. Success in the role

• In the first 6–12 months, success will look like:
• All advisors’ consultants operating under clear scope and contract discipline;
• A central advisor and contract tracker in place and actively used;
• Stronger visibility and coordination across the project portfolio;
• Faster turnaround on internal decisions follows ups and approvals;
• Improved quality of investor partner meeting preparation and follow through;
• Reduced day-to-day commercial admin burden on the Investment Team;
• Better execution discipline without harming senior relationships