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Research Group Leader: Road Materials Testing
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Company Name:Dalitso Holdings
Job Type:Full-Time
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Key Responsibilities:
- Identify and manage business opportunities in order to secure external contracts.
- Establish, build, manage and maintain mutually beneficial and credible stakeholder relationships.
- Ensure financial sustainability of the research group, through active networking, developing and managing client relationships, understanding the client needs and aligning them with internal needs and capability.
- Conceptualise, lead and deliver on multi-disciplinary and multi-agency projects and programmes in support of road infrastructure engineering, and associated decision-making and policy development.
- Develop project proposals, identify tasks and activities to facilitate execution, and allocate appropriate resources.
- Review reports, guidelines and other documents aimed at disseminating the results and outcomes of projects in line with stakeholder expectations.
- Manage, motivate and develop the people in the research group and enable their career growth through creation of opportunities.
- Provide guidance to researchers and mentorship to interns and learners.
- Direct, drive and measure the performance of the people in the research group.
- Ensure that the research group is dynamic, and remains innovative, competitive and abreast of trends.
- Raise personal, team and institutional profiles through publishing original research and presenting at national and international conferences and workshops.
- Provide leadership to staff in the Road-Materials Testing research group by means of an excellent grasp of the field and by ensuring quality outputs and the professional development and transformation of the group’s capacity and capabilities in line with industry needs.
- Provide management of facilities and resources as per the management systems.
- Promote a culture of scientific excellence in terms of both quality and delivery.
- Drive the strategic vision of the Road-Materials Testing research group.
- Contribute to the ongoing development and implementation of strategies to grow the research group.
- Assist the Impact Area Manager to construct and implement a business plan for the impact area (including strategy, goals, mission, HR, finances).
- Ensure the quality and delivery of projects and publications in the group by means of technical reviews and quality assurance.
- Ensure impact of the research group’s work in line with key performance targets set, whilst ensuring its financial sustainability.
Key Requirements:
- Masters’ degree in science or engineering with at least, ten years’ research leadership experience in at least five of the following fields related to road science/engineering:
- Road materials sciences/engineering
- Road-associated product development (innovation in road materials)
- Road-associa...
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