CONTRACTS ADMINISTRATOR (2 YEARS FIXED TERM CONTRACT)

BASIC FUNCTION OF THE POSITION: 

The Contracts Administrator will be responsible for executing the contract administration process and coordinating all interfaces within a project and the company. The candidate must ensure process integrity, provide commercial experience and insight, and protect the company against risk exposure.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Your key accountabilities include:

• Maintaining compliance to all contracts.
• Ensuring understanding and management of contracts.
• Supporting in negotiations of claims, variations, changes, and disputes with contractors in collaboration with Project Management, Legal Department and others as required.
• Ensuring communication of changes to contracts to all key stakeholders.
• Ensuring that stakeholders understand and utilize contracts.
• Ensuring contract administration and subcontracting procedures and processes meet contract requirements.
• Developing and administering contracts and procurement compliance plans.
• Ensuring communications between Company and contractors are consistent with terms and conditions in agreements.
• Following up on contractual items on a regular basis.
• Interfacing internal departments and external vendors on matters such as cost, performance, progress, assessment, payments, reporting, trends, and change orders.
• Acting as a liaison and coordinator amongst key stakeholders.
• Reporting contract(s) performance on a regular basis.
• Commercial and financial management relating to contractors’ monthly claims, variations, escalation monitoring and tender evaluations.
• Leading a contracts team and development of staff to ensure performance and achieve targets.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, COMPETENCIES AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED FOR EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE: 

• Degree in Contracts Management, Business Administration, Law, Accounting, or Economics.
• CIPS Level 4 (or above) preferred.
• Minimum 7-9 years’ experience in a contract administration role in a mining environment.
• Strong understanding of contract law, accounting principles and finance.
• Strong knowledge of legal requirements pertaining to relevant contracts and the negotiation of terms and conditions.
• Superior attention to detail in order to spot inconsistencies in contracts.
• Previous experience in the mining sector.