Property Specialist: Regional Operations

Posting Country:  South Africa
Date Posted:  27 Aug 2025
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodacom, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference. 
 

 

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The number 1 Top Employer in South Africa. 
Certified by the Top Employer Institute 2025.

Role Purpose/Business Unit:

 

End to end project coordination to ensuring that projects relating to DAS’s and 3rd party properties are completed on time, within budget, and to the prescribed standards. Effective stakeholder management, with vendors, internally, and with the customer is vital.

Your responsibilities will include:

 

  • To coordinate all aspects of third-party approvals within the business, this includes but is not limited to new BTS, site & power upgrades, and site hardening. 
  • Ensure that approvals are completed on time, and to the prescribed quality standards (TCQ)
  • Lease Negotiation with landlords for new sites e.g. EBU sites
  • To effectively coordinate with different internal and external stakeholders to ensure approvals and other projects are completed in line with TCQ (time, quality and cost) objectives
  • Execute projects per defined project governance methodology including milestones, management of risk, reporting, and communication
  • To ensure data is updated and that data integrity is maintained on all internal databases in order to track progress on projects as well as to report monthly on all aspects
  • Implement & manage site acquisition processes for new DAS installations, new shared sites and all site upgrades
  • To ensure operational process and control problems specific to leases and rentals are identified, resolved and managed in a timely manner.
  • Identify risks within the regional leases and rental environment for 3rd party lease and refer to NNP team
  • Identify initiatives to improve processes and deliver operational efficiencies (e.g automations)
  • Handle escalation queries around 3rd party and DAS site Access and out of service sites (electricity and/or hardware)

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

 

•    Relevant 3 year Technical Qualification in Build or Town planning environment, - Degree/Diploma/ N6 National Diploma (essential)
•    Certificate in Project Management 
•    Drivers Licence Code 08 (essential)
•    3 years' experience in coordinating  projects in property domain (essential); 
•    3- 5 years Telecommunications Infrastructure/property experience (Essential)
•    Knowledge of Civil and Town Planning environment (desirable)
•    Knowledge of construction environment and regulations (desirable)

 

 

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
•    Project Management
•    Teamwork
•    Risk Management  
•    Negotiation skills
•    Business acumen
•    Stakeholder engagement
•    Capital projects experience
•    Financial/budget control principles

We make an impact by offering:

  • Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
  • Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
  • Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies

 

Closing date for Applications:03 September 2025. 


The base location for this role is Century City.


The company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates, and values diversity & inclusion. 

Commitment from Vodacom

Vodacom is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognized, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of people’s individual differences - we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At Vodacom you will have access to our excellent flexible benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.