Associate Director

hace 6 meses


Bogota, Colombia J.S. Held A tiempo completo

The Company

**Are you looking to join an organization that is growing and dynamic? What about a high-energy, collaborative environment that rewards hard work?**

J.S. Held is a global consulting firm providing technical, scientific, and financial expertise across all assets and value at risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high-stakes events demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enable clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations**. **We have over 100 locations worldwide. We are highly committed to all members of our community, both employees and clients. Our organization focuses on promoting a sense of community and inspiring our people to achieve results that exceed goals.

The Team and Job Summary

As experts in construction dispute resolution, we leverage our understanding of the construction industry to avoid, and when necessary, identify, assess, and resolve construction claims and disputes that may arise. The Associate Director leads teams that are providing claims analysis and development services such as schedule analysis, job cost report analysis, earned value analysis, submitted claims review and dissection, etc. The Associate Director receives directions from and reports to Managing Directors and Senior Managing Directors within J.S. Held’s Construction Advisory services line.

**Please submit your resume in English.**

Job Responsibilities

**DISPUTE RESOLUTION: Technical Expectations**
- Schedule Analysis - Total Time, Impacted As-Planned, Collapsed As-Built, Windows Analysis, Time Impact, Weather
- Loss of Productivity/Efficiency Analysis - Measured Mile, Total Cost, Modified Total Cost
- Scope Change Assessment - Bid vs. As-Built
- Calculation of increased material and/or labor costs - Escalation, Extended Duration
- Extended General Conditions Analysis - Extended Duration
- Home Office Overhead Analysis - Extended Duration
- Lost Profit Analysis
- Document Management - inventory and filing
- Travel as needed to visit Client’s project sites, offices, and meeting sites

**DISPUTE RESOLUTION: Performance Expectations**
- Lead and Mentor teams of Consultants and Senior Consultants
- Utilization of 75% Allocated to Billable Client Work, unless adjusted by Supervisor
- Generate $100,000 in Annual Engagement Revenue
- Draft Expert Reports and Work Product
- Develop and Deliver Findings to Clients
- Present in Mediations
- Represent J.S. Held at Client Meetings
- Complete Expert Witness Training

**DISPUTE RESOLUTION: Core Characteristics**
- **Communication**: Effectively communicates at all organizational levels, both in writing and orally. Maintains confidentiality of clients and the firm.
- **Project Focus**: Sees things through to completion, deals effectively with potential obstacles and exhibits the flexibility to adapt to whatever a situation calls for. Work is completed within designated timeframes. Takes proper action when time frames cannot be met to assure the work of others is not compromised. Uses non-billable time effectively.
- **Professionalism**: Has a positive attitude, displays a sense of pride, enthusiasm, optimism and deep dedication for work with both clients and colleagues. Is a self
- motivator, willing to take on new challenges. Takes responsibility for increasing his/her own skills.
- **Teamwork**: Works well within a team of other professionals; Seeks out opportunities to take on additional company initiatives, in the office and the community.
- **Quality of Work**: Has strong work ethic, taking care to produce accurate work. Has mechanisms in place to check work and ensure the quality of work being produced is accurate and timely.
- **Administrative**: Able to self-perform conflict checks for new engagements, draft engagement letters, and develop preliminary engagement budgets

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in the fields of Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, Science, Technology, or Accounting.
- Minimum of 7-10 Years of Experience in Construction Dispute Resolution.
- Advanced English level (C1+).
- Master’s Degree and professional license preferred.
- Microsoft Office Suite of Tools.

Preferred Qualifications

**ADVANCED SOFTWARE: (preferred but not required)**
- Advanced Excel skills - Pivot tables, Power Pivot (DAX), Power Query (M)
- Microsoft Power BI Desktop and Cloud
- Oracle Primavera P6 and Suretrac
- Microsoft Project

Physical and Mental Job Qualifications
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to travel for various assignments.

J.S. Held is dedicated to becoming the global leader in providing multi-disciplinary consulting services to the construction, government, healthcare, industrial, insurance, energy, legal, and technology, communities. We hav



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