Overview
The Project Manager will lead the overall management and coordination of the project, ensuring effective and compliant implementation, and serving as the primary coordination focal point among stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead project planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting processes.
- Coordinate project stakeholders across TRCS departments, IFRC technical teams, and external partners.
- Ensure timely achievement of project outputs, outcomes, and indicators.
- Support quality assurance, learning, accountability, and evidence-based decision-making.
- Translate programmatic achievements, field evidence, monitoring findings, and lessons learned into high-quality donor reports and project communications.
- Strengthen the technical capacity of TRCS headquarters and field teams in project management, DRR, preparedness, anticipatory action, and community resilience programming.
- Contribute to the sustainability and institutionalization of project outcomes within TRCS systems and practices.
- Develop and maintain detailed project implementation plans, workplans, budgets, procurement plans, and monitoring frameworks.
- Coordinate and oversee implementation of project activities in line with approved project documents and donor agreements.
- Monitor project progress against targets, indicators, timelines, and budgets.
- Identify implementation challenges and propose corrective actions.
- Ensure effective project risk management and mitigation measures.
- Coordinate project reviews, planning meetings, and progress monitoring sessions.
- Support timely procurement and logistical processes.
- Ensure project documentation is properly maintained and archived.
- Serve as the primary coordination focal point between TRCS, IFRC, project partners, and donor representatives.
- Facilitate collaboration among relevant TRCS departments, regional structures, and field teams.
- Organize and participate in technical meetings, workshops, field visits, and coordination platforms.
- Support representation of the project in relevant internal and external forums.
- Promote effective communication and information sharing among stakeholders.
- Work closely with PMER teams to establish and maintain project monitoring systems.
- Track progress against project indicators and results frameworks.
- Support baseline assessments, surveys, evaluations, and learning exercises.
- Analyze project data and generate evidence-based recommendations.
- Ensure lessons learned and good practices are documented and integrated into project implementation.
- Lead preparation of high-quality donor reports, narrative updates, presentations, and briefing materials.
- Ensure reporting products meet donor requirements, deadlines, and quality standards.
- Translate technical and operational information into clear donor-focused narratives.
- Coordinate inputs from technical teams and consolidate reporting packages.
- Support visibility and communication products in coordination with IFRC and TRCS communication teams.
- Provide technical support to TRCS teams on project management approaches and methodologies.
- Contribute to strengthening institutional capacities related to disaster preparedness, DRR, anticipatory action, and community resilience.
- Support development of technical guidance, tools, training materials, and operational procedures.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and learning among project stakeholders.
- Monitor project expenditures and budget utilization in coordination with finance teams.
- Support budget forecasting and financial planning processes.
- Ensure project implementation complies with donor agreements, IFRC policies, and TRCS procedures.
- Monitor contractual and reporting obligations and ensure timely compliance.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience in project management, programme management, donor-funded projects, or humanitarian/development programming.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-stakeholder projects and coordinating diverse teams.
- Experience in donor reporting, proposal development, and grant management.
- Preferred: Previous experience within the IFRC, Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, or humanitarian organizations.
- Experience working with TRCS or other National Societies.
- Experience managing projects funded by institutional donors.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Disaster Management, Social Sciences, International Development, Public Administration, Engineering, Project Management, or related fields.
