Overview
The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring that UN-Habitat Syria’s assigned project(s) is efficiently managed, effectively implemented, and fully compliant with donor and UN requirements. The role focuses on operational excellence, coordination, and results-based delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the preparation, implementation, and periodic updating of detailed workplans, procurement plans, and activity schedules.
- Ensure project activities are delivered within agreed timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Identify implementation bottlenecks and coordinate timely corrective actions.
- Facilitate regular internal coordination meetings.
- Ensure strategic alignment and complementarity with UN-Habitat activities.
- Oversee budget planning, expenditure tracking, and financial reporting.
- Coordinate with operations and finance teams to ensure compliance with procedures.
- Support preparation and review of implementing partner agreements, subcontracts, and other financial commitments.
- Establish and maintain robust project management systems.
- Ensure all donor reporting (narrative and financial) is accurate, evidence-based, and submitted within agreed deadlines.
- Maintain up-to-date records, performance indicators, and monitoring frameworks.
- Coordinate input from field teams, operations, and partners.
- Support unit and office-wise review of and improvements to project and information management systems.
- Ensure systematic monitoring of project performance.
- Coordinate field monitoring visits, verification of outputs, and preparation of monitoring reports.
- Ensure adherence to UN-Habitat’s quality assurance standards, environmental and social safeguards, and gender equality principles.
- Support project evaluations, audits, and donor reviews.
- Lead coordination with implementing partners, and others such as UN and donors.
- Support alignment of UN-Habitat’s activities with joint programme frameworks.
- Establish and lead regular communication with government counterparts at national and local level.
Required Experience
Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in project or programme management, ideally with international organisations. Experience managing donor-funded programmes, preferably including work-planning, budgeting, procurement oversight, and donor reporting. Experience in financial management, monitoring and evaluation, and maintaining compliance ideally with UN or donor regulations strongly preferred. Familiarity with participatory urban planning, housing or similar urban recovery programming is highly desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in project management, business administration, architecture, urban planning, engineering, public administration, development, construction management or other related field. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree. Additional certification or training in project management (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP), results-based management, or M&E is an asset.
