Overview
The Project Manager will coordinate project activities and ensure successful implementation of project strategies, providing policy advice and technical guidance. The role involves managing the project team, fostering partnerships, and mainstreaming gender equality.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide overall coordination and management responsibility for project activities in line with the Annual Work Plan (AWP).
- Coordinate project activities to deliver intended outputs and achieve desirable project impact using programming tools and policies in line with the UN Results Based Management Approach.
- Contribute to identification of relevant in-country stakeholders and convene regular meetings of the Project Board and other key consultations.
- Contribute to identification and documentation of partnership opportunities with various stakeholders during project activities.
- Liaise with local governments, relevant ministries, and other institutions to collect, analyze, and disseminate project-relevant information.
- Ensure close collaboration, interaction, experience sharing, and synergies with other similar interventions/UN agencies and donors.
- Ensure all project-related issues and risks are identified and reported in a timely manner, suggesting corrective measures.
- Ensure local governments provide co-financing to fulfil project results and objectives.
- Provide direction and guidance to consultants and responsible parties.
- Implement the Visibility strategy and communication plan in line with visibility guidelines and donor requirements.
- Provide inputs for information exchange and lessons learned.
- Contribute towards creating opportunities for expansion of the regional project.
- Manage project implementation based on UNDP best practices.
- Provide guidance and technical advice to the project team and project counterparts.
- Oversee the work of the team, external consultants, and contracted companies.
- Conduct staff performance reviews in accordance with UNDP rules, regulations, and procedures.
- Manage financial allocations and approve expenditures according to delegated authority and ensure timely payments.
- Monitor and analyse project progress using applicable monitoring & evaluation and risk management tools in Quantum.
- Ensure the existence and implementation of successful quality assurance for the project’s financial, procurement, and administrative processes.
- Provide the Energy and Environment Sector Leader and the Project Board with regular reports on project progress.
- Maintain regular coordination, information sharing, and foster excellent relationships with donors.
- Participate in UNDP programme-level committees and working groups.
- Comply with security and safety requirements and regulations and ensure they are respected by all project personnel.
- Provide conceptual guidance and technical advice to the project team and project counterparts.
- Provide strategic leadership and steer policy formulation processes within projects.
- Guide the design and delivery of technical assistance to local governments.
- Identify and synthesise best practices and lessons learned directly linked to project goals.
- Ensure strategic synergies and coordination with other relevant interventions.
- Advise on issues of further projects’ development, proposal writing, project documents writing, and resource mobilization.
- Establish good working relations with relevant institutional and organizational partners at state, entity, and local levels, as well as with main international organizations.
- Provide inputs in identification of linkages between projects and other relevant UNDP and non-UNDP implemented interventions.
- Participate in UNDP programme-level committees and working groups, national and international forums.
- Assist management in preparing for high-level consultation meetings with donors and government authorities.
- Ensure wide dissemination and visibility of Projects achievements.
- Ensure gender is effectively mainstreamed throughout the projects’ activities, work plans, budgets, reports, research, and analyses.
- Ensure gender equality is mainstreamed throughout the project team, consultants, and staff management activities.
- Support local governments and CSOs to mainstream gender equality.
- Ensure knowledge on gender equality is incorporated in programme knowledge management activities and products.
Required Experience
Minimum five (5) years (with Master’s degree) or seven (7) years (with Bachelor’s degree) of relevant working experience in implementing projects, including work experience with ministries, institutions that are concerned with natural resource and/or environmental management. Experience in direct management of programme/project of similar size and scope. Previous experience in partnering with governmental institutions at state/entity/local levels concerning natural resource and/or environmental management.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Masters or equivalent) in Natural Resource Management or Environmental Sciences OR A first-level university degree (Bachelor's degree) in Natural Resource Management or Environmental Sciences, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience.
