Overview
The Project Manager will ensure effective project management by maintaining the delivery of technical, operational, financial, and administrative outputs. This role involves coordinating with implementing partners and stakeholders, and preparing project progress reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day project implementation and related activities, including supervising and guiding project staff, consultants, and experts.
- Ensure the timely and quality implementation of planned project activities.
- Develop detailed project work plans outlining activities, stakeholder roles and responsibilities, and corresponding milestones.
- Monitor implementation progress, key events, work plans, deadlines, financial resources, and accounting records.
- Manage and monitor identified project risks, report emerging risks and proposed mitigation measures.
- Ensure project activities comply with established financial, procurement, and administrative processes.
- Ensure gender equality is integrated across project activities.
- Promote the engagement of groups and communities affected by project activities.
- Maintain strong relationships with implementing partners, line ministries, other relevant partners, and donors.
- Finalize contractual agreements with implementing partners.
- Coordinate regularly with project partners and provide quality assurance for expert inputs and deliverables.
- Maintain regular communication on relevant project matters with local and international counterparts, consultants, and experts.
- Prepare project progress and ad hoc reports (progress against planned activities, update on risks issues, expenditures…).
- Prepare periodical corporate reporting.
- Build project interactive dashboard and reporting.
- Ensure compilation and synthesis of lessons learnt and best practices throughout project implementation.
- Support the strategic sharing of relevant knowledge and information gathered throughout the project implementation phase.
Required Experience
Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience at the national or international level in managing development projects, including financial, budget, risk, staff, as well as quality management.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in Water Resources Management, Engineering, Business administration, international development or related field. A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the above fields in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
