Responsibilities:
Development and Delivery: Ensure project outcomes are delivered to quality required by the programme, to schedule within set budgets and scope. Provide a key co-ordination and implementation role, ensuring project management standards are followed and deadlines met.
Prepare management products - including project quarterly report, monitoring and evaluation plan, project logframe/results framework, project work plan, and project governance document. Establish and manage project procedures – risk and issue management, change control, communications.
Budgeting and Forecasting: Manage project financial budgets and targets, providing accurate and timely information on expenditure.
Stakeholder Management and Communications: Build effective working relationships with project stakeholders, engaging them at each project stage, ensuring communications have appropriate content and tone. Manage information flows between the directing and delivering levels of the project. Ensure organisational communications about project benefits, progress and outcomes suit audience and are timely. Anticipate project risks and issues, communicating them to stakeholders, taking action to resolve. Ensure external communication about the project
Championing Change: Inspire enthusiasm, momentum and commitment for outcomes project will deliver.
Internal Reporting: Ensure project activity, outcome progress, issues, risks, exception reports are available to Stakeholders and management teams as appropriate.
Project Team Management: Establish, lead and motivate the project team, ensuring regular progress review meetings in place and behavioural expectations established. Liaise with external suppliers as necessary.
Resource Mobilisation: Ensure appropriate human resource in terms of skills, competencies, capabilities and capacity is made available across VSO globally to facilitate the effective design, implementation and monitoring of the project. Lead the team on mobilization of partners on Social Cohesion and Peacebuilding.
Grant Management: Effectively manage donor grant allocated to project, ensuring appropriate reporting in place.
Monitoring and Evaluation: Conduct M&E activities as outline in the project M&E Plan. Amend workplan and activities based on evidence collected. Lead the measurement and realisation of benefits delivered by the project.
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