Job Summary:
The Project Manager is responsible for planning, executing, and delivering project on time, within scope, and within budget. This role involves coordinating cross-functional teams, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals. The Project Manager will oversee project life cycle, from initiation to completion, while identifying risks, implementing solutions, and ensuring high-quality outcomes. Key responsibilities include defining project objectives, creating detailed work plans, monitoring progress, and reporting to stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills, with a proven ability to manage multiple tasks and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Project Manager will be responsible for the following:
- Project Management and Implementation
- Lead the overall management and successful implementation of the project, ensuring alignment with its goals, objectives, and scope of work in the three relevant sectors (Health, Child Protection, Emergency NFI).
- Develop and oversee detailed implementation plans providing thorough work-breakdown structure with the support of project & program teams.
- Provide technical guidance to project staff to ensure high-quality implementation of activities in accordance with and commitment to the Core Humanitarian Standards & Principles.
- Oversee staff recruitment, onboarding, training, and project staff capacity development in collaboration with the H.R and Program departments.
- Review and provide feedback on staff plans, reports, and activity files.
- Coordination Across Tiers & Stakeholder Engagement
- Coordinate information and liaise relevant engagement with sectoral line ministries, Provincial authorities while maintaining strong relations and fostering trust with all major stakeholders.
- Regularly attend meetings in major humanitarian clusters i.e. Afghanistan Health Cluster, Child Protection AoR, and ES/NFI (while maintaining close coordination with provincial/regional cluster focal points).
- Budget and Compliance Management
- Monitor and ensure efficient budget utilization, aligning expenditures with planned activities.
- Work closely with operations, finance, and HR departments to ensure timely processing for procurement, payments, and recruitment.
- Regularly review the budget with grants and finance team, addressing challenges and adjusting expenditure plans when required.
- Monitoring and Reporting
- Oversee beneficiary selection, distributions (if any), and post-distribution monitoring, ensuring all required documentation is maintained.
- Conduct regular field visits to service delivery points to oversee activities, providing technical support and ensuring project team adherence to War Child standards, procedures and protocols.
- Document lessons learned and best practices, sharing reports with relevant stakeholders.
- Accountability and Safeguarding
- Ensure adherence to organizational policies, on child safeguarding PSEA, and Accountability to Affected Population throughout project lifecycle.
- Promote accountability to affected populations through community engagement and transparent processes through supervising inclusive community engagement to inform program participants about their rights and means of submitting complaints and suggestions.
- Review and revise the project-related materials on PSEA and AAP along with any manuals required for ensuring unified service delivery by the project team.
- Additional Responsibilities
- Support professional development and capacity building of project staff.
- Undertake additional tasks as assigned by the Program Manager or WC senior management.
