Provincial Project Manager Full-Time

Duties

• Lead the project team based in Nampula city and coordinate with the field implementation team in the districts, assuming full responsibility for the project’s overall success and performance;
• Manage the adaptive learning agenda at provincial level: documenting performance of interventions, suggesting improvements and leading programmatic improvement sprints;
• Ensure coordination and communication with projects’s implementation partner at provincial level;
• Supports the Provincial Representative in project-related engagement with provincial and district level authorities;
• Develop feasible workplans for validation, assign tasks to different team members and track agreed timelines;
• Assess through field visits if activities are being followed and can provide capacity building to field teams to improve quality implementation and supervision;
• Work with external consultants in the review and assessment of programme approaches and tools using an Human Centered Design;
• Facilitate field visits from external consultants, learning partner and donors;
• Identify problems in the implementation, anticipates risks and seeks guidance on how to mitigate and overcome problems;
• Analyse project performance based on available dashboards and monthly data pulses.

Requisites

• Undergraduate academic degree in a science-related discipline;
• At least 3 years of work experience within the field of development;
• Work experience with NGOs on SRH/FP or youth focused projects is preferred;
• Relevant experience in staff, office and asset management;
• Good communication skills verbal and in writing;
• Experience and knowledge in Human Centered Design;
• Demonstrated experience in project and administrative support activities;
• Knowledge in administrative procedures of the government and NGOs;
• Good computer skills in common word processing (MS Word), spreadsheet (MS Excel);
• Familiar with MIS systems and processes (especially DHIS2);
• Excellent English and Portuguese language skills. Interviews will be conducted in English.

Notes

• Only short listed applicants will be contacted.