Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
• Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for the project
• Maintaining and monitoring livelihoods field plans, project schedules, work hours budgets and expenditures
• Organizing, attending and participating in livelihoods stakeholder meetings.
• Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from field meetings
• Preparing necessary presentation materials for field meetings
• Ensuring project timelines are met
• Assess and regularly report resource utilization in line with best value for money practices
• Providing field administrative support as needed
• Develop project strategies
• Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable.
• Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution.
• Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members and other relevant officers.
• Participate in Procurement evaluations for project goods and services
• Create a field management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective.
• Coordinate project management activities, resources, equipment and information
• Break projects into doable actions and set timeframes
• Liaise with the project management to identify and define requirements, scope and objectives
• Assign tasks to internal project teams and assist with schedule management
• Make sure that project needs are met as project evolve
• Help prepare budgets
• Analyze project risks and opportunities
• Oversee project procurement management
• Monitor project progress and handle any issues that arise
• Act as the point of contact and communicate project status to all participants
• Work with the Project team leader to eliminate blockers
• Use tools to monitor project working hours, plans and expenditures
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports
• Ensure standards and requirements are met through conducting project quality assurance.
• Participate in project resource mobilization
• Perform any other related duties as required
Requirements and skills
• BSc in Business Administration, Social Sciences or related field with not less than 5 years’ experience in projects implementation
• Post-Graduate Qualification in Project Planning and Management, or Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Proven work experience of project management from conception to delivery.
• Have the ability to prepare and interpret flowcharts, schedules and step-by-step project action plans
• Solid organizational skills, including multitasking and time-management
• Strong client-facing and teamwork skills
• Familiarity with project risk management and quality assurance control
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project and Microsoft Planner
• Hands-on experience with project management tools