Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

Part of your key responsibilities will be as follows:

• Strategic Co-Design: Collaboratively shape the project's strategic approach in collaboration with SNV leadership members.
• Project Leadership: Overall responsibility for day-to-day project implementation.
• Interconnectivity: Establish robust connections between the Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship (YEE) project and other relevant programs, projects and institutions.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with diverse stakeholders and navigate complex dynamics to drive project goals and design strategic interventions for success.
• Strategic Partnership Development: Engage actively with both public and private partners to design strategic project interventions.
• Effective Project Setup: Provide guidance for project setup, encompassing the development of work plans, budgets, and a competence table specifying financial responsibilities and mandates.
• Resource Management: Oversee the management of all human, physical, and financial resources allocated to the project.
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor and evaluate the performance of the project management team, ensuring the fulfillment of milestones set in the annual work plan. Proactively devise mitigation plans to overcome setbacks or deviations.
• Timely Reporting: Ensure timely and accurate reporting to the donor, in accordance with donor requirements. Uphold quality standards for international and national experts' project reports, aligning with donor requirements and SNV's professional reporting standards.
• Knowledge Development and Branding: Guide the development of knowledge, documentation, communication, and branding in close collaboration with the donor and the country sector leader.
• Partnership and Funding Exploration: Identify opportunities for follow-up funding and partnerships in conjunction with the country leadership and the business development unit.