Project Manager

Key Roles & Responsibilities

1. Manage projects of moderate complexity within budget and timeline

• Monitor delivery of project objectives to an agreed timeline, quality, and budget in a manner consistent with the IVI Project Management Guidelines.
• Monitor project progress, and identify deviations from plan and flag raise rectification measures to keep the project on track.
• Contribute to continuous improvement across the project management processes, while working with Head of Program Management, PMO, head of project, and with other project managers in developing and enhancing standard project management methodology.
• Provide periodic project status update reports based on analysis of project data.
• Contribute to preparation of project related legal documents (e.g. MOU, research agreement, service agreement, contract, etc.) with collaborating institutions, agencies, consultants, and vendors.

 2. Manage project financials

• Ensure the project plan is accurately reflected in the financial budget and forecast.
• Track and monitor project expenses at a sufficient level of granularity to provide meaningful analysis, and identify the need for reporting to senior management, develop a remediation plan or change requests from baseline.
• Contribute/review periodic financial performance reports by coordinating with PAs and communicate variations to plan and financial consequences with finance.

3. Contribute to and coordinate Project related communication within the Project Team and to external stakeholders consistent with Project Charters.