Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

‍Strategic Project Leadership and Technical Oversight of project implementation‍

•Provide overall strategic direction for the INCLUDE project, ensuring full alignment with SNV’s agri-food systems approach and donor priorities as well compliance and accountability towards all SNV policies and procedures.

•Guide the implementation of project pathways with a quality and learning lens: Ensuring timely, high-quality project delivery against scope and secure budget planning, expenditure tracking, and compliance with required SNV documentation.

•Lead adaptively with focus on quality assurance and learning with data and through periodic reflection, consultation, and reporting in collaboration with EKN and peer initiatives (MEL).

•Offer technical advisory to staff and partners, troubleshoot potential challenges and promote evidence-based decision making and continuous improvement of project delivery.

‍Team Leadership and Staff Development

•Lead, coach, and mentor a diverse team of 32 development professionals, promoting a collaborative learning culture with the aim to deliver goals and objectives.

•Lead recruitment, performance and staff development to ensure the right skillsets and mindsets across the team to support and enable empowerment.

•Ensure that staff wellbeing and safety according to SNV code of conduct and related policies.

‍Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Management

•Serve as the primary liaison with the donor (EKN), fostering a transparent and pro-active relationship through regular updates and consultations.

•Coordinate and collaborate closely with implementing partners, government institutions, civil society actors, and private sector stakeholders to ensure strong collaboration and alignment.

•Proactively build linkages with other food security initiatives to maximize synergy and scale development outcomes.