Job Description
The Role
Please note this position is part-time, 110 days annually for the duration of the 5-year project.
Based in Abuja, Nigeria, the FSSP Project Manager tasks include but are not limited to the following:
- Leading the development of project documents, including Operating Procedures Manual and Annual Work Plans;
- Ensuring quality and management oversight of all services delivered within the project, including administrative, financial and logistics management services;
- Communicating with government authorities or their representatives and other relevant project stakeholders;
- Ensuring cost-effectiveness of services delivered within the project;
- Ensuring the effective management of internal monitoring of project progress and results, including dealing with project issues and problems as they arise.
Required Qualifications:
- Master of political sciences, law, international development, economics, finance, business administration, project management, social sciences, engineering or applied sciences.
- Must have at least 5 years, (60 months) of international development project delivery experience, as a Project Manager providing Project Manager services listed below. The 60 months can be counted in a maximum of 2 projects, with donors such as Global Affairs Canada, USAID, GIZ, etc.
- The selected projects as Project Manager within the 5 years, (60 months) must have a total value at or above 1 million CAD.
Required project experience that we will be looking for on your CV:
- Leading the development of project documents, including Operating Procedures Manual and Annual Work Plans;
- Ensuring quality and management oversight of all services delivered within the project, including administrative, financial and logistics management services;
- Communicating with government authorities or their representatives and other relevant project stakeholders;
- Ensuring cost-effectiveness of services delivered within the project;
- Ensuring the effective management of internal monitoring of project progress and results, including dealing with project issues and problems as they arise.
- Developing and implementing a strategic engagement plan for regular liaison with the Technical Authority, DFATDHQ, and other key stakeholders.
- Establishing and maintaining networks with critical stakeholders across government, civil society, other donors, and the private sector.
- Assessing stakeholder needs, priorities, and expectations and aligning it with the project objective.
- Working with 3 or more types of stakeholders (i.e., donors, government, civil society, private sector, academia) for an international development project.