Deadline: 15 October, 2021
Location: Kintampo, Ghana
World Vision International is seeking to fill the role of Project Manager for the Improved Feeding Practice Project.
The mission of World Vision International includes working with the poor and people who are oppressed as it promotes human transformation.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership in developing project plans, budgets, procurement plans and ensure project activities are implemented on time, within the project budget and time frame
- Ensure implementation of the project in compliance with the grant agreement
- Lead annual planning to ensure that plans are made to achieve project targets set out in the project design
- Supervise and support all direct reports, ensuring high-quality work outputs
- Facilitate a working environment of mutual trust, respect, and care among all staff
- Encourage effective teamwork, with staff members supporting each other
- Ensure the timely preparation and submission of financial reports and disbursement requests
- Ensure that project finances and assets are managed in line with the organisation’s donor requirements
- Monitor budget and expenditure and take necessary action
- Identify and build strategic linkages, relations, collaborations and networks with partners and other stakeholders in planning and implementation
- Represent the organisation at relevant meetings with internal and external stakeholders
- Foster good relationships with communities and local authorities, ensuring that feedback is addressed on time
- Promote the goals of the project through effective communication with government, local authorities, the media, communities and other stakeholders
- Oversee projects communication strategies, including compliance with donor branding, marketing requirements as well as marketing and communication procedures
- Establish and maintain effective project reporting, evaluation, and communication systems
- Prepare reports as per the grant agreement
- Submit timely, accurate and professional reports that meet donor requirements
- Monitor budget and expenditure and take necessary action of any variance identified
- Ensure success stories and project impacts are appropriately documented
- Coordinate with the operations department and other support units to ensure implementation is in accordance with technical and budgetary expectations
- Coordinate all evaluation activities such as baseline, midterm, and end line
- Ensure that project activities are carried out in a timely manner per the approved work plan and milestones are reached as agreed
- Ensure each staff has a clear weekly work plan and that necessary resources are available for them to implement their responsibilities
- Conduct monitoring visits to project activities to assess progress against targets and to provide coaching and direction to activities in areas where improvements are needed
- Ensure the documentation of lessons learnt and best practices are shared through internal and external knowledge-sharing forums
Requirements
- BSc in Nutrition/Food, Public Health, Agriculture or a related field
- Master’s degree in relevant fields will be an added advantage
- Five years, minimum, of experience in implementing integrated nutrition and health and food security projects in developing countries
- Strong understanding of food-based approaches, especially nutrition-sensitive agricultural approaches and pathways
- Strong project management skills and experience in managing large-scale internationally funded grant projects
- Strong monitoring and evaluation background
- Experience in social enterprise/microenterprise/micro-franchising will be an added advantage
- Knowledge of JSDF/World Bank regulations and processes (operations, procurement, finance, environmental safeguard policies, etc.) will be an added advantage
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