Deadline: 6 April 2016
World Vision International (WVI) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Project Manager in Maputo City, Mozambique. The duration of this post is 2+ years.
The Project Manager will serve as representative of the project and will be responsible for the activities and all personnel under this grant.
WVI’s mission is to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Project Manager will perform the following functions-
- Direct and oversee grant implementation, ensuring that all strategic objectives are met through proper design, staffing, implementation and quality assurance.
- Provide leadership and coordination to CSO partners.
- Facilitate a working environment of mutual trust, respect, and care among all staff. Encourage effective teamwork, with staff members supporting each other.
- Conduct monthly staff meetings to ensure issues are raised and addressed and to encourage reflection on project progress and learning for improvement.
- Lead annual planning to ensure that plans are made to meet the targets set out in the project design.
- Ensure that project activities are carried out in a timely manner per USAID approved work plan, and that the project achieves results in line with its annual approved work plan, and that the project achieves results in line with its annual PEPFAR targets in each program area.
- 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.
- Act as the initial trouble-shooter when difficulties in implementation are identified; meet with necessary project participants, listen to challenges and actively identify solutions such that projects can continue as needed.
- Take corrective action when staff is failing to achieve targets.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- A Master’s degree in public health, social sciences, or related degree is required.
- At least 10 years of experience with health and HIV programmes in a developing country, preferably in Africa.
- At least 5 years of experience managing large projects requirements.
- Experience in managing inter-agency consortium preferred.
- Experience in managing or working on PEPFAR funded projects is strongly preferred.
- Proactive approach, good organization and time management skills, and ability to prioritize and manage workload.
- Strong budgeting and financial management skills.
- Leadership and teamwork capabilities that includes coaching and motivating staff to high level of performance, & engaging in effective cross cultural & cross functional working to achieve shared goals in the absence of direct line management authority.
- Experienced networker with strong negotiation skills and an ability to maintain a good up to date knowledge of the grant opportunities and trends in WV Mozambique´s priority sectors.
- Working knowledge of the WVI Partnership is an advantage, along with the ability to interface sensitively with people from various departments in both field and support offices.
- Written and oral fluency in English is a requirement.
- Ability to communicate in Portuguese is an advantage and willingness and ability to learn Portuguese is a requirement.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications through online process.
For more information, please visit WVI.
