Overview
The Project Manager position is for the Youth Social Entrepreneurship Development Plus (YSED+) project, to be implemented in the Solomon Islands. This initiative covers livelihood and Child Protection.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support the implementation of project activities, ensuring outputs and outcomes are achieved
- Ensure that project team is familiar with the Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) and that subsequent activity planning aligns with this
- Project budget is managed well, including providing variance reporting and making revisions where required
- Ensure lessons learned reflections and information sharing is done regularly to enable project team to share and reflect on project progress
- Ensure strong community/youth group mobilization to achieve impact and change
- Ensure strong community mobilization
- Identify key community members to sustain activities and exert impact
- Ensure communities/youth groups have enhanced understanding of the YSED+ project approach through education and awareness-raising, demonstrations, Youth forums and exchange visits
- Ensure availability of resources
- Attend and contribute to provincial and national stakeholder meetings
- Ensure quality and timely reporting
- Monthly Project Updates (MPUs) submitted on the 27th-29th of every month
- Ensure ongoing project reflection is carried out over the project lifecycle
- Prepare monthly funding Requests to finance the implementation of the design process and oversee stewardship and effectiveness in implementations
- Create monthly plan of action
- Authorize financing of trip plans
- Approve per diems
- Approve cash advance requests in Area Program
- Sign off employee expenditure reports and sent to operations for review
- ‘People and Culture’ (HR) policies followed, and staff wellbeing maintained
- Ensure staff are safe and report any emergencies
- Ensure child protection (CP) policies are upheld during project implementation and among project partners
Required Experience
- 5 years or more experience in livelihood or Gender and Child Protection
- At least 3 years of experience in supervision and management
- Understanding poverty and community empowerment approaches to development
- Good communication skills (and local knowledge)
- Experience with and knowledge of Disaster Risk Reduction and related policies
- Problem-solving skills
- Data collection skills
- Convincing and mobilizing skills
- Ability to work in and across diverse cultures
- Networking skills
- Resource mobilizing skills
Qualifications
- Diploma or Bachelors Degree in Economics, community Development, law or any other related discipline
- Computer skills: internet, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, report writing
