Project Manager [Open to internal and external applicants]

Overview

The Project Manager will be responsible for leading project management, including planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, to achieve expected outputs and outcomes in line with the approved Project Document.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall management oversight to ensure project implementation is on track and in line with the project document, approved Annual Work Plan (AWP) and results framework.
• Manage financial and human resources with accountability to the Project Board / Project Steering Committee (PSC) and UNDP, ensuring full compliance with UNDP's financial rules and regulations.
• Lead the preparation of annual work plans, budgets, procurement plans and operational plans; oversee timely and quality implementation.
• Manage the project team to ensure a clear division of labour, setting of specific quarterly and annual targets for all personnel, including performance planning and evaluation.
• Manage risks and issues; execute adaptive management.
• Ensure project quality assurance processes are executed to the highest standards.
• Uphold UNDP’s zero-tolerance standards on sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment and fraud; ensure project activities apply UNDP’s social and environmental safeguards and accountability-to-affected-populations measures.
• Prepare and ensure timely submission of high quality monthly, quarterly and annual progress reports, donor reports, Project Implementation Reports (PIR), FACE forms and other reporting as required.
• Facilitate the functioning of the Project Board/PSC and other governance mechanisms; provide secretariat support including convening meetings, preparing documentation and circulating notes and decisions.
• Oversee procurement of goods and services; finalize Terms of Reference for consultants and service providers; coordinate with UNDP Operations on recruitment and contracting.
• Ensure project records, asset registers and documentation are maintained to the required standards.
• Facilitate government, donor and UNDP regional/HQ field missions and reviews as applicable.
• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance across all project outputs; review and contribute to all outputs and deliverables.
• Identify stakeholders and implementation partners; develop and implement a stakeholder engagement and partnership strategy.
• Establish and maintain strategic relationships with Government counterparts (central and local), UN agencies, civil society organizations, the private sector and development partners.
• Supervise and guide the work of consultants, experts and service providers; oversee compliance with agreed work plans and deliverables.
• Ensure that the project draws from and collaborates with other UNDP programmes and portfolios, avoiding duplication and maximizing synergies.
• Promote integration of cross-cutting themes including gender equality, social inclusion, disability, climate resilience and human rights-based approaches in all project activities.
• Introduce and maintain feedback mechanisms and open communication channels to ensure that the needs of target groups are reflected in project planning and implementation.
• Analyse and consolidate project results/outputs and provide results-based reporting of project progress at the outcome and impact levels.
• Development and implementation of capacity building activities aimed at government counterparts and other relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure highest UNDP standards in the provision of technical and advisory inputs to government partners on thematic areas covered by the project., organization of workshops, seminars, training and delivery of product.
• Participate in inter-agency coordination mechanisms, technical working groups and high-level policy dialogues.
• Coordinate with relevant development partners and donors on issues related to the project; liaise with government focal persons for smooth coordination.
• Contribute to national policy processes, action plans and reform initiatives relevant to the project's thematic areas.
• Manage and contribute to the development of high-quality knowledge products; ensure effective integration with other practice areas.
• Lead knowledge creation and dissemination related to national, regional and global know-how in the subject area.
• Manage the synthesis and documentation of project results, lessons learned, good practices and case studies.
• Establish and manage internal/external networks or communities of practice covering relevant practitioners and experts.
• Ensure project results and impact are captured, recorded and shared in knowledge products and communication materials.
• Prepare and update project information and results on UNDP, government and other platforms on a regular basis.
• Mobilize and network with experts of national and regional offices of the UN system, international development organizations, multilateral development banks and the private sector.
• Identify funding sources and prepare proposals, concept notes, business cases and donor briefings for resource mobilization.
• Pursue diversified and innovative financing – including international financial institutions, climate and development finance, vertical funds, the private sector and South-South and triangular cooperation – in response to a constrained and evolving ODA environment.
• Plan, strategize and manage the scaling up of project approaches and results.
• Maintain effective relationships with development partners to facilitate and support resource mobilization efforts.

Required Experience

• Minimum 2 (two) years (with Master´s degree) or 4 (four) years (with bachelor´s degree) of experience in Public Financial Management (PFM) and/or Climate finance with key oversight institutions is required.
• Substantive expertise in climate finance programming.
• Experience in designing, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development projects related to public financial management and climate finance.
• Demonstrated experience managing or coordinating project activities, budgets and work plans to deliver measurable, time‑bound results is required.
• Demonstrated experience leading, supervising and developing project personnel or teams is required.
• Experience in strong monitoring and results‑based reporting for donor and government audiences.
• Proven track record of experience in written, analytical and communication skills, including reports, briefs and work plans.
• Experience establishing and maintaining working relationships with government counterparts and delivery partners private sector and civil society including influencing policy or building institutional capacity at national or local level.

Qualifications

Advanced University Degree (master’s degree or equivalent) from any reputed educational institution, in Economics, Public Policy, Geography and Environment, Climate Change, Social Science or any related field is required, or A first level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of an advanced university degree.

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