Job Description
Project Manager, Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI
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Deadline 10 Jan 2021
Posted
Location London, United Kingdom
ODI is an independent, global think tank, working for a sustainable and peaceful world in which every person thrives. We harness the power of evidence and ideas through research and partnership to confront challenges, develop solutions and create change.
The Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) is one of the world's leading teams working on humanitarian issues. HPG are dedicated to improving humanitarian policy and practice through a combination of high-quality analysis, dialogue and debate.
We are looking for a Project Manager to oversee the day-to-day development and management of HPG commissioned projects.
The Project Manager (PM) will oversee the day-to-day development and management of projects of medium complexity across the Humanitarian Policy Group’s (HPG’s) commissioned portfolio, providing oversight and information to the Senior Project Manager, HPG. The PM will be responsible for the project management cycle, coordinating the delivery of outputs to time and to budget, contributing to and taking ownership of the workplan, liaising with both internal and external stakeholders and maintaining up to date information on project finances, delivery, timeline and risks. They will work both independently and with the Senior Project Manager, Director of Programme (DoP) and Technical Lead(s) to ensure the successful delivery of projects against milestones and budgets and in line with ODI’s policies and procedures.
Other key responsibilities include:
- Financial management and reporting: tracking and coordinating financial information flows; managing quarterly expenditure tracking and invoicing to tight donor deadlines, and ensuring compliance with the donor’s Financial Principles, value for money and key performance indicators.
- Partnerships and external relations: working with the team on formalising key partnerships and relationships for project implementation; facilitating external relations with relevant stakeholders; convening high-level project and stakeholder meetings as required.
- Planning and performance support: providing guidance and support to project teams within ODI for planning, delivery and reporting; co-ordinating with key internal support teams; maintaining an overview of output delivery and flagging any risks to the Senior Project Manager and Director of Programme.
- Knowledge management: lead, strengthen and provide oversight of HPG’s monitoring, evaluation and impact work.
- Manage business development processes: identification of new opportunities/donors; securing additional funding; leading the process of the preparation of bids and proposals; developing budgets and tailoring technical documentation.
- Strategic communications: coordinating the development and functioning of internal and external communications systems, networks, intranet, website, etc. to ensure strong internal and external relationships for the project; managing activities and supporting teams to promote project output dissemination and uptake in close collaboration with from colleagues in the Communications team.
About you
- Significant programme management experience and proven ability to manage multiple project-level inputs within a high-level programme framework.
- A strong track record of reporting on complex donor-funded (e.g. multi-sector or multi-country) projects or programmes, monitoring performance standards through task-management structures, and delivering convincing and quality reports.
- Extensive budget administration and reporting experience, ideally including devolved budgets.
- Proven track record of effective co-ordination with key internal support functions, in support of project/programme output planning, delivery, reporting and dissemination.
- Excellent time management skills and proven ability to organise inputs from other individuals and teams in order to meet key project or programme deadlines.
- Substantial experience of managing staff to tight deadlines in a team environment.
- Demonstrable ability to form strong and productive working relationships with external stakeholders and partners for learning and knowledge sharing.
- Proven ability to influence and negotiate with staff and stakeholders in relation to project and programme management and delivery, often without direct authority.
- Ability to anticipate and manage risk and take active steps to mitigate them, and act quickly to deal with emerging challenges.
- Ability to manage and develop financial information systems to support timely donor reporting and business planning.
- Ability to work on own initiative with minimum supervision.
- Ability to maintain a high-level overview of programme performance and progress, and provide more hands-on support to project teams if necessary.
- Excellent attention to detail, especially in ensuring consistency across multiple reports and project documents.
- Advanced IT skills including Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and databases.
- Knowledge and understanding of development issues and a personal commitment to international development and poverty reduction would be desirable.
- Experience working in a developing country or with developing country partner organisations is desirable.
Closing date: 10th January 2021
Interview Date: 22nd January 2021
For more information, please download an application packhere . If you are experiencing difficulties downloading, please telephone020 79220351or emailhumanresources@odi.org.uk .