Project Manager ( CBI – Cash-Based Interventions )

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

Preferred bachelor’s or master’s degrees in Economics, Social Sciences, Political Science or a related field. Significant relevant work experience in these specific areas will be considered as an added value.

General Work Experience:

Minimum three years of experience as a Project(s) Manager/ Coordinator with relevant expertise and understanding of the same sector.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Manage the successful completion of assigned projects daily to ensure the effective and accountable management of ATAA projects.
• Set Project plans (detailed implementation plan, procurement plan, human resource plan, spending plan…etc.)
• Ensuring effective implementation of projects that meet contractual obligations, including all partner/ donor policies, procedures, rules, and regulations
• Ensuring activities are in line with community and beneficiary needs
• Ensuring project activities are implemented to a high quality based upon related standards (e.g., Sphere, INEE, CHS, …etc.)
• Managing Budgets and understanding Financial Reports with consistent follow-up on the actual expenditures vs. planned ones
• Managing project team effectively
• Ensuring proper project documentation and compilation of project data
• Maintaining proper communication with the partner and donor
• Sharing information with the donor, technical sector cluster, other NGOs, and coordination structures
• Contribute to the overall proposal writing process, as well as take responsibility for preparing the support documents as needed.
• Ensure risks are appropriately managed, including financial, safety and security, programmatic and reputational
• Ensure all internal and external narrative and financial reports (weekly, monthly, interim, and final) are submitted within agreed timeframes to the relevant stakeholders
• Coaching, mentoring, training, and developing project staff
• Coordinate closely with the program manager on the project implementation progress
• Work closely with other departments on all issues related to assigned projects.
• Commitment to all safeguarding policies (PSEAH, CSG, COC) and providing safe environment for all vulnerable groups including children, women, PWDs, and elderlies.

Skills:

• Languages: Fluent in English and Arabic (writing –reading –speaking). Other languages will be desired, mainly Turkish
• Computing: Proficient in Microsoft Office including, excel, word, outlook, etc.
• High awareness in the Syrian context with its recent updates, and the relevant humanitarian interventions and needs.
• Proposal writing skills
• Communication skills: negotiating, facilitating, and presenting, as well as strong verbal and written communication skills
• Time management, organization, and work prioritization
• Being analytical with strong attention to detail
• Strong organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Decision making
• Project Management
• Remote management
• Collaborative and cooperative with other related departments, e.g. supply chain, finance & grants, HR …etc
• Flexibility to deal rapidly with numerous and often simultaneous problems in an effective manner
• Patient and a good communicator who can function in an organization employing a multi-national staff, and whose sites are geographically distributed in areas of the country difficult to access during certain periods of the year