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JOB OPPORTUNITY
Project Manager- Youth and Skills, Education, CE
This position leads the successful delivery of youth leadership development project and other activities under the education sector portfolio managing project plans, managing client or internal stakeholders, successfully achieving reporting and meeting compliance standards.
Details
Closing date: Sunday 08 October 2023
Role overview
Relationship and stakeholder management
- Has relationships with delivery partners and stakeholders within the country and is able to procure services and manage delivery partners.
- Holds suppliers to account for delivering against the contract.
- Builds strong internal relationships and networks.
- Supports business development and partnership development with national and international funders/partners.
Commercial and Financial Management
- Ensure sound financial planning, working closely with finance teams to ensure British Council and client financial year plans are up to date.
- Manages and monitors project budget, timely reports risks, including financial and identification of opportunities and mitigation actions.
- Compliance with British Council financial policies and procedures.
Project Management
- Contributes to the development of, owns and delivers on Project Management Plan.
- Delivers project/programme in compliance with all internal policies and processes (for example British Council’s project management framework, safeguarding, EDI, social value and conflict sensitivity).
- Supports internal planning and reporting including; risk and issue management, impact reporting and ensuring regional management information requests are met.
- Manages procurement on a project/programme.
- Responsible for data collection and data management including timely data entry, quality assurance of data, undertaking basic analysis of monitoring data, and developing progress reports to meet funding needs.
- Develops impact stories and other communication materials.
- Manages seminars, conferences and workshops under the education sector projects/programmes.
- supports in project administration as required.
Role-specific knowledge and experience:
- Legal right to work in Nepal.
- Fluency in both written and spoken English/ CEFR level C1.
- University degree in a related field
- Experience in managing projects from start to finish and familiarity with
project life cycles. - Understanding of procurement, evaluation and reporting requirements of
projects - Proven experience in managing project finances.
- Experience in managing stakeholders
- More than three years working in project or programme management.
- Experience in using technology in project delivery.
- Good understanding and experience in supporting monitoring and evaluation.
- Knowledge and experience of global challenges like climate change and gender equality are desirable.
- Experience in managing youth leadership development projects would be an advantage.
Additional Requirement
- This role could require some domestic and international travel as required by the programme and some out-of-hours and evening work responding to or driven by
- Programme/portfolio needs.
How to apply
Fill in the attached job application form, fill in relevant details and share at HR@britishcouncil.org.np
Please ensure that you mention the position title in the subject when you apply.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. To be considered for this job, you must already have the right to live and work in Kathmandu. Please be aware that for this role, we are not able to sponsor a working visa.
Application pack