Vacancy Announcement

Position: Project Manager                 

Responsible to: Country Manager                             

Location: Hargeisa (with regular field trips)

Duration of contract: 12 months (with possibility of extension)                                   

Closing date: 22nd June 2022

ROLE OF THE EMPLOYEE

Based in Hargesia, with frequent travel to other regions of Somaliland and Mogadishu, and under the line-management of the Country Manager, the PM will have the following responsibilities.

1. Management

• Line-manages the project’s team members
• Sets individual objectives, evaluates individual performance, contributes towards the professional & career development of his/her team members, monitors competences
• Organizes and leads regular team meetings
• Recruitment and selection of new team members
• Ensures strict application and respect of the programmer’s Internal Regulations by the project team

1. Expertise

• Provides the technical expertise for his/her project
• Ensures that the activities implemented to comply with international technical norms and
• standards
• Adapts the project documentation to international technical norms and standards, when
• necessary
• Runs technical training for his/her staff when relevant.
• Is in charge of the technical quality and relevance of project activities implemented within his
• scope of expertise
• Ensures technical learning from projects by drawing on lessons learned and good practices
• Makes sure global and field technical specialists get the information they require and
• collaborates with Technical Divisions when necessary
• Adjusts his/her activities to audit recommendations, if applicable

2.2 Helps to coordinate technical professional development and facilitate a community of practice, in

collaboration with Technical Division

2.3 Manages relationships with technical authorities, local partners or other stakeholders

1. Implementation and Monitoring

3.1 Ensures project implementation, in collaboration with the relevant services and in line with general

standards and procedures

• Update mapping of relevant OPDs active in humanitarian response and support further assessment in order to nourish HI’s inclusive humanitarian action strategy and reaching out to persons with disabilities programs.
• Actively participate and raise awareness in the Disability Working Group on inclusive humanitarian action.
• Ensures the planning of activities and establishes action plans
• Ensures that activities are implemented in line with the project proposal and the allocated
• budget
• Ensures that activities are implemented according to internal quality and technical standards
• and, if necessary, proposes adjustments or improvements to help meet objectives
• Prepares and monitors partnership agreements with implementing partners and other potential partners

• Ensures the effective implementation and follow up of institutional policies (PSEA, mandatory
• cross-cutting approaches, etc.) on his/her project
• Coordinates and collaborates with relevant internal services, especially logistics, RH, finance and technical resources
  • Ensures project data management
• Ensures that the appropriate data collection and management tools are in place on the project, in line with global standards
• Ensures that data related to the project is collected and compiled in the project database
• Carries out regular verifications and makes any necessary corrections in the activity database

3.3 Ensures project reporting

• Monitors the achievement of results and indicators, as per the logical framework
• Is in charge of producing the appropriate reporting tools: monthly situation report, PM Box
• Reports regularly to the line manager
• Writes reports for the funding agencies when relevant and monitors donor deadlines (grants,
• reporting, audits) concerning the project
• Guarantees the proper archiving of information

3.4 Prepares and steers project evaluation and capitalization

• Plans and monitors project evaluations
• Produces project capitalization and learning from experience material

1. Influence & Communication

• Contributes to HI’s external influence by participating in relevant networks
• Communicates on the project to partners, authorities and stakeholders when relevant

1. Strategy & business development

• Contributes to programme or country operational strategy (StratOp)
• Drafts new project proposals for the continuity or expansion of the project
• Contributes to the drafting of new proposals for new opportunities