Position: Project Manager / full-time
Starting date: ASAP
Duration: 12 months with possibility of extension (including 6 months probation period)
Country Programme: Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)
Base: Mostar
Line Manager: Regional Representative for Western Balkans
Please note his position is open for citizens of BiH or those with valid work permits.
About PIN in BiH and Western Balkans:
People in Need (PIN) has been operating in the Western Balkans since 1992 in response to the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. After the outbreak of the war, People in Need sent humanitarian workers and supplies into the country to provide immediate and emergency relief to those affected by the conflict in BiH as well as in Kosovo in 1998.
The PIN representative office is located in Sarajevo. PIN also has offices in Mostar, Belgrade, and Pristina. The total volume of the current programs is more than three million USD annually, funded by EU, CSSF/FCDO, CzDA, and other donors.
In the last two decades, PIN implemented projects supporting climate resilience and citizen engagement and minorities rights in the areas of waste management, circular economy, social inclusion, employment and inclusive education.
More information is available on PIN’s website www.peopleinneed.net.
About the role
People in Need is seeking to hire an experienced Project Manager for an anticipated multi-year project from Czech Development Agency and/or the EU in Mostar. The activity seeks to develop of the capacity of local stakeholders, support the municipality’s green development agenda, and to oversee day-to-day project implementation.
This will be a full-time position based in Mostar, and will be contingent on award and funding. The anticipated award start date is estimated to be in June 15th, 2023.
Duties amp; Responsibilities Project Design amp; Proposal Development
- Oversees needs identification and assessments to understand context, needs, capacities, vulnerabilities and risks for target communities and PIN staff; updates the needs assessments when the context changes;
- Analyses existing governmental, donor and other relevant strategies to build project rationale and design;
- Participates in identification and appraisal of potential project partners;
- Develops or contributes to Logframes and project proposals in line with the Country Strategy, donor and PIN guidelines with support from Country Programme (CP) management, HQ, Knowledge and Learning Department colleagues (KLD).
- Support the Regional Representative in positioning for project funding and/or scale-up.
- Actively participates in country, regional, and global meetings when requested.
- Provide inputs for the country programme development, development of programme staff
Project Launch and Implementation
- Analyses donor’s contract and guidelines and ensures project planning, controls and documentation are aligned with these;
- Develops and regularly reviews project work plans that set out project activities, including MEAL activities, procurement and project-related HR, advocacy, visibility and communication;
- Establishes and leads coordination mechanisms with support departments at the CP, the HQ desk and KLD, and with project partner, including through leading monthly or bimonthly project review meetings;
- Identifies, manages and reports on project-related risks.
Technical Quality Assurance
- Ensures quality and timely implementation of the project in line with PIN’s sectoral guidelines, best practices and applicable international standards;
- Effectively mainstreams cross-cutting issues in the project, including protection, gender, and environment across project planning, implementation and MEAL;
- Leads quarterly or bi-annual learning review meetings with relevant departments to track progress against targets, review project outputs and outcomes, and make necessary adjustments to ensure that the project meets its stated objectives.
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability amp; Learning
- Ensures that the project-specific Community Feedback and Response Mechanism (CFRM) is functioning amp; accessible to all project stakeholders;
- In cooperation with the MEAL team, oversees the development and monthly updating of MEAL plans in the Project Management Plan, including Results Frameworks (RF), Indicator Tracking Tables (ITT), Mamp;E workplan, CFRM database, etc.);
- Collects amp; consolidates data which demonstrates implementation of activities;
- Regularly reviews MEAL Reports amp; recommendations and integrates all feedback and recommendations into the Feedback Tracker;
- Plans m