Project Manager

INTERSOS is a non-profit humanitarian aid organization that works to bring assistance to people in danger, victims of natural disasters and armed conflicts. Established in 1992 with support from the Italian Federation of Trade Unions, its actions are based on the values of solidarity, justice, human dignity, equal rights and opportunities for all people and respect for diversity and coexistence, paying particular attention to the most vulnerable and the unprotected.

INTERSOS identifies with the core values of CONCORD, the European Confederation of NGOs; it adheres to international codes of conduct for humanitarian organizations and the values and principles expressed within those codes. INTERSOS is recognized by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the European Commission and the principal UN agencies; it is privileged to hold an advisory status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

INTERSOS is an independent association which, through its own humanitarian operators, intervenes to effectively answer the needs of people in serious crises situations, mainly in the world's poorest regions, who are suffering, deprived of rights, dignity and essentials goods. It maintains a flexible operating structure. The head office in Italy coordinates, supports and monitors the planned activities in the countries of intervention carried out by decentralized offices.

Project Manager

The Project Manager ensures constant engagement by/with different support departments to ensure timely support to the project team.

The Project Manager is budget holder for the whole project grant/budget and supervises/monitors closely the financial planning, liquidity planning and budget utilization/burn rate monitoring.

The financial/budget management is the final responsibility of the Project Manager for the specific project and he/she must ensure that this goes together with close log frame and work plan monitoring.

Hierarchical: Head of Base/Program Manager (if absent report to program coordinator)

Functional: n/a

Duty Station : Zahle with regular field visits to project locations

Position Type: Full Time

Main responsibilities:

• Ensures the planning, implementation and monitoring/evaluation and sets targets as included in the project description. Flag significant deviation from the program implementation plan and estimated expenditures; alert relevant staff.
• Guarantee an efficient financial management as main budget holder for the project in compliance with INTERSOS’ model and donor regulations.
• Team/HR management (staff and volunteers)
• Deliver quality project activities reporting, including the findings in terms of impact/changes at the level of beneficiaries achieved through the project, compliant and consistent reporting per INTERSOS and donor requirements, in collaboration with the HQ Grants Unit
• Develop clear understanding of INTERSOS program and country strategy among project team – ensure also timely input/feedback by team on strategic issues.
• Support the Program Manager and Program Coordinator in program/project development.
• Ensure that program delivery matches INTERSOS and donor technical minimum standards and seek technical section and MEAL department guidance and tools.
• Ensure clear overview of actors and services in area of intervention, permitting development and implementation of partnerships and referral pathways.
• Administrative and office support activities (agreement, amendments, signed reports, communications, etc.), ensuring documentation cycle is up to date, and ensure all departments’ requirements are aligned and addressed.

Detailed responsibilities and tasks:

• Ensure the full and timely implementation of the project proposal as approved, pro-actively respecting deadlines for reporting:
• Project kick-off and presentation/sharing of project with teams
• Review and prepare a detailed activity plan with team
• Verification on the targeting of beneficiaries

Financial management and procurement:

• Prepare, monitor and implement financial and procurement plan
• Prepare financial plan and update forecast on a monthly basis
• Approval of all purchases/contracting and budget line allocations
• Verify the bookkeeping entries in the INTERSOS accounting spread sheets (JOURNAL): verify budget line allocations, budget expenditure status against actual delivery and the financial plan for the remainder project implementation period
• Ensure for all purchases/contracting of goods/services/supplies the correct INTERSOS procurement guidelines are applied and properly documented, in coordination with the Finance and Logistics departments.
• Verify the list of expenditures prior to finalizing the interim and final financial reports
• Holds final responsibility for verification of all support documents’ completeness and correctness.

   

• People management:
• Agree and establish clear reporting and communication lines
• Team recruitment, liaise with HR Department to secure up to date HR files.
• Permanent on-job coaching of teams to work on quality in delivery.
• Manages and evaluates the performance of the project staff.
• Conduct weekly and monthly meetings with the team to review the planning and discuss the main concerns to focus on for the upcoming period.
• Continuous/fast verification of data quality collected and received from field staff.
• Ensure teams respect INTERSOS rules and guidelines to the mission and adhere to INTERSOS Code of Conduct and Charter of Values.

   

Monitoring & evaluation:

• Ensure monitoring and verification for the targeting of beneficiaries.
• Applying a result-based management approach, monitor the project outcomes, in addition to the outputs and activities, including changes at the household and community level achieved through the project.
• Undertake (if security situation allows) field visits to provide technical guidance and supervision to the team and to monitor the progress and quality of the different project activities.

   

Reporting:

• Ensure quality reporting on achievements through daily short briefings, monthly and weekly planning presented against weekly and monthly performance reports containing clear quantitative and qualitative information related to the activities.
• Secure regular reporting per team and compile, review and analyses reports on monthly bases to be reflected in INTERSOS Project Appraisal Tool.
• Prepare ad hoc progress reporting for the donor and official required interim and final project reports; prepare interim and final narrative reports for the donor in a timely and qualitative manner, looking into achievements against outcomes and output and reflect lessons learnt clearly into recommendations for future programming.
• Holds final responsibility for all support documents (means of verification) and general project documents.
• Delivers regular communication products (including pictures) on the project to be used by the INTERSOS communication department in different outlet.

Coordination and representation:

• Support the HoB / Program Manager in attending cluster meetings or other relevant fora, and ensure timely reporting of highlights and relevant information for intervention area.
• Participate in regular meetings with the donor representatives and facilitates field visits by donor missions (when security allows for), in coordination with the HoB/Program Manager.
• Ensure systematic information and update sharing with the HoB/Program Manager  
• Perform any other related duties as required.

Education

• Advanced university degree in Social Sciences, Political Sciences, International Relations, Humanitarian and International Cooperation or related field

Professional experience

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience with at least 3 years of professional experience in management of humanitarian project/program, including financial management and logistics responsibilities
• Minimum 1 year experience in the implementation of multi-sector humanitarian programming and in security context analysis
• Experience in humanitarian protection (including case management, psychosocial support activities, community engagement, Gender-Based Violence); experience in legal services/activities is beneficial.

Professional requirements

• Experience in complex emergency setting
• Administration, finance and budget management skills
• Strong writing capacity
• Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)
• Analytical thinking, analysis capacity and strategic program development skills
• Driving license issued since more than 2 years

Personal requirements

• Experience in establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with donors and government counterparts, and with donors compliance and reporting
• Strong representation and negotiation skills
• Ability to ensure quick quality delivery in stressful environment
• Ability to adhere to deadlines and respect line management
• Strong interpersonal skills: communication, diplomatic skills and problem-solver
• Leadership, people management and development
• Organization and problem solving
• Commitment to INTERSOS principles

Languages 

• Fluent in Arabic & English