Project Manager Vacancy at Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI)
Employment Nigeria
17-Jun-2017
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NGO
Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI) aims to help the world’s poorest to improve their access to healthcare, food, and financial security, and to overcome their special vulnerability to wars, civil conflicts and natural disasters.
POSITION : Project Manager
DESCRIPTION
- Responsible for the project’s execution, in technical, economic/financial terms, and in terms of resources management on field, in compliance with COOPI and the donor’s procedures.
- Ensures the expected results attainment in budget management.
Responsibilities
- Plans and monitors the activities ‘progress, in compliance with the contract signed with the donor and with COOPI and the donor’s procedures.
Administrative and Financial Management:
- Plans all expenditures to make.
- Regularly monitors all made expenditures. In cooperation with the Project Administrator and in coordination with the Administrative Coordinator he/she prepares the Purchases Plan.
- Ensures the organization and donor’s procedures respect when purchasing goods and services.
Reporting:
- In coordination with the supervisor and with the Administrative Coordinator, he/she ensures the preparation, in compliance with the deadlines, of all financial and narrative reports - interim and final - expected by the project.
- Responsible for the preparation of all formal communication and contract modifications requests (ex. budget modification) of the projects he manages.
Staff Management:
- In compliance with the country’s rules/laws and with the COOPI’s regulation in the country, he/she selects the local staff to be employed in projects.
- By making use of the organization’s tools he/she evaluates the local staff employed for projects and he/she participates to the evaluation of his/her own project, upon request by his/her direct supervisor.
- Coordinates and supervises the work done by all the project staff, in compliance with the organization’s security procedures.
- Responsible for the initial and continuous training of the project staff under his/her responsibility.
Goods Management:
- Responsible of the correct management of all goods purchased for the project, both directly and purchased by other offices/field offices.
- For all goods purchased by the project he/she updates the inventory, in cooperation with the Administrative Coordinator.
Institutional Relations:
- In relation to the project of his/her competence, he/she communicates with the donors’ officers, the local authorities which are competent in the aspects related to the project, the project’s partners and beneficiaries, in compliance with the organization’s guidelines.
New Projects’ Writing:
- Elaborates, writes and prepares all necessary documents to present new projects, in accordance with the organization’s processes and procedures.
Profile
- Strong analytical and practical problem-solving skills;
- Strong supervisory abilities, and demonstrated capacity of teamwork and of coordination with the relevant actors;
- Very good inter-personal and writing communication skills;
- Ability to organize work efficiently and deliver assignments in a timely manner often under time constraints;
- Proficiency in written and spoken English;
- Computer literacy, with high proficiency in the use of standard office software applications (e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
- Advanced degree in Food Security, livelihood, Logistics or related field or equivalent work.
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in the humanitarian field in similar roles.
- Demonstrated experience in food distribution or related field.
- Experience of working within an insecure environment with responsibility for security planning, monitoring and management.
- Experience working on WFP funded projects (BSFP, GFD & Cash Based Transfers)
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