TITLE: Project Manager- Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction

LOCATION: Mongu

GRADE: 3

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Project Manager is responsible for strategically driving, coordinating and reporting on the results of the programme/assigned projects, using an adaptive management and learning and reflection approach to achieve outcomes and impact for meaningful and lasting change for children.

The Project Manager works closely with other functions including Country Office Senior Management Team to meet all programme-related objectives in the Country Office. The Project Manager is accountable for effective and efficient management of the Climate Change project in ways that ensure resources are focused on reaching strategic objectives, meeting donor expectations and adhering to all internal and external standards.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Director of Programme Operations.

Indirect: None

Role Dimensions: Project Manager has overall accountability and is the main budget holder for the Climate Change and Adaption Project. The jobholder manages all key and strategic communications, community-action, social behaviour change, campaigns relationships and engagements for the Project with funding member offices and within the CO.

The Project Manager works collaboratively with other teams (PDQ, finance, Supply Chain and Awards including Human Resources). S/He engages with CO senior management and support staff to ensure smooth running of the Project.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: The Project Manager will be responsible for the following.

Manage Strategic alignment.

Work Cross-Functionally to set and achieve Strategic Objectives focused on Improving Children’s Lives.

Ensure strategic alignment and contribution of the Climate Change project to both Country Office and SC global strategic priorities.
Ensure that SMT members are kept appraised/updated of critical and strategic Climate Change project engagements and risks.
Be the focal point person and coordinator of all Climate Change project engagements both at Country Office and with external stakeholders in collaboration with the Director of Programme operations.
Participate in development of climate Change/resilience concept notes for possible funding.
Project Planning and implementation Management.

Responsible for managing the Climate Change project to achieve and report on the results in line with the projects’ Logical Framework.
Disaster Risk Reduction by ensuring, identify assess, and manage the hazards, vulnerabilities and risk that may occur in the project, and escalating any risks that need management to the Director of Operations.
Identify and implement cost-effective risk reduction and or strategies.
Disseminate information and raise awareness about hazards, vulnerabilities and risk that are as results of climate change.
Contribute to the strengthening of resilience and risk reduction due to climate change.
Ensures the development and implementation of rigorous social and behaviour change strategies for the project working with children in all phases from formative stage, through to strategy development, design and community-level engagement.
Provides leadership and design expertise in the rigorous application of Social and Behaviour Change Communication theory, practice, principles and current best practices that achieve measurable results.
Ensure timely submission of quality program annual plans with the respective phased budget aligned with the Country office CSP.
Ensure that all project operations are based on and are in line with the approved annual plan, phased budget, DIP, procurement plan.
Ensure that the Climate Change project is aligned with and meet MEAL requirements, CO KPIs, essential standards and policies.
Budgeting and Financial Management

Responsible for the overall project’s financial and budgetary management. This responsibility includes.

Ensuring that a quality and timely project phased budget aligned with the DIP is in place.
Ensure that project implementation meets the monthly financial performance target (100% burn rate) and annual spending against life of award budget not greater than 100%.
Ensure that all financial policies and regulations relating to cash flow management, expenditure controls, cash management, accounting information, advances management as put in place for the management and control of funds are followed by the staff and partners in implementing the different program activities.
Hold monthly staff meetings to plan and reflect on project roll out.
Financial management – Ensure excellent financial management and accountability in line with SCI policy guidelines.
MEAL and Project Reporting.

Ensure timely and quality project design and study processes which include assessments, baseline, research and evaluations.
Ensure that the project adheres to and meets all quality benchmarks.
Ensure accountability mechanisms are integrated into all aspects of project management structures including information sharing, beneficiary engagement (including children’s participation) and that excellent collection and management of complaints and feedback is conducted in close collaboration with MEAL staff.
Ensure regular monitoring of project results, documentation of project, case studies, lessons learnt, significant changes and best practices and coordinating learning and reflection meetings/sessions.
Ensure functional project monitoring and evaluation systems is in place.
Ensure timely submission of high-quality monthly project progress and end of fiscal year reports which are in accordance with the project reporting schedule and formats/guidelines.
Ensure that issues raised in the reports are comprehensively addressed in a timely manner.
Advocacy Networking and influencing.

Guides and spearheads district level advocacy for children and other vulnerable groups in the Impact Area.
Liaise with PDQ to identify, develop and lead local level advocacy in line with organizational advocacy strategy.
Builds strategic networks, coalitions and alliances on key advocacy issues.
Develops a data base of strategic networks and partnerships for advocacy.
Ensure Advocacy for children integrated in programme and project operations and plans.
Develop strategies for collaborations within the district.
Document lessons and learning’s from advocacy engagements.
Work closely with partners in the districts including the District Health Office, District Education Office to ensure synergy between the country strategy plan and district plans and intervention in addition to organization visibility.
This includes attending key and agrees upon district and Sub- national and national meetings for purpose of advocacy.
Child Safeguarding

Work with Child Safeguarding Focal persons to ensure all CO staff are trained in CS.
Closely review documents and agreements to ensure all partners, contractors, visitors, volunteers etc. comply with CS and a code of conduct standards.
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:

Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same.
Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:

Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.
Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:

Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:

Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Natural Resources Management, Social Science, Agricultural Economics or related discipline. With proven and demonstrated experience in disaster recovery, solid understanding of the concepts and principles of disaster, risk reduction, such as hazards exposure, vulnerability capacity and resilience in Disaster risk Reduction. Management of Humanitarian Response will an added advantage.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

At least 8 years working experience in managing development programmes.
Experience in designing and/or managing natural resources management, climate adaption, Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience programmes.
Experience of designing and managing child-rights and child-led programmes is an advantage.
Experience with social and behaviour change models and strategies and their practical application at the community level to achieve measurable change key areas.
Experience with participatory community-led approaches to design and implementation of programmes.
Experience with adaptive management and learning and reflection-based programming approaches.
Experience with partner capacity assessment, OCD/capacity building of local partners.
Demonstrable financial, planning and budget management skills a MUST. Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
Demonstrated knowledge of international and local policies and frameworks relating to their thematic area is necessary.
Certification or proven experience in project management methodology
Desirable

Thorough understanding of Save the Children working principles and approaches of Child Participation, Child Rights Programming, Partnership, Child Safeguarding, Zero Tolerance, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programme Integration etc.
Ability to intervene with crisis management or troubleshooting as necessary.
Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
Experience with qualitative and digital Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Accountability methodologies and tools (most significant change, outcome mapping/harvesting, Kobo, Power BI, etc.)
Excellent time management and planning capacity.
Excellent planning, coordination and reporting skills, with the ability to organize a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities.
Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are necessary.
Availability and willingness to work extra hours during times of humanitarian responses.
Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.