Project Manager- Youth and Skills, Education, CE

Project Manager- Youth and Skills, Education, CE

Role Purpose:

This position leads the successful delivery of youth leadership development project and other activities under education sector portfolio managing project plan, managing client or internal stakeholders, successfully achieving reporting and meeting compliance standards.

Main accountabilities, not limited to the following:

1. Relationship & Stakeholder management

• Has relationships with delivery partners and stakeholders within country and is able to procure services and manage delivery partners.
• Holds suppliers to account for delivering against contract.
• Builds strong internal relationships and networks.
• Supports business development and partnerships development with national and international funders / partners.

2. Commercial and Financial Management

• Ensure sound financial planning, working closely with finance teams to ensure British Council and client financial year plans are up to date.
• Manages and monitors project budget, timely reports risks, including financial and identification of opportunities and mitigation actions.
• Compliance to British Council financial policies and procedures.

3. Project Management

• Contributes to development of, owns and delivers on Project Management Plan.
• Delivers project/programme in compliance with all internal policies and processes (for example British Council’s project management framework, safeguarding, EDI, social value and conflict sensitivity).
• Supports on internal planning and reporting including; risk and issue management, impact reporting and ensuring regional management information requests are met.
• Manages procurement on a project/programme.
• Responsible for data collection and data management including timely data entry, quality assurance of data, undertaking basic analysis of monitoring data, and developing progress reports to meet funding needs.
• Develops impact stories and other communication materials.
• Manages seminars, conferences and workshops under the education sector projects/programmes.
• Supports in project administration as required.

Role specific knowledge and experience:

You should bring along:

• Legal right to work in Nepal.
• Fluency in both written and spoken English/ CEFR level C1.
• University degree in related field
• Experience of managing projects from start to finish and familiarity with project life cycles.
• Understanding of procurement, evaluation and reporting requirements of projects
• Proven experience of managing project finances.
• Experience of managing stakeholders
• More than 3 years working in project or programme management.
• Experience of using technology n project delivery.
• Good understanding and experience of supporting monitoring and evaluation.
• Knowledge and experience of global challenges like the climate change and gender equality is desirable.
• Experience in managing youth leadership development projects would be an advantage.

Additional Requirement:

This role could require some domestic and international travel as required by the programme and some out of hours and evening work responding to or driven by programme/portfolio needs.

Further Information:

Pay band: PB6 Consultant Contract

Location: Kathmandu

Department: Education, Cultural Engagements (CE)

Contract type: Consultant

Duration: Until March 2024

Closing date: 08 October 2023, end of day

To Apply: Fill in the attached Job Application Form, fill in relevant details and share at HR@britishcouncil.org.np

Job Application Form

Please ensure that you mention the position title in the subject when you apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

To be considered for this job, you must already have the right to live and work in Kathmandu. Please be aware that for this role, we are not able to sponsor working visa.

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