Project Manager at Human Capital Development Intercontinental Platform (HCD+)

Africa (HCD+) is a platform funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and will have the capability to serve as an African voice for advocacy. accountability and transparency on HCD. It will seek to accelerate political commitments, decision-making and funding for key priorities towards realising SDGS #1-6 in Sub-Saharan Africa. It aims to incubate regional advocacy and technical assistance hub on Human Capital Development towards increasing African Government's commitment, funding, and accountability to HCD. The platform, through increased HCD advocacy, focuses on three pillars: (i) Health and Nutrition; (ii) Education, skills and labour participation; (iii) Entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and digital economy.

Also, HCD sits across multiple Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in many African governments. Hence, no organisation holds an integrated vision for HCD. An HCD-focused institution can further help the HCD agenda on the continent. It will focus on four missions: (i) Create transparency on the HCD performance across the continent; (ii) Advocate with heads of state and decision-makers to make HCD a priority; (iii) Ensure effective coordination and collaboration with stakeholders and decision-makers; (iv) Selectively drive the implementation of flagship programs in education, health and economic inclusion. The programme has since commenced its activities in Abuja.

We now seek to engage a qualified professional to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Abuja
Reports to: The Executive Director

Job Description & Responsibilities

• The Project Manager provides administrative, financial, contractual, and management oversight for a portfolio of projects
• S/he will work directly with project and technical leads to ensure projects achieve quality programming and development outcomes.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Accountable for managing project financial and contractual performance targets and leading monthly project financial reviews, technical deliverables, and troubleshooting any issues.
• Works with designated Technical Lead to ensure that technical activities and deliverables are high quality and implemented per the contract of work and approved work plan. scope
• Proactively identifies and analyzes risk areas and advises the relevant stakeholders on preventative measures.
• Managing project budgets and advising on options to keep the budget on track
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, master budget etc.

Qualifications

• Interested candidates must have minimum of the First Degree in any Social Science discipline especially in Economics, Data Science, Statistics and Business
• 8 - 10 years of progressive work experience in program management capacity.
• A Master's Degree or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is an added advantage.
• Demonstrated experience leading and producing competitive proposals.
• Demonstrable experience in the management of program complete life cycle.
• Excellent project planning, management, and monitoring & evaluation skills.

Application Closing Date
30th November, 2022.