Project Manager to lead a high-impact initiative focused on enhancing economic strengthening opportunities for marginalized groups, particularly women. This role is central to driving inclusive growth by addressing systemic barriers such as limited access to finance, markets, and skills development. The Project Manager will spearhead innovative strategies that promote entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and sustainable livelihoods, ensuring that vulnerable populations can participate fully in economic activities. Reporting to the Programs Director, the Project Manager will be responsible and accountable for all aspects of the project, in particular conceptual strategic leadership, high quality deliverables/compliance, documentation and reporting. Working closely with the technical staff, partners and key stakeholders, the Project Manager will be responsible for planning, implementation, and monitoring of the EU-supported Economic strengthening initiatives, ensuring effective delivery of the project and promoting sustainability.

Primary Responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

• Provide strategic guidance and technical leadership to ensure effective delivery of the WEMSES project implementation and ensure alignment with the donor conditions and the broader organizational goals.
•  Coordination and facilitation of community capacity building trainings to bridge knowledge gaps in business management and enterprise development to women and youths’ groups
• Provide leadership to the community mobilization and support for women’s groups to develop business plans, record management and market scanning for development of viable businesses
• Design, develop, and adapt training materials and capacity-building programs focused on women’s economic strengthening and inclusion.
•  Oversee training in entrepreneurship, business management, and financial literacy to overcome financial barriers.
• Address systemic challenges faced by women entrepreneurs, including limited access to finance, markets, and skills development.
• Ensuring that managerial, administrative, and financial procedures comply with donor policies, rules and regulations and ChildFund policies and procedures
•  Ensure the quality and effectiveness of economic strengthening interventions through rigorous oversight and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain strategic programmatic relationships, effectively coordinate and collaborate with key project stakeholders, such as donors, partners and government ministries
• Track progress toward the WEMSES project outcomes and key results areas through outlined performance indicators.
•  Ensure alignment of projects indicators to the overall ChildFund design and implementation of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) frameworks.
• Lead in documentation of successes, challenges and lessons learned with focus on improving program delivery.
• Oversight in preparation of monthly activity schedules, project reports and ensuring that they are submitted on time.
•  Identify and cultivate strategic partnerships to advance the project’s developmental agenda.
•  Supervise and support a team of Project Officers, fostering a high-performing and collaborative environment.
•   Provide coaching, mentoring, and performance management to promote professional growth and team effectiveness.
• Ensure project staff adhere to the organization’s programming principles, procurement, administrative and financial policies and ensure that ethical governance, compliance with legal and ethical standards in governance.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned.

Required Experience and Education

• Grade Twelve Certificate
• A Degree in Development Studies, Economics, Business Management, Agriculture, Project Management or related field.
• 6 to 8 years of experience in project management, preferably in project management within development or economic empowerment programs.
• Proven experience in managing donor funded projects, particularly EU funded projects.
• Experience of developing and testing methodologies for planning, monitoring, and learning in women’s economic empowerment and/or gender transformation.

Required Competencies

ChildFund’s Core Competencies

• Teamwork: the ability to work effectively and collaborate with others; values and respects individual differences.
• Communication: demonstrates empathy and tact when communicating with others and uses a storytelling approach when appropriate.
• Results orientation gets things done; takes proactive steps to achieve organizational goals and quality standards.
• Decision making uses good judgement, critical thinking, and non-traditional ways to evaluate problems and opportunities; reflects and innovates to improve decisions and outcomes.
• Resilience: thrives and grows in rapidly changing, demanding, and complex environments.

Other Required Competencies

• Language proficiency in written and spoken English, with strong communication and report-writing skills
• Project management expertise, including donor-funded (EU) projects and use of project tools/data analysis
• Capacity building in gender inclusion and financial literacy initiatives
• Leadership and coordination with proven stakeholder engagement abilities
• Methodology development for planning, monitoring, learning, and gender transformation
• Analytical and problem-solving strengths with adaptive learning and results-based management
• Independent work under pressure, managing multiple priorities and deadlines
• Training and facilitation delivery and experience

• Provide strategic guidance and technical leadership to ensure effective delivery of the WEMSES project implementation and ensure alignment with the donor conditions and the broader organizational goals.
• Coordination and facilitation of community capacity building trainings to bridge knowledge gaps in business management and enterprise development to women and youths’ groups
• Provide leadership to the community mobilization and support for women’s groups to develop business plans, record management and market scanning for development of viable businesses
• Design, develop, and adapt training materials and capacity-building programs focused on women’s economic strengthening and inclusion.
• Oversee training in entrepreneurship, business management, and financial literacy to overcome financial barriers.
• Address systemic challenges faced by women entrepreneurs, including limited access to finance, markets, and skills development.
• Ensuring that managerial, administrative, and financial procedures comply with donor policies, rules and regulations and ChildFund policies and procedures
• Ensure the quality and effectiveness of economic strengthening interventions through rigorous oversight and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain strategic programmatic relationships, effectively coordinate and collaborate with key project stakeholders, such as donors, partners and government ministries
• Track progress toward the WEMSES project outcomes and key results areas through outlined performance indicators.
• Ensure alignment of projects indicators to the overall ChildFund design and implementation of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) frameworks.
• Lead in documentation of successes, challenges and lessons learned with focus on improving program delivery.
• Oversight in preparation of monthly activity schedules, project reports and ensuring that they are submitted on time.
• Identify and cultivate strategic partnerships to advance the project’s developmental agenda.
• Supervise and support a team of Project Officers, fostering a high-performing and collaborative environment.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and performance management to promote professional growth and team effectiveness.
• Ensure project staff adhere to the organization’s programming principles, procurement, administrative and financial policies and ensure that ethical governance, compliance with legal and ethical standards in governance.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned.

• Language proficiency in written and spoken English, with strong communication and report-writing skills
• Project management expertise, including donor-funded (EU) projects and use of project tools/data analysis
• Capacity building in gender inclusion and financial literacy initiatives
• Leadership and coordination with proven stakeholder engagement abilities
• Methodology development for planning, monitoring, learning, and gender transformation
• Analytical and problem-solving strengths with adaptive learning and results-based management
• Independent work under pressure, managing multiple priorities and deadlines
• Training and facilitation delivery and experience

• Grade Twelve Certificate
• A Degree in Development Studies, Economics, Business Management, Agriculture, Project Management or related field.
• Proven experience in managing donor funded projects, particularly EU funded projects.
• Experience of developing and testing methodologies for planning, monitoring, and learning in women’s economic empowerment and/or gender transformation.