Project Manager-SomRep -Mogadishu

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Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Project Manager-SomRep-Mogadishu

The Role Summary:

The Project Manager is responsible for the overall coordination, delivery, quality assurance, and performance management of assigned SomReP projects and programme components. The position provides leadership in programme planning, implementation, partner coordination, budget oversight, donor compliance, risk management, reporting, and adaptive programme management. The Project Manager ensures that activities are implemented on time, within approved budgets, and in accordance with contractual requirements, technical standards, SomReP strategies, government priorities, and community needs. Working closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Research, and Learning team, the Project Manager ensures that programme indicators, targets, monitoring requirements, and evidence needs are integrated into implementation plans. The role reviews programme data, monitoring findings, community feedback, financial performance, and evaluation results to identify gaps, explain performance variances, support corrective actions, and inform management decisions. The Project Manager also ensures that partners provide timely, accurate, complete, and verifiable reports supported by appropriate evidence. The position leads engagement with relevant federal, Federal Member State, district, and local government institutions throughout programme planning, implementation, monitoring, review, and learning. This includes promoting alignment with government policies and systems, facilitating joint monitoring and programme reviews, strengthening government ownership, and supporting institutional capacity and sustainability. The Project Manager facilitates collaboration among consortium members, government institutions, donors, technical teams, and other stakeholders to ensure that SomReP interventions are coordinated, evidence driven, accountable, and capable of delivering measurable and sustainable resilience outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Programme planning and delivery

• Lead the preparation and consolidation of annual, quarterly, and monthly implementation plans.
• Translate approved proposals, results frameworks, budgets, and technical designs into practical implementation plans.
• Coordinate the sequencing and integration of activities across partners, locations, and technical areas.
• Track activities, outputs, milestones, procurement requirements, and contractual deliverables.
• Conduct regular implementation reviews and follow up agreed actions.
• Identify delays, gaps, dependencies, and operational constraints affecting delivery.
• Coordinate corrective actions and revisions to implementation arrangements.
• Ensure activities respond to community priorities and changing contextual conditions.

Monitoring, evaluation, accountability, research, and learning.

• Work with the MEAL team to integrate indicators, targets, monitoring requirements, and evidence needs into implementation plans.
• Review programme performance against output, outcome, and impact indicators.
• Analyze monitoring data, assessments, evaluations, research findings, financial performance, and community feedback.
• Identify performance gaps and investigate the factors contributing to overachievement or underachievement.
• Facilitate programme performance reviews and joint interpretation of results.
• Ensure partners submit complete, accurate, timely, and verifiable programme data.
• Ensure adequate supporting evidence is maintained for reported results.
• Participate in field monitoring, joint monitoring visits, evaluations, assessments, and verification exercises.
• Track implementation of evaluation recommendations and management actions.
• Promote the use of evidence for programme adaptation, targeting, resource allocation, and technical improvement.
• Support documentation of lessons, case studies, innovations, good practices, and programme learning.
• Ensure community feedback and complaints inform programme improvement.

Government engagement and institutional strengthening

• Lead engagement with relevant federal, Federal Member State, district, and local government institutions.
• Ensure programme interventions align with government policies, strategies, plans, systems, and coordination structures.
• Facilitate government participation in programme planning, implementation, monitoring, review, and learning.
• Coordinate joint monitoring visits, technical reviews, validation exercises, and performance discussions with government counterparts.
• Support government participation in programme governance and decision-making structures.
• Clarify roles, responsibilities, commitments, and expectations between SomReP and government institutions.
• Identify government capacity gaps and coordinate relevant technical support, training, mentoring, and system strengthening.
• Promote information sharing, joint analysis, and use of programme evidence by government institutions.
• Support integration and institutionalization of relevant programme approaches, systems, tools, and learning.
• Address coordination challenges and implementation barriers involving government stakeholders.
• Promote government leadership, ownership, accountability, and sustainability of programme interventions.

Consortium and partner coordination

• Coordinate consortium members, implementing partners, local partners, and technical teams.
• Ensure partners understand programme objectives, workplans, targets, standards, budgets, and reporting requirements.
• Convene programme coordination meetings, implementation reviews, and planning sessions.
• Monitor partner performance against agreed plans, budgets, targets, and contractual commitments.
• Maintain and follow up action trackers arising from partner and programme meetings.
• Identify and address duplication, implementation gaps, inconsistent approaches, and coordination challenges.
• Facilitate resolution of operational and technical issues affecting partner performance.
• Promote collaboration, complementarity, information sharing, and joint accountability among partners.
• Support capacity strengthening of partners in programme management, compliance, reporting, and quality assurance.
• Escalate significant partner performance concerns to senior management.

Budget and resource management

• Support development of programme budgets, spending plans, forecasts, and procurement plans.
• Monitor expenditure against approved budgets, activities, outputs, and implementation progress.
• Review financial reports and budget variances with finance and partner teams.
• Analyse whether expenditure levels are consistent with programme performance.
• Coordinate corrective action for delayed, excessive, or misaligned expenditure.
• Support budget revisions, reallocations, cost extensions, and financial forecasting.
• Ensure expenditure is allowable, reasonable, properly documented, and linked to approved activities.
• Coordinate timely procurement of goods, services, consultants, and operational support.
• Promote efficiency, economy, effectiveness, equity, and value for money.
• Identify resource gaps that may affect programme delivery.

Donor compliance, reporting, and communication.

• Maintain a schedule of donor reports, contractual deliverables, milestones, and commitments.
• Coordinate preparation and consolidation of narrative reports, programme updates, presentations, and management briefs.
• Review partner reports for accuracy, completeness, consistency, evidence, and analytical quality.
• Ensure reported achievements correspond with monitoring data, supporting evidence, and expenditure.
• Ensure reports explain progress, challenges, risks, adaptations, variances, and lessons.
• Monitor compliance with donor agreements, approved proposals, consortium arrangements, and organizational policies.
• Coordinate donor visits, programme reviews, audits, evaluations, and verification exercises.
• Track and follow up donor feedback, audit recommendations, and management actions.
• Prepare timely responses to donor and management information requests.
• Support communication of programme results to donors, government, partners, and other stakeholders.

Technical quality and integrated programming.

• Work with technical advisers to ensure programme activities meet agreed technical standards.
• Facilitate technical review of programme approaches, tools, guidelines, training materials, and partner deliverables.
• Ensure resilience, gender equality, disability inclusion, conflict sensitivity, environmental sustainability, and protection are integrated into implementation.
• Promote coherent integration of livelihoods, early warning, anticipatory action, disaster risk management, natural resource management, social protection, and governance interventions.
• Ensure targeting and community engagement processes are inclusive, transparent, and context appropriate.
• Promote application of research findings, evaluations, technical guidance, and lessons in programme delivery.
• Identify technical quality gaps and coordinate corrective support.

Risk management and adaptive programme management.

• Maintain programme risk registers, issue logs, mitigation plans, and action trackers.
• Identify operational, financial, contextual, security, safeguarding, reputational, and compliance risks.
• Monitor climatic, conflict, displacement, access, market, and political developments affecting implementation.
• Assess the implications of emerging risks for activities, budgets, staff, partners, and communities.
• Coordinate mitigation measures, contingency arrangements, and programme adaptations.
• Ensure changes to programme plans, budgets, targets, or approaches are analysed, documented, approved, and communicated.
• Escalate significant risks and unresolved issues to the appropriate management level.

Team leadership, safeguarding, and accountability.

• Supervise, coach, and support assigned programme staff.
• Develop individual workplans, performance objectives, and professional development actions.
• Monitor staff performance and provide regular feedback.
• Promote collaboration between programme, technical, MEAL, finance, operations, communications, and security teams.
• Identify staffing and capacity gaps and coordinate appropriate support.
• Promote a respectful, inclusive, accountable, and results focused working culture.
• Ensure programme activities comply with safeguarding, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, child protection, fraud prevention, and code of conduct requirements.
• Ensure community feedback and complaint mechanisms are safe, accessible, confidential, and responsive.
• Promote responsible management and protection of programme and personal data.
• Escalate safeguarding, accountability, and ethical concerns through approved procedures.

Essentials:

• Master’s Degree in in development studies, international development, project management, economics, agriculture, natural resource management, disaster risk management, humanitarian studies, public administration, or another relevant discipline.
• A bachelor’s degree with substantial relevant programme management experience may be considered
• At least three to five years of experience in programme or project management within humanitarian, development, resilience, climate adaptation, food security, livelihoods, or disaster risk management programmes.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi partner, multi sector, or consortium programmes.
• Experience managing donor funded programmes, including workplans, budgets, compliance, reporting, and contractual deliverables.
• Experience working in fragile, conflict affected, drought affected, or displacement contexts.
• Experience coordinating with government institutions, international organisations, local partners, donors, and community structures.
• Demonstrated experience using monitoring data, assessments, research, and learning to inform programme decisions.
• Experience managing programme budgets, expenditure forecasts, procurement requirements, and financial variances.
• Previous experience working in Somalia or a comparable context is strongly preferred.
• Experience in resilience programming, early warning, anticipatory action, livelihoods, social protection, climate adaptation, governance, or natural resource management is desirable.
• Strong knowledge of programme cycle management, results-based management, and adaptive management.
• Strong understanding of resilience, humanitarian, development, and climate adaptation programming.
• Ability to coordinate complex programmes involving multiple partners, sectors, locations, and stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret programme, financial, monitoring, and contextual information.
• Strong report writing, presentation, facilitation, and communication skills.

Working Environment

• Office-based in Mogadishu, Somalia with domestic travel required from time to time.

World Vision adheres to strict child and adult safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks which will include criminal background checks. They will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Academic certificates will be verified with the issuing institution.

Female Candidates are encouraged to apply.

NB: When applying only attach your merged application letter and CV

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only