Project Manager

Help - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe, is seeking a Project Manager for an anticipated USAID-BHA funded Action against hunger and food insecurity (Aahfis) Project in Zimbabwe. The Aahfis will seek to sustainably improve the humanitarian food insecurity situation in Gwanda rural district. The estimated implementation timeframe for the Aahfis is 20232024.

Hiring is contingent upon successful award of the project and USAID approval of the candidate.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

The proposed program will be an integrated, humanitarian food assistance and drought mitigation intervention. The Project Manager is responsible for the management and representation of the activity, and is ultimately accountable for the delivery of desired program results, an effective adaptive management approach, and relationships with a range of stakeholders, and management of the program team and implementing partner staff.

• Lead program planning, putting in place team structures, technical and operational approaches, infrastructure, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and feedback loops required for program delivery and success.
• Lead partnerships within the project implementation team, as well as with external stakeholders as needed, to create the team work required for program success.
• Coordinate the project assessments including the baseline, ensuring that these inform revisions to the program’s design (including its theory of change), scope, targeting methodology and approach.
• Represent the program to donor officials, government officials, partner representatives, local stakeholders, and team members.
• Review, internalise and work with program implementation team to successfully execute program strategies such as the M&E Plan, the Gender Strategy, and other technical or thematic strategies. Provide oversight and quality control to the program’s thematic approaches and implementation, leading course corrections as required.
• Lead quarterly planning processes as well as compiling progress reports and associated ad hoc donor data/documentation requests.
• Ensure the quality of all program deliverables, inclusive of activities, outputs, documentation and reporting.
• Ensure sound field financial management and reporting, working in liaison with the Help finance team.
• Ensure sound program logistical and operational structures and management.
• Ensure compliance with USAID, Zimbabwean government and Help policies and procedures.
• Demonstrate a commitment to gender and youth integration in both the programmatic and operational aspects of the activity.
• Ensure that the program deploys an effective collaborating, learning and adapting approach, such that the activity is able to evolve in a changing context to achieve desired outcomes.
• Responsible for all other aspects related to efficiency and effectiveness of program implementation.

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (development studies, international relations, agriculture, economics, nutrition, public health, business administration, etc.) combined with at least 10 years of progressively responsible experience leading and implementing USAID or other donor-funded international development programs. A master’s degree will be an asset.
• Specific technical expertise in food assistance, climate change mitigation, and resilience programming and knowledge of the USAID
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with the Zimbabwean and local government structures, other donor-funded projects and stakeholders, local organizations, and partners.
• Proven ability to lead multi-sectoral, complex programs of a similar size and scope in rural Zimbabwe.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting, developing, and managing staff, as well as experience managing programmatic and operational reporting.
• Ability and willingness to travel frequently.
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills in English. Candidates possessing good spoken and written Ndebele skills and with experience working in Matabeleland will have a distinct advantage.

Help – Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe is an international aid organisation. Our goal is a world in which all people can live self-determined lives in dignity and security.

 We provide help that keeps giving – and thus makes a difference.

We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, ancestry, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or any other status. Help complies with all applicable laws.

Submission of applications:

Interested candidates should send their CV and applications to: mhlanga@help-ev.de Deadline for applications: 26/08/2023.

We thank all applicants; however, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews.