Position: Project Manager (Premium Job)

Job Description

Role Purpose

This role manages the implementation of the British Council’s Road to COP26’s extension activities under Arts business unit stewardship. The Project Manager ensures successful delivery of scale, reach and impact in line with the country, regional and corporate strategies.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining delivery chain and timeline
• Stakeholder Management
• Mediating key partnerships
• Grant Management
• Risk Management
• Reporting progress/impact

Main Duties

• Maintain British Council’s project management framework, and ensure corporate quality standards for effective delivery.
• Responsible for the delivery and management of contracts with all partners and suppliers ensuring that it is managed to both End Client and British Council standards.
• Serve as the focal point for the project and ensure consistent communication, and coordination between internal and external project stakeholders.
• Oversee project finance planning ensuring compliance and work with Project Finance Manager to oversee external and internal reporting, budget management and forecasting including invoicing and maintaining cash flow and expenditure plan. Manage project finances through the British Council’sSAP platform
• Draft monthly progress reports and coordinate meetings with Project Board to review tasks, issues, and risks
• Report to Project Lead and key stakeholders both internally and externally on targets, monitoring and evaluation results andoutcomes.
• Maintain a risk register and escalate actions as necessary with support from Project Board
  Manage procurement processes and documentation for planned expenses. Manage vendors for duration of project cycle.
• Manage grant projects awarded by the project, by creating direct lines of communication with grantees and institute checks and controls to ensure timely and effective outputs
• Support recruitment of third-pay consultants (both national and international) as required by project activities
• Work with other SBUs to improve programmeperformance throughcollaboration
• With support from the marketing and communications team ensure effective marketing and promotion of project outputs and impact internally and externally

Job Specification

Requirements of the role:

• The post holder will understand and make decisions which are affected by our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion policy. Additionally, he/she will exploit the opportunities brought by diversity and build them into all planning.
• The post holder will understand the importance of child protection and ensure that policies and processes are in place to offer maximum protection of young people at all relevant events and venues and ensure compliance with BC Child Protection policies.
• The post holder will need to be flexible in terms of occasional in-country and/or international travel and weekend and evening work.

You must have the legal right to work in Nepal at the time of application. Please note that we are not able to sponsor a working visa for this role.

Apply Instruction

Send your CV and Cover Letter to [email protected]