World Vision International (WVI) began emergency relief operations in Afghanistan in 2001 by addressing the urgent needs of children and families affected by natural disasters and decades of conflict. More than a decade later, World Vision Afghanistan’s (WVA) programs have expanded to development sectors such as health, nutrition, WASH, child protection, and education, empowering women to engage in civil and social change through interfaith partnership.

WVA targets the most vulnerable in its interventions; including children, women, Internally Displace Persons (IDPs), and returnee refugees, as well as the most impoverished and marginalized families. These priorities have been chosen to contribute to our Goal of: “Improved survival and well-being of Afghan girls and boys, building the foundations for a better future for Afghan children and their communities.” 

Our work is well established in Herat, Badghis, Ghor, and Faryab provinces in the western region of Afghanistan. We work closely with all levels of society including children, parents, teachers, village councils, religious leaders, ministries, provincial departments, and other national and international agencies.

The DAWAM Project Manager (PM) is responsible for the overall management of the multisectorial World Vision FCDO-funded project (Driving Action for Wellbeing to Avert Mortality (DAWAM)) focusing on WASH, Health, and Nutrition sector components to support the most vulnerable populations in the targeted areas of Badghis, Herat, and Faryab Provinces. The PM is charged with leading a professional team of zonal-level sector leads and coordinators in the accomplishment of the objectives as outlined in the grant proposal. Reporting to the Operations and Programs Director, this position has principal responsibility for representing the project to World Vision Afghanistan senior leadership, local government representatives, and other key stakeholders. Key responsibilities include ensuring high-quality implementation of project activities, financial management according to donor requirements and international accounting standards, timely donor and other stakeholder reporting, and an overall contribution to child well-being outcomes. World Vision is priming this award; therefore, the position will require some collaboration with other consortium partners, including building an open and working relationship with partners. The project manager will be the overseer of the WV component of the project, ensuring achievement of project objectives within scope, budget, and timeframe.

Key Performance Indicators and Review 
The FCDO Project Manager position is a key position and vital to World Vision Afghanistan's overall programming. To better guide success in the position, key performance indicators (KPIs) have been designed, which the project manager will assess on a regular basis in coordination with the project director. The measurement of these KPIs will better identify areas of success and attention for the ultimate benefit of the project. These KPIs include:

Providing strategic leadership and oversight for the DAWAM project

1. Ensuring appropriate collaboration between project zonal sector leads and WV support departments
2. Coordination with other key stakeholders within the project implementation locations
3. Technical quality of each sector, coordinating organizational resources to ensure that the project meets its targets and deliverables on time, within budget, and at a high level of quality
4. Ensuring accountability for the agreed project outcomes and overall objectives, including quality and timely reporting of project achievements.
5. Ensuring close cooperation between the project team and WV support departments to ensure that all sectors achieve the required level of integration within the complex project.
6. Build capacity for project staff
7. Attendance at consortium meetings

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

• Demonstrate World Vision’s core values, vision, and mission.
• Build a team of highly committed and competent staff, ensuring cooperation and coordination among relevant staff within the project. Mentor, coach, and provide opportunities for the professional growth of staff that directly report to this position.
• Create a learning environment in which staff within the assigned project regularly reflect, learn from mistakes, and use lessons for personal growth and to revise work plans to improve mission impact.
• Ensure that staff understand and follow the WV safeguarding policy and that awareness-raising on child protection, response, and incident reporting is occurring.

Grant Implementation:

• Ensure a start-up workshop inclusive of all relevant stakeholders.
• Direct and oversee the implementation of the grant, ensuring that the project’s ultimate, intermediate, and immediate outcomes are achieved in line with the detailed implementation plan and the available budget.
• Lead the project team in participatory planning of project implementation activities, ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices, and donor guidelines.
• Provide timely input and contribution to the completion of monthly work plans, monthly, quarterly, and end-of-project reports, and ensure grant management compliance consistent with donor and WV regulations.
• In collaboration with the zonal managers, ensure effective liaison with local government officials, local communities, donor representatives, and other stakeholders, making use of an appropriate accountability framework.
• Provide required documents and tools to support departments, particularly Finance, P&C, Procurement, Logistics, and Procurement, to ensure good practice in the provision of support services.

Staff Supervision, Management and Capacity Building/ Continuous Learning

• Supervise a team of senior national staff with skills across a diverse set of technical areas.
• Develop and maintain an adequate human resource plan consistent with WV policies, donor requirements, and local laws, and ensure the proper technical and operational capacity of staff to manage and implement project initiatives.
• Ensure competent and motivated staff are hired and retained.
• Conduct on-going reviews of staff performance in line with WV's performance management system, ensuring opportunities for staff feedback.
• Ensure proper technical capacity is available by providing training and performance management to project staff.
• WV’s frontline and technical staff are equipped with knowledge, tools, and resources to support project implementation.
• Guide, mentor, and build the capacity of the WV Project staff in order to deliver high-quality outputs.

Budget Management

• Manage the grant budget within approved spending levels for both WV and donors, and ensure accurate and timely financial reports to donors and key management staff at World Vision.
• In conjunction with the finance team, ensure grant and project compliance whereby project expenditures are reasonable, allocable, prudent, and spent in accordance with donor rules and regulations to ensure compliance with an external audit.

Monitoring, Reporting, Documentation and Knowledge Management, and Compliance

• Maintain effective project quality assurance mechanisms, including a monitoring system for tracking project progress against indicators, activities, and key project milestones, reporting, evaluation, and communication systems.
• Conduct routine visits to all project sites for purposes of monitoring and operational support.
• Submit timely, accurate, and quality reports that meet donor requirements.
• Develop standard operating procedures for monitoring, reporting, documentation, and knowledge management, including the establishment of standard tools and systems for documentation and information sharing of project progress, best practices, lessons learned, and success stories.

Coordination and strengthened partnership

• Foster participatory planning and monitoring by engaging primary stakeholder groups in all stages of the project, from project inception to project close-out.
• Establish strong communication and working relationships between the project team and other WV support departments.
• Create an enabling environment for dialogue, information sharing, partnerships, and cooperation when delivering project interventions.
• Represent World Vision in the local coordination forums and liaise with government officials and other partners wherever appropriate and required.
• In conjunction with other stakeholders, effectively advocate for changes to standards, policies, and legislation based on insights and demands from targeted communities.
• Effectively represent WV operations and mission when accompanying visitors, e.g., donor and/or government representatives, journalists, and other delegations, to project sites.

Other

• Adhere to WV Child and Adult Safeguarding policy and standards.
• Adhere to WV accountability standards.
• To be aware and prepared to implement WV Afghanistan Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs plan under the context of WASH, Livelihoods, and Health interventions.

While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the duties involved in this position, World Vision reserves the right to add, remove or alter duties when necessary

Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification

1. Degree in Project Management, Development fields, humanitarian field, social sciences, Livelihoods, Engineering or relevant field
2. Training certificates in project management, budget management, 
3. Strong understanding of FCDO guidance and previous experience working with FCDO funded project
4. Report writing, monitoring and supervision skills
5. Familiarity with and a supportive attitude towards processes of strengthening local organisations and building local capacities for self-management
6. Willingness to undertake regular field visits and interact with different stakeholders, especially primary stakeholders
7. Strong leadership and management skills
8. Strong mediation and conflict resolution skills
9. Ability to productively, effectively work across organizations, locations, and cultures.
10. Excellent written and oral English skills (Ability to express ideas clearly both in written and spoken English)
11. Strong analytical skills

Required Professional Experience

1. Minimum of 3 years working in multi sector, multimillion grant management within a dynamic humanitarian context (preferably within Ghor, Badghis, Faryab and Herat operational locations)
2. Minimum of 5 years of leadership experience in project management
3. Previous experience of working in the areas related to WASH, Health and, Nutrition
4. Previous experience working in managing multi sector projects preferred

Required Language(s)

1. English (fluent written and verbal abilities),
2. Dari (fluent written and verbal abilities) –

Required travel and/or work environment accommodations

Accessibility to the below mentioned areas/locations is required 

The travel will be required in Northern, Western, Southern, and Central Highlands Regions; Ghor, Faryab, Provinces; the position requires 40% of travel to those locations for supervision and monitoring purposes;

Preferred Experience,  Knowledge and/or other Qualifications

1. Ability to maintain focus and achieve outcomes under pressure
2. Stakeholder management, relationship building, and networking
3. Understanding of programme design process, and monitoring/evaluation frameworks
4. Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse contexts and delivering results working under minimum supervision.

The application closing date is 07-Aug-2024. Qualified applicants can apply for the position by filling in the online application form in WV Career portal. applicants can also attach their CV and cover letter in the online system. Please note that only the applications received through the online portal will be considered for this position.

Applicants can login to WV online application system by copying and pasting the following link into their

Submission Email:

https://worldvision.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WorldVisionInternational/details/Project-Manager_JR34255