Project Manger (01) at Hunger Fighters Uganda (HFU), Kyangwali Field Office
Job Description
- JOB TITLE: PROJECT MANAGER (01) Job Location: Kyangwali Field Office Employment Type: Contract
Reporting: Team Leader
Job Purpose:
The key objective of the roles of the Project Manager’s work is to assist project teams with the coordination of resources, equipment, meetings, and information. He/she organizes projects with the goal of getting them completed on time and within budget.
Project Manager shall be responsible for ensuring the schedules, budget and details of a given project tasks are well organized. He/she communicate with various departments to keep everyone on board about any changes within the project plan.
In addition, he/she shall organize reporting, plan meetings and provide updates to project line management.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensuring projects adhere to implementation frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for the project.
- Maintaining and monitoring project work plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and expenditures.
- Organizing, attending and participating in project stakeholder meetings.
- Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from field meetings.
- Preparing necessary presentation materials for field meetings
- Ensuring project timelines are met.
- Assess and regularly report resource utilization in line with best value for money practices.
- Providing field administrative support as needed.
- Develop project strategies
- Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable.
- Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution.
- Chair, participate-in and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members and other relevant officers.
- Participate in Procurement evaluations for project goods and services
- Create a field management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective. 2
- Coordinate project management activities, resources, equipment and information
- Break projects into doable actions and set timeframes
- Liaise with the project management to identify and define requirements, scope and objectives
- Assign tasks to internal project teams and assist with schedule management
- Make sure that project needs are met as project evolve
- Help prepare short- and long-term budgets.
- Oversee project procurement management
- Monitor project progress and handle any issues that arise
- Act as the point of contact and communicate project status to all participants
- Work with the Project team leader to eliminate blockers
- Adopt and promote use of appropriate tools to monitor project working hours, plans and expenditures
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports
- Ensure standards and requirements are met through conducting project quality assurance.
- Participate in project resource mobilization.
- Prepare weekly, monthly and annual reports within stipulated timeline and of stipulated quality
- Perform any other related duties as required
Requirements and skills
- BSc in Business Administration, Social Sciences or related field with not less than 5
years’ experience in projects project implementation
- Post-Graduate Qualification in Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation is an added advantage.
- Proven work experience of project management or similar role
- Experience in project management, from conception to delivery
- Have the ability to prepare and interpret flowcharts, schedules and step-by-step project action plans
- Solid organizational skills, including multitasking and time-management
- Strong client-facing and teamwork skills
- Familiarity with project risk management and quality assurance control
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project and Microsoft Planner
• Hands-on experience with project management tools
