NGO information:

Name: Youth Bridge Development Organization

Website: https://youthb.org/

Location: Sinjar

Position Details:

Position Title: Project Manager

No. of Vacancies: 1

Contract Duration:  12 months

Working Hours: Full-Time (Sunday to Thursday from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM)

Work place (Location):  Sinjar area

Deadline: February 11, 2023

Job Requirements:

-Minimum Education: Bachelor Degree

-Degree Title: Degree in Business/Economics, International Development, or a related field or equivalent work.

-Languages:

  • English language speaking, reading, and writing
  • Arabic language speaking, reading, and writing
  • Kurdish speaking, reading, and writing

–Minimum Experience: 3-5 Years in projects management

 

Responsibilities and Tasks:

The Project Manager at Youth Bridge Development Organization will manage a consortium of 4 local partners and will work with local authorities, international and local organizations, be able to understand and to support the needs of the team, be solution oriented and be prepared to work flexible hours.

-Management Responsibilities

 

  • The project Manager will be responsible for managing, coordinating, and supporting a consortium between Youth Bridge Organization and 3 local NOGs in Sinjar
  • Become the focal point between the donor and the Prime partner Youth Bridge Organization
  • Responsible for all the coordination work with the local authorities departments in Sinjar for the cooperative activities
  • Participate in the planning, design and implementation of all project activities.
  • Cooperate in full harmony and efficiency with the partners of the consortium to guarantee the activities implementation;
  • Prepare monthly reports to the Head of Programs and regularly organize project review meetings
  • To identify issues and discuss solutions with relevant heads of department
  • Conduct monthly monitoring and reporting requirements in accordance with the Log Frame, donor requirements and proposal targets.
  • Collaborate with the MEAL team to ensure adequate project monitoring, including through the implementation of the AAP mechanism, and the prompt integration of any findings and recommendations into the project implementation.
  • Regularly meeting with the local partner to organize joint programmatic activities
  • Monitor partners’ activities to ensure the upholding of the highest quality standards;
  • Review partners technical and financial reports, in collaboration with the project administrator;
  • Plan and organize capacity building activities for the local partner.
  • Manage the assigned project budget and track expenses in close coordination with the Program Coordinator and Finance Manager.
  • Raise required financial and logistics paperwork to ensure required project procurement and programmatic activities.
  • Provide HR support, supervision and capacity development of all project staff.
  • Facilitate weekly project team meetings.
  • Manage the monthly meetings with the community and local authorities network for 12 months and prepare an inclusive report for the needs of the community with accordance of the monthly meeting findings

 

Finance and administration

  • Plan all expenditures, in collaboration with the Head of Programs
  • Regular monitoring all incurred expenditures on the activities’ budget;
  • Supervise accounting and the project cash safe/bank account management and, where there was no dedicated staff, directly manage the accounting and the project cash safe/bank accounts, using the instruments made available by the organization;

Logistics

 

  • Prepare the Purchases Plan, in cooperation with the Head of Programs and the financial staff
  • Ensure the organization and donor’s procedures when purchasing goods and services;
  • To be responsible of the correct management of all goods purchased for the project, both directly and purchased by other offices/field offices;
  • Contribute to strengthen the security assessment and ad hoc procedures, specifically applying the general country procedures to the specific context of the project.

Human resources

 

  • In coordination with the Head of Programs and in compliance with the country’s rules/laws and with the Youth Bridge Organization regulation in the country, select the local staff to be employed in projects, and manages any other project’s expatriate staff;
  • Coordinate and supervise the work done by all the project staff, in compliance with the organization’s security procedures
  • Evaluate the local staff employed for projects and participate to the evaluation of his/her own project, upon request by his/her direct supervisor
  • To be responsible for the initial and continuous training of the local staff under his/her responsibility.

Reporting

  • In coordination with the Head of Programs and with the General Director, ensure the preparation of all financial and narrative reports – interim and final – expected by the project;
  • To be responsible for the preparation of all formal communication and contract modifications requests (ex. budget modification) of the project to the donor.

Institutional relations

  • In relation to the project of his/her competence, communicate with the donors’ officers, the local authorities which are competent in the aspects related to the project, the projects’ partners and beneficiaries;
  • To be a focal point, in coordination with the Head of Programs
  • Attend the UN coordination meetings and represent Youth Bridge Organization in all relevant clusters and working groups, contributing to raise the organization’s profile.

How to Apply:

Note: As soon as we receive a qualified applicant, we will close the application.

Interested applicants need to send their resume on the following email address; hrfin@youthb.org , with a cover letter attached and write “Project Manager / PC- 23-02“in the topic section of the email.

Please note: if you do not use the mentioned steps for applying, your application will not be reviewed and will be disqualified.