The Project Manager provides program management support in the overall management, operation and coordination of USAID-funded activities, ensuring smooth implementation of the activities in accordance with the standards set out by donor and organization. They helps to ensure a seamless program planning, monitoring and delivery, team management, quality control and evaluation, including providing solutions to problems.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND SCOPE
- Geographic size and scope are that of a larger, complex business unit and/or a program that requires cross-boundary work and relationships.
- Establishes and maintains optimal performance standards within budget.
- Writes requests for proposals (RFPs) for grant/contract funding for the program.
- Frequently makes independently strategic decisions based on analysis, ambiguous information, and context.
- Negotiates complex agreements, in a political environment.
- May be responsible for leading or co-leading a whole system program.
- Frequent travel domestically and/or internationally, evening and weekend hours.
- May work in variable weather conditions, at remote locations, on difficult and hazardous terrain, and under physically demanding circumstances.