POD | Project Manager

Palestinian Organization for Development (POD) is a non-governmental, non-profit and independent Organization, founded in Middle governorate - Gaza Strip in 2000. POD works toward social-economic development to perform positive changes in the human life.
POD in partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) starts a program entitled “Envision Gaza 2020”, USAID-funded project, to implement two key activities:

Providing basic humanitarian assistance to extremely vulnerable households in the forms of food and non-food items, and (2) Increasing employment opportunities through short term employment in the form of cash for work, cash for internships and cash for apprenticeships, minor capital investments, and job training.

POD is recruiting candidates for the following position:
 

Project Manager (PM)

Title: Project Manager (PM) - Full-Time
Place: POD Office, Deir Al Balah
Period: 12 months with possible extension
Reports to:  Executive Manager


Tasks and responsibilities:

-Responsible for the overall management of the project, including timely implementation, budget management, staff management, capacity building, and staff career development;
-Effectively supervise the Project Coordinators, Field Monitors and MEAL Monitor.
-Coordinate all activities related to the project, including procurement, community mobilization, beneficiary selection and employer relationship management.
-Provide technical oversight to Livelihood and Humanitarian Assistance activities.
-Monitor all aspects of the project, including implementation and expenditures.
-Utilize monitoring and evaluation tools to measure project outputs and impact.
-Maintain adequate administration and filing systems.
-Write reports in a timely manner.
-Ensure Program Quality standards
-Ensure accountability to project beneficiaries and local stakeholders
-Actively identify opportunities for innovation and project adaptation to improve impact.
-Take part in regular team, program and staff meetings.
-Ensure the timely implementation of all Performance Management steps, including Performance Development Plans, Coaching, and Performance Appraisals.
-Ensure compliance with CRS policies and procedures, including those of administration, procurement and finance.
-Ensure compliance with donor-specific regulations.

Qualifications:

-University degree in international development, business administration, economics, sociology, or related field.
-Minimum Five years of progressively responsible work experience in the field of development, preferably with USAID-funded projects. Significant experience working on humanitarian assistance, livelihoods projects required.
-Demonstrated strengths in relationship management; able to work with diverse groups of people in multicultural, team-oriented environment
-Understands and works with local contexts (operational and cultural)
-Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – fluency in English and Arabic (written and spoken) essential. Demonstrated skills in writing high quality English-language reports required.
-MS Office applications, Word, Excel, Power Point, Spread sheets and other Statistical software.  
-Good organizational skills and ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines
-Strong supervisory skills
-Understands and works with local contexts (operational and cultural).
-Female candidates are strongly encouraged.


HOW TO APPLY

Qualified candidates can submit the following documents 

[email protected]

-Cover Letter (ca. 150 words)include the job title in the Subject.
-The most recent CV ( English & Arabic ) including 3 professional contacts as references.
 
Kindly indicate the job title in the subject line of the email e.g: Project Manager – EN2020

Deadline for submitting applications 07/08/2016, no later than 01:00 p.m. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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