Combined Project Manager - PSM SOW

ABOUT THE COMPANY

A leading global health and nutrition organization dedicated to improving the health and nutritional outcomes of pregnant women, infants, and young children.

Engagement Type: This is a full-time role offered on a contractual basis, with the successful candidate engaged as an independent contractor.

About the role:

The Project Manager will provide regional programme coordination, implementation oversight, governance support, and performance tracking across Anglophone Africa, covering Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia. The role will work closely with country teams, consortium partners, technical teams, and regional and global leadership to ensure effective programme delivery, timely reporting, and accountability for commitments

The successful candidate will also coordinate internal and external governance processes, track risks and bottlenecks, and support collaboration across teams to ensure programme activities remain aligned with agreed plans, deliverables, and strategic priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Regional Programme Coordination and Implementation : (Anglophone Africa (Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia) - (60%)

Regional and cross-organizational coordination: Facilitate coordination and information sharing across country teams, consortium partners, and regional and global leadership.

Programme planning and implementation: Support the development and use of programme planning and reporting tools, monitor implementation progress, and flag delays or activities requiring intervention.

Country team coordination: Work closely with country teams to understand implementation plans, convene monthly review meetings, track action points, and ensure timely follow-up on outstanding issues.

Programme delivery and quality assurance: Support country teams in producing high-quality operational deliverables and coordinate reviews with relevant technical and monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) teams before sign-off.

Monitoring, evaluation and learning: Coordinate country inputs for monitoring and evaluation activities, monthly M&E updates, knowledge management outputs, programme reports, and other ad hoc materials.

Knowledge management: Consolidate programme insights, document lessons learned, and synthesize implementation updates to inform regional and global leadership decisions.

Donor reporting and engagement: Coordinate the collation of country-level inputs for donor reports and support the preparation of materials for donor, church, and area-lead meetings.

Issue escalation and support: Identify implementation challenges and route requests for technical or operational support to the appropriate programme leadership teams.

2. Coordination, Governance and Performance Tracking (40%)

Governance coordination: Coordinate schedules, agendas, and follow-up actions for the organization's participation in leadership team meetings, programme leadership team meetings, and steering committee engagements.

Commitment tracking: Maintain a tracker of organizational commitments arising from governance and leadership meetings and follow up with responsible teams to ensure timely completion.

Risk and bottleneck management: Maintain a live risk and bottleneck log, identify emerging delivery challenges, and support timely escalation and resolution.

Meeting management: Prepare agendas, document meeting discussions, and circulate minutes and action points for internal weekly meetings and relevant leadership engagements.

Performance dashboards: Develop and maintain a consolidated tracking dashboard to provide visibility into programme progress, outstanding actions, risks, and key deliverables.

Accountability and follow-through: Work with team leads and relevant stakeholders to ensure decisions are translated into clear actions, assigned responsibilities, and measurable progress.

Required Qualifications and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Public Health, Development Studies, International Relations, Social Sciences, or a related field.

A postgraduate qualification or professional certification in project or programme management is an added advantage.

At least 5 years of relevant experience in project management, programme coordination, implementation oversight, or a similar role.

Experience coordinating multi-country programmes, regional initiatives, or projects involving multiple implementing partners.

Demonstrated experience in programme planning, monitoring, reporting, risk management, and tracking deliverables.

Experience coordinating donor reporting and consolidating inputs from multiple teams or country offices.

Strong meeting coordination, documentation, action tracking, and stakeholder management skills.

Experience working with monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks and knowledge management processes.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and experience maintaining project trackers and dashboards.

Key Competencies

Project and programme management: Ability to coordinate multiple workstreams, manage competing priorities, and maintain progress against timelines.

Stakeholder engagement: Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively across countries, teams, and partner organizations.

Planning and organization: Excellent coordination, documentation, and follow-through, with strong attention to detail.

Analytical and problem-solving skills: Ability to identify delivery risks, synthesize information, and escalate issues appropriately.

Communication and reporting: Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to consolidate inputs into clear reports and leadership updates.

Accountability and execution: A proactive approach to tracking commitments, following up on action points, and ensuring deliverables are completed.

Collaboration and adaptability: Ability to work across different country contexts, organizational structures, and stakeholder groups.

Measures of Success

Effective coordination and alignment across country teams and consortium partners.

Timely completion of programme deliverables, reports, and governance commitments.

Consistent monitoring of implementation progress, risks, and bottlenecks.

High-quality reporting and synthesis of programme performance and learning.

Improved visibility of programme status through accurate trackers and dashboards.

Strong follow-through on decisions, action points, and identified support needs.

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