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Organisation : ActionAid Thailand

Position : Project Manager (EU COVID-19 Response and Recovery Project) - Urgently Required!

Deadline of submission : 17 July 2020

Project Manager (EU COVID-19 Response and Recovery Project)

ActionAid is an international organization, working with over 25 million people in more than 40 countries for a world free from poverty and injustice. ActionAid Thailand (AAT) is part of the ActionAid International Federation and has been working with people and communities in Thailand for a decade addressing issues related to poverty, human rights, education, and women’s and youth’s empowerment.

Location: Bangkok, Thailand (request to travel on project fields)

Responsibilities:

The main role of the position involves the management of the EU COVID-19 Response and Recovery in Thailand - Nationwide Project. The project Manager will work closely with the partners and team members to serve the objectives and goals of the project, including oversee the project implementation, expansion and M&E to meet the requirements of the donor and ActionAid. 

Fundraising

• Maintain and update donor communications on project status and or changes
• Represent and promote the Project nationally
• Link Project with new and related initiative to promote new funding sources and ActionAid Thailand’ fundraising activities 

Strategy Development and Implementation

• Design and implement the strategy in field of EU COVID-19 Response and Recovery Project at country level
• Ensure the effective implementation of the project related work in accordance with the Country Strategic Paper.
• Ensure project staff and partners on strategically implementing project activities.

Project Implementation

• Develop strategic project implementation plan together with partner organizations and network, and provide coordination and follow-up support
• Extend full support to partner organizations in implementing the project in accordance with contractual requirements
• Manage and resolve any obstacle to deliverables by linking the project and partners to appropriate support, even outside the project specification, e.g. ActionAid Thailand’s mission objectives, impact assessment, etc.
• Ensure all program activities are sensitive to and responsive to changes in political, social, and economic environment in the project area

People Management

• Involve in recruitment of project staff and partners’ project staff
• Providing induction, training, coaching, mentoring and advice to project staff to ensure that they understand and carry out their responsibilities effectively
• Conduct comprehensive performance appraisal of project staff, including coordination of such to the project partners’ staff and provide/obtain feedback if required by donor
• Provide appropriate training to project staff, partner staff, target groups and volunteers when necessary

Partnership Management

• Support in building partnership and maintain good relationship with local government officials, local authorities and other influential stakeholders to support project, activities.
• Maintain regular contact with partners in order to seek feedback from them for continuous improvement of the organization
• Ensure that relationship with partners is in accordance with contract requirement and that the principles of partnership and accountability are maintained throughout project implementation
• As a service to partners, ensure that there is no duplication of activities through coordination with other local agencies
• Coordinate with local government offices and other agencies

System, Policies and Procedures Management

• Familiarize with all donor contract requirements and ensure partners and their project management team understand donor rules and requirements
• Ensure that the project meets all ActionAid Thailand’s internal and external statutory requirements
• Support in policy advocacy and campaign
• Adhere/Comply with approved organizational policies and procedures
• Report/Provided comments to Program and Policy Manager on problems that does not comply with organizational system, procedures in own areas of work

Annual Planning and Budgeting

• Monitor progress against activity workplan to ensure that the project attains its objectives as cost-efficiently as possible
• Provide inputs to annual budgeting and planning development

Monitoring and Evaluation and Report

• Coordinate to design, establish and manage appropriate project monitoring and evaluation framework
• Ensure maintenance of Management Information System related to documentation of the project, including timely delivery of donor financial and narrative reports
• Make report in related fields to AAT, AAI, donors and relevant government agencies
• Maintain all project documentation and archives

Finance Management

• Manage project budget and approve requisitions, advances and expenses
• Control of expenditure and disbursement of resources of the budget in charge to ensure the compliance with financial policy of partners, AAT and donor

Audit/Issue Resolutions, Crisis/Risk Management

• Support the project audit and organizational audit
• Report any risk in own area of work that do not comply with organization policy, procedures and donor’s requirement
• Maintain an awareness of any possible crisis or risk to the organisation funding and donor relations and develop plans that will provide for such contingencies

Qualification & Experience:

Education & Certifications

• Master’s degree in social science, economics, social development studies, and other related fields
• Monitoring and Evaluation certification, is an advantage.

Essential Experience

• At least 5 years relevant experience in a multi-cultural working environment, preferably an INGO.
• Experience in emergency response, developing disaster risk reduction and resilience plan, safe school
• Experience in participatory methodologies
• Experience in project management and M&E

Essential Knowledge

• Extensive knowledge of the system, policies and issues of social security, sustainable agriculture, food security, migrant workers, informal sectors, ethnic minority stateless, women and children rights.
• Knowledge of policies and issues related to Human Rights based approach, and Human Security, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development Goal.

Essential Skills

• Extensive administrative and organizational skills
• Excellent presentation and communications
• Excellent people management skills
• Excellent English and Thai communications: speaking, reading and writing skills
• Good research and analytical skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Documenting, report writing, and project training proposal skills are preferable.

Ability

• Work on own initiative with minimum supervision and to stay on task.
• Able to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Able to travel on project fields

Personalities

• A committed, mature and decisive self-starter with high level of integrity, friendly, and detail focused.
• Thai nationality

How to apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their Resumes with two referees, including a cover letter indicating the dates of availability and salary expectation to email: jobs.thailand@actionaid.org by July 17, 2020, COB at the latest. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. 

Contact: jobs.thailand@actionaid.org