iMlango 2 Project Manager at Camara Education Ltd

Basic objective of the Role:

Effective and timely overall management of the Camara project delivery according to agreed project milestones and project plan

Key Responsibilities:

• Planning and Coordination: Identify, manage and coordinate project tasks and timelines to support the project deployment in Kenya
• Develop / maintain full-scale project plans and associated communication documents
• Oversee the project implementation team in the different phases of the project
• Reporting on a weekly basis to key international Camara staff on progress
• Logistics: Provide the project management and lead in cross functional teams to meet challenging project commitments in line with agreed metrics
• Financial Management: Forecast requirements and prepare budgets; schedule expenditures; analyse variances and initiate corrective actions, project finance reporting
• Team Management: Recruit, select, train, assign, schedule and coach teams
• Communications: Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and project partners/stakeholders in a clear and timely fashion.
• Collate and collaborate on necessary donor reporting with key Camara local and global staff on project

Key Competencies:

• Demonstrates passion and enthusiasm for Camara’s vision, and motivates, leads, and empowers others to achieve organisational goals.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams within a project and give direction to fellow team members to complete tasks to a defined timeline.
• Proven experience in successful financial management of projects
• Strong ability to resolve problems and determine system improvements whilst working
• Good understanding of the Kenyan education context
• Excellent communication skills to establish and maintain positive working relationships with schools, partners, government, staff and key stakeholders
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Personal commitment to organisational excellence; displays honesty, integrity, and a strong sense of ethics in all decision and actions
• Is resilient; remains calm and deliberate under conditions of stress
• Has the ability to organise time to the best advantage of Camara.

Person Specification:

• 2 years+ Project/Programme management experience (essential)
• Must have previous experience working in a developing country (essential)
• Fluent in English (essential), knowledge of Swahili an advantage
• All ordinarily resident applicants who are not Kenyan citizens must have the required work and/or permanent residency permits to be eligible for consideration (essential)
• Educated to a degree level (desirable)