Project Management Assistant at African Wildlife Foundation

Description

Reporting to the Senior Officer, Project Management, the Project Management Assistant will provide support in tracking project management and delivery, reviewing project progress, monitoring project risks and change and documenting lessons learned. The position will be based in Nairobi, AWF headquarters.

Responsibilities:

• Provide project management support by developing detailed work plans, tracking implementation progress and key deliverables.
• Ensure work plans are uploaded into the project management system (Envisio), inclusive of projected activities due dates, expected deliverables, resources and allocated budgets.
• Support compilation and review of reports and means verification documentation ensuring adherence to stipulated guidelines.
• Maintain a repository of documented project implementation deliverables including internal progress reports, means of verification documentation and technical donor reports on Box.
• Work with the Senior Officer, Project Management to train users of Envisio to ensure better use of AWF’s project management system.
• Run periodic project performance and progress report dashboards from Envisio to be shared with project leads.
• Assist Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team with tracking and following up on data collection requirements of each project, ensuring both donor and AWF compliance.
• Upload project performance metrics on Envisio, design and update dashboards from data collected from projects.
• Maintain and update the project risk and issues management logs.
• Produce reports from Envisio highlighting implementation status, deviations from actual plans and areas requiring action.
• Perform any other tasks assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Project Management, International Relations, Business Administration, Environmental Studies or any closely related field.
• 2 years’ experience in project/program management.
• NGO experience preferred.
• Strong planning, coordination and analytical skills.
• Computer literacy to use all MS Office Packages i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience in project management software/system is an added advantage.
• Proficiency in report writing.
• Attention to detail.