Announcement about vacancy for the provision of project manager

International Non-Governmental Organisation EuroBelarus announces recruitment for the vacancy for the position of project manager within the framework of an international project “OCTOPUS: Education For Belarusian Children today and tomorrow”.

Indicative start date of the assignment: September 2022.

Type of contract: 26 months consultancy contract with International Non-Governmental Organisation EuroBelarus (with possibility of extension).

Duty station: Vilnius, Lithuania; trips to Warsaw, Poland.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Manage the project in close cooperation with the project partners;
• Ensure timely implementation, monitoring and reporting on project progress and results;
• Supervise financial management, procurement processes;
• Ensure proper budget management;
• Ensure the general coordination with and among the project partners and other stakeholders;
• Maintain good track record of the project documentation;
• Coordinating the project’s core team work, the project’s staff performance assessment;
• Represent the project at meetings and events;
• Set up project internal systems; proactively seek optimisation and efficiency;
• Reviewing reports from partners, assuring reports quality, compilation of reports;
• Drafting reports to the Contracting Authority;
• Identify collaborative opportunities with external stakeholders to maximise outcomes and to build strategic partnerships;
• Monitoring project risks and ensure their mitigation;
• Ensure smooth day-to-day operation of the project;
• Ensuring consistency between policy, research and communication parts of the project;
• Organising internal monitoring and evaluation and external evaluation of the project;
• Instructing the project staff about implementation and reporting requirements;
• Other tasks delegated by the project Board within the area of responsibility of the project manager.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Master's degree in humanity studies, education, management or other relevant discipline;
• Demonstrated 5-years experience in managing international or other complex multi-stakeholder projects;
• Good knowledge and proven work experience in formal or informal education;
• Team-leader skills (moving a programme forward with discipline and creativity);
• Ability to work with and reconcile the views of diverse organisations and individuals;
• Proven experience working with the European Commission or the EU Delegation;
• Proven track record working with or as part of a civil society organisation;
• Ability to function effectively in a geographically dispersed team;
• Experience of working in Belarus;
• Experience in setting up procedures and regulations in a new project;
• Ability to work under minimal supervision with high level of resilience; 
• Ability to exercise the highest level of discretion and confidentiality in carrying out the duties;
• Result-based report-writing skills;
• Excellent knowledge of English and Belarusian.

Applications must be sent to e-mail: [email protected].

Deadline: 30 August 2022.

Only short-listed candidates will be invited for an interview.