Overview
The Project Manager will be responsible for the strategic and adaptive leadership of LoGIC project management, ensuring results-based planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide overall management oversight to ensure project implementation is on track and in line with the project document, approved Annual Work Plan (AWP) and results framework.
- Manage financial and human resources with accountability to the Project Board / Project Steering Committee (PSC) and UNDP and/or UNCDF, ensuring full compliance with UNDP's financial rules and regulations.
- Monitor financial resources and accounting to ensure accuracy and reliability of financial reports.
- Lead the preparation of annual work plans, budgets, procurement plans and operational plans; oversee timely and quality implementation.
- Manage the project team to ensure a clear division of labour, setting of specific quarterly and annual targets for all personnel, including performance planning and evaluation.
- Manage risks and issues; execute adaptive management in consultation with the Programme Analyst and the ARR/Cluster Lead.
- Ensure project quality assurance processes are executed to the highest standards.
- Champion UNDP’s zero-tolerance standards on sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment and fraud; ensure social and environmental safeguards, duty of care and accountability-to-affected-populations measures are embedded across the project.
- Prepare and ensure timely submission of high quality monthly, quarterly and annual progress reports, donor reports, Project Implementation Reports (PIR), FACE forms and other reporting as required.
- Facilitate the functioning of the Project Board/PSC and other governance mechanisms; provide secretariat support including convening meetings, preparing documentation and circulating notes and decisions.
- Oversee procurement of goods and services; finalize Terms of Reference for consultants and service providers; coordinate with UNDP/UNCDF’s Operations on recruitment and contracting.
- Ensure project records, asset registers and documentation are maintained to the required standards.
- Facilitate government, donor and UNDP/UNCDF’s regional/HQ field missions and reviews as applicable.
- Provide technical oversight and quality assurance across all project outputs; review and contribute to all outputs and deliverables.
- Identify stakeholders and implementation partners; develop and implement a stakeholder engagement and partnership strategy.
- Establish and maintain strategic relationships with Government counterparts (central and local), UN agencies, civil society organizations, the private sector and development partners.
- Supervise and guide the work of consultants, experts and service providers; oversee compliance with agreed work plans and deliverables.
- Ensure that the project draws from and collaborates with other UNDP/UNCDF’s programmes and portfolios, avoiding duplication and maximizing synergies.
- Promote integration of cross-cutting themes including gender equality, social inclusion, disability, climate resilience and human rights-based approaches in all project activities.
- Introduce and maintain feedback mechanisms and open communication channels to ensure that the needs of target groups are reflected in project planning and implementation.
- Analyse and consolidate project results and provide results-based reporting at outcome and impact levels.
- Ensure programme outputs are aligned procedurally with UNDP-UNCDF positions and practice area development; Provide intellectual inputs in the subject area through identification of key policy issues and formulation of best possible and alternative policy and programme options for Bangladesh.
- Stimulate strategic thinking in the subject area, taking into account the needs of country as well as the opportunities to develop broader public goods.
- Lead capacity development activities targeted at government counterparts, civil society and other relevant stakeholders.
- Provide technical and policy advisory inputs to government partners on thematic areas covered by the project.
- Participate in inter-agency coordination mechanisms, technical working groups and high-level policy dialogues to represent UNDP/UNCDF and LoGIC project.
- Coordinate with relevant development partners and donors on issues related to the project; liaise with government focal persons for smooth coordination.
- Contribute to national policy processes, action plans and reform initiatives relevant to the project's thematic areas.
- Manage and contribute to the development of high-quality knowledge products; ensure effective integration with other practice areas.
- Lead knowledge creation and dissemination related to national, regional and global know-how in the subject area.
- Manage the synthesis and documentation of project results, lessons learned, good practices and case studies.
- Establish and manage internal/external networks or communities of practice covering relevant practitioners and experts.
- Ensure project results and impact are captured, recorded and shared in knowledge products and communication materials.
- Develop country-based intelligence on country situation, opportunities, interests and prospects covering government, UNDP and major development stakeholders.
- Map key competencies available in different government agencies and development organizations.
- Prepare and update project information and results on UNDP, government and other platforms on a regular basis.
- Mobilize and network with experts of national and regional offices of the UN system, international development organizations, multilateral development banks and the private sector.
- Identify funding sources and prepare proposals, concept notes, business cases and donor briefings for resource mobilization.
- Lead the design of diversified and innovative financing strategies to sustain and scale results in a constrained and evolving ODA environment.
- Plan, strategize and manage the scaling up of project approaches and results with close guidance from the National Project Director (NPD) and UNDP Country Office.
- Maintain effective relationships with development partners to facilitate and support resource mobilization efforts.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years (with master’s degree) or 7 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience in project/programme management climate change adaptation and local governance issues, climate finance/governance, climate change related policy advocacy, or any other relevant field in the development sector is required.
- At least 3 years of experience in a senior managerial role in projects related to this position.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder programmes including managing teams, sizeable budgets and partnerships and delivering results at scale.
- Proven experience working across one or more development areas: climate change and local governance issues, climate finance/governance, climate change related policy advocacy, or any other relevant field, sustainable energy, or crisis recovery.
- Demonstrated experience leading, supervising and developing teams, including managing senior personnel or sub‑teams.
- Proven experience in strategic, analytical and structured‑writing and communication including for senior government, donor and Board‑level audiences.
- Experience building and sustaining institutional relationships with senior government, donor and partner counterparts.
Qualifications
Advanced University Degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Climate Change/Science, Development Studies, Public Policy, Sciences or Social Sciences, Geography and Environment, Engineering, Economics, Public Administration, or Public Administration, or any other relevant discipline is required; Or A first-level university degree (Bachelor's degree) in the above fields in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
