Humanitarian Energy Project Manager BLUP48843

Humanitarian Energy Project Manager BLUP48843

With 50 years of expertise, our client has a strong heritage and track record of bringing communities and experts together to find practical, sustainable solutions to enable people to meet their needs, which work for both people and the planet.  Technology features in everything they do.

The Project Manager is a member of the International Programmes team based in their UK office near Rugby. Our client has recently been developing a large portfolio of work on humanitarian energy to  innovate, design and implement an exciting initiative that will test out approaches to energy access for, and with, refugee populations. The overall programme is led by the Technical and Programme Lead based in the UK and implemented through our regional office based in East Africa and their partner organisation based in the Middle East. Several organisations are working as a consortium to bring diverse capabilities in advocacy, learning, innovation, market activation, and programme delivery.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Working with the Technical and Programme Lead, their East Africa team and their partners to develop, oversee and monitor realistic work plans and budgets that enable them to deliver on time, to quality standards, in line with regulations and to achieve the expected results.
• Managing the sub-agreement with their partners.
• Coordinating and finalizing all reporting both for internal use and to meet donor requirements.
• Providing backstop support to programmes in East Africa and the Middle East in all aspects of delivery including risk management, contracting, procurement, etc.
• Facilitating the flow of information and the use of data from the project across the company and with consortium partners.
• Ensuring they are capturing and using data and learning across the programme to improve quality and to inform their growing portfolio on energy access in humanitarian contexts.
• Maintaining project documentation.
• Contributing to the overall International Programmes team’s work, as needed.

This is a broad remit that requires someone with significant relevant experience, direct experience of detailed project management, knowledge of off-grid energy access technologies, excellent communication, networking and influencing skills and strong analytical and organisational project management capabilities. You will have a Master’s degree or higher in a relevant subject and have experience in a commercial environment delivering results to client deadlines. This role will require considerable experience of managing multi-country, multi-year, multi-million pound programmes in complex humanitarian environments. Your communication and influencing skills across cultures will be excellent and you will have a good network of contacts amongst research and consulting firms and understand the requirements of funding agencies. Fluency in English is essential and advanced French preferred.

Salary: Grade B: £40,107 to £45,875 (depending on experience)

Based - Warwickshire, UK 

Closing date for Applications: 6th June 2017

We positively welcome applicants from all sections of the community.

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