Mission description

Under the management of the Country Director, the main tasks of the project manager will be to:

1. Strategic direction, leadership, and project management:

• Ensure the project’s strategic vision and intervention logic, and its alignment with stakeholders’ priorities, the country strategy, donor expectations, and environmental challenges.
• Formalize and share a strategic analysis of the project regarding sectoral issues, institutional positioning, and risks and opportunities for the Agency.
• Ensure the implementation of the project, including all activities, deliverables, and results.
• Oversee the implementation of the project’s monitoring, evaluation, and learning plan.
• Review and analyze project performance and context, and recommend and implement adjustments to the project’s strategy, plans, and approaches.
• Provide guidance and define project priorities.
• Identify and manage project risks and opportunities.
• Plan annual reporting exercises (technical, financial, donor, internal), with a shared timeline integrated into the workload planning of the project team (PNG and Headquarters) and the PSU.
• Supervise the design and implementation of the Project’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan.
• Oversee project implementation, including all activities, outputs, and outcomes.

2. Project representation and communication:

• Represent Expertise France on all project-related matters with the donor, PNG authorities, and other stakeholders based in PNG.
• Maintain and strengthen strong relationships with project stakeholders and beneficiaries.
• Strengthen links with other implementing agencies working in similar areas.
• Participate in national, regional, and international conferences and workshops, and advocate with political and administrative decision-makers for the project’s approaches and results.
• Organize, prepare, and participate in project governance bodies, including steering committees and technical committees.
• Fully integrate the project into a “Groupe AFD” and “Team France” approach.
• Ensure the project’s visibility and promote its approaches and results.

3. Team and resource management:

• Integrate new staff – international and national – and provide guidance and leadership for the organization and progress of the project team;
• Organize the attribution of roles and responsibilities and coordinate the work inside the project team in accordance with the project support unit (USP) of Expertise France’s new country office in Papua New Guinea;
• Provide direction and leadership for organizing the project team and adjusting this organization to achieve project objectives at each stage.
• Establish an organization that allows the project to operate without excessive dependence on leadership, through effective delegation and clearly distributed responsibilities.
• Empower team members in their management through appropriate leadership, strategic guidance, and access to tools.
• Organize the allocation of roles and responsibilities within the project team and with Headquarters (GEO project officer and sustainable development project officer).
• Ensure the stabilization of the project’s organizational structure by retaining team members and supporting their performance.
• Organize and oversee the use of project resources, in coordination with the PSU (Project Support Unit).

The Project manager will be based in Port Moresby and positioned under the hierarchical management of the agency’s Country Office.

He/she will work in functional link with Expertise France headquarters in Paris. He will work in close coordination with the projects of the agency in the country and ensure synergy between activities carried out with other projects and initiatives led by the agency. He/she will lead the project team and will be responsible for coordinating experts integrated within partner organizations.