Project Manager English Programmes at British Council

Implementation of projects with a low level of complexity funded by the British Council or by another client or funding mechanism. Leads the successful delivery of a range of projects from start to finish including managing the contract or project plan, managing client or internal stakeholders, successfully achieving reporting and meeting compliance standards. Or works within a larger programme or multi-country programme on a particular component.

Main accountabilities but not limited to the following:

Relationship & Stakeholder management

• Has relationships with delivery partners and stakeholders within the country and is able to procure services and contract delivery partners.
• Holds suppliers to account for delivering against the contract.
• Build strong internal relationships and networks

Commercial and Financial Management  

• Ensure sound financial planning, working closely with finance teams to ensure British Council and client financial year plans are up to date.
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly (re)forecasting is in place,  by running regular reports in the SAP system on actuals, monitoring outstanding purchase orders, reviewing commitments, analysing and commenting on reasons for variances to plan and recommending corrective actions.
• Monitoring monthly finances, including correct expenditure, ensuring the P2P process is being followed and correcting any errors.
• Lead on British Council, partner or client reporting (including, with Finance Manager, financial reporting) and ensure reports are delivered on time, to budget and to a high standard.
• Compliance with BC financial policies and procedures.

Project Management

• Contributes to the development of, owns and delivers on Project Management Plan
• Identifies risks in a project or programme and puts together mitigation strategies with SRO
• Responsible for internal and client, procurement, contracting, compliance and reporting  pm
• Checks on and reports on compliance
• Manages procurement on a project/programme
• Responsible for data management  including timely data entry, quality assurance of data, undertaking basic analysis of monitoring data, and developing progress reports to meet funding needs
• Undertaking programme-specific data collection as needed. This includes working with colleagues to identify indicators and tools for data collection, quality assuring all data, and undertaking basic analysis.

Role-specific knowledge and experience:

Essential requirements:

• Experience in managing projects from start to finish and familiarity with project life cycles.
• Understanding of procurement, evaluation and reporting requirements of projects.
• Proven experience in managing project finances.
• Experience in managing stakeholders 
• Project management qualification desirable.
• Experience working in project or programme management. 
• Experience in using technology in project delivery.
• Good understanding and experience in supporting monitoring and evaluation.

Desirable:

• Foundation-level Project Management certificate

Further Information

• Pay Band – 6
• Remuneration: NGN 10,989,828.00
• Contract Type – Two (2) Year Fixed Term Contract