Project Manager for East Africa

The role -

You will be an experienced project manager in the development sector with strong and demonstrable technical, management, organisational and interpersonal skills. The successful candidate will lead the management of new or existing projects to ensure their smooth running and effective delivery, and support on business development. They will interact and communicate with our clients, project partners and technical associates and support the expansion of our project portfolio by developing an understanding of key stakeholders, networks and current issues.

Location - East Africa based up to 70% FTE in-country, with remaining 30% from home base.

Main responsibilities -

Project Management:

• Leading design and implementation of complex, multi-workstream projects to ensure delivery to the highest standards;


• Preparing and maintaining project tools, including input schedules, workplan and logframe, and proactively managing the team and project planning to deal with challenges as they arise;


• Providing technical oversight of staff, consultants and partners to ensure delivery is in line with workplans, result framework and activity is proactively problem-solving, adapting and taking opportunities as they arise to meet project outcomes;


• Developing and maintaining project and country risk matrices, ensuring risks are escalated appropriately;


• Liaising with clients, partners and stakeholders on a regular basis;


• Routinely leading on project discussions and presentations with a wide variety of project stakeholders, partners and clients on a range of technical topics;


• Writing client weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports;


• Drafting, reviewing or contributing to technical project deliverables including proposals, reports, evaluations and stakeholder workshops.

Financial Management

• Developing and updating of budgets, ensuring associate and partner inputs remain within budget;


• Managing the cashflow and invoicing process, and overseeing procurement;


• Writing financial reports.

Partner Management

• Managing technical input of partners to ensure timely delivery of project deliverables;


• Managing relationships with local and international partners to ensure effective collaboration and high quality project delivery.

Business Development

• Developing new business leads and generate new revenue sources for Aktis in the Sub Sahara Africa region, and actively build and maintain broad client, consultant, potential partner, competitor and host government networks;


• Proactively taking an independent lead role in progressing strategic pursuits, planning, preparation, delivery and quality assurance of tender and proposal submission activities.

Requirements -

The successful candidate will have 3-5+ years of experience in Project Management and Field based experience working in developing and/or fragile and conflict states. You should have a Bachelor degree within a related such as International Development, Politics, Law, Business Management. Ideally this person should have some experience engaging with foreign government departments and/or ministries and knowledge of the donor/funding process and mechanisms. Fluency in English is a must.