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Job Title: Special Project Manager

Organisation: Spark Microgrants

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Spark MicroGrants believes in a world where everyone lives with dignity and determines their own positive future. For nearly ten years, Spark MicroGrants has been pioneering a new approach to international aid. We believe in local solutions and catalyzing rural villages facing poverty into action.

At the heart of Spark’s model, the Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP), are ‘town-hall’ style weekly meetings, in which women, men, young, old, plan together for their community’s future. Each village elects a leadership committee, establishes a village savings account, and launches a project of their choice. Members receive training on financial management, transparency, leadership, village planning, and advocacy. Each village then receives US$8,000 in seed funds and additional management support to turn their project ideas into reality.

Spark trains partner organizations and works with governments to scale the FCAP as the model of choice to advance social and economic development, improve lives, and secure lasting change. Spark is now active in 500+ villages in 6 countries, improving the lives of over 500,000 people.

Job Summary:  The Special Project Manager will work closely with the Impact & Design Director to deliver strategically critical projects across the organization to time and to budget. These projects will vary in size and scope, including:-

• designing and managing tech teams to deliver a mobile app
• rolling out a training curriculum to 500 learners in Malawi
• ensuring external consultants are managed, paid and procured effectively and inline with organizational policies
• proposing and developing methods of ongoing support for project stakeholders.

This is just an indication of the variety of in-depth and broad projects that you will lead  as not just an implementer but heavily involved in conception and design. This role’s variety means that we are seeking a self starter, able to thrive in ambiguity, and fiercely meticulous.  We are looking for a candidate who has a wide range of skills, including a strong understanding of technology development and is able to adapt them to any project, communicates with ease via email, on the phone and through formal reports, that is adept at reading people, highly organized, and passionate about a better world.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: Lead to day to day running of a variety of strategically important projects, ensuring that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget. This includes:

• Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant internal stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project documentation in order to monitor and track progress
• Measure performance using appropriate project management tools and techniques
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Manage external relationships with consultants, providers and partners with regards to on-going projects in their domains.
• Perform risk management to minimize potential risks
• Delegate project tasks based on staff members’ individual strengths, skill sets, and experience levels
• Provide regular updates on project progress, risks and mitigation strategies to senior management.
• Collect requirements and conduct user research to develop solutions that balance stakeholder needs with technical capacity constraints.
• Develop and collect feedback on UI design, product wireframes and specs.
• Lead modified agile development process; including managing workloads, prioritization of backlog, and ensuring project teams are working efficiently.
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• At least two to five years of demonstrable experience of delivering a variety of projects
• Excellent planning and organizing skills.
• Incredible attention to detail
• Strong English written and oral communication
• Experience working with INGO setting/environment is preferred.
• Project Management Qualifications are preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office / G-Suite applications
• Remains calm and positive under pressure and in difficult situations.
• Ability to lead project teams of various sizes and see projects through to completion.
• Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified candidates should apply online at the link below

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