Nfi Project Manager

General Description of the Role The Programme Manager – NFI (PM NFI) will be based in SIF’s office in Beirut, is supervised and report to the Programme Coordinator and work closely with the Partnership Programme Manager to support NFI activities by partners. Job Purpose: The PM NFI is responsible for the planning, implementation and reporting of SIF’s NFI / Voucher activities in Mount Lebanon, supported by the Programme Coordinator. The PM will support and advise the Programme Coordinator on the global development of the NFI programme and ensure coordination, planning, monitoring and management of NFI programme activities. This will involve working with SIF’s M&E team to ensure timely and effective monitoring and evaluation of NFI activities and impact. The PM NFI will be responsible for day-to-day programme implementation and for ensuring that the programme effectively and efficiently achieves its objectives in accordance with SIF’s guidelines and principles and donor requirements. Key Duties: • Develop detailed activity plans in line with the NFI programme objectives, ensuring that those activity plans are implemented and any expected delays and / or modifications are communicated and raised in a timely manner with the Programme Coordinator and Head of Mission. • Oversee and ensure the delivery of the NFI programme in terms of outputs against activity plans and take all-necessary action, in association with the Programme Coordinator and HOM, to ensure the programme achieves its objectives within the allotted time and budget and to quality; • Contribute to the design of new NFI programming and proposal development; ensuring these are informed by an accurate understanding of priority needs and gaps in SIFs areas of operation; • Travel frequently to programme locations to directly monitor NFI programme activities, ensuring clear feedback is provided to field staff and / or partners on necessary changes or improvements required to ensure project activities meet stated objectives and deliver maximum benefit to targeted beneficiaries; • Work closely with the Partnership Team to provide technical support to SIF partners working on NFI to ensure partner NFI activities are in line with SIF processes and requirements; • Ensure that beneficiaries, local authorities, and local staff are represented in programme planning and evaluation; • Coordination with the HOM on the NFI programmes needs in relation to support from Logistics, Finance and HR; • Liaise with the Programme Coordinator and procurement department to ensure that there are no delays in procuring and delivering to the field site materials needed for the NFI programme; • Liaise with the Programme Coordinator and Finance departments to ensure smooth implementation of SIF’s  system as per SIF requirements and policies; • Coordinate with the M&E team to ensure the development and implementation of appropriate M&E and programme management tools and systems as well as on-going community feedback mechanisms; • Improve the quality of services provided through support and supervision of key staff, analysis and dissemination of M&E data and lessons learnt, and review of SIF and other best practice guidelines; • Identify staff and partner capacity building requirements and work with the Programme Coordinator and Partnership Programme Manager to design and deliver effective training, mentoring and other activities to address identified capacity gaps; • Direct management of SIF  staff assigned to NFI programme, ensuring that all staff have clearly defined job descriptions, work plans and understand their responsibilities; • Ensure appropriate HR planning, training and resource allocation as required for the successful implementation of programme objectives; • Work with Programme Coordinator, Logistics Coordinator and the Finance team to ensure continuous oversight and involvement at all stage of the programme cycle; • Ensure adherence to the financial guidelines as per the SIF Financial Manual; • Ensure compliance against all donor requirements, including timely quality reporting, as applicable to the project; • Other related tasks at the request of the Head of Mission. Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (social science, engineers, business economics, information management, project management etc) • Excellent interpersonal skills and relationship building skills with the ability to interact well with people of all backgrounds • Good communication skills (written, spoken), including excellent writing skills in English and Arabic • 3-5 years work experience in a relevant sector/ including managing a team • Demonstrable experience of project cycle management • Demonstrable experience in capacity building and training • Project management, planning, budgetary control and financial management skills • Good computer skills (Word, Excel) • Enthusiastic, flexible about working long hours and keen to work hard to achieve the objectives of the programme