Senior Project Manager

10 Aug 2026 Senior Project Manager at HELVETAS Ethiopia

• Lead the overall planning, implementation, coordination, and adaptive management of ELGP in line with project objectives, donor requirements, annual work plans, budgets, and Helvetas policies. • Provide strategic direction to project staff, sub-grantees, and partners to achieve project outcomes related to citizen participation, effective council oversight, and responsive public service delivery. • Oversee project progress against targets, milestones, budgets, and contractual obligations, ensuring timely delivery of outputs and outcomes. • Lead annual, quarterly, and monthly planning processes and ensure quality implementation across all project locations. • Assess operational, programmatic, political, and security risks and ensure appropriate mitigation measures are implemented. • Ensure Gender and Social Equity (GSE), conflict sensitivity, safeguarding, accountability, and localisation principles are integrated throughout project implementation. • Provide leadership and oversight for engagement with regional councils, planning bureaus, finance bureaus, WCSA offices, sector bureaus, CSOs, CBOs, and other strategic stakeholders. • Supervise and support Governance, Partnership and Capacity Development Officers and other project staff to ensure quality technical assistance and partner support. • Oversee the selection, management, performance monitoring, and capacity strengthening of sub-grantees and local partners. • Promote institutionalisation of Integrated Community-Based Participatory Planning (ICBPP), grievance redress mechanisms, Financial Transparency and Accountability (FTA), Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB), and other governance approaches within government systems. • Facilitate collaboration and learning among government institutions, civil society organisations, community structures, and development partners. • Represent Helvetas and ELGP in steering committee meetings, GO-NGO forums, Communities of Practice on Local Governance (CoP-LG), donor meetings, and other strategic platforms. • Minimum 8 years of relevant professional experience in governance, decentralisation, local governance, civic engagement, social accountability, public sector reform, or democratic governance programmes, with at least 3 years in a project/programme management role. • Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder and donor-funded development programmes involving government institutions, CSOs, CBOs, and local partners. • Experience working with regional, zonal, woreda, and kebele government structures in Ethiopia and a strong understanding of the Ethiopian decentralised governance system.