Project Manager – Human Rights, Gender and Civil Society

Job opportunity in the European Union Delegation to Afghanistan as
Project Manager – Human Rights, Gender and Civil Society

Post: Local Agent group I in the Afghanistan Delegation – Post number 1-46061 (OPS)
The Project Manager (PM) will work under the supervision of the Head of Section for Democracy and Accountability, and will be primarily responsible for project management and policy support in the areas of human rights, gender and civil society. The PM will contribute to all steps of the EU programme management cycle, including financial aspects and technical cooperation. As a member of the Democracy and Accountability team, (s)he will contribute to the management of programmes under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) and the Civil Society Organisations – Local Authorities (CSO-LA) instrument. The PM will cooperate closely with Task Managers for Human Rights, Gender and Civil Society. The PM will provide high-quality professional inputs and will exercise a high degree of integrity in developing and implementing his/her functions.

Duties and Functions
Management and monitoring the implementation of projects
• Manage, monitor and follow-up the implementation of projects under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) and the Civil Society Organisations – Local Authorities (CSO-LA);
• Evaluate the performance of implementing partners and contractors and ensure appropriate use of EU contractual procedures;
• Prepare, encode in CRIS and process agreements, contracts and addenda for signature, process invoices, and initiate agreement/contract closures;
• Cooperate with other Task Managers, ensuring coordination and main-streaming of human rights and gender in other policy areas.

Contribution in the identification and development of projects
• Contribute to the preparation of guidelines for call for proposals, evaluation of concept notes and full applications;
• Contribute with the potential implementing partners on the design and planning of new project on human rights and gender;
• Produce agreements/contracts and payments forecasting and pipeline information.

Policy development dialogues on sub-national governances:
• Actively support and maintain dialogue with government and civil society counterparts;
• Follow up on development and implementation of important policy and legal developments related to human rights, gender and civil society.

Development and maintenance of effective internal and external working relationships
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders with particular focus on those that have direct impact on the implementation of the attributed programmes;
• Take part and contribute to the EU Human Rights and Gender Working Group meetings and other relevant fora;
• Participate in regular and ad-hoc meetings with implementers, donors and government counterparts, take minutes and report to hierarchical superior.

Reporting and Coordination
• Contribute to the preparation of reports to headquarters such as progress reports, management plans, and other reports, including financial reporting;
• Contribute to policy briefs and updates on sector-related political developments and programmes;
• Keep up-to-date information in the OPS database as well as in Common Relex Information System (CRIS);
• Timely and proactive coordination with other members of staff for appropriate project visibility.

Application deadline: 05 April 2015

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