War Child’s flagship Afghanistan program advances social impact in the lives of vulnerable children, women, and their families through its Justice, Education, Health, and Livelihood (Opportunity) program with child protection and gender across its entire program. The country program is undergoing an exciting expansion with newly secured long-term funding for programs in eight provinces Kabul, Nangarhar, Balkh, Samangan, and Sar-e-Pul Provinces.

Job Summary:

The Project Manager is responsible for planning, executing, and delivering project on time, within scope, and within budget. This role involves coordinating cross-functional teams, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals. The Project Manager will oversee project life cycle, from initiation to completion, while identifying risks, implementing solutions, and ensuring high-quality outcomes. Key responsibilities include defining project objectives, creating detailed work plans, monitoring progress, and reporting to stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills, with a proven ability to manage multiple tasks and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Project Manager will be responsible for the following:

1. Project Management and Implementation

• Lead the overall management and successful implementation of the project, ensuring alignment with its goals, objectives, and scope of work in the three relevant sectors (Health, Child Protection, Emergency NFI).
• Develop and oversee detailed implementation plans providing thorough work-breakdown structure with the support of project & program teams.
• Provide technical guidance to project staff to ensure high-quality implementation of activities in accordance with and commitment to the Core Humanitarian Standards & Principles.
• Oversee staff recruitment, onboarding, training, and project staff capacity development in collaboration with the H.R and Program departments.
• Review and provide feedback on staff plans, reports, and activity files.

2. Coordination Across Tiers & Stakeholder Engagement

• Coordinate information and liaise relevant engagement with sectoral line ministries, Provincial authorities while maintaining strong relations and fostering trust with all major stakeholders.
• Regularly attend meetings in major humanitarian clusters i.e. Afghanistan Health Cluster, Child Protection AoR, and ES/NFI (while maintaining close coordination with provincial/regional cluster focal points).    

3. Budget and Compliance Management

• Monitor and ensure efficient budget utilization, aligning expenditures with planned activities.
• Work closely with operations, finance, and HR departments to ensure timely processing for procurement, payments, and recruitment.
• Regularly review the budget with grants and finance team, addressing challenges and adjusting expenditure plans when required.

4. Monitoring and Reporting

• Oversee beneficiary selection, distributions (if any), and post-distribution monitoring, ensuring all required documentation is maintained.
• Conduct regular field visits to service delivery points to oversee activities, providing technical support and ensuring project team adherence to War Child standards, procedures and protocols.
• Document lessons learned and best practices, sharing reports with relevant stakeholders.

5. Accountability and Safeguarding

• Ensure adherence to organizational policies, on child safeguarding PSEA, and Accountability to Affected Population throughout project lifecycle.
• Promote accountability to affected populations through community engagement and transparent processes through supervising inclusive community engagement to inform program participants about their rights and means of submitting complaints and suggestions.
• Review and revise the project-related materials on PSEA and AAP along with any manuals required for ensuring unified service delivery by the project team.

6. Additional Responsibilities

• Support professional development and capacity building of project staff.
• Undertake additional tasks as assigned by the Program Manager or WC senior management.

Job Requirements:

Qualification:

• Master’s degree in the relevant fields is preferred (minimal 3 years of working experience in the relevant disciplines).
• A bachelor’s degree in public health, Social Work, International Development Studies, Project Management, or a related field (Minimal 5 years of working experience in the relevant disciplines).

Experience:

• Experience in managing humanitarian or development projects, with a focus on health, child protection, or emergency response.
• Demonstrated experience in project planning, implementation, and monitoring, particularly in disaster or conflict-affected settings.
• Expertise in budget management, compliance, and working with procurement, finance, and HR teams.
• strong experience in engaging with stakeholders, including local authorities, INGOs, and UN agencies.
• Prior experience in team supervision, capacity building, and fostering professional relationships.
• Familiarity with community-based approaches, including beneficiary selection, accountability mechanisms, and safeguarding practices.

Skills and Abilities:

• Strong understanding of local contexts, including cultural and political dynamics in Afghanistan.
• Proficiency in English, Dari and Pashto. Proficiency in other languages will be considered a plus point.
• Strong reporting, presentation, training facilitation, and budgeting skills.
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills, ability to work under stressful conditions, and able to meet tight deadlines.   

War Child is an equal opportunity employer; qualified Afghan women are strongly encouraged to apply.

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