The project manage is responsible for overall project implementation in 5 northern provinces based project approved plan, including approaches and process in coordination with project management team, stakeholders and funding partner.

1. Rapport building

The project Manager representing organization intended to build good rapport with;

• Funding partner: The project manager should enhance the rapport with funding partner in provincial and regional levels, represent organization in coordination and planning events, regular update the progress and achievement, build on experience and expertise during the course of project implementation and facilitate the environment to maximize funding interest for close cooperation and further program expansion.

• Stakeholders / duty bearer: Facilitate cooperating environment for stakeholders and duty bearer to understand the project overall objective, planned activities and output as well as implementation approach, participating groups and coverage area.
  1. Attend stakeholder coordination meetings, share the update and progress.
  2. Facilitate the stakeholder and duty bearer active participation in the project related events and maximize their support and assistance in planned activities implementation
  3. Keep regular contact with community supporting figure and regular visit from project site and ongoing activities
  4. Proactively take forward to address any issue that potentially cause conflict and or mis understanding with stakeholder in district, provincial and regional level
  5. Ensure all planned activities and intervention has been in prior coordinate and transparent manner

2. Manage and guide project team for effectively implement

• Build project staff understanding and consensus on project cycle, objectives, planned activities and expected result.  
• Build understanding of Project stakeholder on the on PACo mission, project objective and planned activities in provincial and regional levels
• Lead and manage project operational and implementation plans including clear milestones for activities in coordination project team
• Train and orient project team on PACo policies, procedure and Identifying capacity building requirements of project staff members.
• Regularly meet funding partner and stakeholder through regional and provincial level coordination meeting / events.
• Orient team on context, participating communities’ culture, social norms and sensitivities.

3. Assure project Implementing in compliance with agreed standards and practices:

• Design awareness creation measures in the form of; Conducting participatory learning process to assess challenges, opportunities and risks of project implementation.
• Promote open and democratic processes of decision making through proactive and inclusive participation women
• Facilitate monthly reporting and planning session / meeting with project team to track the project progress and plan for action.
• Compile and prepare the project report based on the result and or funding partner designated result-oriented framework
• Lead and instruct the project team to facilitate processes of community mobilization, beneficiary survey and Identification
• Orient and train the team including social organizers and trainers, on project field level deliverables particularly on, livelihood, infrastructure and community empowerment activities.

3. Support PACo and funding partner M&E/MEAL staff in monitoring in compliance with project set indicator and donor guide line and Project Logical frame-work

• Lead and support project participant identification and selection process
• Lead and supervise the baseline surveys prior the project implementation initiated
• Develop precise baseline and analytical report
• Periodic reviews of the quality and progress of implementing activities based on field and monitoring visits by stakeholder and feedback from the M&E staff.
• Ensure the accountability mechanism in placed and promote social audit and community review.
• Systematically capture, document and record lessons from field for shared learning across the organization and with stakeholders and highlight success to measure project effectiveness

4. lead PACo Engagement with government and sectors at provincial and regional to appraise PACo’s work and feed it into provincial and regional priorities:

• Representation PACo in Government and sectoral meetings at provincial and regional levels to apprise them of PACo's work to garner support in smooth implementation of projects
• Attend to stakeholder and funding partner meetings in regional and provincial levels
• Ensure compliance with humanitarian requirements at the provincial level for effective implementation
• Closely coordinate with duty bearer and stakeholder to avoid project activities and participant duplication.

5. Networking and solidarity:

• Build solidarity across the provincial and regional level networks, cluster, and government agencies to achieve project related advocacy and campaign objectives.
• Represent PACo in sub-national level dialogues, forums and committees strategically and with management advice.
• Facilitate building collaborative and cooperative relation with regional cluster and funding agencies for partnership development

6. Learning and staff development:

• Provide ongoing coaching and mentoring in the form of ‘learning by doing’ and ‘leading by example’ on program quality, policy and communication senior management in coordination with other key team members.
• Train staff member prior deploying in to the field on community mobilization, organization, as well as on organization policies and procedure particularly on PSEA , AAP and PACo CRM mechanism
• Facilitate project completion workshop/meeting in the provincial, document learning from the event

8. Budge utilization control.

• Close follow up with finance on effective budget utilization
• Should have the update on status of budget utilization in monthly base from concerning finance unit.
• Closely work with head of finance on monthly budget planning and request for budget  release.
• Ensure effective procurement with procurement team and ensure the procurement policy strictly followed and apply in each step of procurement
• Ensure the project  inventory / asset register maintained ,updated and shared in regular base with head office
• Ensure project weekly, monthly and quarterly reports submitted on time based on reporting procedure.

9. Report and communication.

• Develop update the management through weekly progress report
• Develop and submit project monthly progress report
• Prepare activity / event completion report
• Develop project final report based prescribed format and capture evidence based success, through case studies