Overview

This role is with a humanitarian organization with 75 years of experience, 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries, focused on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty. The Project Manager - SomReP position is based in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Role Summary

The Project Manager is responsible for the overall coordination, delivery, quality assurance, and performance management of assigned SomReP projects and programme components. The position provides leadership in programme planning, implementation, partner coordination, budget oversight, donor compliance, risk management, reporting, and adaptive programme management.

The Project Manager ensures that activities are implemented on time, within approved budgets, and in accordance with contractual requirements, technical standards, SomReP strategies, government priorities, and community needs. The role facilitates collaboration among consortium members, government institutions, donors, technical teams, and other stakeholders to ensure that SomReP interventions are coordinated, evidence driven, accountable, and capable of delivering measurable and sustainable resilience outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Programme Planning and Delivery

• •Lead the preparation and consolidation of annual, quarterly, and monthly implementation plans
• •Translate approved proposals, results frameworks, budgets, and technical designs into practical implementation plans
• •Coordinate the sequencing and integration of activities across partners, locations, and technical areas
• •Track activities, outputs, milestones, procurement requirements, and contractual deliverables
• •Conduct regular implementation reviews and follow up agreed actions
• •Identify delays, gaps, dependencies, and operational constraints affecting delivery
• •Coordinate corrective actions and revisions to implementation arrangements
• •Ensure activities respond to community priorities and changing contextual conditions

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Research, and Learning

• •Work with the MEAL team to integrate indicators, targets, monitoring requirements, and evidence needs into implementation plans
• •Review programme performance against output, outcome, and impact indicators
• •Analyze monitoring data, assessments, evaluations, research findings, financial performance, and community feedback
• •Identify performance gaps and investigate the factors contributing to overachievement or underachievement
• •Facilitate programme performance reviews and joint interpretation of results
• •Ensure partners submit complete, accurate, timely, and verifiable programme data
• •Ensure adequate supporting evidence is maintained for reported results
• •Participate in field monitoring, joint monitoring visits, evaluations, assessments, and verification exercises
• •Track implementation of evaluation recommendations and management actions
• •Promote the use of evidence for programme adaptation, targeting, resource allocation, and technical improvement
• •Support documentation of lessons, case studies, innovations, good practices, and programme learning
• •Ensure community feedback and complaints inform programme improvement

Government Engagement and Institutional Strengthening

• •Lead engagement with relevant federal, Federal Member State, district, and local government institutions
• •Ensure programme interventions align with government policies, strategies, plans, systems, and coordination structures
• •Facilitate government participation in programme planning, implementation, monitoring, review, and learning
• •Coordinate joint monitoring visits, technical reviews, validation exercises, and performance discussions with government counterparts
• •Support government participation in programme governance and decision-making structures
• •Clarify roles, responsibilities, commitments, and expectations between SomReP and government institutions
• •Identify government capacity gaps and coordinate relevant technical support, training, mentoring, and system strengthening
• •Promote information sharing, joint analysis, and use of programme evidence by government institutions
• •Support integration and institutionalization of relevant programme approaches, systems, tools, and learning
• •Promote government leadership, ownership, accountability, and sustainability of programme interventions

Consortium and Partner Coordination

• •Coordinate consortium members, implementing partners, local partners, and technical teams
• •Ensure partners understand programme objectives, workplans, targets, standards, budgets, and reporting requirements
• •Convene programme coordination meetings, implementation reviews, and planning sessions
• •Monitor partner performance against agreed plans, budgets, targets, and contractual commitments
• •Maintain and follow up action trackers arising from partner and programme meetings
• •Identify and address duplication, implementation gaps, inconsistent approaches, and coordination challenges
• •Facilitate resolution of operational and technical issues affecting partner performance
• •Promote collaboration, complementarity, information sharing, and joint accountability among partners
• •Support capacity strengthening of partners in programme management, compliance, reporting, and quality assurance
• •Escalate significant partner performance concerns to senior management

Budget and Resource Management

• •Support development of programme budgets, spending plans, forecasts, and procurement plans
• •Monitor expenditure against approved budgets, activities, outputs, and implementation progress
• •Review financial reports and budget variances with finance and partner teams
• •Analyse whether expenditure levels are consistent with programme performance
• •Coordinate corrective action for delayed, excessive, or misaligned expenditure
• •Support budget revisions, reallocations, cost extensions, and financial forecasting
• •Ensure expenditure is allowable, reasonable, properly documented, and linked to approved activities
• •Coordinate timely procurement of goods, services, consultants, and operational support
• •Promote efficiency, economy, effectiveness, equity, and value for money
• •Identify resource gaps that may affect programme delivery

Donor Compliance, Reporting, and Communication

• •Maintain a schedule of donor reports, contractual deliverables, milestones, and commitments
• •Coordinate preparation and consolidation of narrative reports, programme updates, presentations, and management briefs
• •Review partner reports for accuracy, completeness, consistency, evidence, and analytical quality
• •Ensure reported achievements correspond with monitoring data, supporting evidence, and expenditure
• •Ensure reports explain progress, challenges, risks, adaptations, variances, and lessons
• •Monitor compliance with donor agreements, approved proposals, consortium arrangements, and organizational policies
• •Coordinate donor visits, programme reviews, audits, evaluations, and verification exercises
• •Track and follow up donor feedback, audit recommendations, and management actions
• •Prepare timely responses to donor and management information requests
• •Support communication of programme results to donors, government, partners, and other stakeholders

Technical Quality and Integrated Programming

• •Work with technical advisers to ensure programme activities meet agreed technical standards
• •Facilitate technical review of programme approaches, tools, guidelines, training materials, and partner deliverables
• •Ensure resilience, gender equality, disability inclusion, conflict sensitivity, environmental sustainability, and protection are integrated into implementation
• •Promote coherent integration of livelihoods, early warning, anticipatory action, disaster risk management, natural resource management, social protection, and governance interventions
• •Ensure targeting and community engagement processes are inclusive, transparent, and context appropriate
• •Promote application of research findings, evaluations, technical guidance, and lessons in programme delivery
• •Identify technical quality gaps and coordinate corrective support

Risk Management and Adaptive Programme Management

• •Maintain programme risk registers, issue logs, mitigation plans, and action trackers
• •Identify operational, financial, contextual, security, safeguarding, reputational, and compliance risks
• •Monitor climatic, conflict, displacement, access, market, and political developments affecting implementation
• •Assess the implications of emerging risks for activities, budgets, staff, partners, and communities
• •Coordinate mitigation measures, contingency arrangements, and programme adaptations
• •Ensure changes to programme plans, budgets, targets, or approaches are analysed, documented, approved, and communicated
• •Escalate significant risks and unresolved issues to the appropriate management level

Team Leadership, Safeguarding, and Accountability

• •Supervise, coach, and support assigned programme staff
• •Develop individual workplans, performance objectives, and professional development actions
• •Monitor staff performance and provide regular feedback
• •Promote collaboration between programme, technical, MEAL, finance, operations, communications, and security teams
• •Identify staffing and capacity gaps and coordinate appropriate support
• •Promote a respectful, inclusive, accountable, and results focused working culture
• •Ensure programme activities comply with safeguarding, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, child protection, fraud prevention, and code of conduct requirements
• •Ensure community feedback and complaint mechanisms are safe, accessible, confidential, and responsive
• •Promote responsible management and protection of programme and personal data
• •Escalate safeguarding, accountability, and ethical concerns through approved procedures

Working Environment

Office-based in Mogadishu, Somalia with domestic travel required from time to time. World Vision adheres to strict child and adult safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks including criminal background checks. Academic certificates will be verified with the issuing institution. Female candidates are encouraged to apply. Local applicants only.