Project Manager/country Representative Mongolia

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**Missions**:
Under the hierarchical management and with the support of the Central Asia Regional Director, the Project Manager/Country Representative will be in charge of declining and rolling out Geres regional strategy at national level with the programme team. They will represent Geres in-country, lead fundraising efforts and oversee all projects/programmes in cooperation with managers and Finance and Admin department. They will ensure compliance, quality of implementation, monitoring and reporting.

They will directly lead the SWITCH Asia SOAP as Project Manager, with the operational support of the Deputy Project Manager. They will further mentor and accompany the professional growth of the deputy. They will specifically be defining relevant objectives and ensuring their achievement, through proper project cycle management, efficient financial management & smooth consortium management

Additionally, they will specifically support and coach the FSP-I project manager by overseeing PCM, representation towards donor and ensuring the quality & impact of the respective programmes.

They will liaise with donors, partners, the NGO and IO networks and coordinate Geres communication and advocacy towards national and local authorities.

ACTIVITIES

As Switch-Asia SOAP Project Manager:
1/Oversee Project Cycle Management
- Lead and support project staff & partners in planning, coordinating, implementing and monitoring activities
- Support the monitoring and evaluation process, in particular by developing methodologies M&E tools to measure the results and impacts of the projects
- Smoothly tackle implementation constraints and put in place the necessary corrective measures in consultation with stakeholders (including authorities, partners, and beneficiaries)
- Supervise and ensure compliance in the use of external service providers, internal support missions and other suppliers
- Ensure quality and timely preparation of internal and external reports
- Ensure and maintain a knowledge management system, incl. archival and sharing
- Ensure ownership and capacity building of the team across the entire project cycle management

2/Manage project partnerships
- Monitor, assess and facilitate the work with the implementing partners. Understand their mandate and agendas, nurture their involvement in the project
- Ensuring commitments of Geres towards its partners are dully filled and reciprocally, that project partners abide by their respective commitments towards Geres
- Prevent and, if need be, solve issues and disputes with partners

3/Supervise administrative, logístical, and financial management of the project
- Develop and/or guarantee a framework of operations and responsibilities between the stakeholders in accordance with the rules of the financial partners
- Supervise the planning and delivery of financial expenditures and accounting flows in collaboration with the Administrative and Finance Officer
- Communicate to teams and ensure compliance with logístical, administrative, and financial procedures
- Actively participate in co-funding research efforts

Ensure that project managers report to the HQ Admin/Finance department in timely manner As Mongolia Country Representative:
1/Lead and animate the country strategy in coherence with Geres Regional Strategy
- Analyse the country context, strengths/weaknesses/challenges/opportunities
- Develop networks and identify strategic partnerships with donors, international NGOs, national CSOs, national and local authorities, private sector.
- Implement the country strategy; evaluate and update if deemed necessary
- Be active part to the regional strategy development, liaise with resource persons at HQ and in other countries of intervention

2/Fundraising & project/programme portfolio development in coherence with the country strategy
- Perform prospective work and develop field understanding of the country, also beyond current zones/topics of interventions
- Prospectively identify donors, donors’ trends & strategies and related funding opportunities
- Identify partnership opportunities in order to prepare swiftly concepts and consortium ahead of calls for proposals
- Ensure & organise the development of funding proposals (narrative and budget) in country, following the existing procedure in close collaboration with the Regional Director and HQ

3/Representation of Geres amongst key stakeholders in-country and with the support of the Regional Director
- Ensure proactive and regular communication with institutional partners and development stakeholders
- Manage the external communication of Geres in
- country, with the support of Comms officer and HQ Comms Department
- Relay key relevant information to Regional Director and HQ
- Integrate and maintain relation with relevant networks in-country

4/Supervision of human resources, administration & finance
- Ensure the good management of the office(s) related