Project Manager, HCI

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Cambodia, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Lead the support efforts of the Global Coordination Unit for HCI partners, ensuring the effective delivery of all project components.

• Oversee the staff within the Global Coordination Unit.

• Manage, monitor, and evaluate daily project activities and outcomes.

• Collaborate with ten Component 1 Partners and liaise with partners and specialists across Components 2–5.

• Review and authorize annual work plans and budgets, while providing technical guidance for partner activities.

• Spearhead the execution of Components 2 and 3, which includes the Youth Policy Leaders program.

• Manage the workflow of the Indigenous Global Steering Committee.

• Create annual work plans and budgets in collaboration with sub-grantees and partners.

• Supervise procurement, expenditures, monitoring plans, risk assessments, communications, website management, workshops, learning visits, and evaluations.

• Organize inception meetings and other essential project workshops.

• Maintain the project risk register and implement the project exit strategy.

• Prepare reports on project progress, workshops, finances, co-financing, and project closure.

• Ensure quality assurance for project activities, sub-grants, reports, and various outputs.

• Coordinate co-financed projects, stakeholder engagement, partnerships, and additional co-financing efforts.

• Represent the project at conferences, meetings, and workshops.

• Incorporate gender and social inclusion considerations throughout the implementation process.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of technical work experience, including at least five years in project management.

• Bachelor’s Degree; a post-graduate degree in a relevant field is preferred.

• At least five years of experience working in solidarity with Indigenous peoples and local community organizations.

• Proven ability to engage in culturally sensitive, respectful, and community-centered collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

• Competence in interacting with Indigenous peoples, local community representatives, senior government officials, NGO staff, business leaders, and donor personnel.

• Familiarity with the Convention on Biological Diversity and/or other multilateral agreements and processes concerning biodiversity, rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities, and finance.

• Experience in delivering technical and financial reports to donor agencies for large-scale projects.

• Background in managing complex, multi-stakeholder, and multi-country projects.

• Experience leading a team and coordinating sub-grant partners across various time zones and cultures.

• Technical expertise and knowledge in Indigenous-led territorial stewardship or community-based sustainable development.

• Required fluency in written and spoken English.

• Advanced proficiency in Spanish, French, or Portuguese is highly preferred.

• Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the job's location.

• For applicants in Brazil or Kenya, only nationals legally authorized to work in these countries will be considered.

• For those applying from Cambodia, eligibility extends to nationals from South and Southeast Asian countries who are willing to relocate to Cambodia.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid relocation: None.

• Visa sponsorship and relocation costs may be offered for applicants to Cambodia, subject to budget availability.

• Expectation of approximately quarterly international travel lasting one week.