JOB ADVERTISEMENT – İstanbul Project Manager

SCI employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3:  the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; ore because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE: 

Under the supervision of the Head of Program Operations, Project Manager Istanbul will supervise and provide leadership for expanding, multi-sector program team in Istanbul and other proximate cities may have projects nearby future. The Project Manager Istanbul is responsible for ensuring high quality implementation of a wide range of programming across a range of sectors and communities. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Head of Operations

Staff reporting to this post: Project Officer, MHPSS&CE Officer

Budget Responsibilities: Yes

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Manage all program implementation in the respective area, oversight of project implementation plans, assess progress of implementation of activities against plans on monthly basis, and document the progress and action corrective measures as and when Take the lead in demonstrating practices for quality program implementation.
• Supervise and coordinate all implemented programs at field level;
• Ensure that the team uses PRIME tools and the ongoing projects are PRIME compliant
• With the support of the program development and quality team, including MEAL and Technical Advisors, design and manage all programs in line with quality standards and guidelines and Save the Children policies and strategy;
• Line manages and support Project staff as first lines
• Facilitate the coordination within the organization at programs and support
• Represent TCO in Istanbul and other out of emergency response areas; and engage discussions with key partners, coordination fora, local authorities etc.
• Promote synergies and ensure the overall coherence and relevance of multi-sectoral response;
• Ensure that all programs properly retain program learning for future programming and that all key lessons and information are documented;
• Ensure with the program team that the capacity of national staff and team resilience, to changing context and subsequent changes in management arrangements, is
• To support the design of project budgets, prepare annual expenditure forecasts, ensure adherence to planned expenditure projections (for KPI1 and KPI2), and coordinate with the Finance Department to submit monthly Expenditure forecasts in a timely manner (2 times a month).
• Develop and maintain detailed implementation and procurement plans.
• To work in close collaboration and coordination with other departments (Supply Chain, PDQ, and Financ
• Ensure that all projects have clear indicators aligned with Save the Children global standards, useful and accurate baseline data and staff friendly reporting
• Ensure donor reporting, evaluation (including impact evaluation), and
• Ensure that country strategy and the annual country plans are implemented and reviewed in line with the regional and global
• Maintain clear overview of the security, political and legal
• Ensure appropriate participation of staff in program management and decision making and raise necessary issues at Senior Management Team meetings
• Play a key role in partners’ capacity assessment and development for building national civil

Staff Management, Mentorship and Development

• Ensure appropriate staffing within the
• Ensure that all team staff understand and are able to perform their roles in humanitarian
• Manage team, define expectations, provide leadership and technical support as needed, and evaluate direct reports regularly.
• Ensure the recruitment, training, and promotion of staff as appropriate and ensure availability of appropriate professional development opportunities for
• Incorporate staff development strategies and Performance Management Systems into team building Establish result-based system and follow up.
• Manage the performance of all staff in the team through effective use of the Performance Management System including the establishment of clear, measurable objectives, on- going feedback, periodic reviews and fair and unbiased
• Coaching, mentoring and other developmental
• Recognition and rewards for outstanding
• Documentation of performance that is less than satisfactory, with appropriate performance improvements/ work

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Accountability for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

Ambition:     

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, external partners and supporters
• Values diversity as a source of strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative ideas, especially solutions to problems/challenges.
• Willing to take disciplined risks for children’s, youth’s and women’s wellbeing
• Not afraid to pilot new ideas, fail, and learn from mistakes.

Integrity:

• Honest and encourages openness and transparency in all professional matters.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Substantial experience working with a humanitarian/ development organization
• University degree in related academic discipline or equivalent work
• Substantial people and programme management experience with good interpersonal skills and ability to communicate at all
• Solid experience in grant management, including budget holding and donor
• Substantial understanding or proven experience of security management
• Ability to produce high quality reports in
• Representational, political awareness and advocacy
• Ability to work with limited supervision from line
• Experience of working with partners and a participatory
• Fluency in written and spoken English and computer
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and

Position holder will be based in Istanbul, therefore legal right to work in Türkiye is necessary at the time of application. Due to the urgent need for this role, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We strongly encourage interested candidates to apply as early as possible, before the stated deadline.