We are looking for a Project Manager for our team in Sofia.
Main Accountabilities:
Relationship & Stakeholder management
- Has relationships with delivery partners and stakeholders within country and is able to procure services and contract delivery partners.
- Holds suppliers to account for delivering against contract.
- Build strong internal relationships and networks
Commercial and Financial Management
- Ensure sound financial planning, working closely with finance teams to ensure British Council and client financial year plans are up to date.
- Ensure accurate and timely monthly (re)forecasting is in place, by running regular reports in the SAP system on actuals, monitoring outstanding purchase orders, reviewing commitments, analysing and commenting on reasons for variances to plan and recommending corrective actions.
- Monitoring monthly finances, including correct expenditure, ensuring the P2P process is being followed and correcting any mis-postings or journals needed.
- Lead on British Council, partner or client reporting (including, with Finance Manager, financial reporting) and ensure reports are delivered on time, to budget and to a high standard.
- Compliance to BC financial policies and procedures.
Project Management
- Contributes to development of, owns and delivers on Project Management Plan.
- Identifies risks in a project or programme and puts together mitigation strategies with SRO.
- Responsible for internal and client, procurement, contracting, compliance and reporting.
- Checks on and reports on compliance.
- Manages procurement on a project/programme.
- Responsible for data management including timely data entry, quality assurance of data, undertaking basic analysis of monitoring data, and developing progress reports to meet funding needs.
- Undertaking programme-specific data collection as needed. This includes working with colleagues to identify indicators and tools for data collection, quality assuring all data, and undertaking basic analysis.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
- To actively contribute to an inclusive and anti-racist organisational culture, being aware of your own biases, and taking action to mitigate against these. Ensuring people feel valued and are treated equitably, with support for people’s well-being and mental health.
- Understand the British Council’s approach to equality, diversity and inclusion and how it applies to your role and make time for learning and development relating to EDI and anti-racism.
Role specific knowledge and experience
Minimum/essential
- Experience of managing projects from start to finish and familiarity with project life-cycles.
- Understanding of procurement, evaluation and reporting requirements of projects.
- Proven experience of managing project finances.
- Experience of managing stakeholders
- Project management qualification desirable.
- More than 2 years working in project or programme management.
- Experience of using technology in project delivery.
- Good understanding and experience of supporting monitoring and evaluation.
Role specific skills
- Excellent leadership and communication skills.
- Able to relay complex financial information in an easy-to-understand way.
- Highly organised and deadline oriented.
Certification and Professional Qualifications: Foundation level Project Management certificate is desirable
Language Requirements: C1 English and Bulgarian
Additional Job Requirements: Role could require some domestic and international travel as required by the programme and some out of hours and evening work responding to, or driven by, programme/portfolio needs.
Pay Band: Local grade G/PB 6
Salary: Starting salary 2 042 - 2 500 BGN gross/month depending on qualifications and experience
Location: Bulgaria
Type of Contract: Local. Indefinite.
Employment Requirements: Pre-existing right to work in Bulgaria
See full job advert and apply online via the British Council Careers Portal. Please note that we do not accept CVs.
Closing Date: 21 June 2022 applications will close at 23:59 EEST time.