JOB OPPORTUNITY
Project Manager – Ninewa
World Vision International is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision – Iraq Office is looking for a highly qualified and motivated person for the position of Project Manager – Ninewa.
Employee Contract Type:
Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
JOB PURPOSE:
The Project Manager will be responsible for leading the strategic planning, coordination, and implementation of the “Advancing Peace and Stability” project in Sinjar District, Ninewa Governorate. The role focuses on ensuring the effective delivery of project outcomes, including strengthening community peace structures, enhancing the capacities of youth and women peace groups, civil society actors, and local authorities to design and implement conflict-sensitive and inclusive peacebuilding initiatives. Additionally, the project supports socioeconomic recovery by delivering integrated livelihood support and mental health and psychosocial services (MHPSS) to vulnerable and conflict-affected populations in Qahtaniyah, including returnees, youth, women, persons living with disabilities (PLWDs), and survivors of trauma.
The Project Manager will oversee multidisciplinary teams, manage project budgets, and ensure full compliance with donor regulations and organizational policies. The role requires strong leadership to ensure activities are implemented on time, within scope, and with high quality. The Project Manager will also facilitate collaboration with government authorities, UN agencies, and local partners to maximize impact and sustainability. Ultimately, the position is accountable for delivering results that contribute to the overall goal of the project and align with World Vision Iraq’s strategic objectives in peacebuilding and community resilience
Key Responsibilities:
Leadership
- Demonstrate World Vision’s core values, vision and mission in all aspects of the role.
- Build a team of highly committed and competent staff, ensuring cooperation and coordination among relevant staff within the Project.
- Provide leadership and direction to the overall project.
- Create a learning environment in which staff regularly reflect, learn from mistakes and use lessons for personal growth and to revise work plans to improve ministry impact.
- Ensure that staff understand and follow the World Vision (WV) child protection policy and that awareness-raising on child protection, response and incident reporting is occurring.
Project Management (Quality Implementation, Financial & Risk Management)
- Coordinate with Operations Manager, programmes, sector leads, finance, and administration staff to ensure operational systems are in place to support field activities.
- Ensure that the program systems and staff are working to achieve the project goals and objectives and that the project is maintaining World Vision and donor accountability standards.
- Ensuring appropriate structures, internal and external standards, staffing, resources and policies as well as all grant requirements are adhered to.
- Ensure clear understanding of project assumptions by all project staff to aim at effective and timely achievement of project goals, outcomes and outputs.
- Ensure that all terms and conditions agreed in the signed Responsible Party Agreements (RPAs) with donor and MOUs with government departments are adhered to throughout the life of the project.
- Manage and mitigate any risks within the Project that could have financial, Human Resources (HR) or Legal consequences or negatively impact ministry or World Vision reputation.
- Ensure that proper community development practices and “Do No Harm” practices are incorporated and upheld throughout the planning and implementation of the project.
- Support in the development of accurate and complete Bill of Quantities
- Prepare and submit procurement plan in close coordination with the team.
- In coordination with the MEAL regularly monitor and evaluate the progress of the project.
- With support from WV Iraq’s Finance Department, assume primary responsibility for budget overview reviews and monthly financial reports, highlighting concerns as they arise working closely with the Project Managers.
- Ensure compliance with WV and donor financial policies and procedures and promoting a culture of transparency and accountability.
- Ensure proper coding and budget availability of all project expenses.
- Oversee the submission of monthly cash requests for project operations.
- Ensure contractors and creditors are paid in a timely manner.
- Review and approve expenditures and contract according to assigned levels of authority.
Personnel Management
- Manage direct reports and provide overall project leadership in close coordination with respective operation manager
- Coordinate and oversee the hiring process for project staff.
- Coordinate and implement new employee project orientations and trainings.
- Monitor staff performance and raise any issues with Human Resources if necessary.
- Initiate and perform, with support from others, staff performance appraisals.
- In coordination with P&C, maintain accurate employee data files and oversee completion of routine issues such as contract renewals, leave, salary adjustments.
- Develop the capacity of staff to plan, monitor and coordinate service delivery.
Monitoring, Reporting and Administration
- Ensure accurate quality narrative and financial reports are submitted in a timely manner and according to donor requirements.
- Work closely with Program Officer in ensuring that all reports meet donor requirements.
- Track the performance of the project activities and outputs against expected results and adjust implementation processes to ensure the project is progressing towards the intended outcomes.
- Analyse the impact of project and promote learning by documentation of best-practices. Use this information to support decision-making processes.
- Track project progress, project expenditure against approved budgets, anticipate any deviations and recommend and take action on relevant and required adjustments.
- Track project risk in order to timely adjust and implement the existing contingency plan.
- Travel regularly to all project sites to ensure proper implementation of project activities.
Others
- Ensure that organizational Security, Supply chain, Administration, People and culture, IT procedures and guidelines are well integrated into projects.
- Any other duties relating to the nature of the job
- Standardized approach to the donor guidelines across the two projects
- Donor expertise and building relationships.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Mode of Application:
If you are interested in this position, to apply, please register at: https://worldvision.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WorldVisionInternational/details/Project-Manager—Ninewa_JR44356
No information inquiries will be handled over the phone. Only short-listed candidates will be notified for the interview. The deadline for application is August 16, 2025.
As a Child focused organization, World Vision is committed to the protection of children and does not employ staff whose background is not suitable for working with children. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks