Overview

Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) is looking for a Project Manager to join our team to support the project management, development, and delivery of our technical portfolios. You will work closely with Project Technical Leads and collaborate with other Project Managers and colleagues across the organisation.

You will be confident supporting complex, donor-funded projects and working with dispersed technical teams. You will have a sound knowledge of project and budget management, donor compliance, reporting, and monitoring and evaluation. Relevant third sector experience would be advantageous.

This is a full‑time role (37.5 hours per week), although applications at 80% FTE will be considered for the right candidate, with the project portfolio adjusted accordingly.

We’re looking for someone who has a keen interest in what we do and is motivated to make a positive impact, helping to ensure that individuals affected by malnutrition receive the most effective support possible.

Our People

ENN’s team is made up of a range of technical experts in nutrition, with decades of collective experience, and a small, experienced operational team. ENN is highly committed to diversity and inclusion, to enabling and promoting flexible working for our staff, and to supporting continued professional development.

The Role

ENN is looking for a highly motivated, adaptable, and skilled Project Manager to support with the project management, development, and delivery of our technical portfolios alongside our Project Technical Leads. You will be comfortable supporting complex projects and working with dispersed technical teams. You will have a sound knowledge of project management and budget management, donor compliance and reporting and monitoring and evaluation. Relevant third sector experience would be advantageous. Fundamentally, you will have a keen interest in what we do and be ready to contribute to making a positive change.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Management

· Manage a portfolio of projects, working closely with the Project Technical Lead and in collaboration with other Project team members, to ensure project activities and deliverables are clear, appropriately planned, and resourced and delivered on time and in budget.

· Support with annual budget planning, and quarterly budget reforecasting exercises, prepare and provide regular budget information, spend tracking and analysis to the Project Technical Lead and Project Coordinator Lead to inform decision making.

· Coordinate the preparation, development and submission of donor finance and narrative reports for the portfolio of projects you manage, ensuring compliance with and adherence to donor and governance requirements.

· Work with Project Technical Leads to identify and plan project resource requirements and undertake procurement/recruitment of resources as needed, aligned with project budget, and ensuring procurement and due diligence requirements are met.

· Support the facilitation of internal and external project/network meetings, events, conferences, and webinars (in-person and online) including undertaking Travel Risk Assessments for all project related travel for staff and consultants, within UK and internationally, in line with ENN’s Travel and Expenses policies.

· Coordinate the production and dissemination of ENN’s publications and technical outputs, including liaison with copyeditors, designers, printers, and translators.

· Support Project Technical Leads to identify, mitigate, and maintain a record of project related risks (operational and strategic).

Fundraising and Business Development

· Coordinate the development and submission of new grant proposals on time and ensuring completeness of applications. Support on developing proposal budgets and ensuring sufficient resource capacity.

· Carry out due diligence on new funders/partner capacity assessments.

· Coordinate seeking extensions/modifications of existing grants as required.

· Support the development and maintenance of ENN’s funding pipeline, identifying and securing relevant project funding opportunities, and forecasting project funding gaps.

Monitoring and Evaluation

· Work with the Project Technical Leads to articulate project strategies, ensure aims and objectives are clearly defined and indicators and means of verification identified as part of project design and proposal development.

· Collate, analyse and share information/monitoring data on project performance with Project Technical Leads and wider Project team on a regular basis to track performance against project strategies, objectives, and indicators.

· Compile internal project monitoring and evaluation reports and prepare monitoring and evaluation data for inclusion in donor reports.

· Support Project Technical Leads to regularly analyse and review project performance (short and long term), identifying trends and implementing learnings.

· Undertake other monitoring and evaluation activities including baseline reports, citation surveys, stories of change, external project evaluations and Strategy mid-term and end evaluations as needed.

Person Specification

Essential

· Previous experience of project management, ideally in the third sector.

· Experience in developing, monitoring, and reporting against project workplans and budgets

· Experience working on donor / grant funded projects and ability to navigate and communicate donor compliance requirements.

· Experience in securing project funding opportunities from a variety of donors

· Excellent communication and written skills, including previous experience of preparing donor reports and grant funding proposals.

· Strong interpersonal skills, able to work with and influence colleagues and a wide range of stakeholders, often remotely, to achieve a shared outcome.

· Excellent organisational skills, ability to manage a diverse and busy workload, prioritising effectively, and support others to do so.

· Able to diagnose situations and constraints, comfortable when to progress independently and when to escalate.

· Motivated, takes initiative, innovates, and delivers to deadlines.

· Consistent attention to detail.

· Good cross-cultural awareness

· Microsoft Office: high level of competence in SharePoint, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Willing to learn and enthusiastic about own development.
Fluent in English.
Desirable

· Project Management Qualification

· Specific experience in any of the following institutional donors would be an advantage: ECHO, FCDO, UN Agencies, Irish Aid and/or Foundations.

· Experience of managing procurement activities

· Experience of evaluations: analysing, collating, and reviewing data related to grant and programme effectiveness.

· Previous experience of arranging international business travel, ideally to developing countries.

· Experience working within a humanitarian, nutrition, or international development context.

Understanding of confidentiality and data protection.
Language skills other than English are not essential but will be a plus as we produce and disseminate content in French, Spanish, Arabic, and other languages.
Reporting Lines and Team

This role reports to the Project Coordinator Lead. The role will work in the Projects team which is also made up of Project Administrator(s) and other Project Manager(s), working with our technical team including Project Technical Leads and Portfolio leads as well as with Communications and Finance functions.

Please submit a Cover Letter (no more than 1 page) and CV