GDC Project Manager
GDC Project Manager
- Kenya
- Nepal
- Senegal
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team. For the past seven years, Practical Action has been hosting and building the GDC: a collective of 200 last mile distribution companies that cumulatively reach millions of the poorest consumers in the a world with beneficial products like solar lanterns, water filters, and improved cookstoves. The GDC provides a collective voice for distributors to ensure their voice is heard; drives research and innovation across the sector; facilitates the exchange of information, insight, and expertise; and provides critical services that leverage economies of scale. The GDC has recently finalized its 2022-25 strategy and will be focusing on six key areas: • Accelerating innovation, e.g., through our Innovation Challenges • Building capacity, e.g., through information exchange, formal training for managers and agents, and mentoring programs • Helping members access products, suppliers, and services at affordable prices • Helping members access to finance and become investment-ready • Undertaking market intelligence and research, e.g., by creating a performance benchmark for the last mile distribution sector • Engaging with members and advocating for their interests This role will work alongside the GDC Operations Manager in the day-to-day operations of the Global Distributors Collective, with a specific focus on overseeing one of the GDC’s flagship projects, a technical assistance facility that supports leading last-mile distribution companies to strengthen their businesses and increase their impact.
Project Responsibilities Work with and support the GDC Operations Manager to ensure robust program management and project delivery. This will include: • Co-creating program activities, including managing stakeholder negotiation and leading detailed project design processes, in partnership with the wider GDC team, donor, and consortium partners. • Led in creating and updating project plans and timelines to monitor program progress (using GAANT charts and/or Asana project management platform) and ensuring accurate allocation of project resources for the projects assigned by the GDC Operations Manager. • Managing high-profile external relationships (e.g., with donors), and liaising closely with key internal and external stakeholders (project teams, consortium members, etc.). This includes coordinating and chairing regular multistakeholder meetings, developing agendas, capturing the inputs and actions from meetings, and following up on actions promptly. • Managing all knowledge relating to the project, including ensuring project documentation is up-to-date and appropriately stored/tagged in our document libraries. • Working with the GDC communications team to develop project-related communications, as needed e.g., presentations, stakeholder surveys, marketing materials, etc. • Tracking project deliverables and leading all day-to-day administrative support across the assigned projects including proactive risk and issue management. • Supporting the development of practices, templates, and tools related to project management across the program.
Budget Responsibilities • Responsibility and accountability for certain budgets, up to £0.5m annually. Includes accurate budgeting, monitoring budgets against actual expenditures, and approving spend in line with budget, ensuring accurate recording of expenditure and income, ensuring timely and quality financial reporting in line with internal and donor regulations • Updating budgets, forecasts, and partner tracking schedules to ensure an accurate oversight of the project expenditure. • Inputting into the design of any new activities and budgets. • Raising invoices on the internal system, and consulting with the Practical Action Finance The team as needed. • Obtaining timesheets and expenses claims from outsourced suppliers, and reviewing them for their accuracy, and processing them accordingly.
Reporting • Led on developing and/or presenting weekly, monthly and/or quarterly update reports for projects, as requested by the donor. This includes obtaining input from the technical assistance teams on e.g., progress against agreed deliverables and KPIs, changes to project schedule/scope, risks and opportunities, etc.
Monitoring Learning, Evaluation and Gender
• Working with the GDC team, donor, and consortium partners to embed MEL activities
throughout the project in a way that is consistent with the wider GDC programme; supporting
consortium partners to enable participating companies to embed MEL considerations
throughout TA projects in a sustainable way.
• Working closely with the GDC gender focal point to ensure that gender analysis and
considerations are integrated meaningfully within TA projects, internal processes, and
knowledge outputs relating to the projects.
• Keeping an updated log of all monitoring, learning and evaluation requirements for all GDC
projects, and coordinating the required MEL activities e.g., monitoring when MEL activities
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