Project Manager-NGO

Position: Project Manager

Department: Projects (Home Chef)

Reports to: Program Manager

Location: Lahore Office

Job Purpose:

As the Project Manager for the Home Chef Program your primary objective is to lead the seamless planning execution and delivery of the program fostering culinary education economic empowerment and community engagement. This multifaceted role involves endtoend project management effective team leadership strategic innovation and collaborative efforts to ensure the success of the Home Chef Program.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Management

• Manage endtoend project lifecycles for Home Chef ensuring successful planning execution and delivery.
• Develop detailed project plans outlining tasks timelines and resource requirements.
• Allocate and coordinate resources ensuring the availability of personnel materials and equipment as needed.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope goals milestones and deliverables.
• Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Proactively address issues that may impact project timelines or deliverables.
• Maintain regular communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide project updates status reports and presentations as necessary.
• Develop and manage project budgets tracking expenditures and ensuring adherence to financial constraints.
• Work closely with the finance team to monitor project financials.
• Establish and implement quality assurance processes to ensure project deliverables meet established standards.
• Conduct regular reviews and evaluations to measure project performance.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation develop project roadmap and identify milestones

Oversee the team to generate and distribute regular reports on project progress achievements and challenges.

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and implement best practices.
• Build capacity of the team on use of project management tools and best practices
• Identify relevant stakeholders for partnerships and conduct meetings with them to pitch the Home Chef.
• Oversee the outreach planning and progress for increasing awareness amongst target beneficiary organizations about the program and conducting trainings with their participants.

Team Management

• Hiring managing and training instructors and TAs
• Work crossfunctionally with academics placements operations and communications teams to ensure optimal outcomes and better program visibility
• Ensure project success and meeting of timelines key KPIs (quality recruitment high retention high placements economic empowerment)
• Engaging with current students to understand how well they are learning and meeting industry requirements
• Build a fun collaborative highperforming culture and the best environment for the team and students.

Strategy & Innovation

• Focus on documenting processes learnings and improvement.
• Develop systems and processes for regularly gathering analyzing and implementing feedback on curriculum and assessments based on key quality metrics.
• Research good practices lessons and ideas to be incorporated in Tech Karo and stay abreast with industry trends opportunities and improvements.
• Collecting and acting on course feedback to continually improve student satisfaction
• All courserelated operations (monitoring student progress student/extracurricular events etc.)
• Track and own program success metrics like enrollments retention completion satisfaction and career outcomes

Linkages:

• Engaging our alumni community
• Planning developing & executing events and noncurricular activities to empower our students & strengthen our student/alumni community
• Develop relationships with companies & other educational institutions and close strategic partnerships
• Partner with external hiring managers/ placement team to ensure our curriculum and assessment properly prepares learners for the job market

Reporting:

• Weekly meetings and reporting to the CIRCLE Management
• Monthly reporting to the CIRCLE Management and Donor on the progress of all the courses.
• Monthly activity plan in advance along with budget for activities focal persons and time needed for each planned activity

Remote Work :

No