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Role Tile: Project Manager Bahrain
Date: 20-Sep-2022
Location: Manama, Middle East and North Africa, BH
Company: British Council
Transformation has resulted in changes in skills requirements, roles, and numbers of roles required in the new operating model. The roles in the new operating model will be restricted to employees in the selection pool in the first instance. Selection for any jobs that remain unfilled following the agreed selection process will be conducted in line with the Global Recruitment policy.
Role Tile: Project Manager Bahrain
Location: Manama – Bahrain
Contract type: (Grade F – Non Permeant contract until 15 March 2023)
Closing date and time: 30 September 2022
Contract type: (Grade F – Non Permeant contract until 15 March 2023)
Closing date and time: 30 September 2022
About us:
The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. We do this by making a positive contribution to the UK and the countries we work with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust.
We work with over 100 countries across the world in the fields of arts and culture, English language, education and civil society. Each year we reach over 20 million people face-to-face and more than 500
Role purpose:
Provides integral operational management & leadership, in a small to sized team; driving successful development, delivery, impact (incl. MEL) and financial sustainability of education partnerships, programmes or contracts at country level. Services corporate [or regional] outcomes; ensuring value add and mutual UK benefit as well as compliance with published programme management standards across all areas of financial and operational risk. Manages partner and stakeholder relations.
Provides integral operational management & leadership, in a small to sized team; driving successful development, delivery, impact (incl. MEL) and financial sustainability of education partnerships, programmes or contracts at country level. Services corporate [or regional] outcomes; ensuring value add and mutual UK benefit as well as compliance with published programme management standards across all areas of financial and operational risk. Manages partner and stakeholder relations.
Main accountabilities:
Relationship & Stakeholder management
- Builds and maintains business critical relationships with key local clients and partners with a view to ensuring successful programme delivery
- Supports the government and institutional relationships that the UK needs to succeed in country
- Leads on relationships with a range of stakeholders and partners at a sector level
- Represents the British Council externally and internally
Commercial and Financial Management
- Directly plans and controls specific cost variables (rather than the total budget) to meet established targets, ensuring compliance with all relevant corporate financial systems and processes
- Using agreed financial procedures/templates, conducts monthly and year-end analysis and reporting on income and expenditure/profitability and risk/pipeline/actual performance versus plan targets.
- 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.
- Ensures compliance to BC financial policies and procedures.
Project Management
- Provides input and design to Education contracts, programmes and projects, assuring quality and impact and managing issues and risks
- Incorporates specific actions to address equality, diversity and inclusion priorities in programme delivery
- Manages country portfolio day-to-day ensuring global standards on programme and contract management are achieved
- Direct line management where applicable, with matrix management support provided to sector programme teams in country/across the region as required.
- Ensures effective financial management and compliance -manages and delivers to target, budgets, profitability, timelines, and to corporate quality standards in all areas
Monitors, reviews and ensures that the country portfolio is achieving agreed impact measures, and monitoring, evaluation and learning and reporting is in place against Cultural Engagement’s Strategy 2025 and FCDO key performance indicators
Business Development
- Supports the identification and development of professional networks, relationships and partnerships to increase the British Council’s impact and reputation.
- Ensures high quality and accurate pipeline data for country/pillar.
- Conducts specific pipeline and partner/competitor analysis to contribute to business development planning and prioritisation.
- Provides support with development of new business proposals, ensuring that internal and external professional standards are met.
Equality, Diversity and 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 Requirements:
- Candidates should have the right to work in Bahrain with a valid residency permit and have a solid and demonstrable interest in education and cultural relations with an excellent track record of experience in managing projects
- Have excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Arabic
- 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
- Bachelor’s degree level
- Demonstrable expertise of programme management, ideally in the Education sector
- Experience of procurement, evaluation and reporting requirements of projects.
- Proven experience of managing portfolio project finances.
- Experience of managing stakeholders
- Project management qualification.
- Experience of working in project or programme management.
- Experience of using technology in project delivery.
- Experience of embedding M&E into programme design to support development of systematic evidence
- Experience of collaborating effectively with others to develop solutions to issues where there is not an established framework
Please note that all applications for this post should be submitted in English.
We are committed to policies and practices of equality, diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We will support all employees to make sure their behaviour is consistent with this commitment. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.
