Accountability and Complexity

• Lead project planning, implementation, and monitoring in line with donor agreements, internal procedures, and compliance requirements, in close coordination with the Area Manager, support department focal points, and other relevant colleagues.
• Ensure that projects are managed adaptively, responding to emerging risks, contextual changes, and operational constraints.
• Maintain quality assurance and ensure project activities meet technical and programmatic standards.
• Collaborate with compliance and audit functions to ensure project monitoring and corrective actions where necessary; ensure timely, accurate and high-quality internal reporting on potential or actual breaches of RI or donor policies or local legislation.
• Lead or support donor visits, third party monitoring, audits, or external evaluations to project sites within the area of responsibility.

Project Management

• Ensure the successful implementation of the project/s, coordinating closely with area management on operational implementation, and with relevant focal points at Syria Country level.
• Oversee overall project implementation progress in all areas, including programmatic activities and budget management.
• Monitor project budgets, ensure appropriate spending, and identify and resolve any potential financial issues promptly.
• Serve as budget holder for spending and other approvals related to programmatic budget lines, as authorized in the mission’s Authorization Matrix, internal SOPs, or as delegated by the Country Director or relevant SMT focal point.
• Conduct regular field visits to areas to engage with staff and partners, assess progress, identify challenges, and support problem-solving.
• Ensure completion of project management tools on a timely basis and participate in Grant
• Review and Budget Review meetings to present the progress.
• Ensure project reporting requirements from field-level are fulfilled, overseeing and directly contributing to timely and accurate donor reports and internal updates.

Coordination and Representation

• Represent RI in relevant programmatic coordination platforms, ensuring there is no duplication with other stakeholders in program delivery, as delegated by the Field Director, Program Quality Director, and Country Director.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with partners and key stakeholders on program-related matters.
• Ensure effective information sharing and communication within the organization and with external actors where determined relevant under the guidance of Area Manager and Field Director.
• Support partner organizations in project delivery, ensuring alignment with RI standards and donor requirements.

Management and Leadership

• Provide leadership and supervision to project teams, ensuring clarity of roles, responsibilities, and objectives.
• Mentor project staff and build capacity in project management, compliance, and reporting standards.
• Collaborate with the Area Manager as well as relevant support departments in order to ensure effective operationalization of the project at field level, including troubleshooting challenges or obstacles likely to hinder project progress.
• Contribute to programmatic strategy planning processes, at field and country levels, ensuring participation of field-level project staff in discussions about program relevance, efficiency, and impact.
• Contribute to proposal development for future programming, consolidating input from field-level project staff.
• Ensure that risk management processes, including safety and safeguarding considerations, are integrated into all aspects of project implementation, in coordination with the relevant organizational focal points.
• Promote an environment of accountability, learning, and continuous improvement within the team.

Other duties

• Gap fill project-related positions in their area when necessary.
• Submit ideas for the improvement of the organizational/base environment and the welfare of project staff.

Behavior and Conduct

• Ensure the highest standards of behavior inside and outside of work promotes the values in RI’s code of conduct and safeguarding policies
• Be a model for ethical conduct standards for other team members
• Ensure own actions and the actions of the team members they manage do not impact the safety of the RI team and the vulnerable communities we serve
• Ensure external stakeholders are aware of RI conduct and reporting mechanisms
• Report any concerns