Project Manager - India

How you'll contribute

• Workplan oversight. Own and maintain the overall workplan: scope, objectives, timelines and resource requirements, in partnership with workstream leads, partner organisations and domain experts.
• Work package coordination. Act as day-to-day coordinator of Climate Bonds' role as work package lead, ensuring individual workstream plans are integrated into a single coherent programme delivery schedule.
• Change management. Ensure timely and effective response to proposed changes in scope, timeline and budget, assessing potential impacts on project objectives and developing actions to address them.
• Budget and financial tracking. Ensure plans and trackers are in place to manage expenditure within budget across projects and partner organisations, ensuring accurate and timely expensing and tracking to enable donor and finance reporting.
• Partner coordination. Lead the coordination and motivation of internal teams outside the management line and external partner organisations to effectively plan, co-create and share expertise to achieve project goals and objectives.
• Governance tools. Ensure a RACI matrix is in place, understood and adhered to throughout the project lifecycle across all workstreams and partner organisations.
• RAID and reporting. Maintain the project RAID log and associated actions and status reporting internally, and ensure plans, progress, delivery and RAIDs of partner organisations are transparent, tracked and reported upon.
• Project governance. Lead project governance and accountability processes, ensuring the Senior Leadership Team, Head of South Asia, Deputy Head, India Programme and funder are kept up to date and that project decisions are made effectively and efficiently.
• Resourcing. Partner and advance planning with internal resource managers to ensure the project is adequately resourced, working through challenges in a nimble, considerate way to adapt and creatively solve problems so project deliverables are met, anticipating in advance areas requiring support and steer.
• Stakeholder engagement. Facilitate stakeholder engagement across diverse geographies and sectors including Indian policymakers, investors and market participants ensuring inclusive and effective collaboration in support of programme objectives.
• Monitoring, evaluation and learning. Oversee implementation of the project-level Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework, in partnership with and with support from the MEL lead, to track and measure progress and support learning and reflection.
• Knowledge Management. Help build and maintain a shared knowledge management system that captures documents, decisions, technical insights and lessons learned, ensuring it is well organised, kept current and used by teams and partner organisations, so knowledge is retained and reused beyond the life of the project.
• Technical currency. Working closely with the Programme Lead and technical experts, maintain up-to-date knowledge on technical project issues, for example trends in transition finance, taxonomy alignment and sustainable investment in the Indian market.
• Compliance. Ensure compliance with internal and external reporting requirements, including financial tracking and documentation required by the funder and partner organisations.
• Quality assurance. Partner with domain owners to ensure the quality of project deliverables, factoring into the plan how this will be achieved to optimise ways of working.

You should apply if you can demonstrate...

• Excellent track record of matrix-managing complex, large-scale (USD 1m+), multi-year, multi-partner projects throughout the full project lifecycle, including project governance, oversight and effective risk management Experience of projects in India or South Asia, or working with Indian government, regulatory or financial-sector stakeholders.
• Excellent track record of working as a project manager in a non-profit or donor-funded programme setting.
• Familiarity with donor-funded programmes and grant compliance and reporting requirements.
• Experience of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) processes in a large-scale project.
• Experience coordinating delivery across multiple external partner or sub-grantee organisations.
• Experience using project management software and tools, e.g. Microsoft, Monday.com

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