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Job Summary:

The Project Manager is responsible for the overall leadership, management, and delivery of the Heat Wave project. The role includes technical oversight, partner coordination, activity planning, high-quality reporting, private-sector engagement, risk management, and ensuring donor compliance and CARE International policies. The Project Manager will provide overall leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight for the Heatwave Response Project. The role ensures timely, effective, and accountable implementation of heatwave preparedness, mitigation, and response interventions, in line with donor requirements, national policies, and organizational standards.

The Project Manager ensures that project outputs related to information sharing, kits provision, practices and coordination with stakeholders with respect to timeline, and budget.

The project manager will adopt a multi-level and participatory approach that combines information sharing and provision of support.

1-Project Management, Leadership and technical support (30% of time)

Provide overall program coordination, strategic technical guidance, and oversight of implementation, ensuring that all activities are delivered in line with CARE International’s program quality standards, donor requirements, and compliance protocols. Maintain proactive liaison with donors, government departments, private-sector partners, and civil society stakeholders to ensure smooth coordination and visibility of the project.

Lead comprehensive planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting for all project interventions, ensuring alignment with CARE’s programmatic frameworks, gender equality principles, climate resilience approaches, and accountability standards.

Develop and operationalize CARE’s key program practices and approaches, including detailed work plans, procurement plans, annual budget forecasts, implementation calendars, and quality assurance instruments to guide timely and effective delivery.

Strengthen Gender-Responsive Accountability Frameworks by establishing and enforcing safeguarding and accountability protocols. Lead capacity-building of project staff, consultants, trainers, and partners on gender-based safeguarding risks and CARE’s Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (PSEAH) standards.

Establish safe, anonymous, gender-responsive reporting and response mechanisms, including hotlines, complaint/suggestion boxes, and digital reporting platforms to enable safe disclosures of misconduct and uphold CARE’s commitments to dignity, protection, and accountability.

Foster adaptive management and transparent communication, ensuring the project remains responsive to contextual shifts, donor priorities, and evolving needs of women, men, youth, and marginalized groups within target communities.

Conduct stakeholder mapping and maintain structured coordination mechanisms with government line departments, private-sector actors, NGOs, INGOS, and UN agencies, to strengthen collaboration and leverage synergies across interventions.

Lead and coordinate high-visibility launch and advocacy events, ensuring strategic participation of key public- and private-sector stakeholders, donors, training institutions, and media partners.

Coordinate closely with CARE’s communications team to develop high-quality digital training content, IEC materials, awareness-raising packages, and outreach products for field dissemination, digital platforms, and project events. Develop and implement a comprehensive dissemination plan targeting diverse audiences and stakeholders.

Ensure effective coordination and execution of all project components, including awareness sessions, digital content development, capacity-building interventions, training delivery, and private-sector engagement activities.

Manage day-to-day field operations, ensuring timely progress against deliverables, maintaining quality control, and resolving operational bottlenecks in collaboration with district-level teams and partners.

Ensure mainstreaming of gender equality, climate resilience, youth inclusion, and social safeguards across all project interventions, in line with CARE’s Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) framework.

Review, quality-assure, and validate all technical deliverables, including case studies, toolkits, analytical assessments, knowledge briefs, and best-practice documents produced under the project.

Regularly review, update, and operationalize the Project Risk Mitigation Plan, ensuring the identification and management of implementation risks, safeguarding concerns, and contextual challenges.

Develop and implement a realistic and sustainable project exit strategy, ensuring long-term ownership, institutionalization of approaches, and continuity of results beyond the project period.

2-Supervision and Stakeholder Coordination (30% of time)

Maintain strong, timely, and strategic communication with donros, relevant government departments, and other key stakeholders, ensuring alignment with project objectives and fostering long-term partnerships.

Represent the organization in coordination forums with government departments (Health, PDMA, NDMA, Local Government), UN agencies, NGOs, and community stakeholders.

Strengthen partnerships with health facilities, meteorological departments, and disaster management authorities

Provide technical guidance to project teams on participant identification, assessment, profiling, and selection, ensuring transparent and criteria-based processes. Support the planning and execution of awareness sessions, business advisory workshops, and skills development trainings.

Lead the design and implementation of the project’s Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) strategy, ensuring the use of evidence-based methods that encourage participants to adopt improved protection practices, climate-smart solutions, and inclusive business behaviours.

Monitor project performance and progress on a monthly and quarterly basis, ensuring timely reporting of achievements, challenges, risks, and mitigation measures to internal and external stakeholders.

Coordinate closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team to ensure efficient implementation of all MEAL activities. Oversee the collection, verification, and analysis of data; ensure adherence to accountability standards; and facilitate systematic learning and adaptive management throughout the project cycle.

3-MEAL, Reporting & Compliance (20% of time)

Oversee the effective implementation of the project’s MEAL Plan, ensuring that all components—including the Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT), are executed according to CARE’s Program Quality standards.

Ensure the collection, verification, and management of high-quality, gender-disaggregated, and timely data, working closely with MEAL teams to support evidence-based reporting, adaptive programming, and compliance with CARE’s Accountability Framework.

Lead the review, consolidation, and submission of monthly and quarterly progress reports, ensuring reports are comprehensive, accurate, gender-responsive, and aligned with donor formats, targets, and timelines.

Ensure full compliance with donor requirements, CARE International, and national regulatory requirements, including adherence to safeguarding policies, financial compliance standards, visibility guidelines, procurement protocols, and environmental and social safeguards.

Drive adaptive management processes by facilitating regular learning reviews, integrating evidence, field feedback, MEAL findings, and stakeholder insights to refine approaches, update implementation plans, and enhance overall project effectiveness.

4-Budgeting, Financial Management and reporting (15 % of time)

Prepare high-quality monthly, quarterly, and annual narrative reports, ensuring that all documentation is accurate, timely, evidence-based, and fully compliant with CARE International and donor reporting requirements, visibility standards, and contractual obligations.

Lead the preparation, monitoring, and management of project budgets in close coordination with the Finance team, ensuring budget alignment with work plans, donor guidelines, and CARE’s internal financial management policies.

Review financial expenditure, track burn rates, and ensure prudent and cost-effective project delivery, identifying variances early and coordinating timely corrective actions to maintain financial health and donor compliance.

Approve activity budgets and verify adherence to CARE’s procurement procedures, ensuring transparency, value for money, and compliance with anti-fraud, ethical sourcing, and accountability standards.

Prepare and submit monthly financial forecasts, expenditure projections, and donor financial reports, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with planned activities and contractual commitments.

Identify, assess, and mitigate operational, contextual, environmental, and programmatic risks, updating risk registers regularly and implementing mitigation measures in coordination with MEAL, Safeguarding, and Operations teams.

Ensure strict adherence to safeguarding, PSEAH (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment), gender sensitivity, and Do No Harm principles across all project activities, partnerships, and community engagements.

Oversee environmental and social compliance, ensuring that the introduction and promotion of climate-smart technologies meet environmental safety standards, national regulations, and CARE’s Climate Justice and environmental safeguarding policies.

5-OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES AS ASSIGNED (5 % of time)

Any other tasks or responsibilities based on organizational and programming needs as assigned by the Line Manager.

Qualifications (Know How)

Education/Training

Master’s degree in Environmental Science, Climate Change, Development Studies, Business Administration, or a related field.

Experience

Minimum 7–10 years of experience in development programme management.

At least 3–5 years of experience managing projects in climate change, Heat wave, or green skills.

Master’s degree in public health, Environmental Sciences, Disaster Management, Social Sciences, or related field.

Minimum 5–7 years of experience managing humanitarian, climate adaptation, or public health projects.

Proven experience in disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate resilience, or emergency response.

Strong knowledge of heatwave risks, public health impacts, and community-based interventions (preferred).

Experience working with government and donors (GIZ, UNICEF, WHO, ECHO, etc.) is an asset.

Experience in private sector engagement, enterprise development, or market systems strengthening is highly desirable

Skills & Competencies

Strong understanding of heat wave projects.

Excellent planning, coordination, and project management skills.

Strong command of MEAL principles, results frameworks, and donor reporting.

Ability to manage budgets, procurement processes, and compliance requirements.

Excellent communication, partnership building, and stakeholder management skills.

Desired

Prior experience in managing heat wave and climate change projects in Pakistan.

Familiarity with CARE’s program principles, donor regulations.

Ability to travel frequently across project districts.

Experience/Technical Skills

Required

Professional Experience: Minimum 7–10 years of progressively responsible experience in managing entrepreneurship development projects, capacity building, financial inclusion, or program coordination within INGOs, donor-funded projects, or private sector initiatives.

Planning & Coordination: Strong experience in program planning, budgeting, and coordination with implementing partners, financial institutions, and government stakeholders.

Monitoring & Evaluation: Exposure to MEAL processes, including baseline studies, FGDs, financial health frameworks.

Technical Skills: Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), digital collaboration tools, and data management for reporting and analysis.

Communication & Representation: Advanced skills in written communications, report writing, and presentation, with experience representing projects at donor, partner, and stakeholder forums.

Languages: Fluency in English and Urdu (written and spoken); proficiency in regional languages is an asset.

Other Skills: Strong capacity in event management, stakeholder engagement, and partnership development to promote market linkages and program visibility.

Desired

Prior experience in Heat Wave programs

Knowledge of gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) approaches and their application in entrepreneurship programming.

Strong understanding of donor regulations, compliance, and reporting requirements (e.g., USAID, EU, corporate foundations).

Ability to work in multicultural, multi-stakeholder environments and travel extensively to project districts.

ARE participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we hereby request information from the candidate’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the candidate left employment. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

CARE is an Equal Opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected under applicable law.