Senior Manager, Institutional Project Management

Responsibilities

Institutional Portfolio Management and Governance

• Manage AWF’s project and portfolio management across AWF in alignment with organizational strategy and approved governance standards.
  
• Provide leadership in all institutional project portfolio, including tracking project status, delivery performance, budget utilization, schedule adherence, dependencies, risks, and escalations.
  
• Support portfolio prioritization and resource allocation processes based on strategic alignment, delivery feasibility, organizational capacity, and risk exposure.
  
• Escalate critical project risks, delays, governance issues, and delivery constraints to senior leadership.
  
• Support development of Board-level project and portfolio reporting.
  
• Ensure project governance structures, reporting lines, and decision rights are clearly defined across projects and programmes.
  

Project Lifecycle and Delivery Management

• Ensure all projects comply with AWF’s approved project lifecycle methodology and governance framework.
  
• Lead the design of standard project management processes, including Project initiation, planning, and close-outs.
  
• Lead stage gate quality assurance reviews for high-risk and strategic projects.
  
• Ensure project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, assumptions, dependencies, and deliverables are properly managed and documented.
  
• Support project teams in the development of project charters, workplans, risk registers, change requests, and close-out reports.
  
• Promote structured adaptive management and evidence-based delivery adjustments.
  

Project Management Standards

• Maintain and continuously improve AWF’s Institutional project management framework, standards, templates, and governance tools.
  
• Standardize project management practices across landscapes, programmes, and functions.
  
• Establish consistent reporting, documentation, and project control practices.
  
• Ensure compliance with donor, organizational, and governance requirements relevant to project delivery.
  
• Maintain AWF’s institutional project management repository.
  
• Support implementation and adoption of Institutional Project Management systems and tools.
  

Risk, Issue, and Performance Management

• Establish and monitor Institutional Project risk management processes.
  
• Ensure project risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation actions are regularly reviewed and escalated appropriately.
  
• Monitor project performance indicators and delivery trends across the portfolio.
  
• Support corrective action planning for underperforming projects.
  

Stakeholder and Cross-Functional Coordination

• Support coordination of strategic and AWF’s wide transformation initiatives.
  
• Ensure effective communication and stakeholder engagement across complex multi-country projects.
  
• Act as a senior advisor to project teams and leadership on project governance and delivery management.
  

Capability Building and Organizational Project Management Maturity

• Lead organizational Project Management capability development initiatives.
  
• Support implementation of Project Management competency frameworks and professional development pathways.
  
• Coordinate Project Management training, coaching, mentoring, and communities of practice.
  
• Promote adoption of standard project management methodologies and governance practices.