The national TOKTEN Project Manager is a core position in the Full-fledged National TOKTEN Project Team. The incumbent performs the Project Manager role of ensuring day-to-day management for effective and efficient delivery of the national TOKTEN project outputs.

Duties and responsibilities:
Undertake the overall responsibility of providing technical backstopping to the project teams in Northern and Southern Sudan:

• Supervise and coordinate the project management in Northern and Southern Sudan, including recruitment of project staff;
• Coordinate strategic planning, organize, and implement project activities in strategic manner to ensure results achievements;
• Coordinates deployment of project resources to ensure equitable distribution of project benefits to targeted locations in Northern and Southern Sudan;
• Provide strategic advisory support to beneficiary institutions on capacity-building for human resources and institutional development, and to other UNDP Programme/projects;
• Provide technical and management backstopping on TOKTEN requests processing, database management, and recruitment of TOKTEN Volunteers;
• Develop and implement strategy for building and strengthening partnership with key stakeholders (government, vocational institutes, universities and research institutions, private sector organisation, Project/programme of UNDP and other UN agencies, international agencies, other Diaspora projects in Sudan, and Sudanese in the Diasporas), advocacy tools, and media campaign on the project within and outside Sudan;
• Responsible for monitoring and updating project risks, activities of serving TOKTEN Volunteers, lessons learnt on the project, and ensure reporting on the matters;
• Organise the meetings of the Project Executive Board, and other project consultative forum of stakeholders;
• Support the Project Executive Board in preparing reports on the contribution of the project to the relevant Programme Outcome of UNDP Country office in Sudan;
• Prepare regular updates of project work plan, budget, periodic progress reports, financial reports, and project advocacy and promotion reports;
• Coordinates the preparation of pre-assignment documents, and in-country orientation for TOKTEN Volunteers, and provide in-country orientation to TOKTEN Volunteers as may be necessary;
• Develop best practices within the framework of the project activities and feed these into UNDP overall strategy for project implementation and capacity building support in Sudan.;
• Undertake any other relevant duties as requested for successful implementation of the project.
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Qualifications and essential professional competence:

• Master's Degree in Social Science with strong academic background in project management, monitoring and evaluation;
• At least 2 – 3 years of experience in project management, monitoring and evaluation of development projects, preferably technical assistance project for capacity building;
• Demonstrated skills and ability to build partnerships and to establish networks among organizations at various cadres, especially top cadres in public and private institutions.
• Knowledge and experience in UN/UNDP policies and programming frameworks.
• Understanding of the dynamics of political environment and climate in Sudan
• Skills and ability to produce high quality technical report.
• Knowledge and skills in multi-sectoral, area-based project management; time management; and work process management.
• Computer skills for using words and spread sheet for data processing and use of internet.

Personnel Characteristics:

• Excellent inter-personal skills and multi-cultural experience.
• Good team player,
• Ability to lead the team, and
• Result-oriented and ability to work under stressful condition.

Language Proficiency:
Fluency in English. Understanding of Arabic is an advantage.