Portfolio Manager – EU, SWANA
Hivos
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Anywhere in Europe
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About the role
- Ensure strategic coherence and alignment across the project portfolio.
- Project design ensuring thematically solid propositions in line with Hivos’ strategy
- Generate interesting ideas for proposal development in line with Hivos’s strategy.
- Provide strategic advice for developing new programs and projects.
- Analyze and provide strategic recommendations on the political, social, and economic context of countries in the assigned project portfolio.
- Contribute to overseeing the implementation of improvement processes resulting from audits of the assigned project portfolio and provide support for consolidating good practices.
- Responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating advocacy strategies.
- Initiate, facilitate, and manage or co-manage relevant and impactful advocacy activities and events.
- Draft project reports and presentations, summarizing progress and insights.
- Develop workstream and project plans aligned with frameworks.
- Support risk, issue, and dependency tracking and mitigation.
- Coordinate stakeholder engagement activities.
- Supervise closeout processes of the assigned project portfolio.
- Support the development of funding proposals.
- Analyze project data and prepare insights reports.
- Support process improvement initiatives and horizon scanning.
- Supervise local and regional project managers, allocate work, and contribute to appraisals.
- Identify and report noncompliance with organizational policies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
- 1–3 years of experience in project/program management/coordination in the development sector
- Experience supervising people or processes is an advantage
- Experience in grant making and donor-funded projects
- Project planning, reporting, and prioritization
- Experience in developing effective advocacy strategies
- Fluent in English. Second language Dutch, French or Arabic is an asset
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementproposal developmentadvocacy strategiesproject planningreportingdata analysisprocess improvementrisk managementstakeholder engagementgrant making
Soft Skills
strategic thinkingcommunicationleadershipsupervisioncollaborationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsfacilitationcreativityadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree