Non-Formal Education Youth and Civil Society British Council

Implementation of projects with a low level of complexity funded by British Council or by another client or funding mechanism. Leads the successful delivery of a range of projects from start to finish including managing the contract or project plan, managing client or internal stakeholders, successfully achieving reporting and meeting compliance standards. Or works within a larger programme or multi country programme on a particular component. The Project Manager also contributes to business development processes through technical inputs, lessons learned, and proposal development support.

Main Accountabilities:

Relationship & Stakeholder management

• Has relationships with delivery partners and stakeholders within country and is able to procure services and contract delivery partners.
• Holds suppliers to account for delivering against contract.
• Build strong internal relationships and networks.
• Manages day-to-day relationships with delivery partners, trainers/facilitators, and stakeholders, ensuring clarity of expectations, performance standards, and accountability.
• Leads partner contracting and performance management, including regular check-ins and structured feedback.
• Escalates strategic or sensitive partnership issues to the head of NFE Youth and Civil Society where needed.
• Builds strong internal coordination across programme, finance, and operations teams to ensure smooth delivery.

Commercial and Financial Management

• Ensure sound financial planning, working closely with finance teams to ensure British Council and client financial year plans are up to date.
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly (re)forecasting is in place, by running regular reports in the SAP system on actuals, monitoring outstanding purchase orders, reviewing commitments, analysing and commenting on reasons for variances to plan and recommending corrective actions.
• Monitoring monthly finances, including correct expenditure, ensuring the P2P process is being followed and correcting any mis-postings or journals needed.
• Lead on British Council, partner or client reporting (including, with Finance Manager, financial reporting) and ensure reports are delivered on time, to budget and to a high standard.
• Compliance to BC financial policies and procedures.
• Leads detailed project financial planning and monitoring, ensuring alignment with delivery plans and forecasting accuracy.
• Proactively identifies financial risks, under/overspend trends, and recommends corrective actions.
• Ensures full compliance with P2P processes, procurement policies, and audit requirements.
• Contributes to financial sections of donor reports, ensuring strong narrative-finance alignment.

Project Management

• Contributes to development of, owns and delivers on Project Management Plan.
• Ensures that every project/programme is compliant with all internal policies and processes (for example safeguarding, EDI, supply chain management, social value and conflict sensitivity).
• Identifies risks in a project or programme and puts together mitigation strategies with SRO
• Responsible for internal and client, procurement, contracting, compliance and reporting pm
• Checks on and reports on compliance
• Manages procurement on a project/programme
• Applies due diligence requirements to potential partners
• Responsible for monitoring, following up, and supporting project partners, trainers/ facilitators and grantees
• Responsible for data management including timely data entry, quality assurance of data, undertaking basic analysis of monitoring data, and developing progress reports to meet funding needs
• Undertaking programme-specific data collection as needed. This includes working with colleagues to identify indicators and tools for data collection, quality assuring all data, and undertaking basic analysis.
• Manages all EDI processes and ensures comprehensive use of internal tools in programme design and delivery. Maintains an oversight of the action plan developed through the use of internal EDI tools
• Delivers the Project Management Plan, ensuring alignment with programme objectives and timelines.
• Establishes and implements quality assurance mechanisms across all delivery components.
• Support risk management, including identifying delivery, operational, and safeguarding risks and implementing mitigation plans.
• Oversees procurement and due diligence processes, ensuring selection of capable and compliant partners.
• Ensures strong coordination and follow-up with partners, facilitators, and grantees, moving beyond administrative follow-up to performance tracking.
• Ensures timely and high-quality data collection
• Conducts basic analysis and extracts actionable insights
• Feeds learning into programme adaptation
• Ensures all delivery complies with safeguarding, EDI, conflict sensitivity, and social value standards, with active monitoring (not just compliance checking).

Business Development Support

Contributes to proposal development by:

• Providing lessons learned and evidence from implementation
• Supporting budget development with realistic delivery assumptions
• Identifies emerging opportunities or risks from programme implementation and shares insights with senior management.
• Supports preparation of case studies, impact stories, and evidence for external engagement.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

• To actively contribute to an inclusive and anti-racist organisational culture, being aware of your own biases, and taking action to mitigate against these. Ensuring people feel valued and are treated equitably, with support for people s well-being and mental health.
• Understand the British Council s approach to equality, diversity and inclusion and how it applies to your role and make time for learning and development relating to EDI and anti-racism.
• Supports EDI to be actively embedded in programme design and delivery, not only through tools but through continuous monitoring and adaptation.
• Tracks implementation of EDI action plans and flags gaps or risks.