| Posted date | 1st December, 2025 | Last date to apply | 10th December, 2025 |
| Country | Pakistan | Locations | Islamabad |
| Category | Development Sector | ||
| Type | Contractual | Position | 1 |
As a global leader, CARE is shaping the future of the humanitarian and development sector. Each year, we deliver support and services to millions of people in over a hundred countries. We do this by focusing on our mission and living the values that drive our organization. A career at CARE is an opportunity to be part of a movement that brings communities together to solve complex problems and foster lasting change throughout the world. We seek individuals who are passionate about humanitarian and development work, collaborate well with others, embrace learning and innovation, and deliver results.
Job Summary:
The Project Manager is responsible for the overall leadership, management, and delivery of the project Enhancing Private Sector Awareness on Green Skills and Climate-Smart Technologies. The role includes technical oversight, partner coordination, activity planning, high-quality reporting, private-sector engagement, risk management, and ensuring compliance with GIZ standards and CARE International policies.
The Project Manager ensures that project outputs related to SME engagement, green skills promotion, climate-smart adoption, digital knowledge materials, and TVET linkages are achieved within scope, timeline, and budget.
The project manager will adopt a multi-level and participatory approach that combines capacity-building, private sector engagement, and policy linkage. Co-designed activities with enterprises, relevant TVET stakeholders and TVET providers, women’s business networks, and government partners to ensure relevance and ownership. A balance of awareness, practical training, and institutional strengthening will enable SMEs to both understand and apply climate-smart solutions.
This position will be based in Islamabad with 50% field travel to KP, Sindh and Gilgit.
1- Project Management, Leadership and Technical Support (30% of the 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, Women & Girls 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 Women & Girls Responsive Accountability Frameworks by establishing and enforcing safeguarding and accountability protocols. Lead capacity-building of project staff, consultants, trainers, and partners on women & girls based safeguarding risks and CARE’s Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (PSEAH) standards.
- Establish safe, anonymous, women & girls-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.
- 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.
- Guide the development of training materials, knowledge products, digital modules, and resources for the project’s Knowledge Hub, ensuring quality, accuracy, and user-friendliness.
- Strengthen linkages with TVET institutions, employers, vocational graduates, enterprise associations, and private-sector platforms, facilitating knowledge exchange, partnerships, and skills-to-market pathways.
- Review, quality-assure, and validate all technical deliverables, including case studies, toolkits, analytical assessments, knowledge briefs, and best-practice documents produced under the project.
- 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 the time):
- Maintain strong, timely, and strategic communication with GIZ, relevant government departments, chambers of commerce, TVET institutions, private-sector partners, and other key stakeholders, ensuring alignment with project objectives and fostering long-term partnerships.
- Represent CARE International in coordination meetings, technical working groups, workshops, consultation sessions, and multi-stakeholder forums, presenting project progress, lessons learned, and recommendations in a clear and professional manner.
- Ensure robust collaboration with women-led SME networks, industry-level associations, and sector-specific business groups, promoting inclusive economic opportunities.
- Facilitate impactful partnerships that accelerate the adoption of climate-smart technologies, green practices, and sustainable production methods within targeted SMEs, in line with CARE’s Climate Justice and Green Skills agenda.
- Lead the design and implementation of the project’s Behavior Change Communication (BCC) strategy, ensuring the use of evidence-based methods that encourage SMEs to adopt improved green practices, climate-smart solutions, and inclusive business behaviors.
- Oversee the master trainers selection process, ensuring recruitment of qualified, women and girls balanced, and contextually relevant trainers for each intervention district. Facilitate the onboarding, orientation, and capacity-building of master trainers in line with CARE’s quality standards.
- Lead the procurement and onboarding of consultants for digital and training content development, ensuring adherence to CARE’s procurement guidelines and compliance requirements.
- 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.
- 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 the time):
- Oversee the effective implementation of the project’s MEAL Plan, ensuring that all components—including the Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT), baseline assessments, midline reviews, and endline evaluations—are executed according to CARE’s Program Quality standards and GIZ contractual requirements.
- Ensure the collection, verification, and management of high-quality, women & girls 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, quarterly, and annual progress reports to GIZ, ensuring reports are comprehensive, accurate, women & girls responsive, and aligned with donor formats, targets, and timelines.
- Ensure full compliance with GIZ, 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 the 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 (GIZ) 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.
- 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), women & girls 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: (05% of time)
- Any other tasks or responsibilities based on organizational and programming needs as assigned by the Line Manager.
A) Qualifications (Know How)
- Master’s degree in Environmental Science, Climate Change, Development Studies, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Specialized training or certifications in entrepreneurship development, financial literacy, project management, or social inclusion (GESI) would be an advantage.
B) Experience/ Technical Skills
- Minimum 7–10 years of experience in development programme management.
- At least 3–5 years experience managing projects in climate change, SME development, TVET, or green skills.
- Proven experience managing GIZ-funded or other donor-funded projects.
- Experience in private sector engagement, enterprise development, or market systems strengthening is highly desirab
Skills & Competencies
- Strong understanding of green economy, climate-smart technologies, and SME support mechanisms.
- 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.
CARE 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.
Note: The applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis
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