Project Manager - ECHO

Project Manager - ECHO

12-month Fixed Term Contract

Full Time

Location - Borno, Nigeria

Salary - £25,451.30 per year

If we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert before the scheduled closing date. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to apply at their earliest convenience. 

About us

Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and recognise the value this brings in forming strong, creative and high performing teams. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, and from those with experience from outside of the voluntary sector. And no, you don’t have to be Christian to work here – we encourage people of all faiths and none to apply. We just ask that everyone lives out our values of dignity, equality, justice and love. We value a good work-life balance, so we’re open to part-time and flexible working. We also offer hybrid working for our office-based colleagues. 

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About the role

Reporting in to the Programme & Partnership Lad for Nigeria, the Project Manager provides overall leadership, coordination, and accountability for the ECHO funded Goyon Baya Response Project, with primary responsibility for MPCA delivery and oversight of integrated WaSH programming in Borno and Katsina states. Protection is mainstreamed across all components.

The post-holder will lead the design, activation, and management of the Rapid Response and Referral Mechanism (RRRM), ensuring timely, adaptive, and high-quality response across Ngala (Borno) and Mashi (Katsina).

The role leads consortium implementation with Smiling Hearts Initiative (SHI), ensures compliance with DG ECHO requirements, and upholds Christian Aid’s localisation, safeguarding, and accountability commitments.

Some of the main areas of responsibility for the Project Manager include:

• Lead planning, implementation, and close out of the GBRP in line with approved proposal, logframe, and budget.
• Lead design, monitoring, and management of MPCA programming, including transfer value setting, targeting approaches, and market monitoring.
• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance of WaSH interventions.
• Lead activation and operational management of the RRRM, including rapid assessments and response prioritisation.
• Adapt programme strategies based on context changes, market monitoring, and security analysis.
• Provide technical and managerial oversight to SHI as implementing partner.
• Ensure effective coordination across two distinct operational contexts (Borno NE and Katsina NW), adapting delivery models accordingly. Coordinate joint work planning, reviews, and capacity strengthening initiatives.
• Ensure effective collaboration, role clarity, and localisation commitments within the consortium.
• Ensure full compliance with DG ECHO contractual, financial, visibility, and reporting requirements.
• Lead preparation and submission of high quality narrative and financial reports.
• Maintain robust risk management, fraud prevention, and audit ready documentation.
• Oversee baseline, PDM, outcome monitoring, and market monitoring systems.
• Ensure Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), complaints and feedback mechanisms, and learning integration.
• Use evidence to inform adaptive management and donor reporting.
• Represent Christian Aid in clusters, working groups, and coordination forums at state and national levels.
• Maintain effective relationships with local authorities, donors, and humanitarian partners.    
• Maintain close working relationship with Christian Aid Ireland as contract holder, including with monthly update meetings

About you

Who we are looking for:

Essential:

• Postgraduate degree in Development, Humanitarian Studies, or related field.
• Minimum 7 years’ experience managing humanitarian programmes.
• At least 4–7 years of experience managing MPCA programmes in Nigeria.
• Demonstrable experience managing ECHO-funded projects at Programme Manager level.
• Working knowledge of WaSH programming sufficient for technical oversight.
• Strong experience in cash and voucher assistance (MPCA) and consortium management.
• Proven knowledge of MEAL systems, safeguarding, donor compliance, and risk management.
• Experience working in conflict affected contexts (Nigeria NE/NW strongly preferred). and readiness to be based in Maiduguri
• Highly developed analytical skills.
• Highly developed problem-solving ability.
• Developed report writing skills.    

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Borno and Katsina coordination systems (clusters, SEMA).
• Experience with referral systems (protection, health, nutrition).
• Experience with localisation approaches and partner capacity strengthening.
• Working knowledge of Hausa and/or Kanuri.     

Further information

At Christian Aid we strive to be an inclusive and diverse employer and recognise the value that this brings in helping to build strong, creative and high performing teams.

We are actively encouraging racialised minorities, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people with caring responsibilities, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, women, and older workers to apply. This is because these groups are under-represented within our teams, especially at senior level, and we recognise and value the contributions members of these groups make to strong, creative and high performing teams. 

We have a strong Christian ethos and we encourage applications from all faiths. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of and sympathy with Christian Aid’s faith identity. 

All successful candidates will require a DBS/police check appropriate to the role and location and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. We also participate in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information as part of the referencing process from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

This role requires applicants to have the right to live and work in the country where this position is based and undertake the role that you have been offered. If you are successful and we make you an offer for the role, we will be required to conduct a right to work check on your immigration status in the UK. We will contact you regarding the documentation you will need to provide to evidence this. 

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, please refer to the benefits booklet for your location to see our full list of employee benefits. 

For Salary details for this role, please refer to the Salary band by location.