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POSITION PURPOSE
With direct reporting to the AIR-C3 Project Director, and coordination with other internal and external stakeholders, the Project Manager (PM) is responsible for ensuring high-quality, effective project implementation, operations, and stakeholder management.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Project Management Responsibilities
- Manage the project budget, including financial oversight, distribution across intervention areas, monitoring utilization rates, and revising budgets as needed.
- Coordinate technical implementation across strategy design, global research teams, and field operations to ensure high quality, effective delivery.
- Lead technical units in planning, implementing, monitoring, and adjusting project interventions and activities.
- Maintain relationships and coordinate efforts with consortium partners (e.g., Emory and Berkeley Universities), private partners (e.g., ATEC), consultants, and various internal stakeholders (e.g., the iDE Innovation Lab and iDE Cambodia Communications Team) as required.
Operational Management Responsibilities
- Manage all operational and contractual aspects of the program, including contracts, partnership mechanisms, and consultancy administration.
- Lead troubleshooting for operational challenges by coordinating with the project team to identify optimal solutions and improve operational efficiency.
- Support the program team in identifying and resolving operational and administrative challenges through participatory and collaborative approaches.
- Facilitate adaptive management processes across technical and operational units, and with relevant stakeholders.
- Coordinate with directors of technical units and their teams in planning, implementing, monitoring, and adjusting project interventions and activities.
- Promote cross-intervention learning, foster synergistic coordination, and leverage emerging opportunities during project implementation.
- Ensure high-quality and timely project implementation across all participating technical teams.
Technical Responsibilities
- Protocol Fidelity and Scientific Frameworks: The AIR-C3 implementation manual heavily emphasizes strict adherence to behavioral science (COM-B) and implementation science (RE-AIM) frameworks. The PM must ensure field teams deliver the intervention as designed to protect the study's validity.
- Government and Stakeholder Authority: The PM must lead - or effectively delegate and monitor - the "Sensitization and Authorization Meetings" with commune authorities as outlined in the project implementation manual. The PM is the public face of the project when securing local buy-in and presenting official approval documents.
- Training and Capacity Building: The PM must oversee the "Training of the Trainers" to ensure sales managers, sales agents and post-sale & delivery agent understand the protocol and can deliver it effectively..
- Digital Community Engagement: The PM is involved in managing and overseeing the group-level peer learning exchanges via Telegram and Facebook with support from the iDE Cambodia Communications Team.
Other Responsibilities
- Provide backstopping support to intervention managers and represent interventions in internal and external meetings as needed.
- Attend external events and workshops, representing the project and iDE.
- Perform other duties related to the project and iDE’s wider operations as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities
The Project Manager will supervise a small Sales and Supply Chain Team, coordinate with various internal stakeholders, and manage external consultants.
