Senior Manager

Location

Kyiv, Ukraine

Background

Adam Smith International is a global advisory company that works locally to transform lives by making economies stronger, societies safer, and governments more effective. We work on behalf of governments, foundations and companies that share our ambition to take on the big challenges facing the world. They come to us to develop strategies and to design, deliver and evaluate programmes that, in turn, stimulate economic growth, stability and good governance.

For three decades in almost 100 countries, we have been working in partnership with governments, the private sector and civil society in countries at all stages of development. Our core team of staff and technical experts, in multiple offices around the world, ensures the quality of delivery and high ethical standards that we and our clients require. We bring together a global network of specialist experts, who contribute their experience and know-how, where and when it is needed.

In Ukraine, we are looking to grow our team of project managers to deliver our portfolio of projects and help further expand our project portfolio. This is an exciting time to join Adam Smith International and become part of a team of bright, dynamic and committed people, determined to transform lives for the better.

We are committed to corporate integrity and a triple bottom line of social, environmental and financial performance. ASI is a registered B Corp, one of the highest-ranking B Corps in the UK on its measure of positive social and environmental impact.

About the role

We are currently looking to recruit a Senior Manager in Kyiv, Ukraine to manage the delivery of our growing portfolio of programmes. Our Senior Managers typically lead the day to day running of a project, with responsibilities including:

• Leading project management activities, including oversight of workplans, budgets, invoices, contracts and recruitment processes

• Working closely with other project leaders to manage workplans and ensure adequate resourcing to deliver high quality programmes. This includes ensuring team members adhere to project schedules, identifying risks to timeframes and problem solving mitigations.

• Leading reporting processes with clients, including progress updates and more comprehensive monthly / quarterly / annual processes

• Financial management and reporting, including managing project budgets, ensuring financial management processes are adhered to, reporting to our clients and internally on finances

• Leading team recruitment processes end to end, including identifying resourcing requirements, sourcing candidates, and conducting interviews.

• Quality assuring project deliverables.

• Stakeholder management: maintaining relationships with our counterpart institutions and donors on a day-to-day basis, anticipating risk and issues, developing and delivering approaches to mitigating risks

• Supporting design and delivery of project workshop.

In addition, our Senior Managers have an important role in the growth of ASI, in this case in Ukraine and Eastern Europe both by delivering existing projects to high standards and by preparing for and leading our responses to complex competitive public tenders.