Associate Project Manager

The Project Management PM unit provides project management support services in Birches Group's projects critical to achieving the organization’s mission through the provision of project management services and substantive expertise in project execution. The PM team engages in clients including NGO's, Private, International Organizations and Bilateral organizations to provide seamless delivery of projects to our clients.

The Associate Project Manager, as a member of the Project Management unit, plans, organizes, leads, monitors and controls the delivery of end to end projects and contributes to process improvement initiatives, ensuring the efficiency of internal processes, systems and procedures.  The timely and consistent provision of project management services aligned closely with the needs of the consulting program functions, is essential in enabling the effective performance of the organization as a reliable partner highly reputed for quality.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Determine primary project management service requirements and organization of response capacities to support the consulting program;


• Manage and Oversee provision of project management services promoting optimal delivery processes against project requirements and pace.


• Advise, coordinate and collaborate project internal/BG and external/client stakeholders on deliverables, guidelines, timelines, and procedures regarding the provision of consulting service to build an informed basis for interactions and to support the smooth and sustained operation;


• Advise and Update PM on project delivery performance issues and recommends mitigation strategies & optimal approaches of addressing project management needs that will strengthen the consulting program.


• Manage operational delivery of projects and consulting services deliverables, meeting timeliness & quality standards aligning with project requirements, methodology and cycles; Make sure that the project is being implemented according to the defined and agreed scope, timeline and costs.


• Monitor feedback mechanisms across teams and capture patterns useful to planning and decision-making on process improvements.

Targeted Specialized Knowledge:

• University Degree


• Prior specific experience in people management and end-to-end project management, ensuring consistency with standards and service delivery expectations