Job offer: Terms Of Reference (TOR) For Project Manager: Community Project Skills Training via NGO Program

Company Profile

VIS is an Italian NGO formally recognized by the Ghanaian government since 2015 (the NGO was certified to commence business on 03 June 2016, under the Registrar General’s department of the Republic of Ghana with the registration n. CG030922016). VIS’s vision conceives a world where every person can fully enjoy his/her rights and participate with dignity and actively in the life of the community favoring his/her development. VIS’s mission is to promote the development and strengthen each person’s capabilities – as individual and as member of a community – with particular attention to the most disadvantaged and vulnerable young people, providing them with education, training and employment opportunities as well as tools for the promotion and protection of their rights. 

Term of Reference (ToR)

Project Manager

VIS- Volontariato Internationale per lo Sviluppo is looking for a Project Manager envisaged within the program titled “Community Project Skills Training via NGO”, funded by GIZ. VIS implements projects on Migration and Sustainable Development to pursue what is set by Target 10.7 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: “Facilitate orderly, safe, and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies”. 
 VIS considers irregular migration as a complex issue that needs a multi-faceted and multidisciplinary approach. For this reason, its action focuses on promoting a holistic development by improving people’s sustainable living conditions so that each human being will be able to live a fulfilling life in their own country. Capacity building and partnership are fundamental to raise the standard of living, promote human rights and tackle irregular migration. VIS holistically tackles irregular migration by adopting a community-based and Human Rights based approach: as a matter of fact, on one side, the interventions aims at co-creating community learning and income-generating spaces and are co-designed together with community’ members, traditional authorities and local municipalities; actions are co-implemented with returnees’ migrants whose voices become amplified and their lived-experiences as immigrants central in the peer-to-peer mentoring’s scheme. On the other side, VIS motto “free to leave, free to stay” encompasses the notions of duty bears and rights holders: States and other actors of the society have a legal duty to respect, protect, and fulfil the rights of those under their jurisdiction including potential migrants, migrants, and returnees. 
 Moreover, in order to transform mainstream narrative, discourage irregular migration, promote regular paths, and encourage the reintegration of returnees, VIS has defined an intervention package that includes three (3) working pillars: Prevention, Empowerment, and Advocacy. Prevention and Advocacy initiatives are usually carried out at local, regional, national levels through awareness campaign, establishment of Public Private Partnerships and Coordination Platforms, research, and analysis. Empowerment is intended mainly in terms of fostering access to quality education and decent jobs, improving the livelihood of groups at risk by promoting organic agriculture techniques and sustaining the development of innovative business ideas. 
Aside from migration, VIS Ghana is committed to implement projects also in the fields of:  

Education and TVET 

Job Orientation and Employment Promotion 

Gender Empowerment 

Organic Agriculture 

Child Protection

General information about the project.

Title: “Community Project Skills Training via NGO” Program

Duration of the project: 1 year

Areas of implementation: Sunyani, Nkoranza, Dormaa, Berekum and Tainso

Donor: GIZ

General Objectives
The general objective will be achieved through the realization of two specific objectives: (SO1) to foster employment opportunities in the agricultural and waste management sectors within the target communities and (SO2) to enhance effectiveness and accessibility of employment services in target communities.
Specific Objectives

Output 1: One Hundred (100) vulnerable left-behind wives acquired the skills to cultivate, process and sell tomato-derived products.

Output 2: One Hundred and sixty-five (165) vulnerable group members acquired the skills to collect, recycle and sell plastic-treated material. 

Output 3: Fifty (50) employment agencies officers are enhanced in delivering digital, green, and business-development coaching and counselling services. 

Output 4: Hundred (100) returnee migrants received coaching and counselling services at the community level.

Role Purpose of Project Manager

Development of agreements and action plans with operational and institutional stakeholders involved in project implementation;

Development of M&E plan;

Regular coordination with the donor and ongoing updates and reports on the project;

Formulation of documents related to project implementation: periodic implementation plans and any additions and updates, formulation of any variations to be approved by the donor, dissemination materials, formulation of information notes on activities carried out;

Supervising the proper collection of supporting documents for expenses according to the donor's rules;

Overseeing the implementation of proper procurement procedures for goods and services;

Preparation of interim and final narrative reporting according to donor rules and support in preparation of interim and final financial report;

Collecting and transmitting project-related data that the Accra VIS office and/or local partner may request;

Manage and supervise activities that ensure adequate project visibility, following donor guidelines.

Education Required: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree