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BioCap Project Manager

Responsibilities or duties

Reporting to the Project Lead, The Project Manager of BioCap has the following responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate, and oversee implementation of project activities in accordance with approved work plans and budgets.
• Facilitate the day-to-day functions of the project PI in Rwanda
• Coordinate scientific, technical, and administrative teams to ensure timely delivery of project outputs.
• Liaise with development partners, collaborating institutions, and national regulators to facilitate project implementation.
• Monitor project performance against targets and indicators and prepare consolidated technical and financial progress reports.
• Ensure compliance with donor, biosafety, regulatory, and institutional requirements.
• Support stakeholder engagement, communication, and visibility of biotechnology programs
• Implement any other activity assigned by the project PI

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

Experience needed

• PhD in Plant pathology
• 12 Years of relevant experience
• PhD in Plant Biotechnology
• 12 Years of relevant experience
• PhD in Moleculor Biology
• 12 Years of relevant experience
• PHD in Plant Breeding
• 12 Years of relevant experience

Required competencies and key technical skills

• Knowledge in conflict management
• Ability to work as a team coordinator and make decisions with minimal support
• Good organisational and time management skills, detail oriented with ability to plan workload and prioritize;
• Strong leadership and decision making skills with ability to make decisions under pressure, able to prioritize and stick to prioritization;
• Ability to manage stakeholder relationships and interact at all levels

Psychometric Languages

• English

Psychometric Domains

• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Coordination
• Conflict Resolution

• Plan, coordinate, and oversee implementation of project activities in accordance with approved work plans and budgets.
• Facilitate the day-to-day functions of the project PI in Rwanda
• Coordinate scientific, technical, and administrative teams to ensure timely delivery of project outputs.
• Liaise with development partners, collaborating institutions, and national regulators to facilitate project implementation.
• Monitor project performance against targets and indicators and prepare consolidated technical and financial progress reports.
• Ensure compliance with donor, biosafety, regulatory, and institutional requirements.
• Support stakeholder engagement, communication, and visibility of biotechnology programs
• Implement any other activity assigned by the project PI

• Knowledge in conflict management
• Ability to work as a team coordinator and make decisions with minimal support
• Good organisational and time management skills, detail oriented with ability to plan workload and prioritize;
• Strong leadership and decision making skills with ability to make decisions under pressure, able to prioritize and stick to prioritization;
• Ability to manage stakeholder relationships and interact at all levels

• PhD in Plant pathology
• 12 Years of relevant experience
• PhD in Plant Biotechnology
• 12 Years of relevant experience
• PhD in Moleculor Biology
• 12 Years of relevant experience
• PHD in Plant Breeding
• 12 Years of relevant experience