PROJECT MANAGER The African Union

The African Union, established as a unique African continental body, is charged with spearheading Africa’s rapid integration and sustainable development by promoting
unity, solidarity, cohesion and cooperation among the peoples of Africa and African States as well as developing a New Partnership worldwide. Its Headquarters is located at Addis
Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia.

The Pan African Veterinary Vaccine Centre of the African Union (AU-PANVAC) launched a project on “Supporting food security and capacity building in African Union Member States through the sustainable control of Newcastle disease in village chickens: Design Phase”.

In implementing this project, AU-PANVAC seeks the services of a Project Manager.

1. Post:

Job Title: Project Manager
Grade: P4 step 5
Immediate Supervisor: AU-PANVAC Project Director and KYEEMA Project Director
Directorate: Rural Economy and Agriculture
Technical Office: AU/PANVAC
Duty Station: Debre Zeit, Ethiopia

2. Major duties and responsibilities:

• Under the direction of the Project Directors and KYEEMA Africa Regional Manager, provide administrative and financial oversight of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) Phase 3 Project: “Supporting food security and capacity building in African Union member states through the sustainable control of Newcastle disease in village chickens. Design Phase”

• In collaboration with the Project Directors and KYEEMA support team, assist in developing work plans, specified milestone reports and other means of milestone verification, six monthly reports, the multi-year project proposal and the Project

Completion Report.

• Manage project procurement in-country and maintain the assets register.

• Maintain communications and procedural management systems in Ethiopia.

• Supervise KYEEMA Foundation expenditure in Ethiopia in accordance with the Project

Procedures Manual.

• Maintain financial management systems, in accordance with the KYEEMA Foundation

Project Procedures Manual including:

o weekly reconciliation of petty cash;

o checking and approval of payment of invoices; o preparation of monthly accounts; and

o oversight of accounts submitted by satellite offices.

• Liaise with officials from donor agencies and the relevant Government authorities as required to facilitate the successful implementation of the project.

• In collaboration with the Project Directors and KYEEMA support team, provide professional guidance and support to all advisers on the projects and supervise their performance to ensure that project objectives and outputs are achieved.

• Assist with the establishment of linkages with other international organisations and NGOs that are involved with complementary activities, especially working with village chickens.

• Assist with the identification and preparation of new projects for complementary funding by other donors.

• Promote awareness of gender and HIV issues in all activities.

• Other duties as required.

3. Qualifications and Experience Required

• University Degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. administration, business, project management etc)

• Willingness to travel as required to partner countries and Australia.

• Demonstrated high level of written and oral communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to work as a part of a team.

• Demonstrated ability to work in cross-cultural settings.

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver outputs in a timely fashion.

4. Professional experience required

The incumbent should have a minimum of Five (5) years with project administrative management with a development organization in Africa.

5. Language requirement

Proficiency in English and French. Knowledge of other AU working language(s) would be an added advantage.

6. Age requirement:

Candidates must preferably be between 30 and 55 years old.

7. Tenure of Appointment:
The appointment will be made on a short term contract until June 30th, 2013, the first three

(3) months of which shall be on probation. It shall be renewable subject to performance and availability of funds.


8. Gender Mainstreaming:

The AU Commission is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified women and men are strongly encouraged to apply.

9. Remuneration: The salary attached to the position is an annual total sum of US$

85,676.84 for internationally recruited staff and US$ 76,005.80 for locally recruited staff.

Deployment and relocation airfares, un-used leave entitlements and expatriate insurance for internationally recruited staff is covered separately.

10. Applications must be made through the AUC E-recruitment Website
http://www.aucareers.org not later than 28th September 2012.

Directorate of Administration and Human Resource Management

African Union Commission