Project Manager - Military Training

Position Description

The Project Manager oversees and manages projects, and is responsible for planning, monitoring projects. The PM is responsible for co-ordination and completion of the projects and will perform a variety of tasks including setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, monitoring, and summarizing progress of the projects, setting, and following budgets, making HR decisions, and other project management-related tasks. The PM will be based in West Africa with travel to various remote training sites throughout the region. 

Location: Ghana, West Africa

Position Requirements

Two years of directly related experience managing projects of similar scale and complexity involving curriculum development, training, and equipment procurement in an austere environment valued at $1,000,000 per year minimum. Management experience shall be defined as serving as the highest-ranking company official deployed in-country and responsible for a given project. Such examples may include Project Manager or Country Manager. Native English speaker or DLPT 3/3 (or ILR equivalent). The PM shall also demonstrate at least 1+ years direct experience conducting work professionally in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as highlight experiences operating in areas with limited life cycle support and under hardship conditions. Candidate should have curriculum development experience. Candidate must have the ability to analyze complex financial data and extract and define relevant information. Candidate must have excellent supervisory, organizational, and training skills, skill in project development and execution, skill in coordinating activities, evaluating data, and establishing priorities. Excellent communication in both written and verbal English is necessary, and must be proficient in Word, MS Office suite of programs. Candidate must be able to analyze problems and make well-reasoned, sound decisions. Candidate must be highly capable of interacting confidently with senior management and customers. Candidate should have management experience with and a demonstrated history of managing direct reports within a large organization. o Previous work locations as required above include: Sub-Saharan African countries include: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Democratic Republic), Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, , Zambia, Zimbabwe. Other Post-conflict countries include Afghanistan, Bosnia, Colombia, Egypt, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Yemen.