Project Fund Manager

Job description

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic and Technical Leadership

Provide overall technical and strategic leadership for the Enterprise Challenge 2.0 project, ensuring alignment with WVZ livelihoods, youth, and economic empowerment strategies.
Lead the operationalization of the challenge fund model, including competitive calls, selection processes, milestone-based disbursements, and performance management of supported enterprises.
Ensuring enterprise support approaches integrate market systems development, financial inclusion, innovation, climate resilience, and gender/youth inclusion.
Oversee the development and application of enterprise selection criteria, due diligence tools, grant agreements, and risk mitigation frameworks.
Ensure safeguarding, accountability to affected populations, and Do No Harm principles are embedded across all enterprise and partner engagements

Fund and Financial Management

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Provide full fiduciary oversight of challenge funds, enterprise grants, and operational budgets in line with donor requirements and WV financial policies.
Lead budget development, revisions, forecasting, and expenditure tracking to ensure efficient utilization of funds and value for money.
Approve disbursements linked to verified milestones, outputs, and performance indicators.
Work closely with Finance, GAM, and Internal Audit to ensure compliance, timely liquidations, and clean audit outcomes.
Identify and proactively manage financial, operational, and reputational risks associated with enterprise financing.

Programme Management, Planning & Reporting

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Lead the development and implementation of annual, quarterly, and monthly work plans aligned to the approved project design and donor log frame.
Ensure timely, high-quality narrative and financial reporting to donors, WV support offices, and internal governance structures.
Track progress against results frameworks, enterprise KPIs, and disbursement conditions, ensuring corrective actions where performance deviates.
Ensure strong documentation of decisions, approvals, contracts, and learning for accountability and institutional memory.
Support Agriculture & Marketing specialist to ensure awareness creation & Smallholder farmers uptake of CSA technologies.

Partner, Grantee and Stakeholder Management

Serve as the primary point of contact for donors, investors, private sector partners, enterprise grantees, and government stakeholders.
Lead contracting, onboarding, capacity assessment, and performance management of enterprise grantees and technical partners.
Facilitate collaboration with government ministries (Agriculture & SMEs), financial institutions, innovation hubs, and private sector actors (Agriculture Markets) to strengthen enterprise ecosystems.
Represent WVZ in national-level platforms related to enterprise development, youth employment, and innovative financing.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)

Ensure a robust MEAL framework is implemented, including results tracking, milestone verification, learning loops, and adaptive management.
Oversee data quality assurance, enterprise performance monitoring, and outcome evaluations in collaboration with the MEAL team.
·Promote learning by documenting best practices, success stories, challenges, and innovations emerging from the challenge fund model.
Use evidence and learning to inform programme adjustments and future enterprise financing initiatives.

Team Leadership and Capacity Strengthening

Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and performance management for project staff.
Build the capacity of staff, partners, and grantees in enterprise management, financial accountability, results-based financing, and compliance.
Foster a high-performing, collaborative, and values-driven team culture consistent with World Vision’s mission.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only