Project Manager

About Videre

Videre is an award-winning, UK-registered NGO that exposes human rights abuses and holds perpetrators to account. We work directly with communities in stressed environments, equipping networks of activists and community leaders with the technology and training necessary to safely capture visual documentation of political violence, human rights violations, and other systemic abuses. Our aim is to ensure that the concerns and knowledge of affected communities drive advocacy, policy, and legal action.

About the Role

Videre's partnerships work is growing, and we're looking for an experienced Project Manager to help us deliver an expanding portfolio of projects and grants. Working closely with partners, consultants and colleagues across the organisation, you'll play a key role in making sure partnership projects are well planned, properly resourced and delivered effectively from start to finish. You'll be responsible for keeping projects on track, managing donor and budget requirements, and helping build the systems and support needed as our partnerships portfolio continues to evolve and grow.

Key Responsibilities

Project and Partnership Management

• Manage a portfolio of partnership projects, ensuring delivery against agreed objectives, budgets, timelines and quality standards.
• Develop project plans, monitor progress, identify risks and adapt approaches as contexts and priorities change.
• Maintain strong, trusted relationships with partners, serving as their primary day-to-day point of contact.
• Support collaborative planning, problem-solving and decision-making with partners to maximise impact and sustainability.
• Ensure projects are delivered in line with organisational priorities and donor commitments.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

• Lead project monitoring and reporting, ensuring progress and impact are effectively tracked.
• Develop and strengthen MEL approaches, frameworks and tools where needed.
• Analyse project results and learning to inform decision-making, adaptive management and future programme design.
• Coordinate partner and consultant contributions to monitoring, reporting and learning processes.

Donor and Financial Management

• Support day-to-day relationships with donors and respond to information requests.
• Coordinate high-quality donor reporting, ensuring compliance with contractual requirements.
• Monitor project budgets, expenditure and forecasts, working closely with finance colleagues and partners.
• Review financial and narrative reports and address any issues or risks that arise.

Consultant and Resource Management

• Manage a roster of trusted technical consultants and specialists.
• Scope, commission and oversee consultancy assignments, ensuring high-quality delivery and value for money.
• Coordinate consultant inputs alongside partner workplans and project objectives.

Organisational Contribution

• Contribute to the development and improvement of systems, processes and tools that support effective programme delivery.
• Work collaboratively across teams to strengthen organisational learning, efficiency and impact.

Person Specification

Essential

Experience

• At least five years' experience managing complex projects or programmes in the non-profit, international development, human rights, humanitarian or related sectors.
• Experience managing institutional donor-funded projects and grants from design and start-up through to delivery, reporting and close-out.
• Experience managing project budgets and financial reporting.
• Experience building and managing effective partnerships with diverse stakeholders.
• Experience managing partnerships remotely, including in complex, high-risk or rapidly changing environments.
• Experience coordinating consultants, technical specialists or external service providers.
• Experience developing or implementing monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches.

Skills and Knowledge

• Strong project and programme management skills, including planning, risk management and delivery oversight.
• Excellent relationship management, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong financial management and budget monitoring capability.
• Ability to develop practical systems and processes where they do not already exist.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written communication skills, including report writing and donor communications.
• Ability to work independently and effectively within a remote, internationally distributed team.

Personal Attributes

• Adaptable and proactive, comfortable navigating changing priorities, ambiguity and evolving circumstances.
• Collaborative and solutions-focused, with strong personal accountability.
• Culturally sensitive and able to work effectively across diverse contexts.
• Strong judgement and discretion when handling sensitive information.

Desirable

Experience

• Experience working with civil society, community-based or grassroots organisations.
• Experience managing projects in conflict-affected, politically sensitive or fragile contexts.
• Experience managing multi-country programmes or partnership portfolios.
• Experience with subgrant management.
• Experience supporting organisational learning and adaptive programming.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of safeguarding, duty of care and risk management.
• Familiarity with participatory, qualitative or outcome-focused MEL approaches.
• Understanding of equitable partnership and localisation approaches.
• A recognised project management qualification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent).
• Relevant additional language skills.