Project Manager-NGO

• Manage end-to-end project lifecycles for Home Chef, ensuring successful planning, execution, and delivery.
• Develop detailed project plans outlining tasks, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Allocate and coordinate resources, ensuring the availability of personnel, materials, and equipment as needed.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, goals, milestones and deliverables.
• Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Proactively address issues that may impact project timelines or deliverables.
• Maintain regular communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide project updates, status reports, and presentations as necessary.
• Develop and manage project budgets, tracking expenditures and ensuring adherence to financial constraints.
• Work closely with the finance team to monitor project financials.
• Establish and implement quality assurance processes to ensure project deliverables meet established standards.
• Conduct regular reviews and evaluations to measure project performance.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, develop project roadmap and identify milestones

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and implement best practices.
• Build capacity of the team on use of project management tools and best practices
• Identify relevant stakeholders for partnerships and conduct meetings with them to pitch the Home Chef.
• Oversee the outreach planning and progress for increasing awareness amongst target beneficiary organizations about the program and conducting trainings with their participants.

• Hiring, managing and training instructors and TAs
• Work cross-functionally with academics, placements, operations, and communications teams to ensure optimal outcomes and better program visibility
• Ensure project success and meeting of timelines, key KPIs (quality recruitment, high retention, high placements, economic empowerment)
• Engaging with current students to understand how well they are learning and meeting industry requirements
• Build a fun, collaborative, high-performing culture and the best environment for the team and students.

• Focus on documenting processes, learnings and improvement.
• Develop systems and processes for regularly gathering, analyzing, and implementing feedback on curriculum and assessments based on key quality metrics.
• Research good practices, lessons, and ideas to be incorporated in Tech Karo and stay abreast with industry trends, opportunities, and improvements.
• Collecting and acting on course feedback to continually improve student satisfaction
• All course-related operations (monitoring student progress, student/extracurricular events, etc.)
• Track and own program success metrics like enrollments, retention, completion, satisfaction and career outcomes

• Engaging our alumni community
• Planning, developing & executing events and non-curricular activities to empower our students & strengthen our student/alumni community
• Develop relationships with companies & other educational institutions and close strategic partnerships
• Partner with external hiring managers/ placement team to ensure our curriculum and assessment properly prepares learners for the job market

• Weekly meetings and reporting to the CIRCLE Management
• Monthly reporting to the CIRCLE Management and Donor on the progress of all the courses.
• Monthly activity plan in advance along with budget for activities, focal persons and time needed for each planned activity

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