Details
  • Job Title: Project Manager - Quetta / Pishin
  • Organization Name: Muslim Hands
  • Location: Pishin
  • Maximum Salary: 250,000
  • Duration: 10 Months
  • Number of Vacancies: 1
  • Gender: Any
  • Closing on: 2026-07-10
How to Apply
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Background
    • Provide overall leadership, management, and strategic direction for project implementation in District Pishin.
    • Ensure timely and quality implementation of all project activities in accordance with approved work plans, budgets, donor requirements, and organizational policies.
    • Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of Community Action Planning (CAP), Community Infrastructure Projects (CIPs), and WASH interventions.
    • Supervise and support project staff, engineers, WASH officers, social mobilizers, MEAL staff, and community facilitators.
    • Develop detailed implementation plans, activity schedules, procurement plans, and resource allocation plans.
    • Coordinate closely with the donor and ensure compliance with all donor contractual obligations, technical standards, and reporting requirements.
    • Maintain regular liaison with district administration, PHED, TMAs, DDMA, line departments, and other relevant stakeholders.
    • Facilitate community engagement processes and ensure meaningful participation of women, vulnerable households, persons with disabilities, youth, and marginalized groups.
    • Oversee the establishment and strengthening of village committees, community groups, and water management committees.
    • Ensure Community Action Plans are prepared, validated, and linked with relevant government planning processes.
    • Review and approve technical designs, BOQs, feasibility studies, environmental assessments, and infrastructure implementation plans.
    • Monitor construction and rehabilitation works, including street pavements, drainage systems, culverts, community spaces, solar streetlights, waste management facilities, boreholes, overhead tanks, and water distribution networks.
    • Ensure all infrastructure and WASH schemes meet technical, environmental, safety, and quality standards.
    • Coordinate procurement processes and contract management activities in collaboration with procurement and finance departments.
    • Ensure transparent beneficiary targeting, verification, and validation processes in accordance with approved vulnerability criteria.
    • Oversee implementation of hygiene promotion campaigns, CRP trainings, community awareness sessions, and hygiene/MHM kit distributions.
    • Ensure effective operation of Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) and complaint response mechanisms.
    • Mainstream gender, protection, safeguarding, PSEA, disability inclusion, and conflict sensitivity throughout the project cycle.
    • Monitor project risks and develop mitigation measures related to security, access, climate, operational, fiduciary, and protection concerns.
    • Lead regular project review meetings and ensure corrective actions are implemented to address delays or challenges.
    • Ensure accurate collection, verification, and analysis of project data in coordination with the MEAL team.
    • Review monthly, quarterly, and final narrative and financial reports before submission to IOM.
    • Track progress against project indicators, targets, outputs, and outcomes and ensure achievement of project objectives.
    • Ensure proper documentation of activities, success stories, lessons learned, case studies, photographs, and beneficiary feedback.
    • Facilitate donor visits, monitoring missions, technical assessments, and evaluation exercises.
    • Lead mid-term reviews, end-line evaluations, learning workshops, and project close-out activities.
    • Ensure proper handover of completed infrastructure and WASH facilities to communities and relevant government departments.
    • Strengthen sustainability mechanisms through operation and maintenance planning, committee capacity building, and stakeholder engagement.
    • Ensure compliance with Muslim Hands policies, donor regulations, financial procedures, procurement rules, and audit requirements.
    • Prepare periodic management updates and strategic recommendations for senior management and donors.
    • Perform any other project-related duties assigned by the Management.
Requirements
    • Master’s degree in Project Management, Social Sciences, or a related field.
    • 8 to 10 years of progressive project management experience in humanitarian or development contexts, with a proven track record of successfully steering large-scale donor-funded projects. preferably within an INGO or UN-funded infrastructure or relevant project environment in Balochistan.
    • Strong proficiency in project management frameworks, contract/procurement tracking, budget management, and data-driven monitoring tools (such as MS Project or advanced Excel).
    • Comprehensive understanding of the localized context, administrative structures, and complex operating landscape of Balochistan, particularly District Pishin.
    • Full professional fluency in English, Urdu, and Pashto is essential for effective institutional reporting and community-level representation.
    • Advanced skills in strategic negotiation, conflict resolution, inter-agency coordination, and managing multi-disciplinary field teams under tight timelines
    • Muslim Hands maintains a zero-tolerance policy towards discrimination and unequal power dynamics and is fully committed to equity, inclusion, and safeguarding (PSEA).
    • As part of our Safeguarding Policy, all applicants must present a valid CNIC and proof of qualifications/experience at the time of test/interview.
    • Muslim Hands has a ZERO-tolerance policy on prevention of Physical and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Safeguarding, and child protection/GBV, which is part of MH code of conduct and Ethics.
    • We are an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all qualified individuals, irrespective of gender, ethnicity or origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organization
    • If this role aligns with your skills and values, we encourage you to apply by submitting the required information on the online portal, and additionally sharing a detailed CV, along with a covering letter.
    • Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
    • We reserve the right to close the recruitment process early and make appointments before the closing date.

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