Relationship & Stakeholder management

• Has relationships with delivery partners and stakeholders within country and is able to procure services and contract delivery partners.
• Holds suppliers to account for delivering against contract.
• Build strong internal relationships and networks.

Commercial and Financial Management

• Ensure sound financial planning, working closely with finance teams to ensure British Council and client financial year plans are up to date.
• Ensures accurate and timely monthly (re)forecasting is in place, by running regular reports in the SAP system on actuals, monitoring outstanding purchase orders, reviewing commitments, analysing and commenting on reasons for variances to plan and recommending corrective actions.
• Monitoring monthly finances, including correct expenditure, ensuring the P2P process is being followed and correcting any mis-postings or journals needed.
• Lead on British Council, partner or client reporting for India (including, with Finance Lead, financial reporting) and ensure reports are delivered on time, to budget and to a high standard.
• Compliance to British Council financial policies and procedures.

Project Management

• Contributes to development of, owns and delivers on Project Management Plan for India’s delivery on the Climate Skills programme
• Ensures youth centred approaches in project design and delivery.
• Monitors achievement against the plan and reports on this to the Global Senior Programme Manager (based in the UK) and line manager based in India
• Identifies risks in a project and puts together mitigation strategies with the Global Senior Programme Manager and Senior Responsible Officer
• Responsible for internal and client, procurement, contracting, compliance and reporting in India
• Responsible for data management including timely data entry, and developing progress reports to meet funding needs and supply these to the Global Senior Programme Manager
• Undertaking programme-specific data collection as needed. This includes working with colleagues to identify indicators and tools for data collection, quality assuring all data, and undertaking basic analysis.
• Design the project to bring demonstrable benefit within India through delivery partnerships with local organisations.
• Works with the Global Senior Programme Manager to ensure values are implemented in project set-up, considering the impact of project on young people, communities and the environment.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion

• Understand the British Council’s approach to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Ensure that young people as key project participants are empowered through delivery plans.
• Ensure that communities most affected by climate change are included in the design and delivery of the project.

• Experience of managing projects and familiarity with project life-cycles.
• Understanding of procurement, evaluation and reporting requirements of projects.
• Experience of managing project finances.
• Experience of managing stakeholders, in particular monitoring
• partners’ delivery to agreed outcomes, outputs, schedule and budget.
• Good understanding and experience of supporting monitoring and evaluation.