Project Manager

We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.

We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.

Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021–22 we reached 650 million people.

Salary: 12.900 ILS

Contract Type: Indefinite

Location: Tel Aviv

Right to Work Requirements: Right to Work in Israel. The British Council is not able to support or sponsor work visa applications.

Closing Date: advert will close on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 6.59 am Israel time

Role Purpose

In this role, you’ll take the lead in managing impactful British Council projects in Israel. You’ll drive the successful delivery of diverse project activities, from inception to completion, overseeing the implementation of grant contracts or project plans. With your expertise, you’ll manage relationships with clients and internal teams, ensure robust financial oversight, implement monitoring and evaluation frameworks, and maintain compliance with global project management standards.

Main Accountabilities But Not Limited To The Following

• Maintains a good working relationship with the Programme Funder’s representatives in Israel and the UK and with other senior stakeholders.
• Has relationships with delivery partners, grantees and stakeholders within Israel and the UK and is able to procure services and contract delivery partners, as well as produce and manage grant agreements.
• Holds suppliers and grantees to account for delivering against contract.
• Builds strong internal relationships and networks.
• Ensure sound financial planning, working closely with finance teams to ensure British Council and client financial year plans are up to date.
• Ensure 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, correct expenditure, ensuring the P2P process is being followed and correcting any mis-postings or journals needed.
• Responsible for project/programme management reporting.
• Ensures compliance to British Council financial policies and procedures.
• Contributes to the development of BIRAX programme, owns and delivers on Project Management Plan.
• Identifies risks in a project or programme and puts together mitigation strategies with Senior Programme Manager.
• Manages grant implementation from inception and contracting through to delivery and reporting, ensuring compliance and smooth communication with grantees.
• Manages procurement on a project/programme.
• Responsible for data management including timely data entry, quality assurance of data.
• Undertakes basic analysis of monitoring data, and developing progress reports to meet funding needs. This includes working with colleagues to identify indicators and tools for implementation of data management and reporting.
• Develops and runs Calls for Proposals through a grant management platform.
• Contributes to designing and executing large and small high profile partner forums, stakeholders and researcher engagement events.
• Contributes to the design and execution of with donor packs and funding/programme proposals.
• Responsible for the design and delivery of monitoring and evaluation plan, and the production of impact report.
• Manage social media and communication for BIRAX and contributes to office wide communications as necessary
  
  

Requirements Of The Role

• Experience of working in project or programme management.
• Experience of managing projects from start to finish and familiarity with project life-cycles such as BIRAX.
• Understanding of procurement, evaluation and reporting requirements of projects.
• Ability to manage project finances.
• Experience of communicating with stakeholders.
• Experience of using technology in project delivery.
• Good understanding and experience of supporting monitoring and evaluation.
• C1 Level of English. C2 Level of Hebrew.
• BA degree or relevant work experience.
  
  

A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Statement

The British Council is committed to policies and practices of equality, diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We support all staff to make sure their behaviour is consistent with this commitment. We want to address under representation and encourage applicants from under-represented groups, in particular, but not exclusively, on grounds of ethnicity and disability. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria are guaranteed an interview and we have Disability Confident Employer Status. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.

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