United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Manager, Private Sector Development Team - London (47-140)

About Us

Adam Smith International is an award-winning professional services business that delivers real impact, value and lasting change through projects supporting economic growth and government reform internationally. Our reputation as a global leader has been built on the positive results our projects have achieved in many of the world’s most challenging environments.

About the Private Sector Development team

Private Sector Development is one of our core areas of expertise. We specialise in the design and implementation of programmes that adopt a market systems development approach, and work on numerous projects related to agriculture, public-private dialogue, business environment reform, business for development, and trade across the world.

About the role

The Manager will be based in London and extensive travel to the field is required (50%). Specific responsibilities include: Provide financial oversight of interventions including maintenance of a resource burn-rate, an accurate financial forecast and provision of other management reports; Ensure the project milestones are met and project deliverables completed on time and to a high standard Managing key stakeholders and building and developing client relationships; Support technical and project management teams in the planning and budgeting of interventions; Ensure plans are maintained effectively and that they feed into a master plan; Maintain a milestones dashboard and an issues and risk register. Effectively elevate concerns; Maintain a resource plan and inform senior management of resource requirements; Contact potential project consultants and negotiate terms; Support implementation of interventions including logistics and administration, financial management, organisational development, reporting, recruitment, and contracting; Support quarterly and annual reporting on interventions.