Project Manager

dTS is a strategic management consulting firm leading initiatives in social and economic development with a view to promoting equality and accountability. Our services in gender integration; training and capacity building; and monitoring and evaluation have been applied in a variety of sectors across 51 countries for USAID, MCC, and State.

dTS is recruiting a Project Manager to support the USAID funded Global Climate Change project under dTS’ M&E Practice. The Project Manager will provide home office project management support on this project to include contract administration, financial management, personnel mobilization and support, and administrative support. Primary tasks follow.

• Support project start-up and briefing project into dTS systems
• Create project specific project management guidelines and tools
• Monitor progress of deliverables against work plan to ensure compliance with client and home office schedules, requirements, and standards
• Manage costs against budget including developing and/or monitoring incurred costs, pipelines, and obligations
• Conduct financial management to include review and processing of subcontractor and staff invoices, and dTS invoices for submission to client
• Monitor contract compliance across project administration and operations
• On-boarding all personnel on the team
• Ensure mobilization of personnel for overseas assignment
• Capture and knowledge management of intellectual capital

Qualifications for the Position:

• Masters degree in International Development, International Relations or related field (required)
• Minimum of seven years of professional experience in the international development
• Minimum of five years of experience working on USAID project management (required)
• Experience working with creating and tracking budgets, incurred costs and pipelines; and facilitating project financial management including processing subcontractor and staff invoices (required)
• Background/interest in working with global climate changes and/or M&E
• Demonstrated competence to assess priorities, and concurrently manage a variety of activities effectively to meet deadlines with attention to detail and quality
• Strong communicator, with strong verbal, writing and editing skills.
• Good problem solving skills
• Team oriented individual
• Experienced with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel, Word and Access, including knowledge of spreadsheets.

Please send cover letter and resume to and indicate Climate Change - Project Manager in the subject line of the email. Please no phone calls or faxes.