Over the past 12 months, 256 project managing roles were listed on Devex’s job board, making it the third most popular role recruited for. Of those advertised with Devex, the salaries shared range from $53,074 to $58,409, as of March 2024, with most jobs present in the United States, which has 249 postings; France, with 222; the United Kingdom, with 122; Germany, with 82; Ukraine, with 65; Kenya, with 62; and India with 50. These figures are only estimates as they are subject to jobs having multiple location entries.
Project managers ensure the effective delivery of international aid, development programs, and humanitarian initiatives. The job involves coordinating various aspects of multistakeholder projects in low- and middle-income countries or conflict-affected regions, making project management both a dynamic and high-responsibility role.
“This type of role requires us to know a little bit of everything and be a specialist in almost nothing,” Pau Jiménez Inglès, a Catalonia-based project manager at ClientEarth, told Devex, adding that “fundamentally, to support your team in achieving successful projects needs very different things at different moments and from different people.”