Job Title: MPCA Project Manager
Status: Full Time
Location:  Aden
During: 6 months
Staff: 1

ADO Overview

Abs Development Organization for Woman and Child (ADO) is a Yemeni, women-led, non-governmental organization established in 1996. ADO works to improve the well-being of women, children, youth, and vulnerable communities through humanitarian assistance, protection, empowerment, and sustainable development.

ADO implements multi-sectoral humanitarian, recovery, and development programs across all governorates of Yemen, covering Food Security and Agriculture, MPCA, Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Protection, Shelter/NFI, CCCM, Gender Equality and Inclusion, Livelihoods, Economic Empowerment, Climate Resilience, and Environmental Sustainability. ADO promotes locally led responses, community participation, and integrated Humanitarian–Development–Peace (HDP) Nexus approaches.

ADO is committed to humanitarian principles, accountability to affected populations, safeguarding, PSEA, gender equality, environmental responsibility, and program quality. ADO has been certified against the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) since 2026, with certification valid until May 2029.

Through its headquarters and field offices, including Aden and Sana’a, ADO collaborates with communities, government institutions, UN agencies, and national and international partners to deliver inclusive, needs-based interventions.

All personnel are expected to uphold ADO’s values, policies, and procedures; demonstrate professionalism, integrity, accountability, and teamwork; comply with safeguarding, PSEA, confidentiality, security, and health and safety requirements; and contribute to organizational and program objectives.

Vision: Together to achieve a better life for women, children, and youth.

Job objectives/ Scope    

• Lead the timely, safe, accountable and donor-compliant delivery of ADO's Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) project. The position is responsible for project planning, team leadership, coordination, targeting and verification oversight, cash-cycle readiness, FSP coordination, budget and risk control, monitoring, reporting, and close-out, while ensuring protection, safeguarding, data protection and accountability to affected populations throughout the project cycle.

Reported to:    Programs Manager

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Project Leadership and Planning

• Lead project start-up, implementation, review and close-out in line with the approved proposal, budget, workplan, donor agreement and ADO procedures.
• Translate approved plans into clear team responsibilities, deadlines, procurement and payment milestones, and maintain an updated implementation tracker.
• Chair regular project reviews, resolve delivery bottlenecks, and escalate material changes through ADO and donor change-control procedures.
• Conduct regular field visits to verify implementation quality, staff support needs and corrective actions.

2. Targeting, Registration and Data Protection

• Oversee transparent, needs-based and protection-sensitive targeting, registration, verification, deduplication, appeals and final approval processes.
• Ensure beneficiary data are accurate, access-controlled, securely transferred, retained and archived in line with ADO and donor data-protection requirements.
• Ensure informed communication with participants on eligibility, entitlement, timing, identification requirements, zero-fee arrangements, complaints channels and no-retaliation principles.
• Coordinate with MEAL to verify inclusion and exclusion risks and close agreed corrective actions before each payment cycle.

3. Cash-Cycle and FSP Management

• Lead documented readiness reviews for each MPCA cycle, covering market conditions, FSP capacity and liquidity, access, security, participant movement, payment lists, complaints and outstanding actions.
• Coordinate FSP performance, payment schedules, payment-point readiness, failed or delayed transactions, reconciliation and issue escalation while preserving segregation of duties.
• Ensure ADO presence and appropriate support at payment points, including accessibility, queue management, protection observation, complaints reception and referral of sensitive cases.
• Confirm completion of payment evidence, exception handling and reconciliation before authorizing closure of each transfer cycle.

4. Coordination and Accountability

• Coordinate with relevant authorities, the Executive Unit for IDP Management, cash coordination structures, clusters or working groups, FSPs and operational partners while upholding humanitarian principles.
• Coordinate with Programs, MEAL, Finance, Supply Chain, Protection, Security, Communications and field teams through clear roles and documented decisions.
• Ensure accessible complaints and feedback channels are functioning and that routine, urgent and sensitive cases are referred, resolved and closed within approved procedures.
• Ensure safeguarding, PSEA, child safeguarding, conflict sensitivity, disability inclusion and do-no-harm measures are integrated across all project activities.

5. Finance, Procurement, Risk and Compliance

• Monitor expenditure, forecasts and budget variances with Finance and ensure project resources are used only for approved purposes.
• Oversee timely procurement, logistics and service contracts without assuming procurement or financial approval duties assigned to other functions.
• Maintain and review the project risk register, including operational, fiduciary, protection, security, data, market and FSP risks, with assigned mitigation actions.
• Ensure project records, approvals, payment evidence, reconciliations, decisions and supporting documents are complete, organized and audit-ready.

6. MEAL, Reporting and Learning

• Use market monitoring, distribution monitoring, post-distribution monitoring, complaints, participant feedback and financial information to guide corrective action.
• Submit accurate and timely internal and donor reports covering progress, transfers, results, finance, accountability, risks, changes and next steps.
• Coordinate ethical communications and success stories only with informed consent and in line with safeguarding, confidentiality and donor visibility requirements.
• Lead project learning and close-out, including final reconciliation, complaints closure, evidence archiving, lessons learned and handover.

7. Team Management

• Directly supervise the project team, set objectives, assign work, monitor performance and address capacity and operational needs.
• Promote respectful teamwork, staff duty of care, compliance with ADO policies and timely coordination across departments.
• Perform other related duties assigned by the Programs Manager within the scope of the position.

Supervision: MPCA project team and project-based staff assigned under the approved organogram.

Career Path/ Career Cluster: Programs Management 

Experience and Qualifications    

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Development Studies, Humanitarian Affairs, Social Sciences, Economics, Business Administration or a related field; a relevant master's degree is an advantage.
• At least 3 years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian project management, including at least two years managing cash  emergency response, multi-sector assistance projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing donor-funded projects, teams, budgets, workplans, risks, procurement coordination, compliance and reporting.
• Practical experience in cash-cycle management, targeting and verification, FSP coordination, payment reconciliation, AAP/CFM, MEAL and protection-sensitive delivery.
• Experience coordinating with authorities, cash coordination structures, clusters or working groups, FSPs and implementing partners in Yemen.
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken Arabic and English, including donor reporting and formal correspondence.

Skills    

Core Competencies and Skills

• Project leadership, team supervision and cross-functional coordination.
• MPCA cycle planning, cash-delivery controls and FSP performance management.
• Risk-based decision-making, incident escalation and practical problem solving.
• Budget monitoring, forecasting, procurement coordination and donor compliance.
• MEAL use, post-distribution monitoring, accountability and complaints management.
• Protection mainstreaming, safeguarding, PSEA, conflict sensitivity and data confidentiality.
• Stakeholder communication, facilitation, negotiation and concise reporting.
• Advanced use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and digital project-tracking tools.

Announcement Date: 01/11/2026

Gender: Female /Male