Project Manager – Forest Flavors

Organization: Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Project: Forest Flavors Ghana
Location: Tamale, Ghana
Employment Type: Full-Time

Organization Profile

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is a global humanitarian and development organization committed to supporting people and communities affected by poverty, inequality, and vulnerability. CRS works with partners and communities to deliver sustainable solutions that strengthen livelihoods, build resilience, and create opportunities for inclusive development.

Through the Forest Flavors Ghana project, CRS works to strengthen market systems and expand economic opportunities while advancing sustainable agriculture, climate resilience, agroforestry, and landscape restoration.

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Position Overview

Catholic Relief Services is seeking an experienced and results-oriented Project Manager – Forest Flavors Ghana to lead the coordination, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of project activities and stakeholder relationships.

Based in Tamale, the Project Manager will provide strategic and technical leadership to ensure the project achieves its objectives under the Market Systems Development (MSD) strategy. The role will oversee project implementation, partnerships, budgets, staff performance, monitoring, learning, and reporting while ensuring that programming meets CRS quality standards and donor requirements.

The successful candidate will work closely with government institutions, private-sector actors, financial institutions, research organizations, implementing partners, communities, and other stakeholders. The position requires frequent travel across the Northern, Western, and Bono East Regions of Ghana.

The Project Manager will report to the Director for Agriculture, Livelihoods, and Landscape.

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Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, coordination, implementation, monitoring, and close-out of Forest Flavors Ghana project activities.

• Translate project objectives and strategies into practical implementation plans, milestones, and deliverables.

• Ensure project activities meet CRS program quality principles, donor requirements, and established technical standards.

• Monitor project progress, identify implementation challenges, and take timely corrective action.

• Coordinate activities across project teams, partners, and stakeholders to ensure effective and timely delivery.

• Promote continuous learning and use project evidence to strengthen implementation and impact.

• Provide technical leadership in Market Systems Development (MSD) and inclusive economic development.

• Guide programming related to youth employment, climate-smart agriculture, agroforestry, and landscape restoration.

• Apply market-based approaches to strengthen agricultural value chains and improve economic opportunities for target communities.

• Support the identification of market opportunities, constraints, partnerships, and interventions that can contribute to sustainable livelihoods.

• Provide technical guidance to project staff and partners to ensure interventions achieve intended results.

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key public, private, community, and development-sector stakeholders.

• Strengthen partnerships with organizations such as COCOBOD, the Forestry Commission, private-sector buyers, local government institutions, financial institutions, research organizations, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Engage private-sector actors and market stakeholders to strengthen value-chain development and sustainable market linkages.

• Represent CRS and the Forest Flavors Ghana project professionally in relevant meetings, forums, workshops, and stakeholder engagements.

• Strengthen collaboration and coordination among project partners and stakeholders.

• Lead project budget planning, monitoring, and review processes in collaboration with relevant CRS teams.

• Ensure project activities use financial, material, and human resources efficiently and in line with approved plans and policies.

• Conduct regular budget reviews and identify variances, risks, and required corrective actions.

• Follow up with partners to ensure timely submission of financial and programmatic reports.

• Monitor partner resource utilization and support appropriate corrective actions where necessary.

• Ensure project resources contribute directly to quality implementation and achievement of results.

• Lead, supervise, and support project staff to deliver high-quality results.

• Build a collaborative and inclusive team environment that promotes learning, accountability, and staff well-being.

• Provide regular coaching, mentoring, and technical guidance to team members.

• Develop and implement individual staff development plans based on identified capacity needs.

• Participate in the recruitment and onboarding of project staff.

• Manage performance processes for direct reports and provide timely, constructive feedback.

• Promote teamwork, professional growth, and continuous improvement across the project team.

• Assess the technical and organizational capacity needs of implementing partners and other project stakeholders.

• Develop or support targeted capacity-strengthening initiatives to address identified gaps.

• Provide technical assistance and coaching to partners to improve implementation quality.

• Strengthen partner systems, processes, and capabilities for sustainable project outcomes.

• Promote learning and knowledge sharing among project partners.

• Monitor project performance against approved plans, indicators, targets, and milestones.

• Analyze project data and emerging trends to identify opportunities, challenges, and areas requiring management attention.

• Contribute to evaluation processes and use findings to improve project implementation.

• Prepare and contribute to high-quality project reports, trend analyses, presentations, and other technical documentation.

• Document lessons learned, success stories, challenges, and emerging practices.

• Ensure project documentation remains complete, accurate, accessible, and properly filed in accordance with CRS and donor requirements.

• Ensure project activities comply with CRS policies, donor requirements, contractual obligations, and applicable standards.

• Maintain complete project records throughout implementation.

• Support effective project close-out, including documentation, learning, financial reconciliation, and handover activities.

• Identify and escalate compliance, operational, financial, or implementation risks promptly.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extension, Agribusiness, Business Administration, Development Finance, Entrepreneurship, or a related field.

• A Master’s degree in a relevant discipline is an added advantage.

• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience in project management, preferably within agriculture financing, cocoa or shea value chains, agribusiness development, SILC/VSLAs, livelihoods programming, or NGO/development programming.

• Demonstrated experience managing complex development projects and coordinating multiple stakeholders.

• Experience managing project grants, including project design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting, is preferred.

• Experience working with grants funded by multiple public or international donors will be an advantage.

• Demonstrated experience engaging and managing relationships with partner organizations.

• Previous experience supervising and developing staff within a learning-oriented environment.

• Experience working with government, private-sector, community, financial, and research stakeholders is highly desirable.

Language Requirement

• Proficiency in English is required.

Travel Requirement

• The successful candidate must be willing and able to travel up to 50% of the time.

• Travel will include project locations across the Northern, Western, and Bono East Regions of Ghana.

Application Deadline: 25 September 2026

How to Apply

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