Catanzaro - Project Manager Part-time

Fondazione L’Albero della Vita ETS (FADV) is an NGO promoting human rights across the world, operating in child protection, education, migration, development, emergency, providing support to vulnerable children and communities.

**The Project**

MYTHiC Mobilize Youth Tackling Hate in Calabria is set in a southern Italian Region, Calabria. The project persues the general objective to tackle the escalation of hate speech and hate crime by promoting a coordination mechanism across Local authorities, CSOs, Schools and Communities amplifying and engaging boys and girls with different backgrounds in Calabria Region.

**The role**:
The Project Manager has to ensure the correct implementation, monitoring and reporting of all the activities of the project. The role requires strong leadership, project management experience and good organizational skills, as well as a sound knowledge of child rights and child participation. She/He has expertise of evaluation methodologies. S/he will be coordinating with public and private stakeholders at local.

**Main responsibilities and duties**:

- _Project Planning_: Developing a comprehensive project plan, setting objectives, timelines, and deliverables in line with the project’s goals.
- _Project Implementation: _Overseeing the execution of project activities, ensuring that they are carried out effectively, efficiently, and within budget; in particular she/he is in charge of supervising the regional referral mechanism to support victims of hate speech and hate crime, she coordinates the creation of the awareness campaign in team with the Communication Department;
- _Stakeholder Management:_ Engaging and coordinating with public authorities at regional level; launching the Regional coalition against hate speech and hate crime
- _Quality Assurance:_ Supported by the QA manager of the Foundation she/he is in charge of maintaining high standards of project implementation, ensuring adherence to best practices, and ethical standards.
- _Monitoring and Evaluation:_ Establishing systems to monitor project progress, tracking milestones, and evaluating outcomes against predetermined indicators and targets.
- _Risk Management:_ Identifying and managing project risks, developing contingency plans, and taking proactive measures to address potential obstacles.
- _Communication and Dissemination:_ Facilitating effective communication within the project team and with external stakeholders, as well as disseminating project outcomes and results to relevant audiences.
- Responsible for the timely submission to the Donor of the reports

**Required qualifications and experience**:

- Master’s degree or equivalent in Humanities or Economics and preferably a Specializing Master in Project Management.
- A minimum of three years of work experience in projects coordination and financial management
- Professional experience of planning and managing in humanitarian and social initiatives
- _Mandatory Fluent English, written and oral_

**What we offer**:CCNL Commercio - _20 months contract starting from September 2025; part-time commitment 23h/week;_

**Place of work**:main office in Catanzaro (Aranceto) with frequent trips to the other cities of project (Cosenza, Vibo Valentia, Reggio Calabria, Crotone).

**How to apply**:
The research is aimed at everyone in accordance with Law 903/77 and 125/91. L’Albero della Vita ETS is against any type of discrimination of any kind and promotes equal opportunities in all its activities.

Contratto di lavoro: Part-time, Tempo determinato
Durata contratto: 20 mesi

Ore previste: 23 a settimana

Esperienza:

- project manager: 3 anni (Obbligatorio)

Lingua:

- inglese avanzato (scritto e orale) (Obbligatorio)

Data di inizio prevista: 01/09/2025