Start Date: As soon as possible.
Duration: The project is expected to conclude on 31 August 2027.
Type of contract: Full-time position.
Compensation: Competitive, dependent on experience.
Location: Pakistan.
ABOUT: Financial Innovation for Impact (Fii) is an international, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of scalable, sustainable, and evidence-based financial and regulatory innovation. Fii works with academic institutions, digital finance ecosystem partners, and other stakeholders to create knowledge and apply data-driven insights to inform the development of fintech and the decision-making of central banks, securities regulators, and other financial authorities. Fii generates research, develops digital tools, and delivers capacity building at scale through technical assistance programmes to benefit financially excluded, marginalised, and disadvantaged populations.
THE ROLE: Fii is seeking a Pakistan-based Project Manager to lead the day-to-day coordination and implementation of its technical assistance programme with financial authorities in Pakistan. The role will own the integrated programme workplan, connect activity across the various workstreams and ensure that agreed outputs, decisions and follow-up actions move forward in a coherent and timely way. Working closely with the Pakistan-based Relationship Manager and Technical Specialist, Fii international specialists, and designated counterparts at financial authorities, the Project Manager will turn specialist input into organised in-country delivery.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own and maintain the integrated programme workplan, translating agreed priorities into clear activities, milestones, owners, deadlines and resource requirements across workstreams;
- coordinate day-to-day delivery across the Pakistan-based team, Fii international specialists, consultants and relevant stakeholders;
- maintain accurate delivery, decision, dependency and action trackers and pursue timely closure of actions;
- plan and coordinate meetings, consultations, workshops, missions and technical-assistance activities including agendas, briefing materials, participant coordination, logistics and documented follow-up;
- track programme outputs, KPIs and monitoring evidence and consolidate concise progress information for Fii leadership, counterparts in Pakistan and programme governance forums;
- maintain the programme risk and issue log, identify delivery bottlenecks early, propose mitigations and escalate material issues;
- prepare delivery updates and action records for governance meetings; support quality review, version control, approval and orderly handover of programme outputs including the end-of-programme close-out report;
- maintain complete and appropriately confidential programme records.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS: Based in Pakistan, with the ability to sustain regular in-person engagement with programme counterparts and the locally embedded team. Substantial experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects or programmes, preferably involving technical assistance, public authorities, financial services or regulatory reform. A strong record of building and managing integrated workplans, coordinating simultaneous workstreams and tracking milestones, risks, dependencies, deliverables and actions to completion. Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in project/programme management, preferably in finance, international development or regulatory sectors. Experience coordinating distributed multidisciplinary teams, consultants and senior institutional counterparts. Good knowledge of Pakistan's institutional context and practical familiarity with its financial services and/or digital financial services ecosystem. Strong organisational judgement and problem-solving ability. Excellent written and spoken English and native-level Urdu. Strong meeting preparation, facilitation and follow-up skills, with close attention to detail and document control. A collaborative, discreet and self-directed working style.
DESIRABLE: Experience delivering a donor-funded or international development programme in Pakistan; experience working with or alongside a central bank, financial regulator, government body or development partner; a recognised project-management qualification such as PRINCE2, PMP or equivalent.
WHAT WE OFFER: A job and a team with a purpose; exposure to leading thinkers, researchers and solution creators in the financial and technology space and academia; opportunities to work and collaborate with exceptional teammates, experts and partners globally; competitive compensation and benefits as per the location; flexible work schedule.
Closing date: 2026-09-14
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested candidates should apply by 14th September via the online application: https://fii.careers-page.com/jobs/8efaacc5-3704-4c17-a463-4956744ae0ba/apply