Project Manager

Financial Innovation for Impact (Fii); Pakistan; Hybrid; PKR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Purpose-driven work

Exposure to leading thinkers and teams

Global collaboration

Job summary

Financial Innovation for Impact (Fii) seeks a Pakistan-based Project Manager to lead day-to-day coordination of its technical assistance programme with financial authorities in Pakistan. You will own the integrated workplan and ensure timely outputs with cross-workstream alignment.

Work with international specialists and Pakistan-based colleagues to deliver in-country activities, meetings and governance updates, while maintaining rigorous records and stakeholder communications.

Qualifications

• Based in Pakistan with ability to engage regularly with local counterparts.
• Substantial experience managing complex multi-stakeholder projects.
• Strong track record building and managing integrated workplans.
• Experience coordinating distributed teams and senior institutional counterparts.
• Excellent written and spoken English and native-level Urdu.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the integrated programme workplan with milestones, owners and deadlines.
• Coordinate day-to-day delivery across the Pakistan-based team and international staff.
• Maintain trackers for delivery, decisions, dependencies and actions.
• Plan and coordinate meetings, workshops and technical-assistance activities.
• Track programme outputs and KPIs; provide concise progress updates.
• Prepare updates for governance meetings and coordinate actions.
• Maintain confidential programme records and handover outputs.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Communication

Team coordination

Problem solving

English & Urdu proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in project management

Job description

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

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. We work 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 Technical Assistance Directorate

Fii's Technical Assistance Directorate delivers practical, evidence-based technical assistance to central banks, financial regulators and policymakers. This role will support Fii’s 12-month technical assistance programmes with and for the benefit of Pakistani regulatory authorities, working with them on their approaches to overseeing and supporting Pakistan’s evolving digital financial services ecosystem, in collaboration with Fii international specialists and the wider Pakistan-based team.

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, ensuring responsibilities, hand-offs and dependencies are understood.
• Maintain accurate delivery, decision, dependency and action trackers; monitor target dates, deliverable status and agreed follow-up; and pursue timely closure of actions.
• Plan and coordinate the practical delivery of 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; consolidate concise progress information for Fii leadership, counterparts in Pakistan and programme governance forums.
• Maintain the programme risk and issue log, identify delivery bottlenecks or counterpart-capacity constraints early, propose practical mitigations and escalation material issues through the agreed governance arrangements.
• Prepare delivery updates and action records for key governance meetings, and coordinate completion of agreed actions.
• Support quality review, version control, approval and orderly handover of programme outputs, including the end-of-programme close-out report, lessons learned and forward plan for follow-on implementation.
• Maintain complete and appropriately confidential programme records, working in accordance with Fii requirements and the sensitivities of engagement with a central bank and regulated firms.

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

The successful candidate will combine the experience and judgement required for the role with a practical commitment to collaborative, locally grounded delivery.

• 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, with clear communication and accountability.
• 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, including the confidence to identify bottlenecks, propose workable responses and escalation issues at the right time.
• Excellent written and spoken English and native-level Urdu, with the ability to produce concise updates and meeting records.
• Strong meeting preparation, facilitation and follow-up skills, with close attention to detail and document control.
• A collaborative, discreet and self-directed working style, suited to a hybrid international team and engagement with senior public-sector officials.
• 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 an equivalent credential.

WHAT WE OFFER

• A job and a team with a purpose. This is a chance to work on important challenges in the financial sector that greatly affect our economies and society, and to have a real impact using data and tech to transform the public sector.
• Exposure to leading thinkers, researchers, and solution creators in the financial and technology space and academia.
• Opportunities to frame evidence-based discussions in a rapidly evolving industry.
• Opportunities to work and collaborate with exceptional teammates, experts, and partners globally.
• Competitive compensation and benefits as per the location.

INCLUSION

We welcome applications from all backgrounds. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any adjustments to support your application or participation in the selection process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.