Project Manager

Project Manager (The Hague, the Netherlands)

By 2030, 150 million people are able to prevent or resolve their most pressing justice problems. Do you want to join us on our mission?

The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) is a social enterprise that works internationally to enhance access to justice through innovation. We are committed to closing the justice gap (SDG 16.3). We do this by helping to develop and implement people-centred justice. That means justice that is affordable, accessible and easy to understand.

The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) is looking for a Project Manager based in The Hague. As a Project Manager, you will develop, manage, and report on the implementation of HiiL’s projects, working closely with country teams to achieve project goals within time, budget, and quality constraints. HiiL operates primarily across Africa and the Middle East.

This is a role for a technical practitioner who excels at turning high-level goals into high-performing project realities. As Project Manager, you are the operational engine of HiiL’s projects across the MENA region and Africa. Reporting to the Programme Director MENA, you hold end-to-end accountability for project implementation, ensuring that every deliverable meets HiiL’s quality standards while staying strictly within time and budget constraints. This is not a role for a "coordinator" or a "strategist"; we need a project manager who owns the capacity planning, the Google Sheets trackers, and the financial burn rates.

How will you contribute to HiiL’s mission?

Project Lifecycle & Operational Execution

• Manage projects within scope, time, and budget, ensuring quality implementation in line with project plans, contracts, and donor requirements;
• Develop and manage project budgets/forecasts; support internal/external workforce and financial resource planning in close coordination with senior project manager;
• Facilitate financial transactions and oversee project expenditure to ensure accurate, efficient use of funds and donor compliance in coordination with finance and the senior project manager;
• Develop new project proposals and work plans, collaborating with senior project manager, Finance, donors, and project team members.

Monitoring and reporting

Provide timely and high-quality narrative and financial reporting to management and donors; monitor risks and proactively manage changes to scope, budget, and timelines; ensure all changes are documented and compliant.

Contract Management

Manage contracts with external stakeholders, ensure procurement policy is adhered to, and contracts are in line with applicable legislation; ensure project documentation is accurate, complete, and audit-ready at all stages of implementation.

Knowledge sharing and learning

Actively contribute to the Project Management Practice Group to share tools, lessons learned, and best practices and share knowledge to nurture project management expertise in HiiL; work closely with the Senior Project Manager to enhance organisation-wide project management capabilities.

What we look for in our new colleague

• 5+ years of direct work experience in end-to-end project management. You must have a proven track record of taking a project from the initiation phase through to closing, with full accountability for results. Experience in the international development sector is preferred.
• Bachelor's / Master's degree in a relevant field.
• Experience with standard project management methodologies, tools and software.
• Project Management Certification is an asset.
• Demonstrated ability to manage team workloads and capacity planning. You should be skilled at identifying resource gaps and optimizing team output to meet deadlines.
• Expert-level proficiency in Google Sheets is required. You must be able to build and maintain complex project trackers using advanced formulas, pivot tables, and data validation. This includes drafting multi-year budgets, creating monthly financial forecasts, and monitoring burn rates across different donor streams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with people from all levels and strong writing skills.
• A problem-solving mindset, an ability to work under pressure, tight timelines with a proactive and hands-on mentality.
• Strong personal leadership as well as a high level of ethics and integrity. Inspires and motivates project team members.
• Fluency in English (spoken and written) is required; a strong preference will be given to candidates with professional working proficiency in Arabic. Proficiency in French is considered an asset.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel to the areas where HiiL works, including countries with security risks.
• The position is based in the Netherlands, therefore EU-citizenship or NL working permit required.

What else

• An organisation with a culture in which motivation prevails; the work that we do is meaningful and contributes to changing people’s lives.
• An environment that will strengthen and widen your professional skills.
• An opportunity of being at the forefront of making people centred justice happen.

We offer you

• Starting date: in mutual agreement, as soon as possible.
• A full-time (40 hours p.w.) position for an initial period of 12 months to build a long-term work relationship;
• A monthly gross salary for a full-time working week between €4.200,- / €5.600,- based on relevant experience and seniority;
• Up to 8 weeks of holidays when working full time;
• Pension coverage by ABP Pension Fund;
• A company laptop and an NS card for commuting.

Note

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory reference checks and may be subject to appropriate screening checks and/or assessment.