Project Manager-Port Development

Project Manager Port Development (m/f/x) - Namibia

Enabel is the Belgian agency for international cooperation. With our partners, we develop ideas and implement projects addressing urgent global challenges, such as climate change, social and economic inequalities, demographic trends, peace and security.

We have over 25 years' experience in areas ranging from education, health care and social protection, food systems, environmental protection and biodiversity, economic development and employment, financial and administrative governance... The Belgian government, the European Union, several financial partners, the governments of other countries and the private sector call on Enabel's expertise. We also work with public departments, research institutes and civil society organisations to enable meaningful social change.


With 2,500 staff, Enabel manages more than 200 projects in more than twenty countries, in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Background

As part of a new partnership with Namibia, Enabel is currently developing three strategic projects. Two of these initiatives are funded by the European Union and focus respectively on skills development and on port development (regional corridors). These programmes are complemented by Belgian funding designed to reinforce their impact and ensure a coherent and integrated approach.

Building on these first collaborations, Enabel aims to establish a long-term presence in Namibia (opening of an embassy planned for 2027) and progressively expand its scope of action through close cooperation with national authorities, as well as technical and financial partners active in the country.

This momentum is part of Belgium’s growing engagement in Namibia, notably marked by the planned opening of a Belgian Embassy in 2027. Through its interventions, Enabel seeks to contribute to the country’s energy transition, green industrialisation, port development and sustainable job creation, while strengthening Belgium’s strategic, economic and diplomatic presence in Southern Africa.

Drawing on its recognised expertise, Enabel provides high-value technical and institutional support at the intersection of energy systems, port and logistics infrastructure, green industrialisation, governance and economic development. This approach is fully aligned with Namibia’s national development priorities, Belgian economic interests, and the European Union’s objectives under the Global Gateway framework.

Job description

As Project Manager Port Development, you report to the Country Director and you manage the planning, coordination, and delivery of major port development initiatives in Namibia, working closely with public and private partners to advance sustainable infrastructure investments and support economic growth and regional connectivity.

Responsibilities:

• You are responsible for the good execution of the project (content, planning, budget, quality);
  
  
• You manage the Global Gateway Support Program on sustainable port developments (UE funded) and the port component of the Green Gate and Jobs project (Belgium funded);
  
  
• You manage the successful advancement of the Walvis Bay North Port development programme;
  
  
• You manage grants and procurement processes, including the development and evaluation of grants/contracts;
  
  
• You ensure the mobilization of strategic private-sector and institutional investment;
  
  
• You ensure the delivery of bankable infrastructure projects ready for investment decisions;
  
  
• Your coordinate the consortium and main implementing partners (GIZ, PoABI, PoR);
  
  
• You lead the team placed under your hierarchical responsibility;
  
  
• You ensure that relevant results information is available for monitoring and evaluation in order to allow monitoring of performance, decision-making, learning and reporting;
  
  
• You ensure that Enabel’s programmes are delivered in a coordinated and complementary manner, contributing to shared objectives and maximizing collective impact by connecting expertise, resources and activities.

Your profile

Required qualifications

• Master’s degree in Law, Political Sciences, International Relations, Maritime Management, Port Operations or a related field of studies relevant to the project.
  
  
  

Required experience

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in steering international development projects;
  
  
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in cooperation with African ports and associated government agencies on the continent;
  
  
• Experience in managing complex international collaborative projects (strategy, planning and implementation with various stakeholders);
  
  
• Proven experience in multi-agency cooperation, particularly with the European Union EU-funded projects;
  
  
• An experience as team manager;
  
  
  

Required skills and knowledge

• In-depth knowledge of project management methodologies (planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation);
  
  
• Capacity to guide political dialogue with institutional and strategic actors (national and international level);
  
  
• You have a strong local network in Namibia related to port, trade and transport;
  
  
• Monitoring and evaluation competences;
  
  

• You have a strong sense of diplomacy, political representation and high level of dialogue;
  
  
• You are result oriented;
  
  
• You are fluent in spoken and written English. Knowledge of local language is an asset.
  
  

Applicants are also required to commit to the vision, mission and values of Enabel (https://www.enabel.be/content/enabel-vision-mission-values).

We offer you

• A fascinating and interesting job in an international environment.

• A contract of 48 months. You are based in Walvis-Bay.

The various amounts vary in function of relevant recognised experience for the function and family composition.

Following this recruitment procedure a shortlist of successful applicants may be constituted which may be sourced in the next three years for similar job openings.

Every person who fulfils the conditions listed in our job advertisements may apply. Enabel is committed to equal opportunities and diversity in its workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability status or any other factor other than competence.

Are you interested?

Apply here on-line with an application letter and your updated CV, at the latest by 4th November 2026.

Only applications that are registered here via our on-line portal will be considered.