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Position Title: Project Manager-UNHCR - (002168)
Contract Duration: Open ended
Contractual Status: National
Location: Arua with regular travel to Yumbe
Duty Location: Uganda-Uganda-Arua
Job: Program Operations
Organization: Save the Children
Job Type: Full-time
About us
For over 90 years, Save the Children has been making a difference in
children's lives in more than 120 countries. We are the world's largest
independent child rights organisation, underpinned by a vision of a world in
which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and
participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world
treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Save the Children is an organization
for talented people with different backgrounds and perspectives. We are proud
that our people are representative of the children we work with and we thrive
on our diversity. We are an equal opportunity organisation dedicated to our
core values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and
Integrity. Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong
commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all
representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of
behaviour towards children both in their private and professional lives.
In Uganda, we implement programmes in five thematic programme areas of
Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Education, Child Poverty, Health and
Nutrition in Development and Emergency contexts. Save the Children delivers
programs in over 36 districts in the North, Rwenzori, North-Eastern, West Nile
and Central regions of Uganda. We save children’s lives. We fight for their
rights. We help them fulfil their potential.
Role Purpose:
Save the Children is seeking job applications for a Project Manager for an
UNHCR-funded Child Protection award supporting South Sudanese refugees in the
West Nile region of Uganda.
·
The Project Manager will be the principal oversight of project
implementation and have leadership responsibility for the overall management of
the award.
·
S/he will work with Save the Children’s field, regional and country offices
and will provide strategic and operational leadership to develop and implement
a successful program.
·
The Project Manager will ensure adherence to overall technical and
programmatic quality in implementation, compliance with donor rules and
regulations, and the timely submission of all deliverables, including annual
work plans, performance monitoring plans, reports as required.
Qualification and Experience;
Essential
·Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or higher in Education to MSc/MA/MEng level
in a relevant subject or equivalent field experience
·Minimum of 5 years management experience including working in emergency
response, direct experience in implementing large, multi-thematic and
multi-location programs.
· Experience managing large education programs for an international NGO.
· Demonstrated skills in program planning, and all aspects of project
management.
· Demonstrated skills in leadership
and supervision of staff and in building and maintaining a high performing
team.
· Experience in promoting children’s rights and gender, including
participation in programming, design, implementation and evaluation.
Desirable
· Ability to analyze information, evaluate options and to think and plan
strategically.
·Demonstrated knowledge of UNHCR regulations and policies, and experience
managing high-quality UNHCR funded project(s).
· Inter-personal skills to influence and guide staff and partners in
identifying programming opportunities and resolving program challenges.
· Experience applying remote management techniques.
· Commitment to the values and mission of Save the Children.
· Excellent oral and written communication skills. Fluency in English
required.
· Experience working in a refugee context.
Application information;
Please apply in English saving your CV and covering letter as a single
document.
Please apply online by following this link HERE
indicating 3 referees, two of whom should have been your direct supervisors.
Important to note:
Testimonials/certificates should not be attached to application that is
submitted online. Hand delivered applications will not be accepted and are
therefore not considered during the shortlisting process.
Candidates from the district/community listed above are encouraged to
apply. More information on the open positions can be obtained at any of our
offices.
Application :closes on 18th January 2018 at midnight Uganda time.
We work with children, communities and governments all over the world and
we believe in the right person for the job regardless of where you come from
and how you identify yourself. We need to keep children safe so our selection
process reflects our commitment to ensuring that only those who are suitable to
work with children are considered for these posts. All successful applicants
will therefore be required to complete a Police Check and must sign onto our
Child Safeguarding Policy and organizational Code of Conduct.
Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and
assign the best qualified talent, persons with disabilities and female
candidates are encouraged to apply.
Disclaimer:
Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at
whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment
agents
To Apply Click HERE
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