Project Manager NGO Job Careers – Oxfam
Job Title: Project Manager
Organization: Oxfam International
Duty Station: Uganda
About US:
Oxfam is a worldwide organisation that employs works in more than 90 countries. We seek to overcome poverty and suffering. Oxfam’s global strategic goals include contributing to achieving more profound and lasting change in the lives of people living with poverty and injustice. We’re creating a worldwide influencing network to unite the power of local organizations, who share a common vision for change. Adequately resourced, local organizations are bestpositioned to influence and actively participate in the fight against the injustice of poverty.
Job Summary: The Project Manager will be responsible for the overall leadership and management of the Building Resilience Education Opportunities in Fragile Crisis Affected Environments project.The jobholder shall support Oxfam’s impact locally, regionally, continentally and globally through ensuring the project’s alignment to the key strategic objectives and overall Oxfam program standards; the role supports resource mobilization, specifically for the programme focus areas and ensuring that the promotion of gender and women’s rights is at the heart of Oxfam in Uganda’s program work.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Under the leadership of the Head of Program, manages the day-to-day implementation of this project. The work that will be undertaken will involve coordinating technical assessment, planning and implementation of project interventions in line with the Education in Emergency project in line with Oxfam’s country, regional and global strategies
- Oversee the monitoring, reporting and learning initiatives including research generation and collection of data in close partnership with the consortium partners
- Ensure visibility and communication of day to day activities in line with the Communication and Visibility Manual
- Ensure timely development of modules and approaches as well as participate in development of models that will be used during project implementation
- In collaboration with other implementing partners in Uganda, lead in ICT in data collection/research, linking and learning and ensure quality documentation on learnings
- Take lead in coordination of advocacy efforts of project partners for National Regional and Global level policy influencing
- Actively participate in drawing budgets and carry out budget monitoring and expenditure forecasting
- As the head of the Project Management Unit, represent Oxfam in national, regional and cross border engagements on this Project
- Ensure that all activities in the project take gender issues fully into account
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal applicant for the Project Manager should have extensive knowledge and experience in management of multi-country education programmes and initiatives ideally built on mature understanding of relevant issues derived from field experience
- Good understanding of Education policy issues in the region continentally and globally
- Strong programme management and quality knowledge with ability to ensure consistent quality against standards and implement effective monitoring and evaluation systems to assess and adjust performance
- Commitment to and good knowledge of working with networks coalitions and a partnership approach across the spectrum of Oxfam’s work including innovative approaches and capacity strengthening
- Good knowledge of and experience with donor funding environment and Financial Management Skills with Experience of Project Budgeting and controlling financial risks
- Proven people and finance management experience at a strategic level in a complex dispersed organisation with evidence of leading, facilitating and integrating a specific area of expertise across a wide network providing clarity and focus of vision and impact strategic planning and decision making and the delivery of agreed results
- Strong organisational and personal management skills, with ability to prioritise work issues to meet deadlines with minimal supervision and adjust to constantly changing situations while maintaining focus on delivery and follow through
- Excellent personal communication skills, high level of self-awareness initiative sound judgement personal energy and flexibility
- Excellent inter personal communication skills, in written and verbal English, with high impact influencing and persuasive skills
- Ability to cultivate knowledge based relations with different stakeholders going beyond grant based relations (strategic partnerships)
- Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills; able to understand complex issues and translate them into simple, workable actions and plans
- Knowledge of capacity building, learning and development activities and how to create a learning and sharing environment with a strong knowledge management basis
- Commitment to and knowledge of creating a partner-led operational environment, with an ability to create an internal Oxfam approach that is focussed on developing and supporting partner organisations to achieve direct impact and results relating to Oxfam’s objectives
- Knowledge of budgeting, and experience in working with donors on multi country projects
- Proven track record on strong people management skills
- Ability to engage and influence both government and education actors direction to and following it as appropriation and ongoing
- Substantial, demonstrable experience of emergency and development work, and an understanding of relevant issues
- Willingness to be a part of and closely work with a wider Oxfam team
- Proven analytical and conceptual thinking high level research project management knowledge and skills and experience in using participatory tool methodologies an for assessment programme identification implementation monitoring and evaluation
- Strategic and people management skills supporting mentoring the team in their professional and personal growth
- Ability to build professional technical and implementational unison and alliance arrangement around the project and inspire followership
- Commitment to equal opportunity and gender policies. Demonstrated experience in integrating gender and diversity issues into programmes.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send their updated CVs and cover letters ONLY to oxfamuganda-jobs@oxfam.org indicating the position name in the email subject line. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Deadline: 9th March, 2018.
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