Consortium Manager U-Learn NGO Job Vacancies – Save the Children International
Job Title: Consortium Manager U-Learn
Organisation: Save the Children International
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children and has program presence in over 120 countries in the world and has been implementing programs for over 90 years. Save the Children envisions a Uganda 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. We strive to create impact for children by delivering our Programmes through partnerships, by being innovative, by acting as the voice for and of children, and by achieving results at scale.
About RIL Project:
The Response Innovation Lab is coordinating the implementation of a 3-year DFID-funded programme called U-LEARN: Uganda Learning, Evidence, Accountability, and Research Network. The objectives of U-LEARN are to provide verification of partner deliverables, an enhanced capacity to provide and regularly champion accountability to affected people and develop, manage and promote a protracted crisis learning hub.
The Response Innovation Lab (RIL), lead partner of the U-LEARN Consortium, is a global collaboration that serves as a support centre for stakeholders to learn and adapt global and local good practices, innovations and interventions to more effectively meet populations affected by crises, including refugees and host communities. In Uganda, it is hosted by one of its founding members, Save the Children International (SCI). More information on:
Job Summary: The Consortium Manager leads the Consortium Management Unit (CMU) and is responsible for effective and high-quality planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring and reporting of the 3-year U-LEARN programme. Under the guidance of the Steering Committee and the Executive Committee, the U-LEARN Consortium Manager directly oversees and supports the implementation teams to deliver a coordinated and successful programme. The job-holder ensures full integration of the components of U-LEARN across the Consortium partners and will closely collaborate with the Response Innovation Lab Manager.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
External representation
- Ensure effective engagement with the wider refugee response community/stakeholders
- Adequately represent the consortium externally when/where relevant
- Effective media engagement, advocacy and influencing in support of programme outcomes.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The candidate for the Save the Children International Consortium Manager U-Learn job placement should have eight to ten years’ work experience in the field of international development including management experience.
- Post-graduate degree international development, social sciences, business administration or other relevant field.
- Knowledge of current global and regional debates on nexus programming, refugee policies, the Grand Bargain commitments.
- Proven experience of developing and managing high quality, innovative and cost-effective technical projects in complex environments, preferably with International NGOs and in the field of MEAL or similar technical area.
- Demonstrated sound understanding of the three technical areas of implementation of the programme: accountability to affected populations, independent verification/third-party monitoring/data collection and analysis, and knowledge management/learning/experience capitalization.
- Proven experience and skills in research and advocacy and influencing institutional, private and/or corporate development and humanitarian partners
- Experience in delivering multi-stakeholder, multi-year complex programmes with institutional funding, preferably from DFID, and writing up high quality donor reports.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply online by clicking on the title link below.
Deadline: 18th December 2019