Earn over 140m as a Project Management Specialist (Gender) at United States Embassy / US Mission
Job Title: Project Management Specialist (Gender)
Organisation: United States US Embassy, US Mission in Uganda
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Salary Grade: UGX 145,734,783 – 214,194,284 per annum (FSN 11)
About US Embassy:
The United States Embassy in Kampala, Uganda has enjoyed diplomatic relations with Uganda for over 30 years. Ambassador Deborah R. Malac currently heads the U.S Mission to Uganda. The Mission is composed of several offices and organizations all working under the auspices of the Embassy and at the direction of the Ambassador.
Among the offices operating under the U.S Mission to Uganda are:
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
- Peace Corps
Job Summary: USAID/Uganda’s Gender Specialist provides technical, representative and programmatic support to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Kampala, Uganda. Uganda is a strategic priority for U.S. foreign assistance due to its size, location, and role in the region and a priority gender-based violence GBV-country for U.S. assistance. USAID/Uganda is responsible for the development and management of the U.S. Government’s foreign assistance program focused on strengthening of democratic institutions, improving health and education status, supporting economic development and food security. USAID/Uganda directs most of its programs in health and education, democracy and governance, agriculture/food security and environment through cooperative agreements and contracts to a wide range of international and local organizations and international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
S/he also monitors compliance with USAID gender requirements and designs and, as needed, delivers gender training to the Mission and its implementing partners, including the development of resource materials, as necessary. The Gender Specialist works with technical offices to ensure data for gender- related indicators are collected, and provides expertise to technical offices regarding monitoring, assessing and evaluating social and gender performance, outcomes and impacts of USAID/Uganda- funded projects and activities.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Integrate gender into program design, implementation and evaluation (50%):
- Designs, updates and conducts or commissions gender and social inclusion analyses of proposed strategies and programs; providing substantial input into social/gender assessment in policy analysis, research, program design implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Identifies appropriate approaches and best practices to addressing gender inequities in the implementation of USAID/Uganda’s strategy, providing recommendations as to how projects and activities may be better designed to ensure that women and men, boys and girls, youth and other marginalized populations benefit equitably from USAID investments.
- Identifies appropriate approaches and best practices to enhance the gendered impact performance of USAID investments, including increasing the involvement and participation of women and youth in decision-making and increasing access to assets for Ugandan women participating in USAID programs.
- Understands and applies inclusive growth and private sector development approaches that lead to economic empowerment, enhanced livelihoods for the poorest, vulnerable groups and women and girls, youth, refugees and persons with disabilities.
- Leads on the engagement of shifting social and gender norms to tackle harmful practices such as FGM, early and forced marriages and to empower women and girls.
- Provides more technical support to implementing partners in planning, implementing and monitoring gender and social inclusion approaches.
- Helps colleagues and wider audiences understand what policy and programmatic outcomes mean for poor men and women (by age, ethnicity, disability, geography or other key features of social difference) e.g. by sharing analysis or more directly through initiating/facilitating immersions.
- Lead on the design, management and monitoring and evaluation of programs focused on the social, political and economic empowerment of women and girls and tackling violence against women and girls.
- Supports monitoring and evaluation efforts on progress toward gender equity by identifying appropriate indicators, identifying robust impact assessment methodologies, participating on evaluation teams, and drafting relevant gender-sensitive questions and approaches within scopes of work, amongst other duties.
- Develops gender knowledge-based products and participates in knowledge sharing and reflection events to share key learning.
Provide mission leadership on gender issues (30%):
- Provides Mission-wide technical, representational and intellectual leadership and policy and program guidance as USAID/Uganda’s senior subject-matter expert on gender and inclusive development.
- Identifies, promotes, designs and conducts gender and social inclusion training programs to increase the technical competence of USAID personnel.
- Serves as the primary Mission liaison for the Gender Development Partners Group and coordinates with the GOU and bilateral and multilateral donors to Uganda on gender issues and programming.
- Monitors the implementation of, and updates as necessary, the USAID/Uganda Mission Order on gender and social inclusion.
- Forges strong institutional linkages between USAID/Uganda programs and other U.S. Government agencies, and other bilateral and multilateral donor agencies carrying out gender-sensitive assistance activities.
Performance management (20%):
- Helps establish Mission and programmatic gender-related goals and works helps lead efforts to monitor program progress and adapt.
- Assists in data calls from a variety of sources (USAID, other USG agencies and stakeholders, other donors, and the GOU) for information on various USAID initiatives, activities and reports with significant gender content, including but not limited to: the annual Performance Plan and Report, the Operational Plan, and USAID and USG Gender policies and strategies.
- Collaborates closely with technical teams to develop and maintain comprehensive information at the Mission level on USAID programs that integrate gender and develops and maintain gender- related factsheets for distribution inside and outside the Mission.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
NOTE: All applicants must address each selection criterion detailed below with specific and comprehensive information supporting each item.
- The applicants for the United States US Embassy Project Management Specialist (Gender) job opportunity should hold a Master’s degree in a relevant discipline such as development studies, gender studies, or rural sociology required.
- At least five years of experience in the analysis of gender integration and empowerment, including demonstrated professional-level experience in integrating rigorous gender analysis into program/project planning, design, development, implementation and monitoring and evaluation.
- Demonstrated experience with developing and implementing practical, field-based approaches to addressing gender constraints and advancing gender equity, including the ability to train and develop professional capacities of others in gender integration and program monitoring, is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of USAID and/or other donor policy and programming related to gender, as well as of a thorough knowledge of current literature on the topic.
- Ability to analyze and evaluate complex development issues, including gender-related and inclusive development aspects of development across sectors.
- Knowledge of principles, concepts and methodology involved in the design, development, implementation, management and evaluation of technical assistance.
- Strong English-language skills, including reading and writing, and organizational skills to guide other specialists and non-specialists and to complete analyses and presentations.
- A demonstrated ability to write succinctly and to produce documents quickly is also required.
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills, including ability to exhibit tact, diplomacy and resourcefulness while working with a wide variety of individuals, including USAID staff at all levels, high-level officials in the GOU, U.S. government, foreign governments and international organizations, as well as with other foreign and domestic development partners, colleagues and office associates.
- Language Proficiency: Level IV (fluent) English writing and speaking ability is required.
How to Apply:
All those interested in working with the US mission in Kampala should send their applications and strictly adhere to the following:
- A typed and hand signed (around Section 6 – Declaration) DS-174 Employment Application for Locally Employed Staff or Family Member (Click Here; Version Exp. 06/2022). Offerors are required to complete sections 1 through 6. (Make sure to use additional Work Experience pages (Section 4), if needed, to provide complete work history).
- Cover letter (addressed to the USAID Supervisory Executive Officer) clearly indicating the position for which you are applying and describing how you meet the minimum requirements.
- Complete curriculum vitae/resume. In order to fully evaluate your application, the resume must include:
- Paid and non-paid experience, job title, dates held (month/year). Please specify unpaid or part time work. Any experience that does not include dates (month/year) will not be counted towards meeting the solicitation requirements. (NOTE: Resume and DS-174 work experience should match.)
- Specific duties performed that fully detail the level and complexity of the work.
- Education and any other qualifications including job-related training courses, job-related skills, or job- related honors, awards or accomplishments.
- Name and contact information (phone and email) of three (3) professional references. At least one of the references must be a prior or current direct supervisor.
- Supplemental [separate] document specifically addressing each QRF as outlined in the solicitation.
- Copies of Academic Transcripts
- Offers should be in a standard file type such as Microsoft Word (.doc) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf). All should be in one document which should not exceed 10MB.
- Submitted offers and documents become the property of USAID and will not be returned.
Submit Application To:
Human Resources Office
By email at KampalaHR@state.gov
NB: Your application will be reviewed if you have fulfilled all the requirements including submission of standard file types such as Microsoft Word (.doc) and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) in a single attachment (No Zipped files, Links or Multiple Attachments) and should not exceed 10MB. Please clearly indicate the position number and title you are applying for on the DS-174 form.
Deadline: 26th August 2020
The US Mission in Kampala provides equal opportunity and fair and equitable treatment in employment to all people without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, political affiliation, marital status, or sexual orientation. The Department of State also strives to achieve equal employment opportunity in all personnel operations through continuing diversity enhancement programs.