Project Manager NGO Careers – CARE International
Organisation: CARE International
Duty Station: Yumbe / Adjumani, Uganda
About US:
CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, formerly Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects. Founded in 1945, CARE is nonsectarian, impartial, and non-governmental. It is one of the largest and oldest humanitarian aid organizations focused on fighting global poverty.
About Project:
CARE Uganda supports the financial inclusion aspirations of women and youth who encounter a distinct set of circumstances, in both humanitarian / emergency and relatively stable environments which places them amongst the vulnerable and marginalized members of their community. Through the Women and Youth Financial Inclusion Program (WAYFIP) women and youth are empowered to obtain diversified and sustainable livelihoods. They are also supported to access equitable financial inclusion and economic opportunities that can be achieved through engaging with markets, promotion of marketable skills and access to and utilization of financial services. CARE believes financial inclusion of women and youth will catalyze new and diversified businesses in the local markets and reduce poverty and vulnerability in their households. The program is largely based on CARE’s existing Women’s Economic empowerment (WEE) programming where the VSLA methodology contributes to the strategic approach of its core programs. In a bid to strengthen our financial inclusion and women economic empowerment strategic approach among the Conflict affected South Sudanese women, CARE Uganda is in partnership with UN Women to implement a three (3) years (2018 – 2021) Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment and Resilience in South Sudanese Emergency Response” (AWEAR), Programme in Yumbe and Adjumani districts.
The AWEAR programme seeks to increase the opportunities for women for South Sudanese women refugees in Adjumani and Yumbe to:
- a)Lead and participate in refugee and host population decision-making processes,
- b)Access and protect their rights; and
- c)Enhance education and skills and improve economic opportunities and empowerment.
Job Summary: The Project Manager will be responsible for managing the AWEAR project funded by UN Women and implemented by CARE International in Uganda. AWEAR project is implemented in Yumbe (Bidibidi zone 1,2,3,4) and Adjumani (Majji settlement zone 1,2,3). The AWEAR project runs from October 2018 to August 2020. The project aim is to diversify the livelihood options of refugee women and girls, and their host communities through a menu of dignified, viable and profitable options. AWEAR will also target participants, with a focus on women and girl refugees by increasing their knowledge of financial management, financial literacy skills and their capacity to engage in productive and viable livelihood options. With this intervention, it’s anticipated that the Refugee women’s agency will increase, including their self-confidence, self-esteem, the knowledge of their rights and the capacity to exercise and claim them and men and boys in their direct environment will display more power sharing attitudes towards them. The risk of women and girls engaging in negative coping behaviors such as transactional sex will reduce as a result of having access to more women friendly livelihood opportunities. Ultimately women’s resilience will also improve thanks to having a more diversified livelihood base.
The Project Manager will facilitate an integrated participatory approach in project management, supervision, coordination, planning, and implementation among CARE staff and key strategic/collaborative partners, across the two ear marked refugee settlements and host communities in Yumbe and Adjumani with a focus on cross-learning, 360 degrees’ accountability, and monitoring integration aspects. S/he will oversee all project management, administration, and procurement, financial and human resource management according to CARE and donor rules and regulations. S/he will ensure effective implementation of project’s visibility and communication plan. S/he will communicate regularly with CARE HQ team in Kampala and UN Women team in the field as well as conducting updates meetings and documenting in the project required reports the project progress and challenges. S/he will also help facilitate the integration of the project with CARE’s longer-term and humanitarian programming especially the existing WAY project that mainly focuses on empowerment of women and youth through economic empowerment, GBV prevention and application of tested and tried models and approaches like the SASA, Role Model Men and VSLAs. The PM will act as CARE’s and the project primary representative for the project in local and national level fora. S/he will facilitate smooth coordination between the team, implementing partners and other agencies from Government as well as the UN and other INGOs, active in the delivery of similar and complementary interventions to avoid duplication, leverage comparative strengths, and contribute to joint advocacy. The Manager shall be fully compliant with the safety and security procedures of CARE and should be accountable for it. S/he will model CARE’s core values and particularly CARE’s commitment to Gender Equity and Diversity and ensure CARE”s Safeguarding policies are upheld by all Consortium Members and stakeholders engaging with the Project.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Overall lead of the Implementation team of the AWEAR Project: Directly lead and guide project staff and all relevant associates i.e. Village Agents and other volunteers to implement the AWEAR Project deliverables (30%).
- Lead the project implementation in collaboration with both short term and long term partners.
- Ensure project staff and any collaborative associates are compliant to CARE’s core values and gender transformative programmatic approach that emphasizes gender equity and diversity.
- Oversee the multi sector project assessments and ensure liaison with key relevant stakeholders on data collection and dissemination session.
- Oversee the roll out of the TOTs in VSL methodology, Cash for work and other technical areas related to Business Skills development, Financial Literacy/ Education, Advanced Business Skills training among others
- Support the team to identify economic opportunities and increase sources of incomes through targeted cash for work and development of capacities and skills for South Sudanese women.
- Oversee the skills market assessment study to inform the cash for work project activities
- Lead the field staff data collection, analysis and submission of quality, informative progress and donor reports in a timely manner.
- Share overall monitoring progress reports on a regular basis with CARE Program Manager, and other relevant Senior management, as well as the field UN Women coordination teams.
Partnerships and external Collaboration: Ensure a high level of coordination and nurtured relationships with key stakeholders to exploit learning, sharing and dissemination opportunities (25%)
- Effectively represent the AWEAR Project at relevant fora, particularly ensuring constant collaboration with UN Women field team, UNHCR, OPM, the Livelihoods working group, Cash working group and any other relevant coordinating platform
- Ensure project beneficiaries and relevant associates participate in all district and regional exchange learning events, dissemination meetings as well as any relevant programmatic business coaching services.
- Foster linkages and networking between relevant AWEAR project stakeholders both in the private and public sector.
Monitoring and Evaluation: Lead the AWEAR program staff, partners and the M&E unit/ to design and implement monitoring and evaluation systems and relevant tools (25%)
- Participate in the development and continuous review of the overall project M&E system, tools and procedures
- Oversee the process of partners operationalizing the global VSLA MIS and other relevant monitoring tools and link them to all the other thematic aspects of the project i.e. market access, business development, women leadership development and cash for work
- Oversee the quality assurance and preparation of annual implementation plans and project implementation reports
- Ensure accurate and timely implementation of activities, accurate budget and burn rates monitoring.
- Ensure the project has an annual plan to for knowledge products and submit them quarterly to the Program Manager and UN Women field teams.
Operational, Human, Financial and Administrative Management (15%)
- Responsible for the overall management of the project’s resources i.e human, financial and assets in line with donors and CARE relevant rules and regulations;
- Directly supervise a team of CARE staff and volunteers as per CARE HR Manual (setting goals, giving feedback, conducting performance assessments, coaching, mentoring) and indirectly supervise senior staff from implementing partners;
- Ensure project develops costed action plans, procurement plans, cash projections in a timely manner to allow for appropriate cash flow and goods and services timely availability; ,
- Create or adapt management systems in line with CARE’s standard operating procedures, ensuring consistency with project needs.
- Oversee flows of funds to the project and beneficiaries and as well review reports both financial and narrative in close coordination with the CARE Head of Finance and programs;
- Ensure adherence of project implementation in line with the project approved budget, regularly collect and report to the Program Management Unit and relevant project stakeholders on overall burn rates, and prepare proposals on budget reallocations when needed;
Other Responsibilities 5%
- The Project Manager is responsible for problem solving at a variety of levels. S/he will need to be able to analyze and resolve situations as they arise on a variety of subjects ranging from programming decisions to issues related to coordination with project associates, key stakeholders, other CARE and non-CARE projects in a dynamic context.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: The Project Manager will have a suitable combination of experience and relevant training in the following technical and programmatic requirements for the position;
- Post graduate Diploma or Masters in management or in development or humanitarian aid or in Rural and Urban economics or related field
- At least 5 years proven management experience of complex projects and more preferably in both Humanitarian and development programming
- Demonstrated experience minimally three years as Project Manager, leading project teams and collaborating with major stakeholders like government, UN peer INGOs etc.
- Experience with refugee protection and gender based violence programs required;
- Personal commitment to gender equality and diversity demonstrated by personal actions;
- Demonstrated capacity to lead teams for success and impactful programming
- Timely Decision Making, Building Effective Teams, Problem Solving, Functional/ Technical Skills, Strategic Agility and Cross-Cultural Sensitivity
- Attention to detail
- Effective Time management skills
- Team player
- Organization skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to work with limited supervision
- Be able to demonstrate high level of integrity
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines
- Our programming is guided by our core values of transformation, Integrity, Diversity, Equality and excellence.
How to Apply:
Candidates who are interested in the above jobs should submit an updated CV and Application letter giving a day time telephone contact and names, telephone contacts and email addresses of 3 (three) work related referees only through our recruitment email: ugarecruitment@care.org clearly indicating the job title in the email subject.
NB: Please note that when you are successful for the above position, CARE will need Verified copies of your academic documents.
Deadline: 24th April, 2019
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