Project Manager USAID Project Jobs – TPO Uganda
Job Title: Project Manager: 02/PM/Nov.19
Organisation: TPO Uganda
Duty Station: Mbarara, Uganda
Reports To: Deputy Chief of Party
About US:
TPO Uganda is a local Ugandan NGO that has been operating in the country for 25 years. Our programs comprise interventions organised around the following themes; Care and protection of OVC; child protection, livelihoods support, mental health and psychosocial support, response and prevention of all forms of violence against women and children as well as emergency response and humanitarian action. TPO Uganda is active in 33 districts in the country and is a member of several partnerships and coordination mechanisms in the country.
Job Summary: The Project Manager will be responsible for providing programmatic, managerial and coordination support to District Project Coordinators (DPC’s) spread across approximately 19 districts. He/She will provide backstopping support to District Project Coordinators, supporting them to coordinate district specific activities, manage CSO partnerships, attain project targets, liaison with local government technocrats and strengthening implementation frameworks at community and local government level.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal applicant must hold a Master’s Degree in international development, social sciences, public health, or a closely related field is required.
- Technical ability to support DPC’s with technical leadership, align activities to overall program objectives.
- Ability to mentor, supervise and support DPC’s in over 19 districts to consolidate district specific reports for onward submission to the Deputy Chief of Party, ensuring quality timeliness and operational efficiency at district level.
- Familiarity with PEPFAR OVC technical elements, OVC and youth programmatic design and service delivery frameworks.
- Ability to manage and build capacity of project staff, and multiple teams comprising CSOs and local government counterparts.
- Experience with child welfare and protection programs, systems strengthening, Capacity building, economic strengthening, service delivery, quality improvement and policy development is required.
- Minimum 8 years of senior project management experience, reporting and proposal development as well as technical support supervision of complex integrated OVC programs.
How to apply:
All suitably qualified and interested applicants Please send your CV and cover letter with 3 work related referees and a table showing your past 3 year salary history indicate job reference in the outer cover of the envelope or in the subject line if applying by email to:
Human Resources & Administration Manager, TPO Uganda, P.O. Box 21646 Kampala, Uganda or email: infb@tpoug.org
Hand deliver to Plot 3271, Kansanga, Opposite Kampala International University, Off Ggaba Road.
TPO Uganda is an equal opportunities employer that does not discriminate on any basis. Female candidates are especially encouraged to apply.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
Deadline: 6th December 2019.