Job Title: Programme Manager
Organisation: Share An Opportunity Uganda (SAO-U)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Country Director
About SAO – U:
Share An Opportunity Uganda (SAO – U) is a National Christian founded child focused NGO empowering households and communities to fulfill their obligations in child care and development and affiliated to Baptist Union of Uganda. Share An Opportunity – Uganda’s key thematic areas are child health, Basic Education for OVC’s, Child Advocacy, Enterprise Development and food security, and institutional development for community based organisations while HIV/AIDS is mainstreamed in the program
Job Summary: The Programme Manager will mainly;
- Support the Country Director in the development of an appropriate sustainable development programme through appropriate programmes and strategies.
- Manage SAO Uganda programme implementation, work plans and coordination.
- Oversee the proposal development process including operational documents.
- Actively facilitate staff capacity building.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design programmes and activities
- Manage and supervise programme implementation
- Make sure that programme’s strategic objectives are met
- Carry out periodic reviews and assessment of project implementation of planned activities
- Manage the development of organisational proposals including the annuals ones
- Raise funds for the different projects of the programmes, which is resource mobilisation
- Compile and prepare ensure timely reports are presented to the Country Director
- Offer backstopping services to the Regional Centres
- Make sure that training of staff on the different levels of the programme approaches or design
- Develop programme tools at different levels of the programme design
- Ensure regular and periodic monitoring and evaluation of programme activities
- Make sure that all programme activities are in line with the organisational goals and objectives
- Make sure that the programme resources are allocated appropriately
- Review and approve quarterly work plans and financial requests from regions before sending to Finance department
- Specific role is to plan financial forecasts for programme needs with Director and Finance Manger
- Manage and supervise the operations of the regions.
- Perform any other assignments as management may direct.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate should hold an honours degree in Social Sciences or the equivalent plus post-graduate degree in Management or MA or MBA with a bias in Development Studies.
- The applicant must have a minimum of seven years’working experience in development and resource mobilisation Management, 4 of which should have been in a managerial position.
- Excellent interpersonal communication and report writing skills, open-minded and well composed.
- Resource Mobilisation skills.
- Project planning and development skills.
- Possess good management skills
- Good, competitive, highly level efficient, effective well designed and supervised programmes.
How to Apply:
All candidates are encouraged to send their applications and supporting documents including copies of academic qualifications, curriculum vitae (CV) indicating names plus telephone contacts of three professional referees and Pastor/Church leader’s recommendation should be posted or hand delivered to:
The National Director, Share An Opportunity Uganda,
Plot 1448, Kitala Zone, Kanyanya, Gayaza RD
P.O. Box 23408, Kampala, Uganda.
Deadline: Friday 23rd May 2014
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