Job Title: Africa
Regional Manager
Regional Manager
Organisation: Minority
Rights Group International
Rights Group International
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Uganda
Salary (gross): Uganda
Shillings 7,204,760 (approx EUR 2,129 per month)
Shillings 7,204,760 (approx EUR 2,129 per month)
About US:
Minority Rights Group
International campaigns worldwide with around 130 partners in over 60 countries
to ensure that disadvantaged minorities and indigenous peoples, often the
poorest of the poor, can make their voices heard. Through training and
education, legal cases, publications and the media, we support minority and
indigenous people as they strive to maintain their rights to the land they live
on, the languages they speak, to equal opportunities in education and
employment, and to full participation in public life.
International campaigns worldwide with around 130 partners in over 60 countries
to ensure that disadvantaged minorities and indigenous peoples, often the
poorest of the poor, can make their voices heard. Through training and
education, legal cases, publications and the media, we support minority and
indigenous people as they strive to maintain their rights to the land they live
on, the languages they speak, to equal opportunities in education and
employment, and to full participation in public life.
Job Summary: The Africa
Regional Manager will steer the development and growth of the MRG Africa office
and b) to ensure the quality, compliance, and appropriateness of all activities
run from the office. The post will
involve personally running some programmes and interventions as well as
supporting a small team (currently 5 people) to do so.
Regional Manager will steer the development and growth of the MRG Africa office
and b) to ensure the quality, compliance, and appropriateness of all activities
run from the office. The post will
involve personally running some programmes and interventions as well as
supporting a small team (currently 5 people) to do so.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Core Activities:
- Steer
the strategic development and growth of MRG’s projects and programmes in
Africa. - Design
new programmes of work and interventions ensuring that they are high
quality, well thought through, appropriate to the context, feasible,
fundable and cost effective. - Fundraise
for programmes in close liaison with fundraising colleagues, initiate and
attend meetings with donors in the region, to be aware of upcoming funding
opportunities in the region and ensure MRG utilises these where
appropriate, write and submit funding applications to donors; maintain
positive relations and dialogue with donors; report to donors in line with
their requirements including provide regular donor reports, budgets and
expenditure reports. - Support
colleagues based in Africa on programme design, fundraising, programme
implementation, training, budget management, donor compliance, research,
commissioning consultants, safe travel, monitoring and evaluation and all
other work related tasks. - Line
manage approximately 5 colleagues based in Kampala and in the region. - Manage
the administration of the Africa office including budgets, financial
reporting, audits, property and equipment, and to lead staff liaison with
MRG’s Trustees and an Africa Advisory Committee. - Attend
events to represent MRG, to present MRG’s accumulated expertise on
minority issues in Africa, to act as a spokesperson for the office at
events and to the media. - Ensure
that MRG Africa runs effective outreach programmes ensuring that relevant
targets are aware of our work and programmes. - Work
closely with partners, advocacy targets and other stakeholders in relation
to MRG’s work (particularly where those contacts expect a senior contact
or wish to give us feedback about a piece of work or decision). - Take
the lead role in MRG’s relationships with the African Commission on Human
and People’s Rights and African Union. Lead for the whole of MRG
internationally on MRG’s strategy towards, lobbying at and follow up with
African Regional Mechanisms and bodies including ACHPR and African Union
(but excluding African Courts – where legal teams lead). - Work
closely with specialised colleagues and ensure that Africa office
perspectives are included e.g. in Management Team (periodically), in MRG’s
web presence, in legal cases work, in UN work, etc. - Plan
own work on a regular basis in consultation with the supervisor and
Programme Coordinators and liase with them in preparing work plans and
delivery plans.
2. Office Management:
- Manage
the Regional office in line with statutory regulations, reporting to the
supervisor where necessary, the Head of Finance, along with the Africa
Advisory Committee of MRG’s International Council. - Work
with the Head of Finance to ensure all financial procedures are in place,
to develop and manage office budgets, and ensure quarterly
income/expenditure statements and balance sheets are made available. To
also liaise with auditors as required. - Line
manage Regional office finance staff, assistants, and interns. - Carry
out any other tasks, such as liaising with MRG’s lawyers on ensuring the
office continues to be registered in Uganda, rental agreements are in
place, and other general duties.
3. General:
- Undertakes
such other tasks as may reasonably be requested by the supervisor. - The
job holder will be required to maintain the pace of work which at times
may be high, will need to meet deadlines and manage several tasks at the
same time. - Respect
and work towards full implementation of MRG’s Gender and Equal Opportunities
Policies in all the work involved in this post. - Ensure
that all activities and scripts in the regional programme include and are
sensitive to gender issues and that MRG’s gender policy is implemented
throughout all work involved in the regions.
4. Confidential information: Responsible for maintaining confidentiality
as the job holder will be required to have a very high level of access to
confidential information pertaining to MRG’s strategies, detailed financial
information, personnel issues, and also access to sensitive external
information which may impact on MRG’s activities.
as the job holder will be required to have a very high level of access to
confidential information pertaining to MRG’s strategies, detailed financial
information, personnel issues, and also access to sensitive external
information which may impact on MRG’s activities.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The
applicant should hold a degree in a relevant field i.e. international law,
international relations, development studies - Some
experience in the field of minority/human rights; - At
least four years’ experience of work in the voluntary or NGO sector; - Past
exposure and experience of at least three out of advocacy, legal,
training, organisational capacity building or research programmes; - Four
or more years’ experience of designing/implementing projects and budgets,
including monitoring and evaluation. - Detailed
knowledge of the project cycle, quality assurance and troubleshooting
problems; - At
least two years’ experience of office management responsibilities. - Excellent
knowledge of minority issues in Africa, including recent economic,
political and social developments gained through work experience, travel
or study; - Good
knowledge of basic human rights standards and conventions, and international
and regional mechanisms; - Detailed
knowledge of relevant networks of interested individuals and
organisations; - Fluent
in English and good working knowledge of French. - Good
working knowledge of international and regional instruments relevant to minority
rights; - Good
working knowledge of a local language. - Past
experience of working on minority or related issues; - Prior
experience of living and working in several regions of Africa; - Past
exposure and experience of advocacy at the UN; - Significant
experience of advocacy at African Regional Mechanisms is desired - Good
knowledge of Word, Excel, database use, e-mail and the internet; - Possess
the ability to manage several tasks simultaneously and to organise and
prioritise own work; - Ability
to work on own initiative and stay calm under pressure; - Ability
to assess and absorb information quickly; - Past
experience of setting up and maintaining filing systems; - Good
judgement - Good
letter writing and numerical skills; - Possess
the ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing; - Excellent
written and spoken English, working knowledge of French; - Ability
to maintain confidentiality; - Ability
and willingness to travel for up to 8-10 weeks per year as required.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and
interested candidates should send a completed application form, download
here, and the Equal
Opportunities Questionnaire, by email to [email protected]
interested candidates should send a completed application form, download
here, and the Equal
Opportunities Questionnaire, by email to [email protected]
Deadline: 27th November 2014
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