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• Offer
  overall strategic guidance to PMU staff relating to PRELNOR strategy and
  implementation and the related administrative functions required.
• Offer
  technical and policy assistance to PMU staff and implementing agencies for
  effective project implementation.
• Coordinate
  and supervise functions and activities of the PMU staff and regularly
  appraise them on job performance and otherwise. Ensure that work
  disciplines and ethics are adhered to by staff.
• Coordinate
  and follow up on the activities of the specialists responsible for
  implementation of project components to ensure effective delivery of
  project activities.
• Approve
  all procurement and accounting transactions performed at PMU, and
  facilitate disbursement of loan and grant funds needed for the
  implementation of PRELNOR.
• Work
  closely with MoLG, MFPED, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives
  (MTIC), IFAD and other financiers on matters of policy and project
  administration.
• Work
  in liaison with other projects, partners and agencies supporting the rural
  development and commercial sectors in the project area to ensure
  consistency and complementarity.
• Oversee
  and guide the preparation of project annual work plans and budgets (AWPB)
  and procurement plans.
• Ensure
  timely and appropriate reporting on progress and problems of project
  implementation and submit semi-annual reports to PPC, MoLG, MFPED and
  IFAD.
• Ensure
  gender mainstreaming in the project through the timely development, review
  and implementation of a Gender Action Plan.
• Take
  ultimate responsibility, with the assistance of the community development
  specialist, for ensuring that the project’s poverty, gender and youth
  targeting mechanisms are respected by government and implementing partners
  at all administrative levels
• Ensure
  climate change, resilience and adaption activities are mainstreamed
  through the project activities.
• Undertake
  any other responsibility assigned by MoLG that will ensure smooth and
  effective implementation of the project.

• The
  Project Coordinator should possess Master’s degree in environment or
  natural resources management, or agriculture, or management, or social
  sciences from a recognised University / Institution, with experience in
  rural and/or SME development and in managing a major programme/project or
  institution. Experience and other skills should include:
• Eight
  or more years’ experience, including four years in management of financial
  institutions and/or government/donor-funded programmes and a track record
  as a successful manager and administrator in the Ugandan context.
• Proven
  ability and capacity to take on a leadership position with strong
  managerial skills and capacity to manage people and interact with a wide
  range of private sector partners and public sector representatives, as
  well as managers and implementers of large-scale rural / community / SME
  development projects.
• Strong
  organizational skills and knowledge of strategic planning.
• Excellent
  oral and written communication skills in English.
• Broad
  knowledge and understanding of climate change, capacity building and
  gender issues.

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