Job Title: Principal Officer, Lead Agency Coordination
Organization: National
Environment Management Authority (NEMA)
Environment Management Authority (NEMA)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Uganda
Reports to: Director Policy
Planning and Information
Planning and Information
Job Ref:
NEMA/ADV/EXT/29/2017
NEMA/ADV/EXT/29/2017
About US:
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) was established
under the National Environment Act Cap. 153 to promote and ensure sound
environmental management practices for sustainable development in Uganda.
under the National Environment Act Cap. 153 to promote and ensure sound
environmental management practices for sustainable development in Uganda.
Job Summary: The Principal
Officer, Lead Agency Coordination will manage the Authority’s functional
relations with Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), Civil Society
Organizations (CSOs), private sector and support resource mobilization.
Officer, Lead Agency Coordination will manage the Authority’s functional
relations with Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), Civil Society
Organizations (CSOs), private sector and support resource mobilization.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with lead agencies in regard
to their environment management function; - Establish and operationalize standard
operating procedures (SOPs) in regard to environment function; - Regularly monitor implementation of lead
agency partnership undertakings and work plans. - Strengthen the capacity of lead agencies
to undertake and report on the agreed activities - Coordinate with the relevant departments
in NEMA in the functioning of the lead agencies; - Coordinate the review of Budget Framework
papers of lead agencies to ensure integration of environment and
sustainability issues; - Develop, review and implement the lead
agency coordination strategy; - Publicize the work outputs of lead
agencies in the NEMA website, newsletter and other platforms; - Take part in the development of
fundraising strategy, proposals and programmes for resource mobilization;
and - Perform any other duties as may be
assigned.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the NEMA Principal
Officer, Lead Agency Coordination job opportunity should hold a Bachelor’s degree in any of the
following; Economics, Business Administration, Social Sciences. - Possession
of a Master’s degree in any of the above - A minimum of 8 (eight) years’ work
experience in management of environmental related programmes; four years
should have been at a senior level. - Supervisory Skills;
- Strategic planning skills;
- Good team building skills;
- Computer literacy skills
- Excellent Interpersonal, communication and
reporting skills;
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their hand
written applications together with copies of certificates/ testimonials and
detailed curriculum vitae indicating three professional referees addressed to:-
written applications together with copies of certificates/ testimonials and
detailed curriculum vitae indicating three professional referees addressed to:-
The Executive Director,
National Environment Management Authority (NEMA),
NEMA House, Plot 17/19/21 Jinja Road,
P.O. Box 22255, Kampala. Uganda
Deadline: 18th
September 2017
September 2017
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