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Project Manager – Education Job Opportunity – Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Job Title: Project Manager – Education
Organisation: Norwegian
Refugee Council (NRC)
Refugee Council (NRC)
Duty Station: Uganda
About Us:
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian
organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more
dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for
the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter,
education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water, sanitation and
hygiene sectors.
organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more
dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for
the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter,
education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water, sanitation and
hygiene sectors.
Job Summary: The Project
Manager is responsible for the overall management of NRC’s Education Core
Competency projects in Uganda.
Manager is responsible for the overall management of NRC’s Education Core
Competency projects in Uganda.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities: The Project
Manager shall have the following responsibilities:
Responsibilities: The Project
Manager shall have the following responsibilities:
- Line management of project staff,
including performance management. - Ensure adherence to NRC policies, guidance
and procedures. - Actively contribute to the development of
Country, Area and CC Strategies; initiate and participate in the
development of relevant CC projects. - Coordinate and manage CC project
implementation (activities, budget and project documentation) in line with
proposals, strategies and donor requirements. - Provide technical direction and ensure
high technical quality of projects. - Send regular progress reports to the Area
Manager and the Education CC Specialist. - Ensure that projects target beneficiaries
most in need of protection, exploring and assessing new and better ways to
assist. - Develop and manage project budgets (in
cooperation with others) and coordinate across CCs. - Ensure capacity building of project staff
and transfer of key skills. - Liaise and collaborate with relevant local
authorities and other key stakeholders. - Actively promote the rights of
IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy. - Manage NRC education activities in West
Nile; ensuring quality standards; conducting field visits and ensuring
that project implementation is in compliance with the donors’ agreed
requirements, community expectations, global standards, and NRC,
government and UNHCR policies; and managing assessments and evaluations. - Establish a competency-based teacher
training programme, defining training content through needs-based
assessment of teachers, coordinating with partners, and delivering and
monitoring training. - Develop the accelerated education
programme in accordance with the Accelerated Education Working Group’s
Principles; in particular, advocating for its inclusion in district
education authority plans; supporting research into its effectiveness and
efficiency; - Work closely with the Livelihoods and Food
Security team to provide flexible and appropriate youth programming, with
a particular focus on market-based, innovative interventions; identifying
relevant courses; establishing youth skills centres. - Ensure the meaningful participation of the
community, including children and youth, in project designed and
implementation, and explore and implement new and better ways to assist
the most vulnerable, especially girls and young women and children and
youth with disabilities or special learning needs and others
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
Experience:
- The applicant for the Norwegian Refugee
Council (NRC) Project Manager – Education job opportunity should hold a
relevant Bachelor’s degree - At least three years of experience in a
senior-level project implementation position in a humanitarian/recovery
context. - Previous experience working in complex and
volatile contexts. - Technical education expertise.
- Documented results related to the
position’s responsibilities. - Knowledge about own leadership
skills/profile. - Fluency in English, both written and
verbal. - Hold a clean and valid driver’s license.
- Managing resources to optimise results.
- Managing performance and development.
- Empowering and building trust.
How to Apply:
All interested and qualified Ugandan candidates who wish to join one of
the world’s leading relief organisations, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
should apply by visiting the web link below.
the world’s leading relief organisations, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
should apply by visiting the web link below.
Deadline: 17th December
2017
2017
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