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Job Title:        Program Manager – Natural
Resource Governance

Organisation: CARE
International

Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda

Reports to: Audit Manager

About US:

CARE International is
a global leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. We are
known everywhere for our unshakeable commitment to the dignity of people. CARE
works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social
justice. We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty
has been overcome and all people live with dignity and security.

We put women and
girls in the centre because we know that we cannot overcome poverty until all
people have equal rights and opportunities. CARE has been working in Uganda for
50 years and in 2019/2020, we improved the lives of 2.6 million people (60%
women). Our goal for the next five years is to reach ten million people,
through our gender transformative, resilience building, and lifesaving programs

About WENG Program:

CARE’s Women
Empowerment in Natural Resource Governance (WENG) program is one of the most
established programs at CARE Uganda, with over 20 years of progressive
programing aimed at empowering women and girls in natural resource governance. The
program is well known for its ground breaking work in community forest and
wetlands management across different districts and at national level working
with Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE), National Forestry Authority
(NFA), National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and the Parliament of
Uganda to influence policies and practices.

Job Summary: The
Program Manager is responsible for providing strategic direction for the
program, providing technical leadership in defining the program strategies,
approaches and models, providing management oversight of program delivery,
ensuring program quality and learning, engaging in strategic networks,
maintaining strategic relationships, generating evidence and influencing
policies and practice. S/he is responsible for ensuring robust program strategy
and delivery models, program funding is secured, stable and sustainable,
program delivers high quality results with good value for money, program
empowers women and girls and program evidence is generated and used for
influencing policies and practices at the highest level.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·       
The
applicant must hold a Masters in Natural Resources, Environment, Climate
Change, Climate SMART Agriculture or Renewable Energy from reputable
university.

·       
Applicants
with Bachelor degree in similar field, plus 15 years of relevant experience
will be considered.

·       
 10-15 years of relevant experience with
reputable international organisations or private sector managing similar
programs with similar complexity.

·       
Experience
in gender transformative approaches, including specific experience in working
with and empowering women and girls and amplifying their voice.

·       
Experience
in developing program strategies, approaches and models.

·       
Experience
in program design, proposal writing, resource mobilisation.

·       
Experience
in managing a diverse and complex team of professionals.

·       
Experience
in networking and strategic relationships management.

·       
High
conceptual abilities, strategic thinking and analytical writing skills.

·       
Good
presentation, public speaking, discussion and negotiations skills.

·       
Good
research, evidence-generation, policy debate and advocacy skills.

Desired:

·       
Professional
training and experience in project management, Monitoring and Evaluation.

·       
Professional
training in budget management, people management and communications.

·       
Professional
training in research, analytical writing, advocacy and policy influencing.

·       
Professional
experience in working with young people, displaced & refugee communities.

·       
Professional
experience in economic empowerment models including financial inclusion

How to Apply:

All interested and
suitably qualified candidates should submit their applications and CVs
including the names, daytime telephone contacts and email addresses of three
work related referees to ugarecruitment@care.org. Please indicate job title in
your email subject line.

Deadline: 27^th April 2020

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