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Job Title:   Senior Project Manager  

Organisation: ChildFund International

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Project Director

About US:

For over seventy years, ChildFund International has provided support to deprived, excluded and vulnerable children to have the capacity to improve their lives and opportunities to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities. We promote societies whose individuals and institutions participate in valuing, protecting and advancing the worth and rights of children. Our core commitment is child-centered change that will ensure healthy and secure infants, educated and confident children, and youth who are skilled and engage meaningfully in the affairs and decision-making processes within their communities. ChildFund Uganda is working in over 30 districts to develop the capacities of local community-based organizations to be able to mobilize resources and implement programs that improve the well-being of deprived, excluded and vulnerable children.

Job Summary:  Working together with key government and civil society partners, the Project Manager (PM) will lead the national implementation of a multi-country Early Childhood Development (ECD) project in Eastern Africa and Latin America. The project aims to adapt and replicate a playful parenting initiative originally implemented by ChildFund in Guatemala that used community-based radios to engage with caregivers of infants and young children during the COVID-19 pandemic. ChildFund is now seeking to build upon the Guatemalan experience, adapt content, and replicate the initiative in Brazil, Ethiopia, Honduras, and Uganda with communities still affected by COVID-19.

The PM will work under the supervision of the Project Director, lead in country activities in Uganda, supervise the work of in-country project staff, and closely coordinate with the Country Office support team. The PM will liaise with counterparts in Brazil, Honduras, and Ethiopia, with the technical support from a Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer, and ChildFund regional and global technical advisors.

The position will be based in Uganda, entails community mobilizing, and may include domestic travel to project sites, with possible international travel. This is a 12-month position, with start date set for March 1st, 2022.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Management

• Provide overall project management of the project in-country.
• Oversee all aspects of program performance, both technical and managerial, including overall responsibility in the areas of strategic implementation, operations, administration, logistics, procurement, budgeting, and financial accounting.
• Maintain ongoing communication (weekly basis) with Project Director.
• Maintain close collaboration and strong relationships with government and implementing partner counterparts to ensure quality project deliverables.
• Monitor project activities for results and maintaining ongoing contact with colleagues in the Country Office support team.
• Prepare country project reports with support from project staff and MEL Officer to be submitted to Project Director.
• Ensure that managerial, administrative, and financial procedures comply with ChildFund and donor policies and procedures and that the project is implemented according to ChildFund business principles, policies, and procedures; bring any issues of risk or liability to the immediate attention of the appropriate staff.
• Participate in monthly multicounty check-in calls with counterparts in other countries, Core Global Team to address challenges, share lessons learned and strategy, ensure program’s progress and documentation
• Represent the project team nationally in technical meetings, conferences, and communities of practice.
• Participate in the activities of ChildFund’s regional playful parenting hub.
• Contribute to the documentation and knowledge and lessons learned exchange through ChildFund’s regional playful parenting hub, and the Community of Practice Advisory group.
• Collaborate with and provide requested information to research third party hired by donor.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree is required, Advanced degree in ECE, Education, Social Sciences, or in a closely related field highly preferred.
• Five (5) years or more of progressively responsible work experience implementing multi-sector development programs with demonstrated strong management and coordinating skills in the areas of health, nutrition, education and/or community development.
• Five (5) years or more experience working in Early Childhood Development (ECD), parenting, early learning programming, especially in support of infants and young children, and their caregivers living in marginalized contexts.
• In depth experience supporting ECD programming in Uganda.
• At least five (5) years of management experience, including direct supervision of professional and support staff and assembling teams working on multi-faceted development programs.
• Demonstrated ability to build, develop and foster relationships with government, civil society, and other partners; representing, and networking with donor representatives, multilateral agencies, and institutions focused on child development programming.
• Proven ability to provide technical assistance, guidance and coaching to implementing staff and partners.
• Demonstrated excellent communications and writing abilities and superior interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills.
• Ability to analyze information, evaluate options and to think and plan strategically.
• An in-depth understanding of national and international development issues and best practice, in relation to working with families and communities living in vulnerable situations.
• Fluent in English.

Desired:

• Experience with radio-based, IT-based education/ECD/parenting/education programming
• Experience working with parenting behavior change interventions
• In-country professional experience in one/more of the relevant countries
• Experience with M&E and research plans for virtual/remote interventions.
• Experience managing or supporting multi-country initiatives.
• Fluency in one/more of national and local languages of Uganda

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