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Job Title:   Project Manager, Scholars’ Transition Entrepreneurship Fund (Re-advertised)

Organisation: BRAC Uganda

Duty Station: Nsambya, Kampala, Uganda

About Organisation:

BRAC Uganda has grown to become one of the largest non-governmental development organisations in the country since its launch in Uganda in 2006. It acts as a catalyst, creating a multitude of opportunities for people living in poverty to realise their potential to transform their own lives. BRAC Uganda specialises in taking up an idea, testing it, perfecting it and then scaling it up rapidly in a cost-efficient manner without compromising quality. We implement six programmes in thematic areas of Health, Education, Ultra-Poor Graduation, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents, and Financial Inclusion.

About MasterCard Foundation Project:

BRAC Uganda in partnership with MasterCard Foundation supported over 5,000 young people to complete secondary education. Of these, about 2,575 transitioned to tertiary education. It can be said that over 2500 of the alumni did not transition to tertiary education. Regardless of whether these young people transitioned to tertiary education or not, with the transition rate into the world of work for Ugandan youth standing at 24%. The end line evaluation report for the scholarship program showed that about 24% out of the 5445 scholars were engaged in some professional or semi-professional vocation or enterprise, a significant number of the scholars were not able to transition into the world of dignified employment. The Scholars’ Transition Entrepreneurship Fund is intended to contribute towards more of the Alumni to transition into the world of gainful and dignified employment through entrepreneurship as a pathway.

Job Summary:  The Project Manager, Scholars’ Transition Entrepreneurship Fund will provide leadership, direction and management of the Scholars’ Transition Entrepreneurship Fund project of BRAC Uganda; including the design and implementation of the project ensuring overall project related management functions are timely delivered, The core objective is to provide opportunities for young people through a combination of social and economic empowerment activities to ensure MasterCard Foundation Alumni at BRAC Uganda (MFABU) transition into the world of gainful and dignified employment through entrepreneurship as a pathway.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Strategic and quality planning, development, and management of the project with adherence to the monitoring system.
• Ensure financial viability of the project, strategic partnerships and resource mobilization as well as compliance to the finance and audit guidelines.
• Attract, build and manage highly motivated, competent and result oriented staff and leaders for effective project delivery.
• Quality planning, and management of the Scholars’ Transition Entrepreneurship Fund with adherence to the monitoring system.
• Ensure financial viability of the project, strategic partnerships and resource mobilization as well as compliance to the audit guidelines.
• Boost knowledge management, communication and visibility of the project.
• Attract, build and manage highly motivated, competent and result oriented staff and leaders for effective delivery in the project.

Safeguarding Responsibilities:

• Uphold the BRAC vision, mission, core values and policies including an effective safeguarding policy.
• Establish a safeguarding culture across all levels by implementing BRAC safeguarding policies. Responsible to ensure team members are appropriately trained, supported, and have access to resources regarding issues that are identified and actioned in accordance with the safeguarding policy and procedure.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.

Qualifications Skills and Experience:

• The successful candidate should have a master’s degree in education/ social sciences/ Development/ studies / in a related field.
• A Postgraduate qualification in relevant field such as project planning and Management/ entrepreneurship/ youth development is an added advantage.
• At least five years of work experience in an Education or Youth empowerment related field, 3 of which should be in a similar position in a recognized NGO setting
• Excellent project planning, project design and development, proposal writing skills, as well as monitoring, budgeting
• Ability to create and sustain long term partnerships with other development actors including other international agencies, donors, and government,
• Excellent communication skills (both written and spoken) including report writing and oral presentations.

NB: Persons with disabilities and women are encouraged to apply. The selection process for this position will be conducted on a rolling basis.

How to Apply:

All interested candidates should send their application letters, CV and academic documents as one document by email to bimcf.uganda@brac.net The subject must be the name of the position applied for strictly when submitting. Only complete applications will be accepted, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Deadline: 17^th June 2024

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