Job Title: Program Coordinator
Organisation: Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund (CRVPF)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund (CRVPF) is a child rights and social justice regional intermediary organization based in Uganda with a mission is to provide grants and capacity development support to community organizations operating in four countries in East Africa: Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Kenya. CRVPF supports community institutions that work with children, adolescent girls, boys, and their families, communities, and schools to advance rights and prevent violence, sexual abuse, and sexual exploitation of children. CRVPF uses a cluster partnership model to foster a protective and nurturing environment for healthy child and adolescent’s development. The model encourages 2-5 community organizations and local NGOs to work together in a cluster partnership using one grant to address children’s needs in a particular geographic area where children are at risk.
Job Summary: CRVPF seeks to employ a Program coordinator that will spearhead the rollout of the coordinated programs approach activities. The Program coordinator will report to the executive Director and work hand in hand with the MEL and Program Coordinators.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supporting the design, implementation and monitoring of the program activities in relation to the strategic objectives of the coordinated programs approach.
- Facilitating communication between internal teams, external partners and stakeholders to ensure smooth program operations.
- Coordinate the allocation of resources to support the coordinated program approach activities
- Maintain accurate program documentation including reports presentation and meeting minutes for the coordinated program approach
- Truck the performance of the program by providing regular updates of the program and identifying areas of improvement
- Plan and manage logistics of the program events
- Work collaboratively with external and internal teams to achieve the objectives of the coordinated program approach.
- Support continuous learning and adaptation of new strategies to enable successful implementation of coordinated programs approach.
- Support partners to identify the needs and utilize opportunities in the coordinated programs approach
- Ensure there’s proper linkages and coordination of the programs
- Support partners to ensure that elements of the coordinated program are incorporated in the design and implementation of the programs.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- A master’s degree in project management, Social Work and Social Administration, Development Studies, or any other related field.
- A minimum of ten (10) years experience in Project managements, experiences working in rural and urban communities and refugee settings, ad mostly experiences working with children’s and young people’s projects. Knowledge of VSLA model will be an added advantage.
- The ability to communicate ideas and information effectively to community organisations, donors and collaborative organisation in the region.
- Proven experience and skills in supporting scale up and adaptation of programs
Personal Qualities:
- Innovative, analytical, and solutions oriented
- Demonstrated effective organizing and planning skills.
- Ability to write clear and concise reports and to make effective oral presentations.
- A good understanding of and sensitivity to issues associated with poverty, hunger and the environment, and knowledge of the context in which non-profit organizations operate
- Knowledge of youth workforce development issues, especially in rural communities of the East Africa region
- Good understanding of the different value chains within the agricultural sector
- Excellent organizational skills, including strong attention to detail
- Proven experience in building the capacity of partner institutions to document and disseminate industry information, manage knowledge, measure progress and plan and advocate within the industry
- Proficient knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, presentation tools, electronic mail (Microsoft Office preferred) and Internet
- Demonstrated proficiency in English, both oral and written
- Ability to work in a team
The duration of this position, as with all positions at the CRVPF, is contingent upon continued grant funding. The selected professional will sign an annual contract every year.
How to Apply:
All interested applicants, please send a cover letter and resume to: [email protected]
Please include the title of the position in the email subject
Deadline: 2nd July 2025
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