Job Title: Downstream Partner Manager, Next Creata
Organisation: Next Media
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
Next Media is focused on being the leading electronic group in East Africa while creating value by leveraging on accurate data reliable, new technology, understanding consumer behaviour and staying competitive. It includes these brands; NBS TV, Nile Post News, Salam TV Uganda, Sanyuka TV and Cayman Consults.
Background
The Next Creata Program is Next-Creata’s flagship intervention under the Uganda Creatives Program, implemented in partnership with Bayimba Foundation, ITC, and Mastercard Foundation. The program seeks to enhance skills, employability, and financial inclusion for 40,000 young women across Uganda’s creative economy through media production training, digital upskilling, market linkage, and entrepreneurial pathways.
Job Summary: The Downstream Partner Manager is responsible for selecting, onboarding, supporting, monitoring, and performance-managing all downstream training and implementation partners under the Uganda Creatives Program.
This role ensures that training hubs across regions deliver to required standards, uphold participant safety, comply with reporting and documentation requirements, and support young women to learn and transition into dignified creative work.
The role is field-centered, relationship-driven, quality-assurance focused, and is a critical link between the Anchor (Next-Creata) and local implementing partners.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Partner Selection & Contracting
- Lead the Call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) and partner scoring process.
- Conduct site assessments for physical readiness, equipment availability, trainer suitability, and community access.
- Support the Program Lead and Finance Manager in contracting and onboarding selected partners.
Partner Onboarding & Capacity Strengthening
- Orient downstream partners to:
- Curriculum delivery expectations
- Reporting templates
- Safeguarding & inclusion standards
- Financial and procurement rules (where relevant)
- Facilitate training-of-trainers workshops in collaboration with the Curriculum & Training Manager.
Performance Oversight & Quality Assurance
- Conduct monthly partner performance reviews (online & in-person).
- Monitor:
- Training attendance & completion
- Trainer performance and teaching quality
- Portfolio project output quality
- Facilities and equipment functionality
- Participant safety and inclusion conditions
- Coordinate corrective support plans where needed.
Relationship & Field Coordination
- Maintain regular communication rhythms with partner hub coordinators.
- Facilitate problem-solving discussions to keep delivery smooth.
- Build a collaborative culture between partner hubs for learning exchange.
Safeguarding & Participant Protection
- Work closely with the Safeguarding & Inclusion Officer to:
- Audit learning environments
- Ensure reporting mechanisms are visible and active
- Immediately escalate any safeguarding concerns
- Ensure zero tolerance for harassment, discrimination, or unsafe practice in training spaces.
Documentation, Reporting & Compliance
- Ensure partners submit all required:
- Enrollment & attendance data
- Training delivery reports
- Production project outputs
- Placement and progression data
- Safeguarding incident logs (if any)
- Submit consolidated monthly partner performance summaries to:
- Program Lead
- MEL Manager
- Finance & Grants Manager (where partner stipends are performance-based)
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Minimum 5 years experience in any of the following:
- Program coordination or field implementation management
- Creative industry education/programs
- NGO or hub network coordination
- Community development and training support roles
- Experience working with creative hubs, media houses, youth networks, incubators, or cultural organizations is a strong advantage.
- Fluency in English and Luganda required; additional local languages are an asset.
- Willingness to travel regularly.
Technical Competencies
- Experience managing field-based program delivery and multi-site partners/hubs.
- Understanding of media production environments and creative workforce dynamics.
- Familiarity with adult learning, youth skilling, or community training contexts.
- Strong documentation, reporting, and organizational systems skills.
Behavioral Competencies
- Strong relationship builder and collaborative facilitator.
- Comfortable traveling frequently and spending time in community-based settings.
- Able to coach struggling partners without damaging trust.
- Confident yet diplomatic, firm yet supportive.
How to Apply:
All candidates should send their applications with updated CVs via Email to: [email protected]
Deadline: 17th November 2025
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60