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Job Title:    ECW Programme Officer

Organization:  Teach A Man To Fish UK

Duty Station:  Yumbe, with frequent travel to
Bidi-Bidi, Rhino Camp, Palabek and Kyangwali camps (40% travel), Uganda

Reports to: ECW
Programme Manager

Salary and benefits: UGX 2,620,000 gross salary per month, medical health insurance for staff
+ 1 dependant

 

About Teach A Man To Fish:

Teach A Man To Fish
is guided by a simple, all-encompassing mission: to empower young people with
the skills they need to succeed, in school, work, and life. We focus on
developing and emerging countries. This is done through supporting schools to
set up educational and profitable school businesses that provide real-life
hands-on training and experience for students. This empowers student
entrepreneurs with critical workplace, entrepreneurship and life skills and
mindsets so that they can leave school with the competencies to get a good job
or run their own successful business.

 

We are a small
organization with big reach – Since 2006, we’ve created over 300,000 student
entrepreneurs and 18,000 enterprising teachers through our global programmes.

In 2020, Teach A Man
To Fish joined the Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Consortium implementing School
Enterprise Challenge for ECW schools. This project aims to introduce Teach A
Man To Fish’s proven educational school-business program into 60 primary schools
in four settlements (Palabek, Bidi Bidi, Kyangwali and Rhino Camp) over the
project enriching both teacher and learner skills- building. The project will
further introduce a learner-centred approach for building children’s
entrepreneurship and life skills in school where learners plan, set up and run
a real school business. The Project also aims to strengthen preparedness to
transitional pathways in post-primary education opportunities through enhanced
developmental assets.

 

In 2021, Teach A Man
To Fish aims to set up an additional 30 business clubs in Rhino and Bidi Bidi
settlements for 450 youth (11-18 years) who are out-of-school in 2021 (70%
female; 30% male, 5% young people living with disabilities (PWDs), 15 total per
group). Girls and young women who have dropped out of education recently,
teenage mothers and child heads of households in particular will be targeted.

 

Job Summary:  The overall objective of this position is to
provide field based technical leadership, management and oversight for the
Education Can’t Wait project activities including the School Enterprise
Challenge Awards program in Year 3 schools and the out of school youth
livelihood component. The ECW Program Officer leads a diverse team of Field
Officers and Monitors and builds their capacity to ensure quality delivery of
the ECW project.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

Programs 80%       

·       
Effectively
execute the ECW project field activities according to the agreed project plan,
budget and log frame whilst ensuring that regular quality assurance is conducted
at the selected beneficiary schools

·       
Coordinate
with field team to ensure all trackers completed accurately and according to
the agreed schedule. Review for quality and flag trackers regularly to the ECW
Program Manager.

·       
Manage,
coach and empower 3 Field Officers and 3 Monitors based in the target refugee
settlements.

·       
Capacity
build team and manage their performance.

·       
Establish
a communication schedule to update stakeholders including appropriate staff in
the organization, implementation partners and/stakeholders and relevant working
groups on the progress of the ECW project

·       
Review
the quality of the work completed with the ECW Field Officers and Monitors on a
regular basis to ensure that it meets the agreed standards.

·       
Support
the MEAL Manager to plan, ensure project learnings documented and disseminated,
ensure that project design improved in relation to learnings.

·       
Child
Protection and Safeguarding field Lead for the project, liaise with country
safeguarding focal point and ECW safeguarding focal point, ensure highest
levels of safeguarding and Child protection at schools, partners and within our
team, report any issues as per TAMTF guidelines

·       
Regular
travel to the field for monitoring and quality assurance of the ECW project

·       
Lead
team to deliver all project activities, including sensitizations, training,
monitoring, awards events.

·       
Input to
narrative and financial reporting

Finance &
Administration: 10%

·       
Support
PM to manage budget and deliver activities within budget limits

·       
Ensure
weekly financial requests and reconciliations from field staff submitted on
time with 100% accuracy

Monitoring and
Evaluation: 10%

·       
Support
M&E Manager to deliver baseline and summative evaluations on time, to
budget and to quality standard

·       
Build
capacity of field officers to deliver monitoring and evaluation activities

·       
Coordinate
delivery of inspirational stories on time and to quality standard

 

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Essential

·       
The
applicant for the Teach A Man To Fish UK ECW Programme Officer job placement
must hold a Bachelors in Education, Development Studies, Community Development,
Social Sciences, Business Administration, Business or related field.

·       
Experience
of education or child protection programs in a humanitarian context.

·       
Conversant
with both refugee settlement structures and hosting district local government
systems and other implementing agencies.

·       
At least
2-3 years’ experience in either an NGO, social enterprise or corporate setting,
with progressive levels of management responsibility.

·       
Line
management experience of 2+ reports

·       
Highly
motivated, organised and able to manage competing priorities on a tight
timeline

·       
Excellent
problem-solving skills

·       
Excellent
communication and negotiation skills

·       
Sound
financial management and budgeting skills

·       
Experience
of narrative and financial reporting

·       
No
criminal record (to be evidenced by a letter of good conduct from Interpol)

 

Desirable:

·       
Previous
experience of gender mainstreaming gender equality and inclusion in development
programming

·       
Previous
experience of running or implementing out of school youth livelihood projects.

·       
Fluency
in a local language commonly used in target settlements like Arabic, Kakwa,
Aringa, Lugbara, Swahili, Luo or Runyakitara.

·       
Certificate
in programme management, monitoring and evaluation or similar

 

NB: This position is
contingent upon confirmation of ECW funding for year 3 (2021). We anticipate a
large number of applications and as such only candidates who have met the
required experience & qualifications for this position will be contacted.

 

How to Apply:

To apply, please
submit a maximum of 4 paged CV and one-page cover letter (combined into a
single PDF document). Please be sure to clearly show in your cover letter why
you are interested in this job and what makes you the most suitable candidate. Please
also include your salary history. Completed applications should be sent to
ugandajobs@teachamantofish.org.uk with “Application: ECW Programme
Officer” in the title of the email

 

Deadline: Wednesday 30th December 2020

 

NB: Do not attach academic
documents at this point. Qualified female candidates and persons with
disabilities are particularly encouraged to apply.

 

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