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• Under the leadership of the CD, leads
  programme strategy development
• Provide overall strategic and technical
  leadership in the design, development, planning budgeting, and
  implementation and monitoring of the OCS
• The jobholder will initiate, coordinate and
  lead Oxfam’s ONE Program in Uganda ensuring it delivers on the OCS vision
  and objectives and championing the new ways of working embodied in the OCS
• Deputise for the Country Director as required
• Actively participate in the annual budget
  process, leading on the program budget process, and provide ongoing
  oversight of program budgets

• Ensures the delivery of a country program
  with demonstrable impact and is accountable for overall program quality
  and learning
• Working with the PQ & L Coordinator,
  develop, implement and embed, a knowledge management system, that will
  ensure the sharing of knowledge across the program, other country
  programs, and the broader confederation
• Manages the development of program and
  project improvement plans, to ensure effective and timely implementation
  of the projects and program
• Builds strong synergy between development and
  humanitarian programming ensuring that resilient thinking, humanitarian
  planning and as necessary response meet Oxfam standards.
• Ensures that Women’s rights are protected and
  promoted in all of Oxfam’s work in Uganda
• Works closely with the program funding
  manager, indentify opportunities for funding to ensure the financial
  sustainability of country programme of Oxfam in Uganda
• Directs and coordinates external program
  engagement
• Oversee the partner portfolio, with specific
  reference to the identification of both implementing and strategic
  partners, and building and maintaining these relationships

• Manage the program team to deliver on the
  OCS, providing leadership, Inspiration and guidance and ensuring that the
  management of the team is in line with Oxfam’s HR policies and procedures.
  
• The HoP with support from HR, will manage the
  life cycle of individuals within the team from pre-recruitment to exit,
  including performance management processes, and working with HR on issues
  such as disciplinary matters.
• The jobholder is a key member of the CMT,
  support the Country Director steer organisational learning for effective
  delivery taking into account Oxfam’s new ways of working.

• The applicant should hold a Bachelor’s degree
  with at least five to seven five years of related experience
• Broad working knowledge and experience of
  development programs, humanitarian response and advocacy and campaigning.
• Working knowledge of capacity building,
  learning and development activities and how to create a learning and
  sharing environment with a strong knowledge management basis
• Politically astute, with a good understanding
  of key external organisations, how they operate and make decisions, and
  the country development context
• Commitment to and knowledge of creating a
  partner-led operational environment, with an ability to create an internal
  Oxfam approach that is focussed on developing and supporting partner
  organisations to achieve direct impact and results relating to Oxfam’s
  objectives
• Knowledge of, and experience in working with
  donors
• Excellent track record on strong people
  management skills
• Influencing experience and ability to develop
  organisational networks and associations
• Experience managing humanitarian and
  development programs
• Good managerial skills to co-ordinate the
  Uganda program team to deliver on the OCS objectives.
• Proven ability to coach on the building of
  strong, credible relationships with international and local NGOs,
  government associations, business leaders and communities
• Excellent inter personal communication
  skills, in written and verbal English, with high impact influencing and
  persuasive skills. Able to use different approaches to achieve
  followership.
• Ability to adjust to constantly changing
  situations while maintaining focus on delivery and follow-through
• Proven ability to cultivate knowledge based
  relations with different stakeholders going beyond grant based relations
  (strategic partnerships)
• Excellent analytical and conceptual thinking
  skills; able to understand complex issues and translate them into simple,
  workable actions and plans
• Ability to think strategically, work
  creatively, effectively and in an innovative manner
• Show commitment to Oxfam’s overall aims and
  policies and experience of promoting women’s rights and those of
  marginalised people in all aspects of Oxfam’s work in Uganda.

• Humility: We put ‘we’ before ‘me’ and place an
  emphasis on the power of the collective, nurture the team and play to the
  strengths of each individual. We are not concerned with hierarchical
  power, and we engage with, trust and value the knowledge and expertise of
  others across all levels of the organization.
• Decisiveness: We are comfortable to make
  transparent decisions and to adapt decision making modes to the context
  and needs.
• Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity: We
  scan the environment, anticipate changes, are comfortable with lack of
  clarity and deal with a large number of elements interacting in diverse
  and unpredictable ways.
• Systems Thinking: We view problems as parts of an
  overall system and in their relation to the whole system, rather than
  reacting to a specific part, outcome or event in isolation. We focus on
  cyclical rather than linear cause and effect. By consistently practicing
  systems thinking we are aware of and manage well unintended consequences
  of organisational decisions and actions.
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment: We
  use judgment, weighing risk against the imperative to act. We make
  decisions consistent with organizational strategies and values.
• Vision Setting: We have the ability to identify and
  lead visionary initiatives that are beneficial for our organization and we
  set high-level direction through a visioning process that engages the
  organization and diverse external stakeholders.
• Relationship Building: We understand the importance of
  building relationship, within and outside the organization. We have the
  ability to engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in
  ways that lead to increased impact for the organisation.
• Listening: We are good listeners who can see
  where deeper levels of thoughts and tacit assumptions differ. Our messages
  to others are clear, and consider different preferences.
• Mutual Accountability: We can explain our decisions and how
  we have taken them based on our organizational values. We are ready to be
  held to account for what we do and how we behave, as we are also holding
  others to account in a consistent manner.
• Self-Awareness: We are able to develop a high degree
  of self-awareness around our own strengths and weaknesses and our impact
  on others. Our self-awareness enables us to moderate and self-regulate our
  behaviors to control and channel our impulses for good purposes.
• Enabling: We all work to effectively empower
  and enable others to deliver the organizations goals through creating
  conditions of success. We passionately invest in others by developing
  their careers, not only their skills for the job. We provide freedom;
  demonstrate belief and trust provide appropriate support. We give more
  freedom and demonstrate belief and trust, underpinned with appropriate
  support.

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