Norwegian Refugee Council ,Programme Development Manager Jobs in Uganda

Closing date: 26 Jul 2015

Programme
Development Manager – Uganda
Norwegian Refugee Council

The Norwegian
Refugee Council (NRC)

is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60
years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for
refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of
displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education,
emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene
sectors.
The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent
employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs
one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals,
ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

The Norwegian
Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60
years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for
refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of
displaced populations and offers assistance within Shelter, Education, Food
security, Legal Assistance, Camp Management Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
sectors.
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has been implementing projects for Internally
Displaced Persons and Refugees in Northern Uganda, West Nile and South Western
respectively, since 1997. Having smoothly phased-out by end of August 2014 in
the North, NRC reopened from September 2014, to compliment efforts of the
Government of Uganda and UNHCR in supporting the South Sudanese Refugees
currently settled in the Districts of Adjumani and Arua in West Nile. With
funding from SIDA, NMFA, ECHO, NRC is implementing integrated projects in
Adjumani/Arua refugee settlements.
The Programme Development Manager (PDM) is responsible for the development and
monitoring of all projects (or core competence) in West Nile. The current
projects include education, livelihoods/food security and WASH.
NRC may be required to verify the identity of its partners/employees and to
check that its partners/employees have not been involved in illegal activities.
NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.

Job
description

  • Develop
    strategies for Education, Livelihoods, WASH and other programmes that may
    come at national level
  • Monitor
    the projects and ensure high technical quality and synergies
  • Prepare/verify
    proposals related to this sector
  • Evaluation,
    review and quality control of ongoing and completed projects
  • Identify
    trends in conditions/standards and donor priorities and assess better ways
    to assist
  • Training
    and development of staff
  • Ensure
    adherence to the CC tools and handbooks and other NRC policies
  • Develop
    partnerships in the humanitarian community and coordinate with authorities
    at regional and ministry level
  • Specific
    tasks are:
  • Responsible
    for providing programme contextual analysis and needs assessment as input
    to Country Strategy and Contingency Plan
  • Accountable
    for development of Proramme strategies and Macro LFAs
  • Accountable
    for ensuring programme M&E according to NRCs standards
  • Lead
    local partners’ assessment, selection and capacity building
  • Responsible
    for development of funding forecasts for country programme and grants
    management calendar, including proposals and reporting to donors
  • Accountable
    for grants opening and closure meetings at country level
  • Accountable
    for development of grants proposals and budgets
  • In-country
    representation of NRC
  • Promote
    the rights of IDPs/refugees in line with the advocacy strategy
  • Line
    management of project coordinators, M&E staff and other senior program
    staff

Qualifications

  • Minimum
    4 years experience from working as a senior Project Manager/Programme
    Manager in a humanitarian/ recovery context
  • Experience
    from working in complex and volatile contexts
  • Cone
    competency expertise
  • Documented
    results related to the position’s responsibilities
  • Knowledge
    about own leadership skills/profile
  • Fluency
    in English, both written and verbal
  • Valid
    driver’s license

Education
field

  • Social
    sciense
  • Agricultural
    / Forestry / Aquaculture
  • Education

Education
level

  • College
    / University, Bachelor’s degree

Personal
qualities

  • Knowledge
    and experience of humanitarian context in East Africa
  • Experience
    in partnership and capacity building
  • Documented
    results in advocacy work for refugees or IDPs
  • Broader
    understanding of more than one programme (in this context livelihoods,
    education and WASH)
  • All
    employees of the Norwegian Refugee Council should be able to adhere to our
    Codes of Conduct and the four organizational values: Dedicated,
    innovative, inclusive and accountable

We
offer

  • Contract
    period: 12 months
  • Salary/benefits:
    According to NRC’s general directions
  • Duty
    Station: Adjumani, West Nile, Uganda

Miscellaneous
info

  • Travel:
    Some travelling must be expected
How to apply:

apply through www.nrc.no, then vacancies

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