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Job Title: Project Manager Oil – Uganda
We are looking for an exceptional candidate ready to take up an exciting new role with International Alert in Uganda. Reporting to the Country Manager, the holder of this position will lead Alert’s Harnessing the Potential of Oil to Contribute to Peaceful Development project, and contribute to other areas. The post holder must have a sound knowledge of issues related to natural resource governance and/or peacebuilding; and be able to demonstrate a track record of taking initiative to strategically drive a portfolio of projects efficiently and with maximal impact, ensuring thorough implementation and capturing lessons throughout.

You will have at least 6 years’ experience of implementing research and dialogue programmes for peacebuilding and/or natural resource-focused development organisations/ NGOs in Uganda; project management; field and policy research; and networking and advocacy on political issues; as well as management of partner relationships with CSOs, private sector, peer organisations, government and other agencies. You will also have a clear understanding of conflict issues in Uganda.

You are in addition an excellent communicator and facilitator of multi-stakeholder dialogue processes, highly efficient, with strong inter-personal skills and well-developed political sensitivity; as well as a commitment to the overall aims and objectives of International Alert.
For job details and an application pack, visit www.international-alert.org
Closing date: 27th October 2010, 5pm.
Due to limited resources, only short-listed candidates will be further contacted after the closing date. International Alert is an equal opportunities employer. All applicants will be judged strictly on the basis of merit.

International Alert is an independent peace building organisation that has worked for over 20 years to lay the foundations for lasting peace and security in communities affected by violent conflict. Our multifaceted approach focuses both in and across various regions; aiming to shape policies and practices that affect peace building; and helping build skills and capacity through training.

Our field work is based in Africa, South Asia, the South Caucasus, Latin America, Lebanon and the Philippines. Our thematic projects work at local, regional and international levels, focusing on cross-cutting issues critical to building sustainable peace. These include business and economy, gender, governance, aid, security and justice. We are one of the world’s leading peacebuilding NGOs with more than 120 staff based in London and our 11 field offices. We have been working in Uganda since 2007 primarily with a focus on the political economy of conflict