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Job Title: Gender Programme Manager.
Location: Kampala
National Contract: Open Ended
Duties and responsibilities:
- You will be the Principle Champion within Oxfam
- Leading and supporting Managers and their teams to develop and implement our Gender Mainstreaming Strategy.
- Lead a team of 2-4 Programme Officers and work with a range of partners and allies to promote the realization of women’s rights and an end to violence against women.
- Provide strategic leadership to these interventions, encouraging improving program quality and relevance to the changing needs and priorities of women.
- Manage the budgets and finances of the projects, develop funding proposals and prepare Oxfam and donor reports.
Qualifications and experience:
- A post graduate qualification in the relevant field with substantial management skills.
- At least 3 years experience in similar position.
- Well developed strategic and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication.
- Excellent people management skills and experience and proven experience working with and managing partner organizations,
- Experience working with budgets, ability to analyze financial information and demonstrable competence in fundraising and donor reporting.
- Personal commitment to gender equality and experience in gender work and/or violence against women.
- Able to travel frequently to remote areas and spend periods of time outside the base office of Kampala.
Job Title: Programme Livelihoods Officer
National Contract: Open Ended
Location: Kotido
Duties and responsibilities:
- Play a key role in providing technical and programmatic leadership for the livelihoods work for our programme in Karamoja.
- Bring wide knowledge and experience of gender-sensitive livelihoods programming from private sector engagement and value chain development to food security.
- Manage a team of 3-5 Project Officers and oversee the work of partner organizations in implementing livelihoods work.
- Contribute to the development of project plans and funding proposals.
- Develop relationships with a range of external actors in local government, the private sector and civil society in order to facilitate the development of economic opportunities and increased incomes for poor men and women.
- Will be a member of Karamoja Programme Senior Management and will participate in the Programme’s operational and long term planning.
Qualifications and experience:
- A minimum first degree in a relevant field with significant and proven experience in designing and coordinating gender-sensitive livelihoods interventions.
- A wide knowledge of livelihoods programming from market analysis and value chain development to food security interventions.
- Experience of working with pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in arid and semi-arid lands.
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills.
- Experience in managing partner relationships and an interest in capacity building of partners.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Well organized with capacity to achieve results and a team player.
- Ability to work in a harsh and remote environment.
Job Title: Project Officer Livelihoods
National Contract: Fixed term- 2 years
Location: Kotido
Duties and responsibilities:
- Build the capacity of Pastoral and Agro-pastoral communities and mobilize them to able to manage and sustain planned livelihoods initiatives.
- Plan implement and monitor selected livelihoods micro-project activities among marginalized pastoral communities.
- Lead on the management of assigned Oxfam partners, carry out regular monitoring visits and report on implementation of projects against plans, as per the OGB Partnership Policy.
- Expected to contribute directly to the delivery of high quality services to beneficiaries and to the organizational and institutional development of partner organizations so that they become increasingly sustainable and independent.
Qualifications and experience:
- A University Degree in the relevant field, with a bias to development or agro-economics, and demonstrable experience in implementing agro-pastoral livelihoods intervention.
- Good working knowledge and experience of working with partners
- Excellent understanding of the concepts and practices of participatory development approaches, organizational development and demonstrable community development skills.
- Ability to work well with government officials, partners, CBOs and other organizations in pastoral locations.
- Excellent training and facilitation experience and a thorough understanding of gender issues and gender mainstreaming.
- Ability to and willingness to work in a harsh and remote environment.
Job Title: Programme Quality Officer
National Contract: Open Ended
Location: Kotido
Duties and responsibilities:
- Leading and supporting the continuing development and implementation of effective monitoring, evaluation, learning and accountability systems within the Karamoja Programme using effective information and learning systems.
- Support quality delivery of the Programme as per Oxfam agreed standards.
- Developing and implementing a long-term partnership strategy for the Karamoja Programme and implementing implementation of Oxfam’s operational policies, procedures in all aspects of Oxfam’s work among other things.
- You will be a member of Karamoja Programme Senior Management and will participate in the Programme’s operational and long-term planning.
Qualifications and experience:
- A University Degree in the relevant field, with at least 3 years work experience in a similar role preferably in an NGO.
- Extensive experience of working with partner organizations, proven capacity building skills, and demonstrable understanding of current monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning practices.
- Strong conceptual and analytical skills for planning, monitoring, impact assessment & learning.
- Proven ability to lead and work effectively with others to achieve results, and strong people leadership/management abilities.
- Adaptable and flexible, able to demonstrate cultural and gender sensitivity.
- An excellent communicator and a team player.
- Ability and willingness to work in a harsh and remote environment.
Deadline: 15th February, 2011
Job Title: Partner Finance Officer
National Contract: Fixed term- 2 years
Location: Kotido
Duties and responsibilities:
- Ensure that the Karamoja Programme provides quality accounting and financial control support to her partners for efficient management of all the grants that they receive.
- Build financial management capacity of partners and programme staff.
- Contribute to effective project expenditure monitoring,, handle queries on financial matters from partners and the programme staff.
- Carry out day-to-day finance and accounting transactions pertaining to management of partner grants and undertake quality control checks among other duties.
Qualifications and experience:
- A University Degree in a finance related field or an equivalent qualifications with at least 3 years experience in a similar role, preferably with an NGO.
- Ability to analyze accounting possesses and identify practices and procedures that require correction or modification.
- Ability to formulate recommendations to improve accounting systems.
- Ability to detect the financial strengths and weaknesses of project partners and the ability to make independent judgment on institutional capabilities and the adequacy of accounting systems and controls.
- Excellent capacity building and communication skills as well as good interpersonal skills.
- Adaptable and flexible and able to demonstrate cultural and gender sensitivity.
- Ability and willingness to work in a harsh and remote environment.
- A good audit background will be an advantage.
Job Title: Programme Logistics Officer
National Contract: Open Ended
Location: Kotido
Duties and responsibilities:
- Working with Logistic Team in the Karamoja Programme and reporting to the Business Services Manager.
- Responsible for the management of all logistics and procurement activities for the Programme.
- Manage a team of 2 logistics staff and 4 drivers.
- Provide technical guidance and leadership in the management of fleet, assets and stores/warehousing.
Qualifications and experience:
- A University Degree in the relevant field or an equivalent qualification, with a professional qualification in Procurement and Logistics, and at least 3 years experience in a similar role.
- Proven management experience and people management skills will be essential as well as the ability to work effectively with teams in a culturally diverse organization.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrable capacity building skills, proven ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines with minimum supervision.
- Your integrity must be beyond question and you should be exemplary in demonstrating transparency and accountability in all areas of logistics.
- Have the ability and willingness to work in a harsh and remote environment.
Application procedure:
Submit your application and CV in English detailing your experience for the post and include the daytime telephone contacts to;
kampalajobs@oxfam.org.uk
The subject of your email should be the title of the job you are applying for.
Please don’t send your academic credentials with your application, only CVs.
Deadline: 15th February, 2011
Job Title: Risk Reduction/Climate Change Adaptation Officer
National Contract: Open Ended
Location: Kampala
Duties and responsibilities:
- Helping the team in its capacity building efforts for field staff, partners’ staff from civil society organizations and Government in critical aspects of disaster risk reduction, disaster preparedness, and climate change adaptation.
- Participate in advocacy and campaigning initiatives that are strongly based on the field activities and the obstacles faced by the population most vulnerable to climate change and the most exposed to the entire array of hazards.
- Support the research on adaptation options and recommendations.
- Support Oxfam’s active participation and contribution to national level coordination fora and the strategic coalitions it is working in.
- Contribute to the humanitarian capacity building of the Oxfam Emergency Response Team through training, frequent bulletins, case studies etc.
- Analyze and collate information to monitor the humanitarian situations and you will assist in emergency response interventions when they occur.
Qualifications and experience:
- A University Degree in the relevant area.
- At least 3 years experience of humanitarian and disaster risk reduction work and knowledge of climate change issues and adaptation concepts.
- Experience of project cycle management, knowledge of the principles and approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction/Climate Change Adaptation and Emergency Response, hazard, capacity and vulnerability assessments and contingency planning.
- Proven ability to work creatively, innovatively and effectively with limited direct supervision.
- Excellent financial management and numerical skills
- Good interpersonal skills, experience of relating to and influencing, government, donors and other organizations.
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
- Willingness to extensive travel within and out of the country and at short notice and often in difficult circumstances.
Application procedure:
Submit your application and CV in English detailing your experience for the post and include the daytime telephone contacts to;
kampalajobs@oxfam.org.uk
The subject of your email should be the title of the job you are applying for.
Please don’t send your academic credentials with your application, only CVs.
Deadline: 15th February, 2011
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