Head of Programme Job In Uganda (DanChurchAid) - 2015

Job Title: Head of Programme
Job Category: Management/Administration/NGO
 Posted Date: 23.04.2015
Date of Expiry: 03.05.2015
Organization: DanChurchAid
Reports to: Regional Representative
Job Location: Kampala, Uganda

Job Details

Responsibilities: 

• Build a strong programme team by providing support in the form of coordination, planning, prioritization, coaching and supervision to all programme staff.


• Work closely with the programme team and other colleagues, support organisational development of partner organisations, facilitate training and enhance quality of project design, implementation and management, as well as compliance to back donor requirements.


• Ensure that synergies and lessons learned are shared and used within and across the different objectives of the programme.


• Actively coordinate the development and implementation of the DCA Country Programme in close cooperation with the Regional Representative and the programme officers.


• Provide quality assurance of all programme and project work, including development of project proposals, fundraising and reporting to back donors in accordance with DCA policies and procedures.


• Secure a strong mainstreaming of rights-based approach, accountability and gender equality perspectives within the programme and projects.


• Maintain an overview of DCA partnership portfolio as well as of DCA work with partners on accountability and transparency commitments (HAP/Core Humanitarian Standard).


• Actively contribute to further programmatic / structural integration of the ACT Alliance Uganda Forum.

Qualifications: 

• A good Master’s degree in a field relevant to DCA’s work


• Ten or more years’ experience working with international development programmes.


• Experience with emergency response and/or advocacy is an asset.


• Experience in leading, coaching, coordinating and supervising a team.


• Proven capacity to prioritize tasks, plan and organize team efforts to meet objectives and deadlines.


• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and experience in working with a partner based approach.


• Excellent analytical skills and capacity for strategic planning.


• Experience, both theoretically and in practice, in project cycle management, mainstreaming gender equality, applying rights- based approach and promoting accountability mechanisms.


• Be patient, flexible, pro-active, self-motivated and able to work independently.


• The incumbent should have these management values of being Respectful, Participatory, Strategic and Vision driven, Efficient and Accountable.

To Apply: 

All candidates are strongly encouraged to e-mail their updated CVs and cover letters to the address below. Please clearly mark in subject field or on envelope: “DCA Head of Programme.”

People Performance Group
Plot 8 Kitante Close,Kitante
P.O. Box 12405
Kampala Uganda
E-mail to: application@ppg.co.ug

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