20 May 2015

Program Director - Food for the Hungry (FH) ~ Ugandan Jobline Jobs



Organisation: Food for the

Hungry (FH)


Duty Station: Kampala,

Uganda


Food for the Hungry (FH/U) is a Christian international relief and

development organization that has been working in Uganda since 1989. FH’s

primary goal is to respond to development needs and complex humanitarian

emergencies. In Uganda, FH is operational in the communities of Pader, Kitgum,

Lamwo, Agago, Kole, Kween, Mbale, and Mukono Districts implementing programs in

four main sectors of Education; Food Security and livelihoods; Health/Nutrition

and Disaster Risk Reduction; with the Head office located it Kampala.


Job Summary: The Program

Director will be responsible for providing strategic leadership and management

of all FH Uganda programs/projects’ activities as well as increasing funding

portfolio through proposal development, networking, and fundraising. Critical

tasks for FH Uganda Programs’ Director will be to strengthen FH Uganda’s

programs design, and implementation to increase alignment and measurement of

the achievement of our Vision, Mission and Values, and Envision 2020 Strategic

Plan. An overall deliverable of this role will be ensuring the quality of all

programs across the country. To accomplish these responsibilities, the Program Director

works closely with the Country Director, all supporting managers, specialists

and officers involved in programs/projects’ implementation for programs’

quality, design and measurement.


Key Duties and

Responsibilities: 

  • Provide strategic leadership and

    management of all FH Uganda programs – 50%

  • Increase funding portfolio (proposal

    development, networking, representation, and fundraising) -30%

  • Human Resource Management and VMV – 20%


Qualifications, Skills and

Experience: 

  • The ideal candidate should hold a Master’s

    degree in Community Development/Project Planning and Management is

    essential. The incumbent must also hold a Bachelor’s degree in one of the

    following; Social Sciences, Education, Development Studies, Organizational

    studies, Community Psychology

  • At least seven years’ experience working

    at a senior management level (Program Manager; Project Advisor etc) with a

    well-respected international NGO in Uganda and East African Region.

  • Christian commitment to serving the poor

    and full agreement with FH Vision and Mission.

  • Excellent English written, verbal and

    presentation communication skills including USAID and European donor

    related technical writing, proposal writing, program reports and resource

    (grants) requests.

  • Excellent program management experience;

    experience managing a multi-cultural program.

  • Significant experience in budget

    development and management for institutional donor resources

  • Working knowledge of monitoring and

    evaluation procedures and processes and ability to read, analyze and

    interpret program and assessment data and reports,

  • Ability to recruit, hire, manage and

    develop staff; strong mentoring capacity essential

  • Computer literacy skills i.e. Proficient

    in MS Office, especially Word, Powerpoint and Excel

  • Ability to multi-task and juggle a wide

    variety of activities and responsibilities.

  • Be a Ugandan citizen with experience

    working in INGOs within multi-sectoral fields


All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply by submitting

only electronic copies of not more than 2MB of an application letter, a

detailed CV, contact telephone numbers, copies of relevant testimonials/certificates,

names/contact details of three referees, addressed to:


The Human Resources Manager, Food for the Hungry Uganda


Email to:

recruitment-fhuganda@fh.org


Deadline: 29th May

2015 by 4:30pm


NB: Please note that only

Short-listed candidates will be contacted. Consider your application

unsuccessful in case you do not hear from FH by 12th of June 2015.




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