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Job Title ⇒ Program Manager - Emergency
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Organization ⇒ CARE Uganda
Duty Station ⇒ Kampala, Uganda
Reports to ⇒ Program Director

About US ⇒
Since 2017, CARE Uganda’s Emergency Program has steadily grown and evolved.
While the program’s primary focus is lifesaving protection Gender, GBV, SRH,
the program is steadily evolving with strong focus on preparedness, nexus and
urban programming; still providing lifesaving protection services, but also
concurrently working with district local governments like Kikuube to
strengthen Disaster Preparedness, and urban programming in emerging cities
like Gulu and Arua to address the unique protection and economic security
needs of urban women and girls, especially refugees, and vulnerable women,
girls and youth. CARE Uganda’s emergency program will continue to
intentionally focus on localisation Charter for Change with a firm
humanitarian-development nexus orientation.
Job Summary ⇒ The Program Manager PM provides team leadership to the
emergency team. The PM is responsible for defining the strategic direction for
the emergency program, securing funding for the program, as well as providing
program quality and learning PQL oversight. The PM will ensure that CARE’s
emergency program strategy is robust, external-facing and that program models
protect and empower women and girls and provide good value for money.
The Program Manager will consolidate the good work already done in emergency
programming, and to steer the program through an exciting transition. He/she
should have solid experience in disaster preparedness and emergency response,
good knowledge in urban programming, good understanding of humanitarian-
development nexus, and with technical grounding in protection either of
Gender, GBV & SRH. She/he should have exposure to the grand bargain work
stream for humanitarian programming and Charter4Change Localization of
Humanitarian Aid processes in Uganda is an added advantage. The PM Emergency
is part of CARE Uganda’s Senior Management Team
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Program STRATEGY & Business DEVELOPMENT
⇗ The Program Manager PM is responsible for developing the program strategy
including emergency preparedness plan, program focus, approaches and models.
⇗ The PM is responsible for developing position papers and profiling the
program to potential donors and partners, establishing strategic relationships
and networks and gathering intelligence on upcoming funding opportunities,
establishing winning consortia, developing competitive proposals and securing
viable funding for the program $3M/year. This will require the PM to deliver
high quality results from current programs, establish good relationships with
current and potential donors and be first to know about upcoming funding
opportunities.
⇗ The PM should be able to influence funding priorities of donors by pro-
actively sharing emerging innovations and stories from ongoing programs with
current and potential donors.
⇗ The PM should constantly review the program strategy, approaches and models
to ensure the program is protecting and empowering women and girls and aligned
with government priorities, regional and global development landscape
including global goals and CARE International vision 2030.
Program MANAGEMENT Oversight
⇗ The PM is responsible for ensuring timely delivery of planned deliverables
across all projects as per approved project proposals, budgets and grant
agreements IPIAs. This will require the PM to ensure all Initiative Managers
secure the required staffing, partners, consultants, volunteers, equipment and
other resources on time. This will require PM to provide effective oversight
for planning, implementation and regular reviews of all project activity work
plans and budgets, providing timely remedial actions.
⇗ It will require the PM to ensure proper management of sub-granting process
and supervision of implementing partners as per CARE’s award and sub-award
policy.
⇗ It will require the PM to ensure effective budget management oversight
including effective budget planning and monitoring of budget utilisation for
all projects to ensure a culture of zero tolerance to overspends and
underspends and ultimately, No-Cost Extensions NCEs.
⇗ It will require the PM to ensure effective program risk management across
all projects, where risks are clearly defined and managed by IMs using
appropriate risk management system and tools.
Program QUALITY and LEARNING
⇗ The PM is responsible for program quality, accountability and learning
across all projects, ensuring all projects deliver high quality results
empowering women and girls. This will require PM to embrace and embed CARE
quality markers gender, resilience, governance across the cycle of all
projects, regularly monitoring and reporting progress of all projects using
the established MEAL system including quarterly program dashboards and global
PIIRS reporting system.
⇗ It will require the PM to maintain a solid PQL field footprint and
consistent field presence across all locations where the program is
implemented across the country.
⇗ It will require the PM to establish and implement effective reporting
mechanisms which allow all projects to report progressively and account for
their resources to donors, government of Uganda, beneficiaries and CARE this
will include individual monthly reports from IMs and PMs as well as quarterly
project reports.
⇗ The PM will ensure the quality, transparency, timeliness and consistency of
these reports and the reporting mechanism.
⇗ The PM will ensure quality engagement of all projects at all PQL platforms
including monthly Program Review Meetings PRMs and quarterly PQL workshops.
⇗ It will require the PM to define the research, evaluation and learning
agenda and partnerships for all projects and ensure that the research is
robust, evaluations are rigorous and learning is continuous across the
program.
⇗ It will require the PM to effectively manage a growing body of knowledge
and credible evidence generated through research, evaluation and learning, and
to use the knowledge and evidence to inform the design of new projects, inform
strategic debate/discourse and influence development policy, practice and
programs.
⇗ It will require the PM to ensure robust communications and visibility
across different platforms like CARE shares, media and social media using high
quality content from program results, knowledge and evidence.
External ENGAGEMENT and INFLUENCE
⇗ The PM is responsible for external engagement, representation and
influencing systemic change at the highest level using different platforms,
networks and coalitions. This will require the PM to regularly represent the
program within CARE global networks and across different external platforms
including Technical Working Groups and INGO coordination mechanisms and
especially with Women’s Organisations and networks at national and
international level.
⇗ It will require the PM to regularly engage with and maintain strategic
relationships with current and potential donors, relevant GOU line ministries,
INGO and local NGOs implementing similar programs.
⇗ It will require the PM to regularly engage with and maintain strategic
relationships with research, evaluation and learning partners.
⇗ It will require the PM to engage and maintain influential relationships
with advocacy coalitions, social media platforms and mainstream media.
⇗ It will require the PM to bring credible knowledge and evidence from the
program to inform strategic discourse, policy debate and advocacy initiatives
positioning CARE as evidence-based and data-driven actor within the sector.
⇗ It will require the PM to produce think pieces, research papers and
publications to inform and influence strategic and technical debates/discourse
within the sector and especially on how the Emergency program is contributing
to gender transformation and empowerment of girls and women. This will require
the PM to establish a structure for external engagement and mechanism for
reporting back to ensure feedback is shared and applied across CARE.
Team LEADERSHIP and People MANAGEMENT
⇗ The PM is responsible to hiring, training and retaining a gender-balanced,
competent and motivated team of professional staff, consultants and volunteers
by establishing a collaborative team culture, high team performance standards
and transparent team performance management practice using appropriate
combination of reward, recognition and reprimand.
⇗ As CARE ambassador, the PM is required to ensure gender equity and
diversity within the team and nurture CARE’s core values and code of conduct.
⇗ The PM will promote continuous learning and professional development of the
team through on-job learning, relevant exposures and appropriate stretch
assignments.
⇗ The PM will ensure transparent and visible work flow across the team
through Microsoft TEAMs platform, Outlook Calendar etc.
⇗ The PM will ensure that annual performance goals and regular evaluations
are concluded in time.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience
⇗ The ideal applicant must hold a Master’s degree in relevant field of study
from reputable institution
⇗ At least 10 years of relevant field experience with reputable international
organisations managing similar programs with similar complexity and context.
⇗ Experience in disaster preparedness and emergency response with technical
grounding in protection programming Gender, GBV and SRH.
⇗ Good understanding/knowledge of NEXUS & URBAN programming and in similar
context
⇗ Exposure to the Grand Bargain Work stream for Humanitarian Programming.
⇗ Experience in Charter4Change Localization of Humanitarian Aid processes
in Uganda
⇗ Experience in gender transformative approaches, including specific
experience in working with and empowering women and girls in emergency or
conflict or disaster settings.
⇗ Experience in developing emergency program strategies, approaches and
models.
⇗ Experience in emergency program design, proposal writing, resource
mobilisation.
⇗ Experience in managing a diverse and complex team of emergency
professionals.
⇗ Experience in networking and strategic relationships management in
emergency setting.
⇗ Conceptual abilities, strategic thinking and analytical writing skills.
⇗ Good communication, presentation, public speaking, discussion and
negotiation skills.
⇗ Good research, evidence-generation, policy debate and advocacy skills.
⇗ Organizing skills and capacity to multi-task in rapidly changing & fast-
paced environments;
⇗ Knowledge of and demonstrated personal commitment to relevant
organizational codes of conduct for emergencies, including anti-fraud and
anti-corruption, safeguarding etc
⇗ Leadership and interpersonal skills and proven experience influencing
others without necessarily directly managing them;
Desired
⇗ Professional training and experience in project management, Monitoring and
Evaluation.
⇗ Professional training in budget management, people management and
communications.
⇗ Professional training in research, analytical writing, advocacy and policy
influencing.
⇗ Professional experience in working with young people, displaced & refugee
communities.
⇗ Professional experience in economic empowerment models including financial
inclusion.
⇗ Professional training and experience in gender equality women and girls’
empowerment
How to Apply
Candidates who are interested in the above job should submit an updated CV and
Application letter giving a day time telephone contact and names, telephone
contacts and email addresses of 3 three work related referees only through
our recruitment emailugarecruitment@care.org clearly indicating the Job
title in the email subject.
Deadline 14th November, 2020.

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