religious, political or governmental affiliations. The organisation is an equal opportunity employer currently seeking to recruit a competent person to fill the following positions:
Project Coordinator (Ref: PC) – Community Led Total Sanitation, Sanitation Marketing & Water Supply and School Wash Project based in Kampala
The position reports to the Program Support Manager and is responsible for provision of technical oversight to the CLTS/ Sanitation Marketing project, including guidance to the Project facilitators. .. Its overall purpose is to provide leadership and coordination in the implementation of Water, Hygiene and Sanitation Projects as part of Plan Uganda’s effort to contribute to the betterment of the health status of children and their families by preventing and reducing the prevalence of water borne diseases in the beneficiary communities.
Specific Responsibilities
• Provide technical support, oversight and team leadership in the successful planning & implementation of the respective CLTS-SLTS-San Mark and Water projects and ensure that district level structures are fully involved in the implementation of the project in line with Plan Uganda’s CCCD approach to development,
• Identify and apply best practices in child centered approaches during project implementation & ensure that the Project is well integrated with Plan’s other program interventions
• Conduct regular monitoring and evaluation to ensure that project goals and objectives are met and implementation is on-track
• Ensure that regular project progress reports are of good quality, accurate, timely and follow formats provided.
• Ensure that data is collected, professionally documented and where appropriate analysed to ensure proper record keeping and reporting
• Ensure lessons learnt are discussed, documented and disseminated to all stakeholders and as may be requested by management.
• Supports resource mobilization efforts, including proposal development and writing to enhance scale up of the project concepts
• Observes protocol and collaborates closely with donors in all aspects of the project.
• Builds strong sense of team work with all staff at field level and Project based facilitators.
• Ability to cultivate key contacts with children, their families, and communities, donors, relevant partners, sponsors and local government officials
• Stay abreast of all WATSAN related updates, new & exciting experiences, innovations and appropriately disseminate such information within Plan to enable learning and continuous improvement
• Identify staff development needs and liaise with relevant department for appropriate follow-up and ensure on going coaching and on-the-job training of key technical resource staff under the project.
Job requirement
Required Competencies:
• A University Degree in social science, development studies, or another WATSAN related field.
• Post graduate training in project planning and management
• A strong awareness of current issues in the field of development, and familiarity with children’s issues in particular in the context of Human rights based programming
• At least five years experience in managing relevant projects
• Experience in networking with all relevant line ministries (Water. Health and Education among others)
• Experience in fund raising and resource mobilization at local and (international) levels
• Team building and strategic planning skills,
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills,
• Computer skills in Ms Excel, Power point, Ms Word and internet usage
• Demonstrates willingness to spend extra time to achieve results & under minimum supervision
How to apply
Suitably qualified candidates should submit letters of application, indicating Ref No together with a CV Contact telephone numbers, copies of relevant certificates, names and contact details of three references plus salary history should be included and sent to the undersigned not later than 12th July 2011.
People & Culture Manager – Plan Uganda, uganda.recruitment@plan-international.org
Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply. Only Short-listed candidates will be contacted. Please consider your application unsuccessful in case you do not hear from us by 12* August 2011.
As a child centered development organization, Plan strives to ensure that children are kept safe in all the areas we operate. The organization further has a child protection policy that every staff is required to sign. Potential candidates will be required to provide information confirming whether or not they have ever been convicted of any child abuse crimes
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