Uganda: Deputy Chief of Party - World Vision Uganda
Country: Uganda
Closing date: 09 Aug 2013
JOB OPPORTUNITY
World Vision Uganda is a Christian Relief, Development and Advocacy Non-Government Organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We currently work in over 40 districts in Uganda. World Vision is committed to the protection of children and we will not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with children. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible. “Our Vision for every child, Life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every Heart, the will to make it so.” We are now seeking for qualified persons willing to share in our vision to join the team in the following role.World Vision Uganda seeks qualified persons to provide technical support for a proposed USAID/ Uganda Advocacy for Better Health Program. This position is contingent on World Vision Uganda being awarded the cooperative agreement.
Position: Deputy Chief of PartyReports to: Chief of PartyProject: Advocacy for Better HealthDuty Station: Kampala
Purpose of the position: Responsible for the management of the project, including financial accountability, staffing, and work planning and providing technical leadership to the project, transform the quality and delivery of advocacy interventions and reporting.
Key Responsibilities
• Management of the central office and provide oversight to the field-based sites, in terms of staffing, facilities, procurement, reporting, and finances.• Ensure that project operations and sub-grantee management activities are fully compliance with USAID regulations and integrated with host-country• Direct and oversee World Vision's work in an assigned program, ensuring that all program goals are met through proper design, staffing, and implementation.• Organize and direct the work of local staff and short-term advisors. Provide supervision, training and performance appraisals.• Establish and maintain effective project reporting, evaluation, and communication systems. Submit timely accurate and professional program reports that meet donor requirements to appropriate World Vision Partnership staff.• Establish leadership and personal credibility and implement and maintain clearly understood chain of authority and accountability.• Ensure proper technical capacity of staff to manage complex government funded projects.• Manage grant/project budget within approved spending levels and ensure accurate and timely financial repots to donors and WVUS IPG headquarters staff.• Ensure grant/project expenses are reasonable, allocable, prudent and spent in accordance with donor rules and regulations to ensure clean A-133 audits.
Knowledge and skills:• A bachelors’ degree or higher in a relevant field (management, social sciences, public health, etc.). A Masters Degree is an added advantage.• Minimum 5 years’ experience managing donor-funded development programs with demonstrated capacity to create and/or maintain complex systems and procedures involving multiple implementation sites, multiple partners and diverse beneficiaries.• Demonstrated understanding and knowledge of advocacy, decentralization in the Uganda context, Uganda’s socio-political economy, health and education sectors.• Demonstrated track record of leading, designing and delivering influencing, campaigning and advocacy programs.• Demonstrated ability to be a motivator and leader of change, drawing on excellent communication skills to drive transformation. • Developed abilities to motivate and persuade at high levels (for organizational change);• Experience in developing effective communication and advocacy strategies.• Excellent judgment, conceptual and analytical thinking ability.• Proven experience of capacity strengthening & advisory work, as well as facilitation, mentoring & coaching skills.• Proven experience in partnership building and networking at various levels.• Ability to address rights (women, children, youth and other vulnerable groups) in the design/delivery of influencing work.• In sympathy with christian values.
The applicant must demonstrate strong experience in sub-grantee management, including building the capacity of local organizations and subgrantees in U.S. government (USG)- supported grants. Coaching, advising, and enforcement are essential functions of this position.
As the nature of this project is advocacy and accountability, the most competitive candidates will have experience in monitoring and evaluation of advocacy and accountability programs.
How to apply:
How to apply: Qualified candidates may submit their application and complete Curriculum Vitae, via email to wvujobs@wvi.org. Please address the application to the People and Culture Specialist (Recruitment) and do indicate the post title in the email subject line.
Deadline for receiving applications is: 9th August, 2013.
(Qualified female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply)
We do appreciate your interest in working with us. However, only short listed candidates will be contacted
