Uganda: Project Support Officer

Job Title: Project Support Officer

Country: Uganda

Location: Kampala - with some field travel

Contract length: 12mths

Reporting to: Assistant Country Director - Programmes

General Description of the Programme

First operational in Uganda in the late 70’s, GOAL Uganda’s current country programme uses a systems approach to address the root causes of systems failures, where we believe we can leverage sustainable change and increase resilience. Systems programming is grounded in context specific research and analysis in the agriculture and WASH sectors and researched and designed through a resilience lens, in order to build capacities.

Geographically, GOAL Uganda works across six target districts in the North and East of Uganda to promote socio-economic development. Within these districts our programme focus is across the Health and Economic, and Food Security sectors. Cross cutting initiatives, considered essential to leverage change in these two sectors, have been designed into the programme from a resilience perspective to address contextual shocks and stresses and stimulate more empowered communities. GOAL also manages a Health Accountability programme which spans 16 districts across Uganda.

Overview of the role

General Description of the Role:

The overall objective of the post is to provide support to GOAL’s Uganda programme both at head office (Kampala) and field level. The Programme Support Officer (PSO) reports to the Assistant Country Director - Programmes (ACDP) and works closely with the relevant technical advisors on proposal development, donor reporting and communication materials development. The post will involve some travel to field sites. The PSO will be responsible for maintaining the donor pipeline, identifying potential funding opportunities (aligned to the Country Programme’s strategic direction), working with technical advisors and programme directors to develop donor reporting, and manage the scheduling and logistics for all donor (current and potential) visits.

Key Duties:

Donor Pipeline and Reporting

• Research and provide regular updates to senior management on potential funding opportunities, and ensure that the donor pipeline database is maintained
• Maintain and update proposal and reporting calendar ensuring all concerned are aware of the reporting schedule and their specific roles
• Coordinate the development of quality donor proposals and Head Office Concept Notes, facilitating input from the programme directors, technical advisors, field teams, finance and other relevant departments;
• Coordinate the development and timely submission of donor reports to Dublin, and other reports or updates as needed.

Communications

• Maintain the communications, visibility and branding database for GOAL Uganda’s various donors, partners, and programmes and review all communication, branding and visibility requests by programme teams.
• Manage the development of external communications and visibility materials, working with senior managers, programme directors, and technical advisors to agree content and layout.
• In liaison with field teams, programme directors and technical advisors, develop web content for GOAL Global’s website which showcases GOAL Uganda’s programming and successes.
• Manage suppliers in their delivery of communication and visibility materials.
• Review and edit presentations and any other communication materials developed by GOAL Uganda staff for external audiences and National Management Meetings ensuring the correct formatting is used and that content is concise and well presented.

Supervision

• Directly line manage the National Project Support Officer and build their capacity in donor reporting and proposal development
• Supervise the National Project Support Officer to undertake their role in mainstreaming of gender and child protection in GOAL Uganda

Representation and Networking

• As agreed with the ACD-Programmes, represent GOAL Uganda as appropriate at external forums

Requirements:

Essential

• Degree or post-graduate qualification ideally with a specialisation in development, business, health or social sciences
• Excellent analytical and writing skills in English
• Excellent communication material development skills
• Familiarity and ideally one year’s experience with proposal writing, logical framework/result chain development and donor reporting (Irish Aid, DFID, Mastercard, UN agencies etc)
• Excellent IT skills, especially in Word, Excel and Powerpoint with ability to analyse data and interpret statistical information
• Ability to work under pressure, and prioritise workload according to the changing needs of the programme
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work in a team, and a commitment to capacity building
• Enthusiastic, flexible and with the ability to work long hours in sometimes remote contexts with basic amenities to meet the needs of the programme

Desirable

• Graphic Design skills
• Experience of market based development programmes an advantage
• Understanding of mainstreaming principles, including gender, and child protection

General terms and conditions

GOAL has Standards of Integrity and a Child Protection Policy, which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants and children from exploitation. GOAL also has a confidentiality policy ensuring the non-disclosure of any information whatsoever relating to the practices and business of GOAL, acquired in the course of duty, to any other person or organisation without authority, except in the normal execution of duty. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to these policies any job offer made is also subject to police clearance. GOAL is an equal opportunities employer.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.

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