Senior Initiative Manager (SIM) Career Placement – CARE International

Organisation:  CARE
International
Reports to: Programme Manager
Duty Station:  Gulu,
Uganda
About CARE:
CARE
International is a leading global development and humanitarian organization. In
2014, CARE worked in 90 countries around the world, supporting 880
poverty-fighting development and humanitarian aid projects, reaching more than
72 million people. CARE International in Uganda (CARE) works with others to
make a sustainable improvement in the lives of the very poor, with a focus on
women and girls. Our current program focusses on women and girls’ economic
rights, particularly financial inclusion and governance of natural resources
women and girls depend upon, and on their sexual and reproductive health
rights, including a life free of violence. Our programming is guided by our
core values of excellence, accountability, respect, integrity and transparency.
Job Summary: The Senior Initiative Manager (SIM) will mainly be
responsible for managing and Capacity Development Coordination of the Uganda
component of the Learning for Change (L4C) which will enable NGOs and CARE
country-office staff, grassroots organizations and government agencies to
successfully promote and enhance gender equality in their own poverty reduction
programmes. Indirectly, this will impact the lives of the vulnerable women and
girls that partners and CARE work with. The SIM will also provide oversight for
the other CARE Austria/ADA initiatives which include the Sexual and
Reproductive and Maternal Child Health (SRMCH) and Policy Dialogue projects.
Within L4C the SIM supervises (locally) the L4C technical thematic lead unit
led by the Women’s Leadership Cross Country Thematic Leader. This role is
undertaken in coordination with the CARE Austria L4C Coordinator based in
Vienna. The SIM also supervises the L4C Training and Capacity Building Officer.
In their primary L4C role, the SIM ensures that capacity development at CARE organizational
and partner level effectively translates into enhanced gender equality-focused
impact at program intervention level. The SIM coordinates closely with the
NUWEP Program Quality and Learning Manager to ensure that effective monitoring,
evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) systems are in place for the
initiatives that they manage; that advocacy technical support is provided to
supervise projects and that the NUWEP Program Manager provides necessary
technical guidance related to partnerships. The SIM works closely with the CARE
Uganda Human Resources Manager in planning for organizational capacity
development of staff in transformative gender equality approaches. The SIM has
a local reporting line to the NUWEP Program Manager but under this matrix
management set up, coordinates closely with the CARE Austria L4C Coordinator.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
1. Overall leadership and
management for NUWEP L4C, SRMCH and Policy Dialogue projects. (40% of time)
  • The incumbent will be responsible for drawing
    from the objectives and agreed upon key activities in the project
    proposals, develop detailed yearly and quarterly implementation plans and
    related budgets while ensuring synergies between the different
    initiatives;
  • Ensure DIPs (Detailed Implementation Plans)
    are followed and closely monitored for each initiative to ensure timely
    implementation of activities and within available resources and
    immediately report any problems or deviations from plans;
  • Ensure logistics for all training, capacity
    building, research and other events have been prepared and organized in
    line with CARE’s & donors’ internal procedures and to create the best
    possible environment and conditions for participants in these different
    events;
  • In charge of monitoring the initiatives’
    budget, reviewing monthly expenditure reports and ensuring budgets are
    used in accordance with CARE’s and the donors’ rules and regulations. This
    involves planning and designing activities in ways that fit the available
    budgets, reviewing monthly, quarterly, annual and donors’ financial
    reports and ensuring allocation of expenses to the right budget lines,
    preparing quarterly projection of needed funds, pipeline projections, etc.
  • Responsible for all procurement of goods and
    services related to these initiatives, according to approved budgets and
    activity plans and in line with both CARE and the donors’ procurement
    rules and policies
  • Ongoing identification of staffing needs,
    recommends changes of staffing structure as needed and develops / adapts
    job descriptions for the whole project team as needed;
  • Direct supervision of L4C Women’s Leadership
    Team Leader and L4C Training and Capacity Building Officer, which includes
    development of annual performance objectives and proactive management of
    performance through day to day guidance and coaching, formal mid-term and
    annual performance reviews and support to staff for achieve their personal
    and professional development objectives.
  • Ensures synergy across the supervised
    initiatives as well as efficient use of resources across initiatives
2. Partnership Management
& capacity building:
  • Identify implementation partners and
    coordinate signing of agreements with them; manage relationships with
    these partners to ensure deliverables are met timely and with the required
    quality; Ongoing review and assessment of partners performance and
    provision of support as needed through development, implementation and
    monitoring of partners capacity development plans;
  • Ensure scopes of work and budgets for
    partners are regularly updated, at least annually to reflect activities of
    the projects’ annual actions plans;
  • Ensure partners reports, both financial and
    narrative, are submitted timely and analysed and that feedback is shared
    with partners;
  • Ensure due diligence and organizational
    capacity assessments are conducted before signing MOUs and that partners’
    capacity development plans are developed based on findings of these
    assessments; Ensure on-going capacity building at institutional,
    organizational and technical level; Pay attention to ensuring the
    following key themes are part and parcel of any partner assessment and
    capacity development plan:
    • Developing women’s leadership
    • Engaging Men and Boys for Gender
      Equality
    • Psycho social approach
    • M&E/Knowledge Management and
      Learning
    • Organizational Gender
      Mainstreaming/GED
  • Ensure all partners’ agreements are in line
    with CARE’s sub agreement policy;
  • Ensure partners have in-depth knowledge of
    the projects’ objectives and strategies;
  • Ensure that partners are involved in all
    critical moments and events of the projects (consultancies, planning
    meetings, review meetings, baseline, midterm review, end line, steering
    committee meetings, etc.) and that all key information is shared with them
    in a transparent manner and in real time;
  • Work closely with other CARE projects working
    with the same partners.
  • Ensure that other NUWEP projects benefit from
    the capacity development of CARE staff and partners in gender
    trans-formative-led thematic approaches that benefit the overall impact
    populations of NUWEP.
3. Monitoring,
Evaluation, learning and Reporting for L4C, SRMCH and Policy Dialogue projects
in coordination with NUWEP PM and PQL Manager(10% of time):
  • Ensure a results-based monitoring and
    evaluation system is developed with SMART indicators, with the engagement
    of local partners and the development of a learning system that not only
    generates quantitative data but allows for ongoing collection of
    participants views on the programs’ relevance and success;
  • Ensure that project indicators are sex
    dis-aggregated and gender sensitive;
  • Ensure a project database is developed and
    maintained to allow keeping track of project participants in each
    component, without double counting across components;
  • Ensure CARE and partner staff are trained on
    the developed monitoring and evaluation system;
  • Coordinate and manage the design of the base
    line, midterm review and end line and final evaluation;
  • Actively facilitate and document quarterly
    project reviews with key partners and ensure these reviews inform project
    implementation and are used to improve project quality;
  • Writes and support direct reports to write
    briefs, human interest stories and papers that can be used for advocacy or
    information purposes;
  • Supports team members and partners to write
    reports on their sector of intervention and coordinates process of
    consolidation of reports for internal purposes as well as donor reports,
    as per guidelines of the donor; It is critical to ensure reports are a
    true reflection of implementation and reflect progress as well as challenges
    and lessons learnt
  • Ensure learning products are developed in
    coordination with relevant cross-country thematic leads
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate for the Senior Initiative
    Manager (SIM) career opportunity should hold a Bachelor’s degree in Social
    work and / or Social development, Public health, gender, Sociology or
    related field (though a Master’s degree is preferred)
  • Possession of a relevant Post graduate
    qualification is an added advantage
  • At least five years’ experience and working knowledge
    in senior program management (managing at least three different initiatives
    and grants)
  • Possess excellent skills and experience in
    M&E, advocacy, report writing, participatory planning, financial
    management, Human Resource Management.
  • People manager with proven experience  managing diverse teams and individuals’
    performance for success, Expert level knowledge and at least five years
    practical experience working with Civil Society Organizations, particularly
    in Institutional Development and Organizational Strengthening (IDOS);
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
    skills in English.
  • Computer literacy skills i.e. proficiency in
    Email, word processing, spreadsheets
  • Personally committed to gender equality and
    women and girls’ empowerment with ability to lead to organizational change
    processes that aim at making organizations more gender aware, gender
    committed and gender competent.
  • Both a team player as well as able to work
    independently with minimum supervision.
  • Personal Competencies: Planning, Proactive problem solving,
    Contributing to team success, Managing work, Building partnerships, Communicating
    with impact, Initiating action, Information monitoring, Adaptability, Stress
    tolerance, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, Excellence, Accountability
     
How to Apply: 
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their online
applications at this link, Click Here. Click on the
“Job Application” icon, fill the application form and attach a motivation
letter clearly articulating Alignment with the above profile and an updated
detailed CV (candidates should scan the CV and motivation letter as one
document before Attaching to avoid double posting). Please do not create an account
first, just go straight to the application form and fill it, attach PDF formats
and submit.
Deadline:  20th May,
2016
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