Plan International Social Work Jobs – Project Coordinator – Community Led Total Sanitation Marketing & School WASH

Organisation: Plan International
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Plan:
Founded 75 years ago, Plan International is one of the oldest and
largest Children’s development organizations in the world. We work In SO
developing countries across Africa. Asia and the Americas to promote child
rights and lift millions of children out of poverty Plan’s vision is of
a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies
that respect people’s rights and dignity Plan is independent with no religious,
political or governmental affiliations.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Offer 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 approach to development
  • Take lead the development of operational
    budgets and work plans in consultation with different stakeholders
    especially the community to enhance their involvement at implementation
    level.
  • Identify and apply best practices in child
    centred approaches during project implementation & ensure that the
    Project is well integrated with Plan’s other program interventions.
  • Carry out regular monitoring and
    evaluation to ensure that project goals and objectives are met and
    implementation is on-track.
  • Prepare and submit quality project
    progress reports in the right format and provide feedback to Plan Uganda
    and Partners.
  • 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.
  • 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 current with 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.
  • Conduct on-going coaching and on-the-job
    training of key technical resource staff under the project to increase
    effective delivery of the project.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The candidates should possess a University
    Degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, or another WATSAN related
    field.
  • A Post graduate training in Project
    Planning and Management
  • Excellent 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 Water, Hygiene and Sanitation projects with a bias in CLTS,
    Sanitation Marketing approaches including pen urban related programming
    among others.
  • 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
  • Experience and ability to work with
    Development Partners (Donors)
  • Demonstrable abilities In planning and
    budgeting
  • Excellent interpersonal &
    communication skills
  • Excellent report writing skills
  • Computer literacy 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:
All interested applicants
seeking to work with Plan Uganda should submit letters of application to the
email address below, 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:

NB: Only soft copies of application will be accepted.



The People & Culture
Manager,
Plan Uganda
Email: uganda.recruitment@plan-international.org .

NB: Plan Uganda is an equal opportunity employer. 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 15th November, 2013.

Deadline: 27th September, 2013
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