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• Provide administrative support in drafting
  and editing supporting materials (CN, PRs, contracts) to ensure activities
  are implemented on time and within Mercy Corps’ systems
• Keenly track CN, PRs, contracts to ensure
  timely completion and payment
• Build a strong relationship with Finance
  and Operations team to create environment that is supportive and
  effective.
• Connect activities to advocacy work
  conducted by Governance team
• Ensure M&E learning including tracking
  and monitoring of key activities is achieved
• Ensure 18-month workplan is achieved on
  time and on budget
• Continue to monitor BRACED’s previous
  activities, addressing any challenges that have arisen through capital
  grants
• Other assigned duties as outlined by
  Program Manager and Program Director

• Draft monthly and quarterly workplans with
  associated cash projections and procurement plans
• Record spending and cross check monthly to
  BVAs

• Participate in coordination of capacities,
  organize strategic workshops and consultations, resource pooling for
  purposes of building and maintaining partnerships particularly on gender
  and land rights activities.
• Identify, in collaboration with the land
  partner, pilot opportunities for community land protection plan
  implementation and manage pilot projects and monitor for possibility of
  scale up.
• Develop and support the campaigns and
  advocacy work of the women’s initiatives on land through coordination and
  facilitation with partners.
• Coordinate with counterpart agencies and
  organizations involved in land communal land protection for information
  exchange, learning and optimizing efforts and resources.
• Work closely with the Ministry of Lands
  Housing and Urban Development (MLHUD) to provide trainings and other
  related support for the formal land management structures
• Work with the district land offices in
  Karamoja to train and support the work of informal land administrative
  structures

• Manage BRACED’s sixty Resilience
  Adaptation Committee (RAC) monitoring and associated activities
  (trainings, RAC Grants, etc.)
• Mentor and train RAC and build capacity to
  ensure sustainability
• Monitor and distribute additional RAC
  Grants
• Ensure Senior Governance Officer is
  attending key workshops and meetings, increasing awareness of BRACED
  activities
• Ensure Senior Governance Officer is responsible
  for managing M&E and Learning team
• Assist the M&E Officers and Learning
  Officers to help implement BRACED learning agenda
• Ensure M&E team maintains up to date
  database.
• Lead in development of monthly, quarterly
  and annual reports, with input from Project Manager, Program Manager and
  Program Director
• Responsible for PM@MC folders

• Represent Mercy Corps at government,
  donor, NGO and other relevant events in the field, in close coordination
  with the Programme Director.
• Attend key events, committee meetings,
  fora, seminars, etc. as they relate to resilience.

• The
  ideal candidate for the Mercy Corps Project Manager job placement should hold a Bachelor’s
  degree in Development, Social Sciences, Law and Humanities
• Six years of technical and practical work
  experience in governance, community development and/or land rights
• Extensive knowledge of various Communal
  land protection, land tenure security, rangeland management and collaborative
  land management and administration.
• Experience and proven track record in
  rural development and participatory methods (including participatory
  integrated development plans)
• Previous experience working with pastoral
  societies, including dealing with gender issues and complex social
  decision-making structures / conflicts.
• Knowledge of institutional and/or
  administrative aspects relevant to the land in Karamoja.
• Experience in organizational analysis and
  partner/project executing agency assessment.
• Experience in conflict sensitive programme
  design and monitoring.
• Ability to effectively land rights
  information to diverse audiences through a variety of media

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