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Job Title:     National
Project Coordinator

Organisation: International
Labour Organization (ILO)

Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda

Grade: NOB

Reports to: Director,
CO Dar es Salaam

About US:

The International
Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency dealing with labour
problems, particularly international labour standards, social protection, and
work opportunities for all. The ILO has 187 member states: 186 of the 193 UN
member states plus the Cook Islands are members of the ILO. In 1969, the
organisation received the Nobel Peace Prize for improving peace among classes,
pursuing decent work and justice for workers, and providing technical
assistance to other developing nations.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Take lead in coordination of the planning, design, delivery and
  monitoring of project implementation whilst ensuring consistency with
  national priorities of the Government of Uganda, national employment and
  skills agenda and related training and employment frameworks, policies and
  global best practices.
• Liaise with and engage all relevant stakeholders in implementation
  of this he ILO-SIDA global partnership for Outcome-based funding (OBF) in
  Uganda (UGA/18/51/SWE), and provide leadership and advocacy to ensure that
  skills and employment issues remain firmly on the national agenda. This
  will involve provision of technical support, advice, and coaching to
  tripartite partners to ensure that their capacities are enhanced to enable
  them to carry out their roles and functions in relation to skills
  development and pro-employment planning and budgeting more effectively.
• Develop and maintain cordial working relations with relevant
  Government agencies, social partners, private sector and business
  organizations, development partners other UN agencies and other
  stakeholders and ensure their participation in the project.
• Take lead in and participate in the preparation and facilitation of
  meetings, conferences, seminars, workshops, training sessions, and various
  types of capacity building events, and speak on behalf of the ILO when
  attending these gatherings alone.
• Identify problems, propose solutions and actions, and follow-up with
  the CO Dar, DWT Pretoria and headquarters, constituents, implementing
  partners, government offices, and other UN organizations to expedite
  implementation and meet targets.
• Ensure programming and administrative synergies are created within
  and between the outputs; and ensure tracking of expenditures against the
  budget according to ILO financial rules and regulations.
• Take initiative in drafting of tools, manuals, and other training
  materials for use by the project, in doing so, adapt ILO global tools to
  national circumstances as well as apply them and monitor their
  application.
• Take lead in drafting Terms of Reference for and supervision of the
  work of external consultants.
• Provide technical support to missions by Employment and Skills
  Specialists.
• Prepare background information, programme briefs, periodical
  reports, gender analysis and related technical reports and statistical
  data on status of the project activities for internal/external use.
• Perform any other duties as requested by the Director, ILO Country
  Office Dar es Salaam

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations International Labour
  Organization (ILO) National Project Coordinator job vacancy must hold a first
  level university degree in Development, Social Science, Economics, Labour,
  Technical and Vocational Education or a related discipline
• A minimum of three years of professional experience in the area of
  Formulation of Policy and Strategy, Project Design, Management and
  Implementation Macro-Economic Policies, Employment Programming and Skills
  Development.  Additional experience
  in the areas of formal and informal apprenticeship and other forms of work
  based learning will be preferred. Substantial knowledge/experience in
  resource mobilization is essential.
• Languages:  Excellent command of English and good
  knowledge of another official language of the duty station.

Competencies

• Good knowledge in project formulation and experience in project
  management and implementation.
• Good knowledge of the role and operations of the ILO and UN system
  activities for development and particular knowledge on the development
  processes of National policies and programmes
• Ability to perform a variety of conceptual analyses required for the
  formulation, administration, implementation and evaluation of projects.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Ability to justify requirements and approaches to problem resolution,
  and ability to negotiate.
• Good computer applications skills.
• Good organizational skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as a member of a team.
• Ability to deal with people with tact and diplomacy.
• Ability to supervise staff.
• Demonstrated ability to consult and work with multiple partners,
  including government, social partners and UN agencies and to foster
  cooperation and effective networks;
• Demonstrated ability to organise and facilitate meetings and
  workshops;
• Demonstrated ability in gender mainstreaming will be an added
  advantage.

 How to Apply:

All suitably
qualified and interested candidates who wish to join the International Labour
Organization in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to apply online at
the link below.

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Deadline: 15^th October 2019

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