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| Hunger Fighters Uganda (HFU) |
Project Coordinator Job Post
Location: Jobs in Uganda 2023 - 2024
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
UGX
No. of vacancies: 01
Deadline: 21 August 2023
Hiring Organization: Hunger Fighters Uganda (HFU)
Job Details:
Introduction
Hunger Fighters Uganda (HFU) is a Not-For-Profit, Non-Governmental Organization Initiated In 2008, Pursuing a vision of “A Hunger and Malnutrition Free Uganda”. The Organisation is engaged in the activities of fighting hunger in Uganda with a local, national and global perspective.
HFU is a WFP Cooperating Partners for General Food Assistance in Nakivale - Oruchinga and Kyangwali Refugee settlements in the South- Western part of Uganda, also implementing school feeding project in Kaabong District in Northern Karamoja as well as under Kampala Capital city Authority in the Central Region.
We are committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. All applications will be treated with fairness the strictest confidence.
We do not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
HFU wishes to recruit volunteers to fill the position tenable in the GFA and Livelihood and Resilience Project implementation for the year 2023/24 in NAKIVALE/ORUCHINGA and KYANGWALI refugee settlements in ISINGIRO and Kikuube Districts respectively in the South – Western of Uganda.
Project Coordinator (01 POSITION)
Reports to: Team Leader
Job Purpose: The key objective of the roles of
the Project Coordinator’s work is to assist project teams with the coordination
of processes, resources, equipment, meetings, and information. Support
strategic positioning, development, and implementation of the livelihood and
resilience components of the project to achieve self-reliance for refugee and
host communities. Project Coordinator shall be responsible for ensuring the
schedule, budget and details of a given project tasks are well organized.
He/she communicate with various departments to keep everyone on board about any
changes within the project plan. In addition, he/she shall organize, implement
and report and provide updates to project line management to ensure success of
the project.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensuring that the livelihoods and resilience project
adheres to frameworks for transitioning targeted beneficiaries from relief
to self-reliance.
- Maintaining and monitoring livelihoods & resilience
field plans, project schedules, working hours, budgets and expenditures.
- Organizing, attending and participating in livelihoods
stakeholder meetings and all partner engagements at the field level to
fully represent the organization, strengthen partnerships, team work and
work efficiency.
- Documenting and following up on important actions and
decisions from field meetings.
- Preparing necessary presentation materials for field
meetings.
- Ensuring project timelines are met.
- Assess and regularly report resource utilization in line
with best value for money practices.
- Providing field administrative support as needed.
- Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions
where applicable.
- Ensure stakeholder expectations are managed towards the
best solution to achieve project results.
- Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and
distribute minutes to all project team members and other relevant
officers.
- Participate in Procurement evaluations for project goods
and services.
- Create a field management calendar for fulfilling each
goal and objective of the project.
- Coordinate project management activities, resources,
equipment and information.
- Liaise with the project management to identify and
define requirements, scope and objectives.
- Assign tasks to internal project teams and support them
with schedule management.
- Make sure that project needs are met as project evolve.
- Maintain proper and efficient documentation for all
project activities.
- Prepare min-budgets for the day-to-day implementation of
the project.
- Monitor project progress and handle any issues that
arise.
- Act as the point of contact and communicate project
status to all participants.
- Work with the M&E Unit to develop project monitoring
and reporting tools.
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation,
database, plans and reports.
- Ensure project standards operating procedures (SOPS) and
requirements are met through conducting project quality assurance checks.
- Participate in project resource mobilization and
analysis of activity cost effectiveness and value for money.
- Perform any other related duties as required.
Requirements and Skills:
- Proven work experience as a Project Coordinator or
similar roles.
- Experience in project management, from conception to
delivery and closure.
- Have the ability to prepare and interpret flowcharts,
schedules and step-by-step project action plans.
- Proven experience in implementing diversified livelihood
and resilience interventions.
- Have solid organizational skills, including multitasking
and time-management.
- Strong client-facing and teamwork skills.
- Familiarity with project risk management and quality
assurance control.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project and
Microsoft Planner.
- Hands-on experience with project management tools.
Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and
Abuse, and Zero Tolerance to Fraud:
- Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation
and Abuse and zero tolerance to fraud) standards within Hunger Fighters
Uganda and amongst beneficiaries served.
Compliance & Ethics:
- Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and
ethics throughout Hunger Fighters Uganda.
- As applicable to the position, maintains a clear
understanding of Hunger Fighters Uganda’s and donor compliance and ethics
standards and adheres to those standards.
- Conduct work with the highest level of integrity.
Qualifications:
- BSc in Business Administration, Agribusiness, or related
field with not less than 3 years’ experience in coordinating projects.
- A Master’s Degree in Management and the related fields
is an added advantage.
- Demonstrated expertise in project Planning and
management is required.
Application procedure
Applications should be addressed to
· The Head of Human Resource, Hunger Fighters Uganda, P.O Box, 28175, Kampala
· Hand delivered to Hunger Fighters Uganda Head Office or through e- mail: hr@hfug.org and copy: p.agaba@hfug.org
Deadline for submission is 21stAugust 2023 at 17:00pm. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Note: HFU offers equal opportunities to both women and men. Solicitation will lead to automatic disqualification.
For and on Behalf of Management
HEAD OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Date Posted: 2023-08-13
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