READVERTISEMENT: Project Manager - Can’t Wait to Learn - Uganda
Kampala
- Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
- Location: Kampala
- Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
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Occupational Groups:
- Emergency Aid and Response
- Project management
- Project and Programme Management
- Managerial positions
- Closing Date: Closed
THOSE WHO APPLIED PREVIOUSLY SHOULD NOT APPLY AGAIN.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organisation with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for people affected by displacement. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance through its core competences (CCs): Camp Management, Education, Livelihoods and Food Security, Information Counselling and Legal Assistance, Shelter, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.
Conflict, drought and economic collapse in South Sudan have driven over one million refugees over the border into Uganda. NRC operates projects in refugee and host community settlements in the districts of Adjumani, Arua and Yumbe in the West Nile region. Its education projects are currently in two main areas: 1) accelerated education programmes (AEP), targeting over-age learners with basic education by providing a condensed curriculum; and 2) youth education and livelihoods programmes, focussing on vocational skills training combined with literacy, numeracy and life skills.
In response to low learning levels and the difficulty of providing access to education for children and youth in West Nile, NRC is partnering with War Child Holland (WCH) to develop WCH’s Can’t Wait to Learn (CWTL) for Uganda. CWTL is a global programme that has ambitions to increase the number of children with access to quality education in areas affected by conflict in Africa and the Middle East. Building on concepts that have been successfully piloted in Sudan (e-Learning Sudan), CWTL proposes new, cost-effective solutions to the urgent challenges facing education for children in emergencies by utilising innovative technological solutions with a focus on serious gaming. Globally, the programme is led by War Child Holland. In Uganda, NRC and War Child Holland will implement the project, with technical partners.
The CWTL programme will digitise the Ugandan curriculum on to tablets using a serious gaming format, which will be used by children with guidance from a trained facilitator. In addition to mathematics, reading and psychosocial wellbeing-focused materials will be introduced to the CWTL portfolio during 2018. Developing fresh, interactive materials based on the national curricula, and creating effective partnership structures to distribute these, creates new opportunities for making education accessible to those children who have been excluded. By facilitating their access to an effective and innovative learning tool, the CWTL programme seeks to increase children’s resilience and support their educational (re)integration and progression.
NRC seeks a Project Manager who will be responsible for realising the results and ambitions of the multi-year CWTL programme in Uganda, according to set quality standards and donor requirements. They will be responsible for managing the CWTL budget for Uganda. They will contribute to strategic partnership develo
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organisation with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for people affected by displacement. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance through its core competences (CCs): Camp Management, Education, Livelihoods and Food Security, Information Counselling and Legal Assistance, Shelter, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.
Conflict, drought and economic collapse in South Sudan have driven over one million refugees over the border into Uganda. NRC operates projects in refugee and host community settlements in the districts of Adjumani, Arua and Yumbe in the West Nile region. Its education projects are currently in two main areas: 1) accelerated education programmes (AEP), targeting over-age learners with basic education by providing a condensed curriculum; and 2) youth education and livelihoods programmes, focussing on vocational skills training combined with literacy, numeracy and life skills.
In response to low learning levels and the difficulty of providing access to education for children and youth in West Nile, NRC is partnering with War Child Holland (WCH) to develop WCH’s Can’t Wait to Learn (CWTL) for Uganda. CWTL is a global programme that has ambitions to increase the number of children with access to quality education in areas affected by conflict in Africa and the Middle East. Building on concepts that have been successfully piloted in Sudan (e-Learning Sudan), CWTL proposes new, cost-effective solutions to the urgent challenges facing education for children in emergencies by utilising innovative technological solutions with a focus on serious gaming. Globally, the programme is led by War Child Holland. In Uganda, NRC and War Child Holland will implement the project, with technical partners.
The CWTL programme will digitise the Ugandan curriculum on to tablets using a serious gaming format, which will be used by children with guidance from a trained facilitator. In addition to mathematics, reading and psychosocial wellbeing-focused materials will be introduced to the CWTL portfolio during 2018. Developing fresh, interactive materials based on the national curricula, and creating effective partnership structures to distribute these, creates new opportunities for making education accessible to those children who have been excluded. By facilitating their access to an effective and innovative learning tool, the CWTL programme seeks to increase children’s resilience and support their educational (re)integration and progression.
NRC seeks a Project Manager who will be responsible for realising the results and ambitions of the multi-year CWTL programme in Uganda, according to set quality standards and donor requirements. They will be responsible for managing the CWTL budget for Uganda. They will contribute to strategic partnership develo
Job description
- Please click the link below to get the complete Terms Of Reference.
Qualifications
- Minimum five years’ experience working as a Project Manager in a humanitarian/recovery context.
- Experience working in complex and volatile contexts.
- Technical expertise in the following areas:
- Extensive knowledge of education programming (psychosocial support is an asset).
- Knowledge and experience of programme and project management in complex multi-stakeholder programmes, with the capacity to manage multiple stakeholders.
- Expertise in technology-based learning solutions and programme management tools.
- Minimum of five years’ experience in developing methods, tools and programmes/interventions, and delivering training.
- Knowledge and experience in research and M&E.
- Strong planning and organisational skills.
- Minimum of three years’ experience in managing people.
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong problem solving abilities.
- Relevant academic degree or studies (education, international development, conflict or social studies, etc.).
- Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
- Valid driver’s license.
Education field
- Education
Education level
- College / University, Bachelor's degree
Personal qualities
- Managing resources to optimize results
- Managing performance and development
- Empowering and building trust
- Handling insecure environments
Language
- English
We offer
- Duty station: West Nile - Uganda
- Contract period: 12 Months with possibility of extension
- Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions, The candidate will observe NRC’s code of conduct and working hours for the NRC specific Country
Miscellaneous info
- Travel: Some travelling must be expected
This vacancy is now closed.
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