Program Manager

at Aga Khan Foundation
Location Kampala, Uganda
Date Posted April 1, 2020
Category Administration
Management
NGO
Job Type Full-time
Currency UGX

Description

About the Aga Khan Foundation

The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), was established by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1967. AKF is a private, not-for-profit international development agency that seeks to provide long-term solutions to society’s problems. AKF brings together human, financial, and technical resources to address challenges faced by the poorest and most marginalised communities in the world. AKF has a special focus on investing in human potential, expanding opportunity, and improving the overall quality of life, especially for women and girls. AKF’s primary areas of focus are; Education; Early Childhood Development (ECD); Health and Nutrition; Civil Society; Agriculture and Food Security; and Economic Inclusion.

AKF is committed to improving the quality of life of all boys and girls, women and men in the communities we work. To achieve this, AKF delivers multi-sector programming in the above sectors and assumes a holistic and systems approach ensuring all interventions are globally informed, locally rooted, are embedded in government and community interests and structures, and work to promote social inclusion, equity, and pluralism.

Position Description

The Program Manager will provide overall leadership of AKF’s growing portfolio in the West Nile region of Uganda. Immediate responsibilities will focus on the successful inception, start-up, and on-going management of two new Global Affairs Canada (GAC) supported education programmes both delivered in partnership with other organisations including Aga Khan Development Network sister agencies and World University Service of Canada (WUSC). These programmes focus on dismantling the barriers to education and learning for all children with an explicit focus on enhancing the ability of vulnerable primary aged and adolescent girls living in refugee and host communities to have the abilities and opportunities to learn and actively participate in and contribute to a pluralistic society. Moving forward, the Programme Manager will be responsible for ensuring all projects are delivered in a coordinated manner, on time, on budget, with quality, and in compliance with internal and external donor compliance.

Principle responsibilities

1. Project Management

Lead the inception and start-up two multi-year GAC funded education projects, including the Project Implementation Planning (PIP) processes
Lead the project management cycle for all AKF projects in West Nile ensuring all workplans, implementation, and reports comply with donor requirements
Ensure all project funds are fully accounted for and financial reports and documentation are accurate and in-line with project delivery.
Support the Deputy Project Managers, Program Coordinators and teams to write all evidence based narrative reports and review these to ensure quality and accuracy. Ensure all narrative and financial reports are submitted through AKF’s reporting structure on time and with quality
Effectively manage a cross-organisational team to deliver a coordinated and impactful projects that meet the project aims and needs of the girls, boys, and communities the project serves
Line manage project staff both from within and outside of AKF’s organisational structure to ensure project accountability
Ensure all project management processes comply with AKF’s gender and social inclusion and child and community safeguarding policies, support the development and ensure implementation of AGENCI’s Gender Equality Strategy and actively participate in the project’s Gender Equality Task Force
2. Programme Quality

Ensure the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team have established and operationalised the project M&E frameworks and tools to ensure high quality M&E compliant with donor minimum requirements. Ensure all frameworks are gender responsive and data collection tools are integrated in project activities, not parallel to them
Ensure M&E team effectively establish a high-quality cross programme M&E data management system integrating ICT where appropriate. Ensure all data management systems adhere to AKF’s safeguarding and data protection policies
Ensure data management system has feedback loops to enable all project staff to access and understand project progress and challenges and promote participatory project planning and reviews
Ensure M&E team input accurate M&E data into all donor and AKF reports (quarterly, semi-annual, and annual). This will include the timely data input into AKF’s internal programme management systems
Collaborate with AKF East Africa (EA) senior leadership and technical advisors to establish and manage a gender responsive programme quality system to assess programme quality and project decisions, interventions, and proposed changes are informed by data and evidence
Conduct project site visits to validate project quality
Ensure the undertaking of a Strategic Environmental Assessment and adherence to Environmental Sustainability Strategy

Skills

Excellent knowledge and understanding of gender and social inclusion issues and proven experience of delivering programmes that explicitly address these inequalities
Excellent knowledge and understanding of child and community safe-guarding issues and proven experience of operationalising relevant policies and procedures

Evidence of drawing on learning and evidence to inform and improve internal project delivery
Evidence of developing strong partnerships with government, development partners, and no-government partners to increase impact and influence in practice and policy
Strong inter-personal skills and working collaboratively with internal teams and project and non-project partners
Strong communication skills, written and oral, and fluency in English

Strong leadership skills with diverse competencies in organisation, multi-tasking, critical thinking, and M&E
Strong ICT skills and experience operating with Microsoft and emerging new software

Experience Requirements

Proven experience in managing high impact social programming in challenging contexts. Minimum of five-years at senior project management level
Proven experience in managing large projects and high-impact consortium partnerships, including managing project teams
Proven experience of managing diverse budgets and financial management capacity. Previous GAC experience preferable
Proven experience of operating in refugee and crisis contexts

Education Requirements

Graduate degree in social development or other relevant field post-graduate highly desirable

Applying Instructions

Please submit your qualifications, a potential quotation, and samples of your past work to

 mecpu@akfea.org if you are interested.

and MECPU will contact the successful documentarian/filmmaker by 28th February 2020

AKF is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is Committed to Safeguarding and Promoting the Welfare of Children and Vulnerable Adults and Expects all Staff, Consultants and Partners to Share this Commitment

The Aga Khan Foundation is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network 

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