JOB DETAILS:

The overall purpose of the role:

To oversee, coordinate, and lead the implementation of a 2-year project with funding from the Coca-Cola Foundation. In particular, the Project Coordinator will be the Ugandan lead and will be charged with ensuring that all project activities are comprehensively planned, implemented, monitored, and adapted, leading field-level coordination with the Ecoplastile, the local private sector partner, and ensuring representation with field-level stakeholders across Kampala and the Southwestern regions. This position will report to the Head of Programme and will work closely with both Uganda and Kenya Economic Recovery teams, the DRC teams in Kampala and Southwest to design and implement environmental and livelihoods projects that improve the resilience of communities affected by displacement.

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

Management and Coordination

• Coordinate with the Kenya team, ensuring overall responsibility for the technical management of the project field-level activities in Uganda, including overseeing implementation according to contractual objectives, ensuring the project meets or exceeds agreed targets, annual planning and budgeting for the project, with full accountability to DRC.
• Ensure positive and collaborative working relationships with the implementing partner in line with DRC's Code of Conduct.
• Facilitate collaboration across sectors and with key stakeholders, i.e., government agencies, local partners, community leaders, INGOs, and private companies, including other recycling companies, to ensure that the project model is rolled out and well understood.
• Participate in joint progress review sessions with Ecoplastile and the Kenyan team, as well as internal learning and review sessions to assess any adjustments needed to the project implementation plans and budget allocations.
• Represent DRC publicly at the settlement and national levels, including in livelihood and resilience technical working groups with other agencies and stakeholders, and provide the direct link in communications between DRC's field office and the Kampala office for all matters pertaining to the project.

Implementation and technical support

• • Organize the implementation process of all set targets planned for the project with the Ecoplatile and the Kenyan project team.
  • Ensure that the project operation locations have updated monthly and quarterly implementation plans.
  • Provide oversight of the project in compliance with economic recovery and protection principles and best practices, and DRC and donor regulations, while upholding rigorous project cycle management standards.
  • Provide technical assistance to Ecoplatile during training sessions, recycling, and small-scale entrepreneurship sessions with agents and waste pickers.
  • Ensure the timely and quality delivery of all organizational and project reports and staff contributions to organizational monitoring and evaluation requirements to ensure project quality, relevance, and accountability.
  • Proactively identify and raise with the line manager any delivery risks related to implementation, and work with partners and relevant teams to implement action plans to resolve identified issues
  • Contribute to the strategic direction of the projects through active and ongoing participation in and contribution to strategic planning meetings and development of strategic documents and programme development to sustain programming opportunities.

Program Monitoring, Reporting, and Documentation

• Together with the MEAL department, establish a system to monitor the implementation of project activities as outlined in the detailed implementation plan.
• Maintain strong communication with implementing private sector actors to track progress, consolidate and review partner periodic reports of the project, and communicate with all concerned.
• Ensure that reports are prepared and submitted to donors, in line with donor and organisational requirements.
• Capture and disseminate lessons learnt to contribute to national and regional knowledge sharing and advocacy efforts.

Budget Management

• Monitor spending against budget for the project(s) assigned to you to mitigate risks associated with over or underspending.
• Liaise with functional heads across support services – Finance, Supply Chain, and Human Resources to ensure all the information is available in readiness for Program Monthly Meetings.
• Be overall responsible and accountable for the quality of project deliverables, including meeting donor rules and guidelines while escalating identified risks to the Senior Management Team

About you

To be successful in this role, we expect you to have an understanding of circular economy/circularity, climate adaptive, and climate mitigation measures in livelihood programming. Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Economics, Development studies, Social sciences, or International development. A postgraduate degree is an added advantage.
• At least 5 years’  experience leading the design and implementation of social and economic inclusion and livelihood programming, with at least three years working in refugee contexts.
• Demonstrated experience integrating market and livelihood assessment findings into program implementation strategies.
• Experience in developing and integrating economic inclusion/livelihood strategies for people living in extreme poverty, preferably in a refugee context.
• Experience incorporating gender aspects into program design and implementation is a significant plus.
• An understanding of circular economy/circularity, climate adaptive and climate mitigation measures in livelihood programming.
• A strong understanding of local administrative and government structures – familiarity with Uganda’s social, political, and economic context.
• Knowledge and experience in establishing or supporting Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLAs) and/or similar savings groups.
• Proven experience building staff and stakeholders’ capacity, through training, including adapting/developing materials and facilitation guides.
• Ability to effectively manage competing deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and coordination skills, with the ability to work across multiple teams and with diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to innovate and take a flexible, problem-solving approach in complex humanitarian environments.
• Strong project management skills and experience with donor reporting and proposal writing.
• Familiarity with humanitarian coordination mechanisms and key international standards.
• Ability to travel to remote and isolated rural communities.