Programme Manager – WeCare and WeLearn Projects job at Enabel

Enabel is the Belgian development agency. It implements Belgium’s governmental cooperation. The agency also works for other national and international donors. With its partners in Belgium and abroad, Enabel offers solutions to address pressing global challenges – Climate Change, Urbanisation, Human Mobility, Peace and Security, Economic and Social Inequality – and to promote Global Citizenship. With 2,000 staff, Enabel manages about 170 projects in twenty countries, in Belgium, Africa and the Middle East.

Background
Enabel in Uganda will be implementing a new Country strategy 2023-2027.

The overall objective is of the interventions is that “Young people and women in Uganda develop into active, economically independent citizens in a sustainable society that respects human rights and ensures quality basic services’’.
Pillar 2 aims to ensure that the rights to safe and quality education and healthcare are more transparently ensured especially for the most in-need populations such as children, women, girls, as well as refugees and host communities. This pillar has a total budget of Euro 47 million over 5 years and is divided into four projects namely.

Within this context, Enabel is seeking to recruit 1 (ONE) Programme Manager to manage the WeCare andWeLearn (Pillar2) projects inorder to achieve the specific objectives of the country portfolio and the interventions.

Background
Job description
Joining Enabel as the Programme Manager, you will be directly reporting to the Resident Representative and you will oversee the team linked to your projects.
• You steer the WeCare&WeLearn (Pillar 2) projects towards high quality management inorder to achieve the country portfolio objectives;
• You coordinate all the activities of the pillar 2 projects in association with the project managers and partners;
• You lead the team placed under your hierarchical responsibility;
• You work at Enabel as a strategy officer, you create optimal conditions for implementing the Uganda country portfolio within the set frameworks of Enabel;

Your profile
Required qualifications
• A Master’s level degree.
Required experience
• 10 years convincing experience of international project management, whether in the international development sector or the private sector,
• Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience in managing either Health or Education related projects;
• At least 5 years’ of experience in team management;
• Professional experience in a multicultural environment;
• Experience in management of multi-million projects;
• Experience in the management of different donors like the European Union and Belgium.

We offer you
• A fascinating/interesting/varied job in an international environment.
• Duty station is Kampala with frequent travels to Albertine/Rwenzori, Busoga and West Nile regions.
• A contract of 39 months, starting date between April and June,2024.
• A salary package that comprises the monthly gross salary, in accordance with our salary scales (class 7)
• The contractual conditions will be established according to the organisation’s salary polices.

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