Catholic Relief Services Deputy Chief of Party I – Project Implementation for the Restore Africa Program Jobs in Uganda

About Catholic Relief Services:

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. Our Catholic identity is at the heart of our mission and operations. We welcome as a part of our staff and as partners people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need.

CRS has worked in Uganda since 1965, initially providing emergency assistance to Sudanese refugees living in the north. Over the years, CRS has expanded its programming to address needs across the country. CRS’ projects in Uganda currently include agriculture and value chain, landscape restoration and climate change adaption, health and health systems strengthening, microfinance, and DRR, humanitarian response and recovery.

CRS Uganda implements its programs through partnerships with other organizations, including the Catholic Church, faith-based organizations, international and Ugandan NGOs, government ministries, private sector companies and academia, for maximum impact and sustainability. CRS Uganda employs around 180 staff and has its main office in Kampala, with sub-offices in Moroto, Yumbe, and Kikuube districts. With our more than 30 partners, we served over 1m Ugandans in 2021.

The Global Evergreening Alliance (GEA), of which CRS is a member, has secured a six-years, $160 million investment for the Restore Africa Program, which covers six eastern and southern countries.

Job Summary:

You will lead and ensure high quality project implementation of a Land Restoration Initiative in Uganda under the Restore Africa Program of the Global Evergreening Alliance (GEA), of which CRS is a member. CRS in Uganda serves as the Lead Implementing Organization for this Land Restoration Initiative, in a standing partnership with World Vision Uganda and CARE International Uganda.

The team is completed with ICRAF, ECOTRUST, and the Uganda Landcare Network. You will coordinate the development of annual work plans, strategic plans, and donor reports, while also maintaining systems to track program quality. As a senior leader you will proactively help manage security and mitigate security risks.

Job Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage key aspects of the development, implementation, and consolidation of the Land Restoration Initiative in Uganda

• Manage key functions of the project to meet donor/investors’ expectations in terms of timely and quality results and budget.

• Contribute to ensuring coordination between program and operations leads.

• In consultation with the COP, CRS/Uganda CR and HoP make efforts and support a strategy to complement services under the project through identifying, leveraging, and creating linkages with other projects where appropriate.

• Contribute to ensuring the CRS program quality standards are adhered to per CRS policy, procedures, and project management standards.

• Accompany partners in drafting quarterly and annual reports in a timely manner and according to project requirements. Address capacity issues to strengthen quality of reporting.

• Ensure all the project’s approaches are aligned with the GoU priorities, plans and policies

• Address bottlenecks, communicate security responses/adaptations, identify appropriate programmatic pivots or shifts in consultation with COP and scale up best practices to achieve high quality program implementation.

• Effectively manage talent and supervise. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching and mentoring. Strategically tailor individual development plans and complete performance assessments for direct reports. Contribute to the development of staffing plans and the recruitment process of senior staff.

• Manage and mitigate risk

through monitoring national and regional issues that may impact staff and programming. Ensure all staff understand and adhere to CRS staff safety and security policies and plans and ensure the updating of such plans.

• Promote, uphold and model a commitment to the efficient use of agency and donor resources.

• Maintain relationships with key staff of consortium partner organizations. Contribute to coordination of the roles and activities of staff from other consortium member organizations in implementation in line with CRS partnership principles. Ensure program staff cultivate and support partnerships with federal, regional, and district authorities.

• Create and maintain proper conditions for learning. Establish a safe environment for sharing of ideas, solutions, and difficulties and the capacity to detect, analyze and respond quickly to deficiencies. Identify performance gaps and training opportunities for CRS and partner staff and recommend trainings and technical assistance.

• Regularly review the project strategy to ensure relevance and enhance program impact by suggesting appropriate alternative strategies and changes to the technical working groups as well as the project’s senior management.

Typical Background, Experience & Requirements:

Education and Experience:

• Master’s degree in International Development, International Relations or a relevant technical area.

• 7 or more years’ relevant management and technical experience in the areas of natural resource management, land restoration and/or climate change financing.

• 5-years’ experience managing donor funds. Strong knowledge and experience in budget management.

• Demonstrated experience of successful management, including management of functions of complex, high-value, multi-activity projects, with complicated logistics.

• Staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment. Experience coaching.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience engaging partners and strengthening partnerships. Knowledge of CRS partnership strategy a plus.

• Experience in MS Office package (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio), Web Conferencing Applications, and information and budget management systems.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong strategic, analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills, with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment and decisions.

• Strong relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally. Strategic in how you approach each relationship.

• Team leadership abilities with diverse/multi-disciplinary teams. Coaching skills.

• Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented.

Required Languages: English fluency, including excellent oral and written skills, required.

Travel: Must be willing and able to travel up to 40 % to project sites with occasional international travel.

How to Apply

Note: To apply, please follow these instructions exactly otherwise your application will NOT be considered:

• Email a cover letter and CV only to

ug_recruitment@crs.org by June 20th, 2022, at 5:00pm.

• Large files and/or scans of documents will lead to rejection of your application, in the subject line of the email, copy and paste – Deputy Chief of Party I – Project Implementation for the Restore Africa Program only.

• All applications that do not contain this exact subject line will be rejected and not read.

Only Selected Candidates That Meet the Requirements Will Be Notified.

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