The purpose of this job is to ensure the timely and quality implementation of Child Protection (CP) interventions within the respective settlements. Engagement will be at household, community, zones, parish, sub-county, and district levels. This role requires the staff to have good communication abilities, networking and collaboration abilities, training abilities for communities especially children. Core to the role are skills to raise awareness for prevention and response to child rights violations and the ability to link affected children to services in time, and documentation of on-the-ground experiences and emerging issues in child protection. The Project Manager will lead the project team in Adjumani, Kiryandongo, Palabek, and Palorinya Refugee Settlements to respond to and prevent GBV in response to the current humanitarian and Development needs, Child Protection prevention and response, Access to Justice and legal assistance, cash assistance and shelter and NFI support to extremely vulnerable individuals. With direct management support from the Protection Coordinator, the Project Manager will ensure that the goals and objectives of the projects are met in a timely and effective manner. Specific responsibilities include Program Management and Oversight, ensuring the project activities align with the overall protection strategy, donor commitments, and high-quality service delivery, providing mentorship, training, and technical guidance to field teams on case management, psychosocial support, and prevention strategies, collaborating on the development of new proposals, concept notes, and donor engagement strategies while ensuring alignment with Uganda’s Strategic Action Plan (SAP), providing direct oversight and support to the project team leads in other locations,and performance management and ensuring representation in working groups, coordination meetings, and strategic engagements with donors, OPM and other government actors, partners and other local stakeholders.
