Vacancy title:
Organizational Capacity Development Sector Head

Jobs at:
World Education inc. /Bantwana ( WEI/B )

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, August 25th 2017 by 5:00pm.

Duty Station:
Jinja, Uganda

Job details:
World Education inc. /Bantwana ( WEI/B ) is a Non-Government. Organization that helps children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/ AIDS to access the comprehensive support and care they need to grow into healthy adults. Learn more at bantwana.org World Education inc. IBantwana (WEIIB) is implementing a five-year USAID funded BETTER OUTCOMES Project for Children and Youth in Eastern and Northern Uganda. The goat of the project is to improve the wellbeing of children and youth orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV and other adversities in Eastern and Northern Uganda. BETTER OUTCOMES is implemented by a consortium of five partners, namely: WEI/B as the prime partner; Mercy Corps, Uganda Women's Efforts to Save Orphans (UWESO), Youth Alive and Friends of Christ Revival (FOC-REV); each responsible for specific technical aspects of the project. The project is being implemented in 20 districts.

As an equal opportunity employer, WEI/Bantwana is seeking to hire qualified persons to fill the following position;

Position: Organizational Capacity Development Sector Head
Reports to: Country Director
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda

Job Summary:
The Organizational Capacity Development Sector Head will work closely with the Country Director to drive and manage organizational development activities with project partners under the USAID funded Better Outcomes project. He/she will design materials and provide technical assistance to CSOs and other partners as part of WEI's capacity building component. Capacity building will focus on CSO management and internal systems, including finance, operations, and M&E. Interventions will be tailored to strengthen capacity building gaps, including using evidence for improved programming focused on improved access and quality of OVC care and support, and community advocacy to reduce the vulnerability and improve the well- being of Uganda's orphans and other vulnerable children. The Organizational Capacity Development Sector Head will also serve as the technical liaison between the WEI/Bantwana team in Uganda and resources within World Education (from both the Boston based staff and best practices in organizational capacity development across WEI/Bantwana‘s projects globally) and global innovation and best practices. He/she will also work with the JSI/WEI Center for Capacity Development.

Major responsibilities:

• Design, implement and manage capacity building program to strengthen the organizational capacity of CSO partners.
• Manage logistics tor all key capacity building activities including assessments, trainings and technical assistance.
• Serve as the focal person for all TA requests, follow-up and linkages within the project and across partners.
• Support coordination of all capacity building efforts across the projects organizational and technical areas. Coordinate efforts across program technical platforms.
• Support delivery of finance and operations technical support to CSO partners.
• Closely monitor and track the implementation and progress oi organizational capacity building initiatives and benchmarks. Contribute to compilation oi monthly capacity building reports and quarterly report drafts.
• Assist the M & E team in the design of and monitoring and evaluation systems to effectively capture data for benchmark reporting and tracking oi capacity building progress.
• Train, mentor and coach partner field staff.
• Track and monitor capacity building project expenses.
• Document capacity building best practices for sharing across program teams and with CSO and government partners.
• Strengthen the organizational capacity building, governance and HR systems
• Partisanship and networking

Qualification, Knowledge, Skills, Attributes and Abilities:

• Advanced degree in public health, public administration, social sciences, or business administration and minimum oi 5 years relevant working experience;
• Demonstrated experience in local NGO training and building organizational and OVC sewice delivery capacity of local Ugandan organizations;
• Proven experience in assessing technical capacity of organizations, developing customized capacity building plans and providing individualized training, mentoring and on-site support in various technical areas of need;
• Experienced in training oi trainers design, material development and implementation for achievement of community based capacity building program objectives;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; and
• Ability to work independently, take initiative and leadership.

Job application procedure

Interested applicants with the required Qualification, Knowledge. Skills, Attributes and Abilities should send their applications and CVs (detailing responsibilities carried out in previous positions) to the Human Resource Manager, World Education inc. Bantwana through the following Email: wei_recruitment@ug.worlded.org.  indicate clearly on the application subject line the position applied for and the location/Duty station for easy reference. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.