Vacancy title:
Project Coordinator

Jobs at:
Cheshire Services Uganda

Deadline of this Job:
5:00pm on Friday 17th August 2018

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: 6th August 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

JOB DETAILS:

Post: Project Coordinator
Reports to: Executive Director
Duration: 2 Years
Start date: 1st September 2018
Project: Increasing access to waged employment for person s with Disabilities in Kampala
Funder: The Big Lottery Fund

Background
Leonard Cheshire international in partnership with Cheshire Services Uganda, the National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda, National Union of Women with Disabilities of Uganda, Uganda National Association of the Deaf and Uganda National Action on Physical Disabilities has received funds from the Big Lottery Fund to implement a 2 year waged employment project for Persons with Disabilities in Uganda.

Cheshire Services Uganda therefore seeks to recruit a highly competent individual to join our team in the capacity of a Project Coordinator.

Summary of key roles and responsibilities
The Project Coordinator will be the project lead, responsible for planning and managing the project and ensuring compliance to funding contractual obligations, implementation and monitoring, reporting, evaluation , and learning, engagement with key stakeholders particularly prospective employers and policy actors, as well ; as supporting the downstream partners (selected Disabled Persons Organizations or DPOs) to deliver pans ( of the project as per the partnership and funding agreements. The project coordinator is expected to support resource mobilization and any strategies aimed at sustaining the results of the project.

Qualification:
A Bachelors Degree in Development studies, community development, Community Based Rehabilitation, Human Resource Management, Human Rights, Social Work and Social Administration, Social sciences or any other related field.