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JOB DETAILS:

Summary: The Transitional Justice Specialist is familiar with current and emerging thinking, policy, interventions, trends, and practice in the fields of transitional justice in northern Uganda. The Specialist understands and guides how key stakeholders can be engaged to achieve healing, peace, justice and reconciliation for survivors of war. The Specialist provides input into the strategic direction of the project, and will be responsible for project-related tasks in Uganda, in particular partner and stakeholder engagement, providing support and guidance to program implementation, development, design, and strategy.

The position works in close collaboration with the Ugandan program team (comprised of colleagues based in Uganda and at CVT headquarters, and including staff in operations, finance, M&E, and development) in the development of project partnerships throughout northern Uganda, developing the annual program implementation workplan, and managing the performance against objectives and indicators. S/he will also connect with other CVT transitional justice initiatives globally.

Organization: CVT is an international nonprofit dedicated to providing trauma healing services to survivors of war and other violations. CVT works toward a future in which these violations cease to exist and victims have hope for a new life. CVT is headquartered in Minnesota, USA with offices in Africa and the Middle East. We work locally, nationally and internationally through programs that provide trauma rehabilitation, conduct technical assistance and capacity building to human rights activists, civil society organizations, and local service providers around the world who can prevent and treat gross human rights abuses, and advocate for human rights and an end to gross human rights violations.

Job Responsibilities:
30% Transitional Justice Strategic Leadership
• Ensure CVT programming reflects an up-to-date understanding of local and national context, donor trends, needs and gaps, and who does what and where. This includes helping to identify and prioritize emergent conflicts to address and vulnerable populations to assist.
• Use previous or expert knowledge in transitional justice to help conceptualize, design and lead the project strategy, approach, interventions (including justice pathways and social cohesion programming), and implementation, as well as internal CVT Uganda staff capacity building.
• Provide technical leadership in efforts to promote project innovation and coordination

30% Partnership Development and Community-Building
• Lead efforts to identify and develop strategic partnership opportunities and a comprehensive partner network in collaboration with the in-country leadership team
• Serve as a focal point for project events, including commemorations, observances, exchange visits, information sessions, program monitoring visits, and workshops/conferences.
• Coordinate efforts to identify potential partners to expand CVT’s network, develop criteria for and establish formal and informal collaborations, and to increase appropriate referrals
• Represent the organization with national and local government officials, donors, and media, and at external transitional justice coordination mechanisms, conferences and other fora.
• Support positive relationships between transitional justice stakeholders

25% Project Management
• Serve as technical and project lead on key objectives of a transitional justice initiative that builds on CVTs’ 13+ years of experience in torture survivor rehabilitation in northern Uganda
• In collaboration with the M&E Officer, monitor performance against project goals based on the development of annual implementation workplans
• Contribute to project approval processes and reporting
• In collaboration with M&E, contribute to the design, improvement, and maintenance of program data systems
• Manage assigned budgets in accordance with CVT Finance Policies and Protocols, including expense projections, tracking, monitoring, and reconciliation
• Support the development and monitoring of project implementation plan and timeline

5% Fundraising and Program Development
• Identify and propose new opportunities related to transitional justice within Uganda and the region that are aligned with CVT’s mission, objectives, and partnerships
• Assist in the development of prospective program budgets, workplans, timelines, and other supporting documents for grant modifications and applications

5% Risk Management
• Act as risk management focal point for in-country activities as requested.
• Contribute to project risk analyses, risk level determination, and threat matrices as requested.

5% Other Duties
• Participate in other department and organization-wide activities, meetings and trainings. Complete administrative responsibilities. Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:
Required education, experience, certificates, licenses or registrations

• BA degree required international development, transitional justice, peace studies or related fields.
• Five years of experience in relevant management and supervisory experience in an international or Ugandan non-governmental organization.
• Three years of experience in Transitional Justice field

Preferred education, experience, certificates, licenses or registrations
• Advanced degree in international development, transitional justice, peace studies, or related fields.
• Experience working in mental health and psychosocial programs

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities)
• Required: Familiarity with private, US government, UN and multi-lateral funders.
• Required: Demonstrated success in all areas of program management, including donor proposal development, implementation, project monitoring and evaluation.
• Required: Flexibility, adaptability and sensitivity to working in a complex environment.
• Required: Strong participatory leadership skills.
• Required: Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word and Excel).
• Required: Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communications skills.
• Required: Excellent skills in organization, attention to detail and time management.
• Required: Fluency in English.
• Required: Commitment to the ethical and sensitive implementation of project activities, including a commitment to confidentiality, diversity, equity, and inclusion, quality service provision, and the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (including online)
• Required: Ability to consistently promote and represent a humanitarian and human rights understanding of their work internally and externally, including promoting acceptance of differences and non-discrimination.
• Required: Commitment to and role modeling of human rights approach including: maintaining respect regarding any sensitive issues such as religion, minority or political affiliation and treating colleagues equally regardless of differences. Strong commitment to serve beneficiaries of CVT’s project regardless their religion, gender, disability, minority affiliation or political background.
• Required: Luo language skills

Supervisory Responsibilities:
None

Internal Collaboration: (Uganda)Field Representative, Associate/Psychotherapist Trainers, Psychosocial Counselors, M&E team, HR Manager. (Headquarters) Grants Accountant, Program Manager, Program Coordinator, Clinical Advisor for Mental Health, Evaluation and Research Lead.

External Collaboration: Donors and funders, government representatives at both a regional and national levels, transitional justice partner organization leadership and networks, humanitarian assistance networks, mental health service provision networks.

Work Environment:
• Under normal conditions, work will be completed in a typical office environment with off-site meetings
• Remote working from home when necessary due to public health conditions or other reasons
• Regular work week is Monday through Friday
• Time spent on the computer is approximately 65%

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear and see. The employee frequently is required to sit, stand, walk and climb stairs; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift and carry heavy supplies. This position requires car travel up to 6 hours per one-way journey.

Travel: Ability to travel to a variety of locations within Uganda, and potential ad hoc travel internationally, including travel to CVT’s US Headquarters and/or regional travel.

Note: Only Ugandan Nationals are encouraged to apply

JOB DETAILS:

Who are we?
Our vision for TREEO stems from 8 years of tree planting experience in Indonesia and Uganda where we were able to plant more than 1 million trees together with a highly ambitious team. Working towards this achievement we realised the difficulty of accurately monitoring CO2 sequestration to prove our impact. TREEO is our solution. TREEO collects monitoring data from every single tree, which creates the necessary trust and transparency for small-holder farmers to commercialise carbon removals. This empowers local communities to regenerate the Earth while generating new revenue. We will continue our mission to collectively mitigate climate change!
We have teams based in Kampala, Germany, and Indonesia. Our core development team is based in Kampala.

TREEO Technology
Our product consists of a native Android mobile app written in Kotlin, backend written in TypeScrit, NestJS running on Google Cloud, and web written in React. We use GitHub, ZenHub, Miro, LinearB, SonarCloud, Slack and Basecamp to organize our work.

Role and responsibilities
For this new position, we are looking for a hands-on product owner with an entrepreneurial mindset in Kampala, Uganda. The product owner links the development team in Kampala, Uganda with growers in tropical forests (Uganda, Indonesia) and aligns with the TREEO strategy team in Stuttgart, Germany. Reporting to the CTO, and working in close collaboration with the Operations and Carbon teams, the Product Owner will have the following responsibilities:
• Collaborating with users, customers and internal stakeholders to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements
• Creating and maintaining product roadmap
• Developing user stories
• Owning the product backlog and prioritising them based on changing requirements
• Overseeing all stages of product creation including design and development
• Liaising with the product team and end-users to deliver updates
• Participating in Scrum meetings and product sprints
• Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process
• You must stay close to the dev-team in Uganda: regular on-site and strong aligned online, with regular travels to Indonesia on a regular basis

Required Background
• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field
• Professional English and good communication skills
• Good understanding of agile methodologies and Scrum
• Proficiency in the use of analytic tools
• At least 5 years of experience in a similar position

Preferred capabilities
• Experience building mobile applications for first time users
• Experience building offline-first applications
• International working experience
• Experience working within cross-cultural organisation and start-up environment
• You think analytically and strategically, act goal- and result-oriented, work independently and show a high level of responsibility and commitment
• Your qualities include the ability to work in a team, creativity, flexibility and resilience
• With your confident appearance and your high social competence (sociability, knowledge of human nature, empathy, good verbal skills) you win the trust of your conversation partners and inspire them for the holistic approach and the vision & mission of Fairventures
• You have an affinity for social and environmental issues and identify with the ethical and ecological values of the Fairventures companies

What we offer
• An interesting and varied job with a wide range of creative opportunities
• The opportunity to work with pleasure and commitment on a meaningful and socially relevant task
• A friendly and collaborative working atmosphere in an international and interdisciplinary team
• Initial term of employment is one year but renewable
• Compensation will be commensurate with experience
• Job related travels
• In country health insurance
• Employer retirement plan contributions
• We offer an attractive pay that is competitive in the market.
• We offer a conducive working environment.

JOB DETAILS:

Job Title: Program Executive
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Director of Programs
Application Deadline: December 09, 2022

About this role
The Programme Executive is responsible for the smooth running of the project management functions of FSD Uganda Program Interventions. The Programme Executive makes an important contribution to the achievement of FSD Uganda’s programmatic strategy by freeing up the program technical staff to focus on the substantive technical content of their roles.
The Programme Executive works closely with the assigned pillar heads to ensure that timely and quality support is given to all program technical staff and key stakeholders (e.g., consultants, implementing partners, important contacts).

Key Responsibilities:
1. New Project On-boarding: Support the Pillar teams with the processes involved in gaining approvals for new program interventions, onboarding implementing partners (IPs), and procuring the professional services required for successful implementation:
• Ensure full understanding of each newly conceived project and the project management support that will be required; work collaboratively with the team to develop plans and schedules for the onboarding process
• Assist with the preparation of all documentation required for the onboarding process:
- Assist implementing partners and project teams with grant applications in compliance with Investment Committee standards and requirements.
- Liaise between the project team and the procurement team in the development of Terms of Reference and partner selection criteria.
• Support the team in developing relationships with potential implementing partners; provide support to IPs as they navigate the onboarding process, ensuring that they are kept fully informed and given help with producing documentation to standard (if required)
• Support the team in liaising with key suppliers to ensure maintenance of good relationships and quality of service; liaise with the Legal Team as required to amend contracts and with Finance team to ensure timely payment once delivery has been made
• Provide support to the Pillar teams in entering projects into the program tracker ensuring that key activities and program milestones are comprehensively entered; liaise with the Operations Manager to ensure the involvement of the operations team is scheduled and coordinated

2. Program Implementation Support: Provide logistical and administrative support to the delivery of FSD Uganda Program Interventions; acting as part of the team in ensuring the results articulated in program plans are achieved
• Ensure full understanding of the work and annual plans of each pillar; take initiative to identify ways to reduce the workload of Pillar leadership through the provision of quality project management support
• Provide general research support by reading widely, keeping abreast of current events or news, relevant research and reading resources, emerging developments in the financial sector and the overall economy and sharing relevant information with the team.
• Assist the team in preparing presentations, reports, and other key programme documents; as well as editing and formatting documents as requested and in a way that complies with the FSD Uganda brand
• Support the program technical team in entering records of project progress into the program tracker, results tracking and knowledge management systems; alert the Pillar Heads to any delays or problems
• Assist the program technical team in developing and maintaining good working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders; serve as an information resource on status of project/products and respond effectively to queries from stakeholders

3. Record Keeping: Take overall responsibility in maintenance of all records of FSD Uganda Program Interventions. Setting up a proper and efficient filing system for both physical and electronic information
• Ensure that both physical and electronic records of all Pillar documents are well organised and stored securely, providing support to the team in maintaining comprehensive records and organising electronic scanning where necessary
• Manage the maintenance of all FSD Uganda Program paper-based record systems; ensuring that all documents required in a paper form for conformance with legal, regulatory or contractual obligations are stored effectively for easy retrieval
• Liaise with communication team to maintain the FSD Uganda Program contact database; including frequently scanning business cards from contacts and uploading into the master database

Specifications For the Role
Qualifications
• A bachelor’s degree from a recognised university
• Certification in Project Management (e.g., PMP/ PRINCE2) added advantage

Relevant Experience
• At least 3 years project management work experience; a focus on project administration will be an added advantage
• Proven, strong organisational skills, including the ability to self-start, prioritise and proactively respond to evolving/ unfolding demands
• Strong research and analytical skills
• Experience in managing processes and analysing information
• Demonstrably strong customer focus
• Excellent communication skills (written and spoken); able to interact with both senior and junior stakeholders both internally and externally
• First-rate knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
• Excellent skills in written and spoken English. Demonstrate good attention to detail with grammar, spelling and writing style that will appeal to key stakeholders.
• Team player. Ability to work effectively with colleagues across the organisation

Critical Technical Skills & Knowledge:
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment.
• Research and Data Analytical Skills.
• Understanding of monitoring and results management concepts and processes.
• Excellent spoken and written English language communication skills.

Behavioural Competencies or Character:
• Initiative & Decisiveness - Level 2
• Innovation & Value Addition - Level 2
• Drive for Results - Level 2
• Relationship Building - Level 2
• Communication & Influencing for Impact - Level 2
• Thought Leadership - Level 2
• Learning & Resourcefulness - Level 2