Project Manager Social Protection & Decent Work at Enabel Uganda

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Project Manager Social Protection & Decent Work (m/f/x) – Uganda

Enabel is the Belgian development agency. It implements Belgium’s governmental cooperation. The agency also works for other national and international donors. With its partners in Belgium and abroad, Enabel offers solutions to address pressing global challenges – Climate Change, Urbanisation, Human Mobility, Peace and Security, Economic and Social Inequality – and to promote Global Citizenship. With 2,000 staff, Enabel manages about 170 projects in twenty countries, in Belgium, Africa and the Middle East.

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Background

The Belgian bilateral cooperation has been active in Uganda for more than 20 years, supporting the Government of Uganda in its development agenda in various (sub)sectors: health, teacher education, skills and employment, environment, climate-smart infrastructure, etc.

Enabel has formulated a 5-year portfolio with a budget of €50m on Social Protection and Decent Work with the aim of ensuring a sustainable improvement of the living conditions of the most vulnerable populations in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. This will be achieved through investing in social protection systems and decent work in order to promote sustainable, inclusive and socioeconomic development.

The project focuses on the labour component of social protection, with a particular focus on four strategic areas: (a) creation of decent work and productive employment, (b) social protection, (c) rights at work and (d) social dialogue. Special attention will further be given to the formalisation of informal work and gender. In Uganda, the target sectors will majorly be agriculture, tourism and hospitality in the Rwenzori/Albertine region.

Job description

Joining Enabel as a Project Manager in Social Protection and Decent Work you will be directly reporting to the Portfolio Manager and you will be in charge of supervising an initial team of 4 people.

  • You work at Enabel as an intervention manager;
  • You are responsible for the good execution of the project (content, planning, budget, quality);
  • You coordinate the realisation of the activities with a view of achieving the project objectives;
  • You support the team members to lead the change process;
  • You contribute to capacity development of local and international partner organisations;
  • You coordinate the learning process on how the intervention contributes to the development of social protection and decent work and you contribute to the institutionalization of good practices at the national level;
  • You lead the team placed under your hierarchical responsibility while ensuring the functional link with other programmes in Uganda (health, support skilling for Uganda…);
  • You ensure that relevant results information is available for monitoring and evaluation in order to allow monitoring of performance, decision-making, learning and reporting.

Your profile

Required qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Social Science, Law, Sociology, Social Protection & Labour Rights, Economics or other related field;
  • An additional Post Graduate Diploma specialized in Decent work/ Social protection and having experience in capacity building for public actors is an asset

Required experience 

  • Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in steering international development projects;
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in Social Protection and/or Decent Work;
  • Minimum one relevant professional experience outside your country of origin;
  • An experience as team manager;
  • Experience in several projects is an asset.

Required skills and knowledge

  • Je hebt een grondige kennis van de methodes voor projectmanagement;
  • Je hebt een uitstekende kennis van de stelsels voor sociale bescherming en waardig werk op nationaal en operationeel niveau;
  • Je hebt een grondige kennis van het scheppen van banen, de ontwikkeling van de private sector en de ontwikkeling van vaardigheden;
  • Kennis van sociale bescherming en waardig werk in Oeganda, de institutionele structuur van de Oegandese instellingen voor sociale bescherming en fatsoenlijk werk, en de relevante belanghebbenden is een pluspunt;
  • Kennis van de voorschriften en procedures van de Internationale Arbeidsorganisatie (IAO) is een pluspunt;
  • Je bent in staat betrekkingen aan te knopen en te onderhouden en te onderhandelen met overheidsambtenaren, vertegenwoordigers van het maatschappelijk middenveld, vertegenwoordigers van werknemers- en werkgeversorganisaties en academici;
  • Je hebt competenties in monitoring en evaluatie;
  • Je bent resultaatgericht en in staat je team ook in die zin te inspireren;
  • Je beschikt over sterke vaardigheden in tijdbeheer/organisatie en je kunt onder druk werken;
  • Gezien Engels de werktaal is in Oeganda en gezien je in een internationale omgeving zal werken, is een uitstekende kennis van het Engels vereist. Voor de contacten met de DRC en Rwanda wordt kennis van het Frans als een pluspunt beschouwd.

Je verbindt je ertoe de visie, missie en waarden van Enabel te respecteren (https://www.enabel.be/nl/content/visie-missie-waarden-van-enabel).

We offer you

  • A fascinating job in an international environment.
  • A contract of 54 months. You are based in Fort Portal with frequent missions to Kampala.
  • A salary package that comprises the monthly gross salary, in accordance with our salary scales (Class 6), and Enabel expat benefits such as a remoteness, assignment and hardship allowance, (capped) coverage of housing expenses, a moving compensation, an installation compensation, (capped) coverage of school expenses for children accompanying, an insurance package for the whole family, including repatriation insurance, and an annual round-trip flight ticket for each family member.
  • In case of expatriation without the (dependent) members of the family, up to six additional round-trip flight tickets to the country of origin or another destination (capped in accordance with Enabel rules).

The various amounts vary in function of relevant recognised experience for the function and family composition.

Following this recruitment procedure a shortlist of successful applicants may be constituted which may be sourced in the next three years for similar job openings.

Every person who fulfils the conditions listed in our job advertisements may apply. Enabel is committed to equal opportunities and diversity in its workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability status or any other factor other than competence.

Are you interested?

Apply here on-line with an application letter and your updated CV, at the latest by 30 March 2022.

Only applications that are registered here via our on-line portal will be considered.

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