Project Manager Job at UNHCR Uganda

Title: Project Manager
Project: GBV
Duty station: Kampala, Uganda
Section/Unit: Protection Unit
ICA Level: IICA2
Corresponding level: P3/NOC
Duration: from 01/07/2023 to 31/12/2023
Supervisor: GBV Officer, Sibo MUTANGUHA

1. General Background

As of end of April 2023, Uganda hosted some 1,535,900 million refugees and other persons of concern in the country, including those originating from South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Somalia, Rwanda, and others. 91 percent of the population of concern live in the settlements, while 9 percent reside in urban areas in Kampala. 80 percent of the population comprise women and children, while 3 percent are elderly persons and 24 percent are youth. Uganda’s progressive refugee policy grants refugee’s freedom of movement, the right to seek employment and establish businesses, and to access public services such as education, health care and justice.

Despite a favorable protection environment, the number and vulnerability of refugee’s, scarcity of resources and stress on social-economic amenities continue to hamper the quality of protection. Social Service delivery in the hosting Districts is overstretched requiring support for enhancement to meet the needs of all, both the refugees and their hosts. To protect and enhance the asylum space and promote peaceful co-existence, the refugee response must address the perspectives and expectations of the communities’ hosting refugees.

The GBV Unit in Kampala provides coordination, technical guidance, and field support, including on prevention, response and mitigation and engages refugees in community mobilization and empowerment, ensuring an age gender and diversity (AGD) approach, protection and empowerment of persons with specific needs (PSN), accountability to affected people (AAP) and psychosocial support.

Gender based violence (GBV) is a serious human rights violation and major public health issue. GBV is under reported but known to happen in all contexts. Women and girls everywhere are disproportionately affected and are at heightened risk. Persons we serve are at risk of GBV, irrespective of their age, gender, or other diversity considerations. For the last three years, an average of over 5,000 new SGBV incidents have been identified, managed, and documented in the refugee settings. While these numbers are concerningly high, they are not fully representative of the extent of the situation as under-reporting or delayed reporting of GBV incidents remain a major concern, the ongoing engagement with refugees aimed at attitude/social norm change and general awareness has borne significant dividends over time and needs to be sustained. Timely response to the reported incidents continues to inspire confidence for more refugees to report cases, with the assurance that they will get support, and this similarly needs to be a sustained effort.
UNHCR Uganda aligns its GBV programs to two mutually reinforcing objectives:
– Risk of GBV is reduced for all Persons we Serve
– All survivors have adequate and timely access to quality services.

Under the supervision of the GBV Officer, the project manager will have a portfolio supporting the Gender for Development Uganda (G4DU) project. This project will be implemented in five refugee settlements + Kampala (urban). In addition, the incumbent will support in monitoring other GBV funded projects such as but not limited to, European Union’s ECHO, UN’s Central Emergency Response Funding (CERF).

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