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Save the Children International is an international relief organization that was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts.
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Kampala, Uganda
Save the Children Fund is a leading international non-governmental organization committed to improving the lives of children around the world through access to education, healthcare, protection, and emergency relief, with a mission to ensure that every child has a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. Founded in 1919 in the UK, the organization has earned a global reputation for its evidence-based advocacy, transparency, and long-standing impact in humanitarian and development contexts.
With a people-first culture, Save the Children fosters diversity, equity, and inclusion, and offers dynamic career paths, capacity-building programs, and flexible work arrangements that empower staff to thrive professionally while driving meaningful change. Its innovative, rights-based approach leverages technology, partnerships, and community engagement to deliver sustainable solutions tailored to local contexts.
Operating in over 100 countries, the organization has a vast reach, impacting millions of lives annually, and upholds strong core values including accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity. Save the Children’s extensive CSR portfolio reflects its deep commitment to social justice, environmental stewardship, and child rights, influencing global policies and mobilizing resources for underserved populations. For more information, visit www.savethechildren.net.
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Full Time
Deadline:
8 Jan 2025
Job Title
Chief of Party job at Save the Children International
Save the Children International
Job Description
Job Title: Chief of Party, Uganda Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA)
Organisation: Save the Children International
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Save the Children is seeking a Chief of Party (COP) for an anticipated five-year USAID-funded Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in Uganda. The RFSA will work at the individual, household, and community levels using the Graduation Approach to address the underlying causes of food insecurity in the face of shocks and stresses. The estimated implementation timeframe for the RFSA is 2025 – 2030. The proposed program will be an integrated, multi-sectoral food and nutrition security intervention.
The COP is responsible for the overall management and representation of the activity and is ultimately accountable for the delivery of desired program results, an effective adaptive management approach, relationships with a range of stakeholders, including USAID, public and private partners, and management of the program team and consortium. The Chief of Party (COP) will provide strategic leadership and overall management of the RFSA project, ensuring alignment with donor expectations and adherence to Save the Children’s program quality standards.
Hiring is contingent upon successful award of the project and USAID approval of the candidate.
National candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
This position will be based in Kampala, Uganda.
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Deadline: 8th January 2025
Manage the overall administrative, financial, and technical activities of the program.
Lead overall program planning, putting in place team structures, technical and operational approaches, infrastructure, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and feedback loops required for program delivery and success.
Provide strategic and technical leadership, defining and implementing activities to achieve project goals and objectives. Oversee technical direction and project delivery, ensuring compliance with performance frameworks and operational policies.
Lead partnerships within the program consortium, as well as with external stakeholders as needed, to foster the teamwork required for program success.
Represent the program to donor officials, host government officials, partner representatives, local stakeholders, working groups and team members.
Manage relationships with consortium partner organizations, coordinating roles and activities.
Develop communication strategies and materials that comply with donor and SCI’s branding requirements. Publish program results and deliver presentations, ensuring effective information dissemination about project achievements and lessons learned.
Ensure alignment and cross-learning with Save the Children’s program and technical priorities in country and with the US Office.
Build a strong program leadership team ensuring effective coordination between key technical, operational, and administrative functions.
Review, approve and contribute to major program strategies such as the M&E plan, the learning plan, the collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) approach, the gender strategy, and technical or thematic strategies. Provide oversight and quality control to the program’s thematic approaches and implementation, leading course corrections as required.
Lead annual planning processes and associated donor resource requests, monitoring implementation progress as compared to these plans.
Ensure the quality of all program deliverables, inclusive of activities, outputs, documentation, and reporting.
Ensure sound program financial management and reporting.
Ensure sound program logistical and operational structures and management.
Ensure compliance with donors, host government, and Save the Children policies and procedures.
Recruit, develop and manage the program team, ensuring that adequate and appropriate capacity building plans are in place and that human resources policies are appropriate for team retention and high performance.
Demonstrate a commitment to gender and youth integration in both the programmatic and operational aspects of the activity.
Ensure that the program deploys an effective CLA approach, such that the activity can evolve in a changing context to achieve desired outcomes.
Oversee the program’s security management approach, working with country office counterparts.
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Qualifications, Education and Competencies
University degree required. A master’s degree in development studies, international relations, agriculture, economics, business administration, or a related field preferred.
10-12 years of senior level professional experience designing, managing, and implementing large, complex ($25M+) USAID-funded international development activities, preferably in a program director, Deputy Chief of Party or Chief of Party role.
Proven leadership skills managing projects of a similar size and scope in developing countries facing complex, volatile, and uncertain contexts.
Experience with USAID and US Government regulations.
Prior experience effectively managing USAID development or resilience activities; preferably involving the Graduation approach.
Demonstrated experience in managing program implementation, financial reporting, reporting procedures and systems, and staff.
Experience in recruiting and strengthening the capacity of program staff.
Proven ability to build and maintain relationships with host country governments, donors, and other key stakeholders.
Previous work experience working in Uganda or East Africa and technical expertise in food and nutrition security, resilience, natural resource management, livelihoods, or similar.
Familiarity with the social, political, economic, and cultural landscape of Uganda is preferred.
Understanding and demonstrated commitment to the importance of gender and youth dynamics in programming.
Skills in adaptive management and learning techniques highly preferred.
Proven success serving in a leadership role for a project addressing issues related to food security, nutrition, resilience, agriculture, natural resource management, livelihoods, or similar, preferably in Uganda.
Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills in English.
Commitment to child rights and to the aims and objectives of Save the Children.
