Background
DRC is an International non-governmental organisation, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world.
In Uganda, DRC assists the refugees from neighbouring countries mainly DR Congo and South Sudan in the South West, West and West Nile region of the country. DRC’s assistance to refugees have been both emergency assistance to address the short term influxes from the neighbouring countries as well as to address the sustainable solutions for the refugees. DRC is also the lead of a Consortium (Save the Children, ZOA, and CEFORD) for the implementation of an EU Trust Fund project in the refugee settlements in West Nile (Rhino camps, Adjumani and Kiryandongo settlements).
Purpose
The Conflict Management officer supports the PCSC Coordinator and EU Trust Fund Project Manager in the field implementation of all Conflict Management (CM) components of the EU Trust Fund Project in Adjumani settlement, Uganda. The Conflict Management Officer will closely monitor the quality of the activities and ensure a close coordination with the authorities, Security providers and the community for the implementation of the activities.
Key Responsibilities
Coordination/ Representation
• Under the supervision of the PCSC Coordinator and EU Trust Fund Project Manager, attend and represent the interests of DRC in all conflict management/protection related meetings
• Actively coordinate within the jurisdiction of your responsibility
• Represent DRC with the Local Authorities and other stakeholders in the districts of jurisdiction.
• Actively participate in internal coordination meeting to ensure internal coordination with protection team and other sectors
• Contribute and actively participate in a regular sector meeting
• Act as primary link between the assigned target communities
Project development, implementation and reporting
• Contribute to concept and proposal development in the Conflict Management/Protection thematic areas
• Contribute to the gap analysis in the Conflict Management/Protection areas of and contribute in the development of new thematic areas according to analysis
• Responsible for day to day activity implementation through efficient and effective way
• Contribute to the design of capacity building syllabus and materials and effectively implement the trainings at all level
• Manages the day-to-day Conflict Management/Protection activities, including budget follow ups while bearing in mind DRC’s/Donor financial regulations.
• Prepare weekly work plans for the team, submit it to the PCSC Coordinator and EU Trust Fund Projects Manager and circulate to the DRC Teams and ensure work plans are implemented as per the approved work plan.
• Monitor and document DRC’s Conflict Management/Protection activities.
• Prepare/contribute to weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, donor and other reports in the areas of Conflict Management/Protection.
Staff management
• Supervise Conflict Management Assistants working for the EU Trust Fund project in districts of jurisdiction.
• Uphold DRC’s code of conduct and principles of accountability
• Provide technical and programmatic leadership for the Conflict Management staff members and community based structure in Adjumani operational area as needed.
• Develop staff performance measurement and targets and appraise them based on the set targets.
• Conduct daily field visits to support field staffs – mentoring – through technical back stopping and to train duty bearers
Logistics /Finance
• Support the PCSC Coordinator and EU Trust Fund Manager to monitor financial commitments and expenditures against EU Trust Fund budget
• Actively participate in Budget follow up meeting and provide timely feedback on budget follow ups
• Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movements of staff from and to different clusters.
• Ensure annual and monthly procurement plan for activities for the next month is submitted to logistics department by the end of current month.
• Ensure order requests are duly filled well in advance for the activities to be carried out to provide logistics department adequate time for planning.
• Ensure correct financial procedures are followed by the Conflict Management (CM) team
• Ensure all accountabilities documents are duly signed and returned by the CM Team.
Reporting Arrangements
The Conflict Management Officer reports to the Protection and Community services Coordinator (PCSC). In absence of the PCSC, the Conflict Management Officer reports to the EU Trust Fund Project Manager.
Personal Specifications
Essential:
• Degree law or social sciences with at least 3 years work experience in similar position.
• Excellent knowledge in preparing major international donor reports.
• Knowledge and experience of working with Echo, EU donors.
• Possess strong analytical and conceptual skills.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
Competencies
• Proven commitment to accountable practices.
• Knowledge of working in challenging environments.
• Proven ability to manage large varied workloads and deal constructively with stress and periods with long hours.
• Proven ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines and work with limited supervision
• Proactive, stable and robust character and a good team player.
• Excellent communication skills, calm and a good sense of humour.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective working relations at all levels.
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