Job Title: Project Manager/ Jobtech for Refugees
Organisation: Mercy Corps
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Program Director / Jobtech Alliance
About US:
Mercy Corps is an international non-profit organization which implements high-quality, analytical development programmes in very difficult places. Mercy Corps has been operating in Uganda since 2006. It has and continues to implement programs in Acholi and Karamoja sub regions. Mercy Corps is taking a community-led, market driven approach to address poverty and food insecurity needs through interventions that get to the root causes and contributing factors of economic vulnerability.
Jobtech for Refugees
Mercy Corps has built a global reputation for innovative economic development programming, particularly working with start-ups, and hosts a venture capital arm called Mercy Corps Ventures. Mercy Corps’ youth employment work places a focus on jobtech and is centered around investing, supporting product innovation, and conducting research on the opportunities for the jobtech sector. In late 2021, Mercy Corps launched the Jobtech Alliance, an ecosystem-building initiative around inclusive jobtech in Africa.
Complementing the work that we’re doing across 10 countries in Africa, in Uganda Mercy Corps’ has a project focused on removing barriers to access on jobtech platforms (gigmatching, jobmatching, ecommerce) for refugees. This “Jobtech for Refugees” project is implemented in collaboration with BFA Global. The program will deploy a range of supports to start-ups including technical assistance, project delivery support, grant capital and connections to partners, and complement it with support to refugees to access these new opportunities.
Present in Uganda since 2006, Mercy Corps Uganda’s aim is to catalyze change through the Ugandan private sector, civil society, and government to create resilient, economically inclusive, healthy, and secure communities by 1) strengthening market systems that enable inclusive growth and resilience; 2) strengthening governance; 3) promoting health and nutrition outcomes; and 4) meeting the immediate needs of refugees and host communities while strengthening market systems and resilience capacities.
Job Summary: The Project Manager will be responsible for coordinating on-the-ground engagement with refugees, refugee-led organisations (RLOs), government, and other stakeholders in the Jobtech for Refugees project. S/he will work closely with the Venture Building Manager (based in Kenya) and BFA Global, who will be responsible for developing partnerships with jobtech start-ups.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Stakeholders Management
Development Of Refugee Support Interventions
Support Refugee-Led Organizations (RLOS) To Effectively Connect Refugees to Jobtech Platforms
Project Management
Learning & Field-Building
Team Management
Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
How to Apply:
All interested applicants must submit their Cover Letter & CV saved in 1 document as PDF of no more than 5 pages at the link below.
NB:
Deadline: 31st January 2023
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