Program Director Job at The Water Trust

Program Director Job

Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day

Salary: Attractive

Job Deadline: 14 March 2022

Number of Jobs: 01

Hiring Entity: The Water Trust

The Water Trust

Location: In Uganda

Job Details:

The Program Director will lead the program design and implementation of innovative, sustainable WASH programs to support poor rural communities. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Program Director will participate in the Senior Management Team (SMT) and manage directly a WASH social team manager, WASH technical team manager, and monitoring and evaluation officer. As part of the SMT, the Program Director will contribute to the organization’s long-term program development strategy. As the head of the program team, the Program Director will lead his or her team to effectively design and implement programs to advance that strategy, mobilize funds for future programs, and represent the organization at national and international events. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in facilitating participatory, data-driven program design processes and expertise in leveraging savings groups to help communities improve their lives through WASH or other rural development sectors, such as agriculture.

Responsbities
• Program: lead and mentor program managers to effectively manage projects and teams, ensuring quality implementation and reporting.
• Program innovation: leverage community-level insights with peer learning and academic research to develop innovative new pilots to find new ways to deepen impact.
• Representation: proactively build relationships in NGO sector, build visibility of The Water Trust’s innovations and capabilities, and grow new and existing relationships to help scale our self-help group model and fund new innovations.
• Leadership: contribute to the organization’s strategy and support the COO in organizational development to support a high-performance work environment where staff are engaged and supported to develop as professionals.

Knowledge and Experience
• Ugandan Country National strongly preferred.
• Master’s degree in related field strongly preferred.
• 10-20 years of experience in Uganda, including at least five years of experience in a leadership position in a high-performing development organization of a similar size, or in a regional leadership position of a larger INGO.
• Experience and expertise related to savings groups, behavior change programming, and rural development required.
• Experience in WASH strongly preferred.
• Experience collaborating with government and international agencies in developing NGO-government partnerships strongly preferred.
• Experience facilitating participatory program design processes and collaborating with academic researchers strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully plan and manage the implementation of large multilateral grants.
• Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills, and an ability to communicate across functional areas and cultural contexts.
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Strong analysis, writing, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage results and develop a high performing team.
• Ability and willingness to travel to rural communities, at times with availability of only very basic amenities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
• Desirable: speaks one or more of the following languages: Swahili, Runyoro, Luo, Iteso, Lugbara, Lugisu.