Project Manager-Food Systems and Economic Self-Reliance

DRC Uganda is currently looking for a highly qualified and motivated individual to join our dynamic team as Project Manager-Food Systems and Economic Self-Reliance. This role is contingent upon the successful securing of funding for the project. The overall purpose of the role: The Project Manager will provide overall technical leadership, project management and coordination for DRC's Food Systems and Economic Self-Reliance project in West Nile, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery of interventions aimed at enhancing food and nutrition security and economic self-reliance among refugees and host communities through climate-resilient, inclusive and market oriented food systems. He/she will provide technical and managerial oversight across the project's integrated areas of climate-smart and regenerative agriculture, market systems and financial inclusion, natural resource and ecosystem management, nutrition-sensitive livelihoods, gender equality and women's empowerment. He/she will ensure that interventions build on DRC's established resilience programming, farmer groups, delivery systems and technical approaches, while strengthening productivity, market orientation, sustainable livelihood and linkages with private-sector actors. He/she will be responsible for overall project cycle management, team leadership, MEAL, risk management, donor compliance and reporting. He/she will also lead coordination and representation with government authorities, refugee and host-community structures, private-sector actors, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure effective delivery, complementarity, sustainability and achievement of project results. Responsabilités Your main duties and responsibilities will be: Project Cycle Management and project delivery Provide overall leadership and management of the project, ensuring timely and quality implementation in line with the approved project design, results framework, budget, workplan, DRC procedures and donor requirements. Lead project start-up, detailed implementation planning, periodic review and close-out processes, ensuring effective application of DRC Project Cycle Management standards. Develop and regularly review project implementation plans, spending plans, procurement plans and activity schedules, ensuring appropriate sequencing of interventions with agricultural seasons and project priorities. Monitor implementati...