Deputy Country Manager

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Country Manager to support with management of local team and contractors, and all field and community activities
  
• Ensure project activities comply with the policies and regulations of iA
  
• Assist with managing the development and execution of project deliverables, project planning, budgeting, action plans and monitoring processes
  
• Responsible for providing activity reports and to the Country Director in Israel
  
• Oversee and manage the implementation of iA’s community-based sustainability model, including facilitating frequent community meetings with the beneficiary communities, conduct community trainings and sensitization
  
• Help to motivate the project team and monitor project activities and project expenditure and coordinate work with contractors in the project
  
• Ensure close collaboration and coordination with cooperating partners and local contractors to guarantee smooth implementation of activities and achievement of results
  
• Participate in the beneficiary selection processes
  
• Track the progress of ongoing field activities, including conducting community mobilization and oversee technical implementation of iA’s projects in Uganda
  
• Perform monitoring and evaluation of existing projects, work with communities to ensure project’s sustainability
  
• Assist in the management in the operations of the office such as liaising with suppliers, getting quotations, scanning, printing, insurance for vehicles, collecting and sending items through courier service, filling forms, submitting reports etc.
  
• Assist in organizing community trainings in coordination with the districts
  
• Assist in responding to queries from the communities and forwarding the information to the responsible contractors and inhouse engineers
  
• Support Country Manager to establish and manage relationships and communication with local, national, and international stakeholders
  
• Fully coordinate and participate in visits from the international team, donors and guests
  
• Develop and maintain relationships with local government and local partner NGO’s
  

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate is extremely organized, detail oriented, results-driven, and possesses a proven passion for working with rural communities.
  
• Minimum 3-year experience managing teams and supporting communities in a field-based position.
  
• Excellent verbal and written  communication skills.
  
• A strong Deputy has the ability to work closely and in tandem with the Country Manager, anticipating and initiating places where the team requires assistance, but always under the guidance of the lead manager.
  
• Ability to create and monitor the team’s weekly work plans, managing all reporting processes required from the team and contractors and ensuring that it is completed in a timely and efcient manner, enabling completion for 30+ solar and water projects in accordance with each project’s Program of Work.
  
• Demonstrate interpersonal skills and a proven commitment to serve vulnerable communities.
  
• Professional experience working in the field of community development with vulnerable rural communities and exhibit detail orientation and problem-solving skills.
  

How to Apply:

Please send your cover letter and CV as a single PDF attachment to ug.deputy@innovation-africa.odoo.com

Please make the file name your full name and please specify which job position you are applying for in the subject line of the email.