Project Officer,(British Council) - Employment, career opportunity in Uganda

Job Title: Project Officer
Organization: British Council
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Project Manager
Deadline: 18th Oct 2013 by 16.00 hours

Context and Environment:
British Council Uganda has its office in Kampala. We deliver a full range of programmes that includes examination administration, school linking projects, higher education partnerships between Uganda and the UK and we also manage grant programmes funded by organisations such as EU and DFID.  The Project Officer is a member of the programmes team, and reports to a Project Manager and may be responsible for more than one project.

Job Summary: The Project Officer will plan, manage and evaluate events and deliver project outputs as per contract with partners: Deliver high quality project activity and events, working with partners and stakeholders in order to meet global, regional and country plans.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Partnerships:

    Deliver projects in accordance to business need, ensuring compliance with all client and corporate standards.
    Deliver projects to agreement and proactively manage partners through positive communication to ensure that projects maintain positive, mutually beneficial relations.

2. Monitoring & Evaluation, Database Management:

    Plan and implement questionnaire surveys, collate, analyse and report results
    Maintain an accurate database of contacts engaged through projects
    Prepare case studies that will be used as evaluation of long term outcomes
    Ensure that project targets set out in all project plans are met

3. Marketing and Communications:

    Deliver the agreed marketing and communications project outputs
    Work with agencies to ensure that promotional and branded materials meet branding standards
    Manage content of publications of various projects


Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

    The applicant should possess a Degree in a related discipline
    Project management qualification is also desirable
    Prior proven experience with governance related projects
    Experience in proposal development

Project management skills:

    Market analysis and business intelligence
    Managing relationships with clients, customers and stakeholders
    Product and service development
    Monitoring, evaluation and reporting

Financial planning and management skills:

    Planning and forecasting
    Managing risk
    Business and system processes

Communications skills:

    Understanding purpose
    Understanding the audience (potential markets and customers)
    Understanding tools and media

How to Apply:
For information on the behaviours and generic skills, please see the section on British Council behaviours and Generic skills in the upper part of this page
Download and complete the British Council application form. Please note that only applications received on the British Council application form will be considered
Send your application via email to application@ppg.co.ug

NB: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. The British Council is committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity and Diversity and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.
The British Council is also committed to a Child Protection Policy; applications will be considered only for candidates who declare their agreement to the Policy.