Grade: NOB
Publication date: 31 March 2021
Application deadline (midnight local time Kampala, Uganda): 29 April 2021
Vacancy no.: DC/DAR/NO/2021/4
Job ID: 5875
Department: RO-Africa
Organization Unit: CO-Dar es Salaam
Location: Kampala
Contract type: Fixed Term
The recruitment process for National Officer positions is subject to specific local recruitment and eligibility criteria.
The following are eligible to apply:
*Conditions of employment for external candidates: In conformity with existing ILO practice, the appointment of an external candidate will normally be made at the first step of this grade. The entry level salary for this position is 136,118,000 (Ugandan) yearly.
Introduction
The Government of the Netherlands has launched a new partnership initiative – the PROSPECTS Partnership Programme (hereafter referred to as the “programme”) in response to the Global Compact on refugees underpinned by the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants adopted at the the UN General Assembly in September 2016 and its Annex the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF). PROSPECTS builds on the combined strengths, experience and values of specific development and humanitarian organizations to develop a new paradigm in responding to forced displacement crises. The partners include: the Government of the Netherlands, International Labour Organization (ILO), International Finance Corporation (IFC), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), United National High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Bank. The programme aims to help transform the way governments and other stakeholders, including the private sector, respond to forced displacement crises – and in particular: (1)to enhance the enabling environment for the socio-economic inclusion of forcibly displaced persons (to mitigate their plight during years of exile and to best prepare them for their return); (2) to enhance access to education and child protection for vulnerable children on the move; and (3) to strengthen the resilience of host communities through inclusive socio-economic development that also benefits forcibly displaced persons.
The PROSPECTS Partnership is implemented in eight counties covering two regions: MENA (Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon) and the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Sudan). The partnership will be grounded on results-based and country-led approaches (“bottom up”). The programme aims to accelerate efforts to find sustainable solutions for countries confronted with large influxes of refugees. It will also aim to develop and implement evidence-based solutions, tailored to each context – as well as to test, and learn from, innovative operational solutions, including improving the availability, collection and use of data and evidence.
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The ILO brings to the programme significant expertise and experience in supporting enabling environments to underpin inclusive socio-economic growth and decent work, strengthen labour markets and promote access to improved working conditions and fundamental rights at work, including through the involvement of its tripartite national constituents The ILO intervention will stimulate labour market demand and immediate job creation through employment-intensive investment, local economic and business development and promotion of specific value chains and market systems. The ILO will provide targeted support to labour market institutions, services and compliance and monitoring mechanisms that facilitate the integration of refugees into the labour market. The ILO will also bring expertise on technical and vocational education and training and on the recognition of prior learning for certifying the skills of refugees to better ensure access to the labour market, and methods for assessing labour market demand to provide the right skills to refugees needed by employers.
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The ILO's Employment Intensive Investment programme (EIIP) supports countries in the design, formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies and programmes aiming to address unemployment and underemployment through public investment, typically in infrastructure development and environmental works. EIIP works entail employment-intensive and local resource-based approaches for the production of public assets in a range of sectors such as road construction and maintenance, water and drainage, irrigation infrastructure, reforestation, and soil conservation. The approach entails the application of a well-designed system optimizing local resources, technology and management processes to produce or maintain public social and productive assets to the required technical standards cost efficiently and effectively to meet desired objectives, while generating local employment directly and stimulating the local economy. Central to the effective application of the approach is the development of technical skills and management capacity within both the public, private sector and skilled and unskilled workers. EIIP is an integral part of the ILOs technical assistance to stimulate the local labour market demand, create immediate job creation through employment-intensive investment and ensure skills and enterprise development for sustained application of local resource-based approaches.
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The EIIP National Programme Coordinator will be responsible for the delivery of all EIIP elements within PROSPECTS and other ILO projects/programming seeking and ensuring complementarity with other ILO PROSPECTS components and the partner project activities in Uganda. ILO interventions can provide important levers and links to all other partner agencies to increase market driven skills training, stimulate the local economy and create resilient, inclusive labour-markets and decent jobs for the refugees and their host communities. In particular, t he project will be implemented in three refugee settlements: Rhino Camp and Imvepi in the West Nile region, and Nakivale in the South West region of Uganda. The project will benefit both refugee and host communities in the three districts of Terego, Madi Okollo and Isingiro. The overall objective of the project is to enhance the prospects of vulnerable refugees and host communities through improving psychosocial wellbeing, skills and livelihood opportunities and social cohesion. This will be done by promoting wellbeing and creating pathways to self-reliance through skills-building, enterprise promotion, decent work opportunities and supporting community-led activities that engender social cohesion. Together with UNHCR, the project will establish multi-purpose community centres that will offer mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), skills training, enterprise development and livelihood support. The process of establishing and operating the centres will foster community cohesion and build a common sense of purpose. The project will work with local district authorities in planning and operating these centres to ensure their institutionalization and sustainability
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PROSPECTS Programme in Uganda
The PPROSPECTS Programme in Uganda aims to achieve the overall impact of improved sustainable living conditions for women, men, girls and boys in refugee and vulnerable host communities in Uganda by 2023. The theory of change stipulates that this will happen IF the programme results in:
Reporting Lines
Under the overall guidance of the Director of the ILO Country Office in Dar es Salaam, the EIIP National Programme Coordinator will perform the duties outlined below, under the direct supervision of the Programme Technical Officer leading country-level implementation of the PROSPECTS programme and will receive further technical guidance from the DWT Specialist, the EIIP Regional Specialist for the programme based in Addis Ababa.
Description of Duties
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Required qualifications
Education
First level university degree in a technical field related to Civil Engineering, Development, Economics or another related discipline
Experience
Three years' experience in infrastructure sector, rural economic development and proven experience on employment intensive approaches. Knowledge of local government structures and their operations, governments' refugee response programmes and modus operandi is an added advantage.
Languages
Excellent knowledge and command of English. Good knowledge of another official language of the duty station.
Competencies
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Substitution of experience for university degree
Equivalent work experience may be considered in lieu of a University degree in accordance with the table below.
Education required
Equivalency for applicants who do not possess a university degree or post-secondary diploma
Equivalency for applicants who do not possess a university degree but who possess a post-secondary diploma
University degree (Bachelor's or equivalent) in a field relevant to the job
Completion of secondary school
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Six years of relevant work experience (in addition to the number of years of experience required in the job description)
Completion of secondary school
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Diploma/certificate from post-secondary education
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Four years of relevant work experience (in addition to the number of years of experience required in the job description)
Recruitment process
Please note that all candidates must complete an on-line application form. To apply, please visit the ILO Jobs website. The system provides instructions for online application procedures.
Assessed candidates who will be considered as appointable but not selected for this position can also be offered to be assigned on another temporary position at the same or at a lower grade provided that said candidates possesses the minimum qualifications for this position
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