About Self Help Africa & United Purpose
Self Help Africa (SHA) is an International Non-Governmental Organization implementing rural development, sustainable food and livelihoods security programmes in nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. SHA’s vision is an economically thriving and resilient rural Africa with a mission to support sustainable livelihoods for Uganda’s smallholder farmers. SHA has been working in Uganda for close to 20 years. Self Help Africa Uganda urgently seeks to recruit a suitable candidate to fill the Monitoring and Evaluation, Accountability and Learning position in AMS project in partnership with WFP.

Job Purpose
The Head of Programme and Business Development Coordinator provides overall leadership and management for all SHA- Uganda programme including leading the planning, design, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the country programme and ensuring that the quality of projects, implementation, donor reporting, and field level management is of the highest standards.
The Head of Programme and Business Development Coordinator supports the Country Director in pursuit of business development activities in relation to resource mobilization, partnership development and management. He/She enforces quality assurance with all projects being implemented by SHA in Uganda. The Head of Programme and Business Development Coordinator provides line management support to all Project Managers and Program Coordinators including overall management of their performance and of all the Program staff in Uganda.

The Head of Programme and Business Development Coordinator supports the translating of SHA’s Global Vision and strategy into project implementation and ensuring project design and implementation are geared towards achieving scale and impact, attracting funding to diversify funding resources and that the project implementation processes respond to SHA’s need to strengthen global operating systems. With the support of the Country Director, the Head of Programme and Business Development Coordinator shall steer the process for developing and growing SHA’s country portfolio to reflect a fair balance in the project portfolios that will include but are not limited to Value chain and market systems development, Climate Change, Food security, Youth and Women empowerment.

Key Responsibilities
Key areas of responsibilities include:
• Program Management (25%)
• Program Planning and Budgeting (15%)
• Budget Management and Monitoring (10%)
• Program Reporting (10%)
• Business Development (35%)
• Documentation and lessons learning (5%)