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• Coordination between the local team, the project management unit at HQ and partner institutions in Uganda.

• Liaise and coordinate with the sub-implementing partner’s team in Uganda on entrepreneurship trainings and access to finance ensuring quality management.

• Coordinate and conduct activities with entrepreneurship supporting organisations and relevant actors in the entrepreneurship ecosystem to improve the support to women entrepreneurs with green business models.

• Supporting the project management in managing activities in coordination with internal and external partners, especially the GIZ country teams, country offices, etc.

• Supporting the project management in monitoring and reporting the project objectives and achievements to clients, customers, and commissioning parties.

Specific Tasks

Project Management

• Stakeholder engagement and management

• Project oversight and quality assurance to ensure project activities are in line with agreed objectives (including support to M&E and reporting)

• Contract management (including financial monitoring and engagement with the procurement department).

• Organizing public events jointly with relevant stakeholders (launch, closing or information sessions for specific projects)

• Project conceptualization and design (i.e. development of ToRs and project proposals)

Networking and cooperation

• Supports cooperation with partners, assists with PR work in the project/programme environment to improve and maintain good working relationships.

• Communicates local interests and efforts, forwards these and encourages sharing ideas and information for the benefit of the project.

Knowledge management

• Ensures knowledge transfer to project/ programme information.

• Prepares appropriate input for various project/ programme reports including annual reports and presentation documents

• Assists with research activities and studies on political issues which benefit joint programmes.