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The key responsibilities of the role will be:

Grant Management:

• Ensure that each project team lead have a comprehensive grants tracker covering key milestones, reporting deadlines, budget utilization, and deliverables across all active grants in the GOAL Uganda portfolio.
• Coordinate the preparation and timely submission of high-quality donor reports (narrative and financial), ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment with contractual obligations.
• Serve as the primary focal point for grants-related compliance, proactively identifying risks and working with project teams to address gaps or deviations from donor agreements.
• Facilitate grants kick-off and review meetings with project teams and finance, ensuring all stakeholders understand grant conditions, timelines, and reporting requirements.
• Maintain organized and up-to-date grants documentation, filing, and awards management systems to support audits, evaluations, and institutional data and learning.
• Monitor budget vs. actual expenditure in collaboration with the finance team, flagging underspending or overspending risks and supporting corrective action.

Internal and external programmes coordination:

• Coordinate closely with Project Team Leads and the Country Management Team to ensure seamless alignment and integration across the GOAL Uganda Country Programme Portfolio.
• Facilitate effective communication and information flow between GOAL Headquarters, regional offices, and the Uganda country office to foster organisational alignment and synergy.
• Support the development, implementation, and monitoring of the country strategy and Annual Country Action Plan, tracking progress against strategic objectives and reporting to senior management.
• Utilize workflow management tools to drive robust programmes coordination, oversight and timely feedback/guidance/actions by members of the country management team and relevant departments at headquarters.
• Coordinate cross-programme learning and knowledge sharing initiatives to promote programme innovation and quality improvement across the country portfolio.
• Liaise with external partners, including NGOs, government agencies, and implementing partners, to support joint programming, collaboration, and partnership management.
• Coordinate programmes review meetings and lessons-learned sessions, documenting outcomes and ensuring follow-up actions are tracked and implemented.

Programmes/Proposal Development:

• Lead and coordinate the development of high-quality, evidence-based funding proposals and concept notes, ensuring submissions are timely, compliant, and compelling to prospective donors.
• Conduct thorough donor landscape analysis and funding opportunity mapping to identify strategic opportunities aligned with GOAL Uganda’s mission and programmatic priorities.
• Collaborate with Project Team Leads, technical staff, and finance to develop realistic programme designs, logical frameworks, budgets, and work plans that meet donor expectations.
• Harness data, evidence, and programme learnings to strengthen proposal narratives and demonstrate impact, ensuring submissions are grounded in context-specific needs and best practices.
• Support programme innovation by integrating new approaches, technologies, and cross-sectoral strategies into programme and proposal design.
• Maintain and continuously update a proposal development calendar and pipeline tracker to ensure all submissions are planned, coordinated, and reviewed in a timely manner.

Representation:

• Represent GOAL Uganda in donor meetings, programme review forums, and coordination platforms, presenting programme achievements and priorities with clarity and credibility.
• Develop high-quality, data-driven presentations, briefs, and reports that effectively communicate programme results and strengthen donor confidence and engagement.
• Elevate the visibility of GOAL Uganda’s programme achievements by producing compelling communication materials including success stories, case studies, and programme updates for internal and external audiences.
• Attend and actively contribute to inter-agency coordination meetings, thematic working groups, and various development programmes forums at the national level, advocating for GOAL Uganda’s programmatic positions and priorities.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key strategic partners, government counterparts, and sector partners to support resource mobilization and contribute to policy dialogues relevant to GOAL’s work.
• Represent the Country Director or Country Management Team in external engagements as delegated, maintaining professional and consistent organisational messages and brands.
• Maintain regular engagement with GOAL Headquarters and regional management to ensure country programme visibility, strategic alignment, and institutional support for programme delivery.