GOAL Project Coordinator at GOAL

About GOAL:

Established in 1977, GOAL is an international humanitarian agency and works with the most vulnerable communities to help them respond to and overcome humanitarian crises, and to assist those facing poverty and exclusion achieve greater resilience and well-being. GOAL envisions a world beyond humanitarian crises where poverty no longer exists, where vulnerable communities exposed to shocks and stresses are resilient, where barriers to well-being are removed and where everyone has equal rights and opportunities.

General Description of the Country Programme

First operational in Uganda in 1979, the current GOAL Uganda country programme focuses on Health, (including WASH, Health Accountability and Nutrition); and a market-based systems approach to improving agricultural livelihoods and WASH. GOAL Uganda mainstreams gender, child protection, social behavior changes and resilience strategies across all programming. GOAL uses a mixture of direct implementation and partnerships with national and international civil society organizations, local government, the private sector and communities to give effect to our mission.

GOAL Uganda has a skilled team of over 110 personnel and has a head office in Kampala and field offices in 7 locations across Northern, Southwestern and Eastern regions of Uganda. GOAL Uganda’s donors include the Mastercard Foundation, charity: water, Irish Aid, The Kingdom of Netherland Embassy in Uganda (EKN) and other private donors.

Interested applicants who meet the requirements should apply through the link with at least 3 professional referees (current or former Line Manager) from the last three employers and daytime contact number by 30th September 2026.

Program Background

The Green Resilient Enterprise for Empowered NTFP Development Project (GREEN Project) is a 28-month initiative implemented under the ReForEst Uganda Programme with funding from Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and the European Union. The project seeks to enhance livelihoods, jobs and ecological resilience through sustainable Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) enterprises while contributing to forest conservation, restoration and climate resilience across 16 districts in Eastern Uganda and Napak District in Karamoja. The project focuses on five priority NTFP value chains: bamboo, honey/apiculture, shea, cashew, and wild mango. Through a Green Entrepreneurship Platform (GEP), incubation services, acceleration support, cottage industry, access to finance and market linkages, the project will strengthen 140 enterprises, 50 producer groups and support 10,000 households along these NTFP value chains.

Job summary

The Project Coordinator will provide overall leadership, management and coordination of the 28-month Green Resilient Enterprise for Empowered NTFP Development (GREEN) Project. The Project Coordinator is accountable for delivery of the approved action on time, within budget and to the required technical and compliance standards. The role will coordinate GOAL, co-applicants, third-party implementers, associates, consultants and service providers; serve as GOAL's principal operational focal point with AICS; and ensure strong integration across programme, finance, procurement, partnerships, MEAL, safeguarding and operations.

Strategy and Technical Leadership

• Provides overall strategic and technical leadership for the GREEN Project, ensuring delivery remains aligned with the approved proposal, logical framework, work plan, budget, grant contract and ReForEst Output 3 objectives
• Ensures technical coherence and quality across the five NTFP value chains and across field-based activities, incubation, acceleration, cottage-industry support, the GEP, finance and market linkages, and policy/coordination activities.
• Maintains a market-systems and private-sector orientation that strengthens commercially viable NTFP enterprises while linking enterprise growth to sustainable harvesting, restoration, agroforestry and biodiversity outcomes.
• Provides overall leadership to identify and capture learnings and positive outcomes for scaling,

Program, Grant and Compliance Management

• Manages programme implementation according to the overall workplan, budget, and results framework.
• Translates the approved action into detailed annual, quarterly and monthly implementation plans; maintain the project critical path and ensure milestones, deliverables and dependencies are actively managed.
• Ensures efficient communication channels within the programme structure and with partners.
• Serves as GOAL's principal operational focal point with AICS, supporting regular progress meetings, quarterly reviews, ad hoc consultations, site visits, and timely narrative, technical and financial reporting.
• Ensures that the planning and reporting schedule are verifiably achieved.
• Works with the grants management and finance teams to oversee partners’ timely reporting.
• Ensure project implementation complies with the AICS/EU grant contract, GOAL policies and procedures, procurement rules, visibility requirements, ethical standards and donor-approved procedures
• Ensures that achievements and best practices are captured and disseminated
• Ensures logistics, administration and human resources are conducted in accordance with GOAL Uganda policy and with the maximum benefit to the programme.
• Maintains an active project risk register covering programme, fiduciary, procurement, partnership, safeguarding, environmental, market and operational risks, and ensure mitigation actions are implemented and escalated as needed
• Ensures efficient use of project assets, logistics and human resources and coordinate timely resolution of implementation bottlenecks across GOAL and partners.
• Ensures accountability to project participants, adhering to international standards guiding development work.

Partnership management

• Ensures consistent and dynamic coordination with all partners and stakeholders through regular, structured coordination meetings and updates.
• Manage relationships with third-party implementers, associates, cottage-industry hosts, technical consultants and service providers, ensuring coordinated delivery and compliance with agreed scopes, milestones and standards.
• Establishes systems and processes that enable regular reflection and effective monitoring of partners’ performance management.
• Facilitates, oversees, and leads joint planning sessions and shared learning initiatives with partners.
• Ensures well-functioning community feedback mechanisms and strengthen engagement with district local governments.

Team Management

• Builds the capacity of the project team and partners’ staff, embedding a learning culture following adaptive management principles.
• Manages the recruitment and training of programme staff to attract staff of the quality required for successful implementation of activities.
• Recruits, supervises, coaches and performance-manages direct reports; fosters a collaborative, accountable and learning-oriented team culture; and ensures appropriate staffing, delegation, duty of care and staff development throughout implementation.
• Ensures programme achievements, challenges and corrective actions are clearly communicated to GOAL management, AICS, co-applicants and other governance structures.

Representation:

• Represents GOAL and the GREEN Project with AICS, government, private sector, financial institutions, development partners and other stakeholders, maintaining strong relationships, professional credibility and accountability.

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Job Application for Project Coordinator at GOAL Uganda