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Forum Director, Uganda Humanitarian INGO forum (HINGO).

Save The Children International

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  • Experience Level : Executive level
  • Experience Length : 10 years

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Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Forum Director, Uganda Humanitarian INGO forum (HINGO).

Job Purpose

There are currently 63 International NGOs actively engaged in the refugee and humanitarian responses in Uganda, which includes over 1.7 million refugees, host communities across 13 refugee hosting districts, and ongoing coordination in the Karamoja region, and emergent health, climate, and security responses.

The HINGO Forum Director is a senior management position and is responsible for ensuring effective coordination, information sharing, representing and advocating on common positions and agreed interests of the HINGO Forum and wider humanitarian community, including with local, national, and refugee-led organisations.

The HINGO Forum Director is responsible for building and sustaining productive relationships and aiding coordination between international, local, national, and refugee-led NGOs, the government, UN agencies, and donors and diplomatic missions. The HINGO Forum Director is also responsible for the general management of the HINGO Forum staff/secondments and effective and regular communication on Forum performance to the HINGO Steering Committee.

Fundraising via members and donor agencies is ongoing part of the role, alongside effective project and budget management.

The 2024-25 HINGO strategy includes a suite of commitments to work alongside local and refugee-led organisations, with the explicit mandate of walking alongside the Charter4Change Working Group, sharing capacities and learning, and implementing the localisation agenda in a meaningful manner. The strategy also includes implementing and reporting on the suite of commitments and pledges made by the HINGO forum to the 2023 Global Refugee Forum.

The Director serves as a liaison to the Office of the Prime Minister, including the Secretariat for the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) in Uganda, Department of Refugees, and Department of Disaster Preparedness and Management. Maintaining relationships through structures and interlocutions that range from lateral staff to ministerial levels, the Director plays a critical role in maintaining positive relations with government line ministries. The Director will also serve as a liaison to the Refugee Engagement Forum, District Engagement Forum, and Development Partners Group.

The Forum Director is hosted by the Save the Children International Uganda Country Office but is expected to maintain and demonstrate respectful independence and neutrality among member organisations. They will work closely with the HINGO Chair and Steering Committee. The Forum Director will report jointly to the Chair of the HINGO Steering Committee and to the host agency Country Director.

Job Title: Forum Director, Uganda Humanitarian INGO forum (HINGO)

Reports To: Country Director SCI Uganda, HINGO Steering Committee Chair

Contract Length: 24 months withpossibility of extension

Grade: 2

Location: Uganda, Kampala

International Travel Requirements: domestic, regional, and international travel


KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Advocacy

Represent a collective voice and shared message from the INGO community to critical response stakeholders and decision makers, including the GoU, UN Agencies, donors (at regional and global levels), and regional and international fora and networks.

Ensure transparent coordination mechanisms and regular information-sharing between INGOs, NGOs and UN and government agencies and other stakeholders as relevant

Schedule HINGO Forum meetings and HINGO Steering Committee meetings, draft agendas, invite external speakers and follow up on relevant action points as required.

Encourage active and open dialogue between the forum members and other key stakeholders.

Pro-actively seek input from members and ensure coordinated messaging and advocacy regarding emergency responses and NGO entry points.

Together with other Forum representatives, liaise with sector working groups, ensuring key messages are shared and activities, follow up actions and advocacy messages are coordinated and consistent.

Engage in the process of briefing and orienting all new INGOs and key leaders in the refugee response on the role of the HINGO, the CRRF and available services and interlocution.


External Coordination and Representation:

  • Liaise with humanitarian partners to promote and encourage improved coordination and information sharing and common approaches to the response.
  • Participate in and prepare messaging for the relevant coordination fora, including CRRF Steering Group, HCT-Lite, Refugee and Humanitarian partners Group (RHPG), Interagency, and others.

Assist HINGO members in facilitating collective understanding and analysis of the humanitarian response efforts, and bureaucratic and access impediments among humanitarian partners.

Develop a network of contacts among key stakeholders, including national NGOs and CSOs, refugee-led organisations, government authorities and the humanitarian community.

Represent the HINGO Forum at key meetings with donors, UN and GoU and ensure the dissemination of written feedback.


Internal Coordination:


  1. Facilitate and lead internal coordination among HINGO members in response to humanitarian, security, and health emergencies and events, including preparedness planning.
  2. Maintain a thorough understanding and develop messaging on operational, programme, and policy related issues affecting NGOs in country as well as broader political developments.
  3. Read, synthesize and analyse political and security updates.
  4. Provide a conduit for the UN, government, donor representatives and other stakeholders to communicate and coordinate with INGOs, enabling an informed, predicted and safe intervention for all involved.
  5. Organize and facilitate HINGO Working Groups, as relevant to the context, i.e. Karamoja working group.


HINGO Management, Finances and Sustainability


Management of the HINGO budget in coordination with host organization finance teams.

Management of any HINGO staff and/or interns or secondments, in conjunction with host organization HR policies,

Ensuring financial stability for the HINGO network, including collection and management of membership fees and management of grants.

Reporting as required.


Other tasks as may be required to support the HINGO, individual members, and other functions relating to OPM.

Child Safeguarding:

Comply with and promote SCI's Global policies such as Child Safeguarding, Whistle blowing, Fraud, Health and Safety and other relevant policies.

Working closely with SC Uganda’s Child Safeguarding Manager and key stakeholders and support developing and ensuring compliance with guidance on cash for child headed households.


Other: Country Director SCI Uganda, HINGO Steering Committee Chair

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

Essential Experience and skills

  • Advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent), or equivalent field and senior level experience.
  • At least 10 years of experience within international humanitarian, development or displacement issues.
  • Experience in humanitarian coordination and humanitarian responses.
  • Proven understanding of refugee and humanitarian response, policy, and advocacy, particularly in the Uganda context.
  • Strong understanding of the Global Compact on Refugees, Global Refugee Forum, and the CRRF.
  • Strong understanding of the Triple Nexus and its practical application in humanitarian and refugee responses;
  • Experience in developing and updating TORs, Strategy documents, SOPs, and other management documents and tools.
  • Experience managing budgets, reporting to stakeholders, and developing proposals.
  • Previous experience of working in Uganda and understanding of the refugee response in Uganda is a strong asset;
  • Strong networks upon which to draw to contribute to coordination, advocacy and CRRF implementation;
  • Experience of working with NGOs and NGO forums;
  • Experience of working with refugee hosting governments, Un agencies, and bilateral and multilateral development partners;
  • Ability to take initiative, work independently, as well as be a strong team player;
  • Ability to coordinate in a professional and informed manner with different stakeholders;
  • Strong interpersonal and relation-building skills;
  • Excellent communications and writing skills;


Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities

DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.

Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.



Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.












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