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• Deputy to the Executive Director and support the office in her absence. • Support program implementation for the STEPS project in Kyangwali and Rwamwanja funded by ECHO and Care, UNHCR/ DRC project in Lobule and the World Vision / BPRM project in Bidibidi refugee settlements. • Draft important documents like service agreements, Data sharing agreements, MOUs with districts and other stakeholders. • Secured partnerships with donor agencies like World Vision, DRC, DCA, BPRM, CARE, ECHO and UNHCR that continue to support HADS' operations. • Currently overseeing and coordinating the execution of humanitarian and development projects in Uganda's West Nile and South Western regions to enhance the living conditions of vulnerable populations. • Led project teams in creating project plans and risk mitigation strategies which enabled us identify potential issues and adverse effects and resolved before they escalated. • Set up communication matrices that improved reporting turnaround times by ensuring quick reception, consolidation, and validation of project performance reports from field teams for submission to donor partners and stakeholders. • Coordinated monthly and quarterly project review meetings to ensure optimal resource utilization, discussing budget spent and indicator targets with staff and donor partners. • Greatly improved HADS's response to donor and partner inquiries by reducing authorization anomalies, ensuring effective audit implementation, and conducting routine checks with suppliers and personnel to ensure compliance with organizational standards and procedures. • Directly supervising eight employees and managing an 80-person program implementation team at various levels, ensuring prompt performance objective setting, staff evaluation, and training needs identification. • Improved overall performance and compliance through in-house trainings for project staff relating to projects implemented, reporting, Code of Conduct, Prevention against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, in addition to the regular on-job trainings. • Led the establishment of the organizational MEAL framework and managed the execution of related tasks, such as monitoring performance indicators and reporting to aid in decision-making. • Made it possible for the Executive Director to concentrate on high priority strategic concerns by handling the office's daily programming and administrative operations and responding to all information requests. • Through my interpersonal abilities, length of service, personal presentation, and comprehension of the personalities, preferences, and expectations of donor partners, I significantly contributed to a high level of donor loyalty.

• Provide background briefings to local and international media. • Keep track of evolving issues concerning persons of concern to be able to suggest stories and topics for the media to cover. • Provide daily briefings on local developments to the Senior Management Team and ensure that briefing materials from other offices are available. • Accompany visits of foreign delegations and the media to refugee sites in the region, giving appropriate briefings, commentaries and prepare briefing material for visitors. • Establish contacts with local organizations to promote general interest and understanding of refugee issues • Ensure that the office is kept informed of local developments which may have a political or operational impact on the office's activities. • Compile information and Situation Reports received from the Field Offices and/or sections within the Office and consolidate into weekly/monthly/quarterly reports. • Liaise with external partners and local organizations on behalf of UNHCR. • Support the fundraising and partnership management efforts of the operation • Produce reports and briefings for internal and external partners. • Contribute to proposal drafting, tracking implementation and reporting on funded projects to effectively manage existing donor contributions. • Focal point for operational reporting and drafting of minutes taking.

• Child Protection focal point. • Conduct regular supervision and coordination of the different Protection Activities in the Settlement. • Monitor the distribution of food and other Non-Food Items to Persons of Concern. • Promote the protection of Persons of Concern through application of UNHCR Standard Operating Procedures. • Ensure Persons of Concern accesses quality and timely services. • Working Group meetings coordination • Individual case management • Stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment. • Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct. • Provide advice on protection issues to PoC; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation. • Assist in identifying durable solutions for the largest possible number of PoC through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement. • Contribute to the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners. • Facilitate effective information management through the provision of disaggregated data on PoC and their problems. • Participate in initiatives to capacitate authorities, relevant institutions and NGOs to strengthen national protection related legislation and procedures. • Assist the supervisor with enforcing compliance of local implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.

• Conduct regular supervision and coordination of the different Protection Activities in the Settlement. • Monitor the distribution of food and other Non-Food Items to Persons of Concern. • Promote the protection of Persons of Concern through application of UNHCR Standard Operating Procedures. • Ensure Persons of Concern accesses quality and timely services. • Working group meetings coordination • Conduct administrative work of the office • Acted as a team leader for Oruchinga from March to September 2018 • Officer in Charge for both Nakivale and Oruchinga for two weeks in July 2018. • Individual case management • Supported the monitoring of activities in WASH, Livelihoods, Energy and Environment.

• Monitor activities for community services that include services to PSNs, Community Mobilization, NFI Distribution and psychosocial support in Nakivale settlement. • Proposal writing for community services. • Report writing for community services on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi annual and annual basis. • Support supervision and performance appraisal for community services staff.

• Monitor activities for community services that include services to PSNs, Community Mobilization, NFI Distribution and psychosocial support in Nakivale settlement. • Proposal writing for community services. • Report writing for community services on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi annual and annual basis. • Support supervision and performance appraisal for community services staff.

• Coordination of the interventions to refugees in the areas of Child Protection, Sexual and Gender Based Violence, Legal Protection, Youth participation, Community mobilization and Persons with Specific Needs especially the older refugees and those living with disabilities. • Coordination and supervision of community based structures for the youth, women, child protection, men, welfare, community interpreters and social workers.

• Counseling and Coordinating service provision to Refugees with Disabilities, Older refugees, the youth and women.

• Receiving, assessment and Counseling of refugees and asylum seekers. In 2011 I was selected as the best counselor of that year. • Networking with partner organizations. • Organizing community outreaches for sensitization and mobilizing refugees to participate in program implementation. In 2014 I participated in the Uganda government house hold Census as a community mobilizer to ensure that refugees participate in the exercise. • Coordinating activities for refugee community resource persons. • Linking refugees to local leaders and the host community to promote peaceful co-existence.