Project Coordinator – Yes Green job at VVOB - Education tor Development

Background

VVOB in Uganda is seeking a Project Coordinator for the YES Green initiative. This role is crucial for leading the planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the YES Green project, ensuring the timely delivery of agreed results, sound financial management, risk mitigation, and compliance with VVOB and donor requirements. The position offers a dynamic working environment in an international context, an exciting job in a growing organisation with varied responsibilities and opportunities for professional development. It provides an opportunity to contribute to exciting, evidence-based projects aimed at strengthening the education sector in Uganda by introducing innovative solutions for the professional development of school leaders and teachers.

Responsibilities

You lead the planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and reporting of YES Green, ensuring timely delivery of agreed results, sound financial management, risk mitigation and compliance with VVOB and donor requirements.

You supervise and coach the Education Advisors (EAs), set clear priorities and take responsibility for their performance management, while fostering teamwork and continuous professional development among project team members.

You coordinate technical quality and coherence across the three YES Green education solutions – career talks, project-based learning and work-based learning – including related blended teacher CPD, teaching and learning support materials, and school–world of work linkages.

You work closely with the Strategic Education Advisors (SEAs) to align project planning and implementation with strategic and technical priorities. You facilitate effective collaboration between the EAs and SEAs, ensuring clarity of roles and coordinated work planning.

You oversee partner engagement by ensuring that EAs and SEAs have the necessary coordination, operational support and resources to collaborate effectively with partners, strengthen their capacities and promote ownership and sustainable uptake of the programme’s approaches.

You collaborate with Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) colleagues to use evidence and feedback for adaptive management, document and communicate results and lessons to internal and external stakeholders, and inform continuous improvement and programme effectiveness.

Qualifications and Experience

Relevant Master's degree or equivalent professional experience in education, development studies, agriculture, agribusiness, management or a related field.

At least three years of relevant experience in project coordination and management, including work planning, budgeting, monitoring, reporting and delivery of results, preferably in education or skills development.

Demonstrated experience with:

• Leading and coaching multidisciplinary project teams and coordinating technical colleagues.
• Managing partner relationships, change processes and institutional capacity development, preferably with government and education institutions.
• Coordinating different areas of technical implementation, ensuring quality and using evidence to adapt and improve programme delivery.

Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and digital collaboration platforms.

What We Offer

A dynamic working environment in an international context.

An exciting job in a growing organisation with varied responsibilities and opportunities for professional development.

An opportunity to contribute to exciting, evidence-based projects aimed at ensuring the education sector in Uganda is strengthened by bringing in innovative solutions for the professional development of school leaders and teachers.

Fixed-term contract linked to project funding, (maximum 5 years) with the possibility of extension.

A complete remuneration package, which includes a base salary and benefits.

• Lead the planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and reporting of YES Green, ensuring timely delivery of agreed results, sound financial management, risk mitigation and compliance with VVOB and donor requirements.
• Supervise and coach the Education Advisors (EAs), set clear priorities and take responsibility for their performance management, while fostering teamwork and continuous professional development among project team members.
• Coordinate technical quality and coherence across the three YES Green education solutions – career talks, project-based learning and work-based learning – including related blended teacher CPD, teaching and learning support materials, and school–world of work linkages.
• Work closely with the Strategic Education Advisors (SEAs) to align project planning and implementation with strategic and technical priorities.
• Facilitate effective collaboration between the EAs and SEAs, ensuring clarity of roles and coordinated work planning.
• Oversee partner engagement by ensuring that EAs and SEAs have the necessary coordination, operational support and resources to collaborate effectively with partners, strengthen their capacities and promote ownership and sustainable uptake of the programme’s approaches.
• Collaborate with Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) colleagues to use evidence and feedback for adaptive management, document and communicate results and lessons to internal and external stakeholders, and inform continuous improvement and programme effectiveness.

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and digital collaboration platforms.
• Leading and coaching multidisciplinary project teams
• Coordinating technical colleagues
• Managing partner relationships
• Change processes
• Institutional capacity development
• Coordinating different areas of technical implementation
• Ensuring quality
• Using evidence to adapt and improve programme delivery

• Relevant Master's degree or equivalent professional experience in education, development studies, agriculture, agribusiness, management or a related field.
• At least three years of relevant experience in project coordination and management, including work planning, budgeting, monitoring, reporting and delivery of results, preferably in education or skills development.
• Demonstrated experience with leading and coaching multidisciplinary project teams and coordinating technical colleagues.
• Demonstrated experience with managing partner relationships, change processes and institutional capacity development, preferably with government and education institutions.
• Demonstrated experience with coordinating different areas of technical implementation, ensuring quality and using evidence to adapt and improve programme delivery.