IMPACT Initiatives Vacancy: Regional Projects and Partnerships Support Manager for East Africa, Kampala , Uganda | UNjobs Toggle navigation Latest Duty Stations Organizations Closing Soon Regional Projects and Partnerships Support Manager for East Africa, Kampala Organization: IMPACT Initiatives Country: Uganda City: Kampala Office: IMPACT Initiatives in Kampala, Uganda Description BACKGROUNG ON IMPACT INITIATIVES AND REACH IMPACT Initiatives is a humanitarian NGO, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization manages several initiatives, which include i) the REACH Initiative aimed at facilitating the development of information products that enhance the humanitarian community's decision making and planning capacity for emergency, reconstruction and development contexts, ii) the PANDA Initiative aimed at directly supporting key aid actors in improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and efficacy of their programmes, and iii) the AGORA Initiative aimed at promoting localised and multi-sectoral aid action in support of the recovery and stabilisation of crisis-affected communities. The IMPACT team comprises specialists in data collection, management and analysis and GIS. IMPACT was launched at the initiative of Acted and the two organisations have a strong complementarity formalised in a global partnership, enabling IMPACT to benefit from Acted's operational support on its fields of intervention. In 2025 IMPACT rolled out a regional operational model, with one of the aims being to gradually decentralise some of our support functions. This resulted in the creation of pooled multi-country staff who provide dedicated support to the implementation of our activities within their respective functional areas, across country missions. Through this model, IMPACT has sought to ensure the continued provision of solid operations backstopping to missions falling into different categories of size and complexity. We are currently looking for a Regional Projects and Partnership Support Manager (PPSM) to oversee the project development, grant management and downstream partnership activities for our missions in East Africa. Position : Regional Projects and Partnership Support Manager Contract duration : 12 months Location : Kampala, Uganda (with frequent travel to Nairobi and travel to other East Africa missions as required/pending security context: ETH, MOZ, SOM, SDN, SSD) Starting Date : 15/05/2026 COUNTRY PROFILE In addition to the restructuring process outlined above, the humanitarian situations in East African countries are closely inter-linked by cross-border dynamics such as the increasing effects of climate change or displacement patterns, and this requires information management actors to adopt a regional approach for a comprehensive overview of the dynamics affecting vulnerable communities. Present in East Africa since 2012, IMPACT has currently six missions in the region in Ethiopia, Kenya/Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Mozambique and Uganda implementing REACH and PANDA projects and aims to develop synergies between them through a regional perspective. FUNCTIONS Under the management of the PPS team in HQ, the PPSM is responsible to support the identification, development and management of grants in the countries outlined above, as well as contribute to develop the IMPACT regional portfolio and representation in Eastern Africa. The ideal candidate would be eager to work within a dynamic and motivated team and will have a clear focus on project development as a tool to improve the efficacy of the humanitarian response in the region. The priorities will be determined together with the country specific Multi-Country Representative (MCR), respective CRs in the area, as well as the Regional Coordinator for East Africa (based in Geneva). The PPSM will have a functional management of the country dedicated Projects and Funding Officer (PPSO) (e.g. for Ethiopia), and direct line management of the pooled PPSO(s), covering PPS functions for countries covered by the multi-country hub. The PPSM is a decentralised team member of the Projects and Partnerships Support (PPS) Department, based in Geneva. Missions RESPONSIBILITIES The PPSM will be required to manage the East Africa PPS team (currently consisting of one pooled PPSO and dedicated Senior PPSO in Ethiopia) and should delegate workload appropriately to ensure tasks are carried out. It is the responsibility of the PPSM to manage the workflow of the East Africa PPS team, and to proactively identify gaps and provide training and technical backstopping support to build their team's capacity. As the role also includes elements formally handled at HQ level, the PPSM will also be responsible for specific HQ delegated tasks, in line with the responsibility of managing the PPS workflow for the region. SUPPORT TO POSITIONING AND FUNDRAISING All the below tasks are in support of the MCR and the CRs of the concerned country missions as well as the IMPACT Regional Coordinator, and involveme
