Forum Director, Uganda Humanitarian INGO Forum (HINGO) Save the Children

Are you passionate about being an advocate for children? Do you want to use your expertise to bring about lasting change for children and be a part of an inspiring, dynamic global movement?

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 ROLE
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Internal Coordination:
• Facilitate and lead internal coordination among HINGO members in response to humanitarian, security, and health emergencies and events, including preparedness planning.
• Maintain a thorough understanding and develop messaging on operational, program, and policy related issues affecting NGOs in country as well as broader political developments.
• Read, synthesize and analyse political and security updates.
• 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.
• Organize and facilitate HINGO Working Groups, as relevant to the context, i.e. Karamoja working group.
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.
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.
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.

To be a strong supporter and advocate for children in this role you will need to have:
• 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.
• Full professional proficiency in English.