# Project Coordinator, Childcare Economy

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Kampala, Uganda
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Project Coordinator, Childcare Economy to cover both Ethiopia and Uganda. The Project Coordinator will be responsible for pushing forward all agreed Outcome 4 deliverables with the UBS Optimus Foundation, working in close collaboration with IRC/PlayMatters country teams, the IRC Ethiopia and IRC Uganda technical coordinators for education and ERD, IRC ECD and ERD technical unit staff, and the technical partners supporting this component.

**Major Responsibilities:**

- Coordinate delivery of the Outcome 4 inception phase workplan across Ethiopia and Uganda, ensuring milestones are met on time and within budget.

- Provide leadership for project planning and scheduling for Outcome 4, from the high-level planning phase to detailed short-term activity scheduling in both countries.

- Manage and oversee the Outcome 4 budget, track expenditure across both countries and maintain accurate projections.

- Act as the primary programme focal point for technical partners, ensuring partners are on track with their deliverables, targets and spending.

- Provide leadership and strategic guidance to the country-level implementation of direct coaching support to childcare providers, drawing on IRC/PlayMatters in-country staff as the primary operational presence in both countries.

- Work with the IRC/PlayMatters MEAL team to operationalise Outcome 4 indicators, including child development outcomes anchored in the Nurturing Care Framework.

- Coordinate with the International Philanthropy & Partnerships team to ensure that all feedback and requests for information from the UBS Optimus Foundation and LEGO Foundation are timely addressed.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in education, early childhood development, international development, economics, business administration or a related field; a master’s degree is an advantage.

- At least 5 years of professional experience in project management, including large-scale, cross-functional, multi-location projects.

- Demonstrated experience in education and/or early childhood development programming, ideally including work grounded in the Nurturing Care Framework or comparable ECD frameworks.

- Familiarity with the childcare economy, including childcare provider business models, childcare demand and market dynamics, provider financing, and the policy and regulatory environment for childcare provision.

- Fluency in English (written and spoken) is essential, with demonstrated exceptionally strong writing and presentation skills.

- Excellent analytical, presentation, communication and representation skills.

- Strong commitment to the IRC's mission, purpose and values.

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- education
- early childhood development
- economics
- business administration
- English

### Nice to have
- Amharic
- Ugandan languages
- Nurturing Care Framework
- ECD frameworks
- childcare economy
- financing instruments

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