OPERATIONS MANAGER

Vacancy announcement

**Position**

Operations Manager

**Starting date**

ASAP

**Location**

Kampala

**Type of contract**

Fixed term

**Organization**.

ACTED

**About ACTED, IMPACT Initiatives and REACH**

Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate

humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential. ACTED endeavours to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience; promote inclusive and sustainable growth; co-construct effective governance and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential. We go the last mile: ACTED’s mission is to save lives and support people in meeting their needs in hard-to-reach areas. With a team of 4,800 national staff, 450 international staff, ACTED is active in 38 countries and implements more than 505 projects a year reaching over 20 million beneficiaries.

ACTED has been operating in Uganda since 2004.

IMPACT Initiatives is a humanitarian NGO, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The IMPACT team comprises specialists in data collection, management and analysis and GIS. Historically, the two organizations have a strong complementarity formalized in a global partnership, enabling IMPACT to benefit from ACTED’s operational support on its fields of intervention as part of the REACH Initiative.

Since 2017 Acted has been hosting IMPACT Initiatives in Uganda, under their REACH Initiative partnership. REACH was born in 2010 as a joint initiative of two International NGOs (IMPACT Initiatives and ACTED) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT). In Uganda, IMPACT, via the REACH, has provided supports to response actors, line ministries and