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JOB DETAILS:
Communications Officer
Description
The position holder will support the Communications function of Mildmay Uganda to improve the public perception and increased awareness of its services/programmes
Qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication, Public Relations, Journalism, or International Relations desirable. The successful candidate will have at least 3 years’ experience in Communications, Public relations, or related work.
He/she MUST have experience in working with social media, photography, and video production. Knowledge about current Health trends, Education, and Research more especially about HIV related work is an added advantage.
All applicants must have a Non-judgmental approach to human relations; be in sympathy with Mildmay Uganda’s Christian values; possess good communication and interpersonal skills; and must be able to maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues. Customer focus is paramount.

JOB DETAILS:
The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) is an independent non-profit organization that combines innovative research, market systems development, and strategic partnerships to spread sustainable agricultural solutions for improved soil health, food security, and livelihoods around the world.
IFDC is recruiting for the above project in Uganda.
“Building Resilience and Inclusive Growth of Highland farming systems for rural Transformation” (BRIGHT) will target over 100,000 Ugandan highland households in Kigezi, Mt Elgon, and Rwenzori regions, building project interventions from the ground up that are based on the aspirations and needs of targeted farming households and communities. BRIGHT seeks to build the resilience capacity of farm households and the farming systems to recover from external shocks in an ever-changing context through absorption, adaptation, and transformation and, in so doing, increase incomes and food and nutritional security of all farmers, from subsistence-oriented farm households to more market-oriented ones.
The proposed project aims to achieve the following main impacts:
1. Increased resilience, nutritional outcomes, and income for smallholder farm households; and
2. Increased eco-efficient farming, making sustainable use of and protecting natural resources

IFDC is to recruit a qualified individual to fill the position of Gender, Youth Inclusion Manager for this project, to be based in the main project field office of Fort Portal.

Position summary
The person will lead the integration of gender and youth transformative and socially inclusive programming elements in accordance with global best practice, donor and IDFC’s requirements. The Gender, Youth Inclusion Manager participates in strategy, program implementation, program monitoring, and evaluation in relation to gender, youth and social inclusion integration in all project activities. This includes capacity building and technical assistance to government, private partners, civil society and community stakeholders.
This position provides leadership, guidance and technical support to the project, in designing, implementing and documenting GYSI focused programming.

Main tasks and responsibilities
• Elaborate an overall gender and youth strategy for the project based on finding from the gender, youth assessments conducted during inception phase, oversee the implementation of these strategies and adapt and improve them as needed.
• Develop specific, actionable gender and youth strategies and targets for each result area in the five project components.
• Work closely with Project and Deputy Project Managers in integrating the findings from the gender/youth assessment into the project’s work plan and milestones.
• Ensure that GALS family tree is effectively developed in households and that inclusive decision-making feeds into household visions. .
• Collaborate with management and field teams to integrate gender and youth throughout the project.
• Lead in development and refinement of a project gender and youth integration plan.
• Assess gender and youth dynamics in the selected value chains in coordination with project staff and sector specialists, addressing barriers to improving participation of youth and women.
• Provide support in the development of operational manuals to ensure gender and youth equity and sensitivity in manual content and presentation.
• Oversee the implementation of the Gender Action Plan at field level with the various value chain actors including Farmer Groups, Farmer Business Groups, households.
• Collaborate with local women’s groups, gender-focused organizations, youth-focused organizations and other groups implementing similar gender- and youth-related activities in similar areas
• Participate in gender-related meetings with the donor, stakeholders, government officials, and implementing partners.
• Work closely with technical staff to design and implement activities that strengthen women’s and youth access to finance, training and other resources, such as land.
• Formulate strategies, activities, and messages for communicating the business case for investing in women and youth enterprises.
• Propose indicators and data collection methods for tracking changes in women’s and youth’s empowerment, gender dynamics, and gender inequality gaps that integrate into the projects MIS.
• Develop relationships and linkages with organizations implementing other donor-funded programs focused on gender and youth in Uganda
• Conduct regular community consultations to ensure the project adaptively remains gender and youth sensitive and on-track.
• Collect and share learnings and best practices
• Identify, build and manage collaborative partnerships with consortium partners, donor, local governments and other stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively to ensure overall GYSI project targets and donor obligations are continuously met.
• Develop targeted gender and youth capacity building interventions to promote integration with project staff.
• Support project team in the development and delivery of training and capacity building on key gender and youth topics to project participants.

Supervision and team collaboration
The Gender and Youth Manager is supervised by and reports to the Deputy Project Manager. She/ he works in close collaboration with project colleagues, other IFDC staff and colleagues from other project consortium members.

Position and duty station

The Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion Advisor is a national position with a duty in the project field offices Fort Portal.
The position requires intensive travels (up to 50% of the time) in target regions in Uganda and may require some international travel to other IFDC countries.

Required Experience
This is a senior position that requires highly motivated and self-driven individuals with the following qualifications.
• Master’s degree in international development, gender, behavioral economics, agronomy, sociology, or other related disciplines.
• At least 3 years of experience in a similar or related position – demonstrated experience and technical knowledge in gender development, particularly as it relates to food security, agricultural value chains/market systems, climate change, rural household development, and nutrition integrated agriculture.
• Demonstrated success in implementing gender integration, youth and social inclusion strategies and activities in the context of providing advisory services or implementing gender interventions in an agriculture project or program context
• Substantial knowledge of good practices in developing gender integration strategies and interventions, mainstreaming gender in institutions and in projects
• Knowledge and experience in designing and implementing Women and youth Economic empowerment interventions
• Experience in gender related national strategies and policy reviews, analysis, and application
• Must be a self-directed, highly organized person who can effectively prioritize and follow through on multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Strong communication skills, specifically strong verbal communication skills in English including excellent report writing skills
• Ability to conduct training and capacity building to staff and implementing partners on gender equality, women inclusion integration
• Experience with both quantitative and qualitative research methods, as well as conducting field- based assessments
• Excellent analytical and technical skills and expertise with the ability to work independently
• Knowledge of the Africa national community development and gender policies is an advantage.
• Familiarity with Women’s Economic and Opportunities for Youth Empowerment (WEE/OYE) or similar frameworks.
• Demonstrated capacity to lead the collection, analysis and utilization of information from a broad range of sources to ensure effective integration of gender and youth concerns throughout the project’s duration.
• In-depth understanding of gender, age and other socio-cultural factors in the context of Agri business programming.
• Ability to foster commitment and build capacity among project staff and in-country actors around gender and youth integration.
• ability to communicate in a second/third national language would be an advantage;
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and orally in small audience and large audience settings.

JOB DETAILS:
Job title: Communications Officer
Job family: This role reports to the Project Manager and works in close collaboration and in support of the project’s activities, support team. The purpose of the post is to support the development of the organization’s communication strategy in relation to the achievement of effective a communication of Ripple Effect brand, information, and services. Developing excellent intelligence of our participants, customers and potential markets and cost-effective exploitation of opportunities the role shows a clear communication and engages across the external stakeholders to achieve impact.
Dept./Team: Programmes
Reporting to: Project Manager/Project Coordinator
Location: Mbarara

Job purpose:
The Communications Officer is part of the Project team. As part of the project team, this role will use data to analyse performance, raise key issues, and monitor performance to ensure delivery of measurable results and demonstrate strong fiscal management of donor resources.

Key Responsibilities
This role has 2 key areas of responsibility:
1. Supporting the roll out of a Ripple Effect Communications strategy which aligns with brand values
2. Supporting the programmes team through development of targeted, insight-driven, and consistently branded promotions and materials
• Work on communications strategies in close collaboration with the project activities, product centres lead roles
• Analyze market and competitor trends and recommend changes to marketing and business development strategies based on analysis and feedback.
• Gather and analyze client insights and changing customer needs and preferences and ensure communication strategies are updated to reflect these changes
• Deepen relationships with all media to ensure the most effective messaging and positioning of the organization
• Report monthly on progress (cost and activities) and results
• Manage media relationships and capitalize on PR opportunities in relation to social enterprise
• In close collaboration with the project’s teams, develop an excellent understanding of the services offered and the day to issues faced and constraints to success
• Review participants satisfaction rates through client exit interviews, and work with project manager to adapt strategies accordingly
• Lead all areas of content generation and production across all media platforms including digital and social media
• Ensure all activities, messages and promotions are consistent with Ripple Effect global brand positioning
• Support the design and development of communications material for use in programme implementation
• Work with the project staff, to identify individually tailored communication strategies
• Participate in the production of Ripple Effect Annual Report and project periodic reports
• Coordinate the hosting of Ripple Effect visitors and Ambassadors and show case of what is happening
• Support in production of all branded items that promote Ripple Effect brand
• Represent Ripple Effect on selected platforms
• Manage the media coverage
• Support quarterly and annual reporting for projects
• Train project staff in documentation and story gathering

Learning & Skills
A degree in Journalism, Development Communication, Social Marketing
Excellent knowledge of the Ugandan livelihoods sector.
Creativity & Reasoning
The role requires a good understanding of the programme activities and impact and how these can be communicated promoted/ marketed widely.

Key Accountabilities
The role requires clear communication skills. One should be able to clearly communicate to the stakeholders the project goal and outcomes. He/she should be able to creatively prepare clear reports that show the project progress.
Communication and Interaction
The role requires clear communication skills. One should be able to clearly communicate to the stakeholders the project goal and outcomes. He/she should be able to creatively prepare clear reports that show the project progress.

The role requires interaction with the implementing team, communities, private service providers and local government authorities. One should be able to quickly learn the culture of the community to support their ability to interact. He/she should have a good problem-solving approach and conflict resolution at individual and community level.
Stewardship
The role should have good level of computer literacy and demonstrated ability to capture data/information using different advanced computer software, produce computer-based reports, read and interpret monitoring data presented through spread sheets and interact and respond appropriately to other Ripple Effect countries through IT media.
Judgements & Actions
The role works within broad guidelines that include capacity building & networking among others and thus should be able to plan their time accordingly to ensure all areas are supported. The role involves high level of interaction with staff and other project actors for effective technical and advisory role.
One should be able to clearly judge impact and uptake of quality markets and linkages approaches among the community beneficiaries avoiding situations that create dependency among the project participants. Business models being promoted should be impactful and simple enough for communities to adopt.
Working Environment
Occasionally the role may be exposed to stressful conditions during travel in the field traversing the project area while providing supervision and other support.
Role & Person Specification 
Organizational context 
Personal competencies and talents Status
Education/Qualifications
• A degree in Journalism, Development Communication, Social Marketing
• Excellent knowledge of the Ugandan livelihoods sector
Experience
• Experienced in media and Behavioural Change Communication (BCC)
• Experience of over five years in undertaking similar assignments
• Ability to build effective relationships, influence and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders at every level of seniority
• Ability to prioritise a complex and demanding workload
• Ability to develop innovative and practical solutions to challenges
• Ability to gather and interpret client insights and turn client insights into action plans
• Experience of developing and executing successful demand generation strategies
• Ability to present work at external events, including some out of hours travel and working
• Excellent and creative oral and written communication skills, including ability to write in English and at least two Ugandan languages
• Excellent engagement with informational technology and social media platforms

Skills/Abilities
• A proven record of partnership working to achieve better results
• Experience of project managing marketing projects including developing concepts for audience specific projects
• Documentation of learning and best practices
• Contribute to the development of grant proposals as required.
• Computer skills and knowledge in Word, PowerPoint, and any presentation packages
• Good interpersonal skills
• Full understanding of all technical aspects of the Ripple Effect programme
• Strong people management ability
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Team player
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Personal Qualities
• Have empathy with Ripple Effect’s Christian foundation and core values
• An initiator and self-driven
• A team leader, builder, and developer
• A broad and mature thinker
• A strategic thinker with an eye for detail
• Creative and innovative
• A team player. Flexible.
• Understands the importance of confidentiality especially for data.