Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, January 03, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Project Officers
Location: Uganda

Main Duties and Responsibilities:
• The project Officer is responsible in ensuring the timely development of results based annual work plans with defined project objectives, strategies and approaches. Will support the implementation of activities and ensure smooth completion. Provide technical input to the government and other stakeholders in mainstreaming inclusive strategies in national and county with regards to policies, strategies, and frameworks on marginalized population services.
• Will Closely Monitor Project implementation to identify best practices as well as constraints, the project officer will assist in the collection of and analyze data/information in collaboration with Monitoring and Evaluation Team. Ensuring that commodities such as self-testing kits and other commodities are available.
• Conduct regular program support and monitoring field visits.
• Contribute to the development of annual work plans and budgets, training plans, quarterly and annual reports
• Organize and create platforms for developing and sharing best practices on inclusive Rights in demand creation and service delivery for youth, women, and persons with disabilities.
• Monitoring progress of partners and stakeholders in applying inclusive strategies that benefit project activities.
• Convene and lead quarterly project working group meetings with partners
• Participate in country sector specific forums and county/regional levels as will be appropriate.
• In collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation Team, collects and analyses data/information from the projects, consolidates project reports, and drafts weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual reports and donor reports
• Providing technical support and inputs to the prog focusing on human rights; sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex issues; transgender human rights and legal gender recognition; civil society and community systems strengthening; Participating in the development of LGBTQI+ activities for different contexts on key emerging policy agendas, by drafting applicable documents, preparing presentations, and drafting components of briefings and speeches;
• Providing inputs and compile relevant data related to regional external partnerships, including fulfilling corporate and donor reporting, monitoring and evaluation, advocacy and information-sharing requirements.
• Supporting the project activities at regional level and supporting country offices as requested.
• Proven competence in administrative work including organizing workshops, seminars, conferences and trainings, updating and populating the Unit’s web page on a regular basis, being custodian of project and Unit materials and resources, organizing meetings, taking minutes and following up on matters and tasks.
• Competence in effectively communicating organizational stands through statements and opinion pieces.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, team spirit, conscientiousness and the ability to go the extra mile.
• Good budgeting and financial management and monitoring skills.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The ideal candidate should hold a bachelor’s degree in Project planning and Management, Human Rights, Public Health, or related field
• A minimum of five years working experience in Implementing projects relating to vulnerable and marginalised populations in their diversity, including those living with HIV, and other key and vulnerable populations.
• Demonstrable skills and experience in project management (human and financial)
• Excellent skills for networking and collaboration at local and international levels
• Excellent communication and report writing skills in English.
• Demonstrable skills and competences of working with diverse multidisciplinary teams.
• High integrity, honesty and intrinsic motivation for sustainable HIV/SRHR in Uganda
• Experience in interdisciplinary development projects, preferably also with international staff
• Experience of working in an international and/or multicultural environment, with NGO experience an advantage.
• Able to speak different Ugandan Languages.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

If you meet the desired qualifications and work experience as listed below, please submit your CV and Cover letter as one document to redu@amsuganda.org  . Kindly limit your documents to a size of 2MB and send them before 5 PM January 7th, 2023.

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