Summary
Date Posted: Friday, May 05 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Knowledge, Skills & Competences
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under tight schedules and to multitask/fast-track appropriately.
• High level of integrity, honesty, and professionalism.
• Very good knowledge of English, knowledge of German is an added value.
• Excellent people skills and ability to negotiate between different stakeholder groups.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and Power point.
• Self-drive, creativity, and problem-solving capacity are required.
• Able to work independently and in a target-oriented manner.

Responsibilities
The Advisor on Gender & Youth is responsible for:
Key Responsibilities
• Supporting state partners and civil society in the area of women’s rights, gender equality and youth participation
• Supporting partners and the programme in taking a gender and youth inclusive approach to programme implementation
• Representing the programme together /in close cooperation with the line manager and all relevant actors.
• Planning, implementing, monitoring and reporting on activities in line with the mandate of the programme.
• The Advisor on Gender & Youth performs the following tasks:

Specific Tasks
Strategic conceptual work:
• Providing institutional capacity development for CSO Partner Organisations in collaboration with other team members
• Advising on strengthening CSO engagement with regards to gender and youth in different sectors at national and subnational level.
• Ensuring gender mainstreaming within the programme and cooperating with the Advisor for Gender, Health & Disability Inclusion HIV at the GIZ country office.
• Supporting the strategic alignment of interventions with the programme’s goals.
• Maintaining existing partnerships with state and non-state partners and establishing new partnerships,

Operational work:
• Providing technical support to the development and implementation of different cooperation modalities with partners throughout Uganda.
• Providing technical and capacity building support to state and non-state partners in the area of gender and youth
• Managing consultancies.
• Providing technical advice on mainstreaming of gender and youth.

Communication:
• Ensuring regular, transparent and pro-active communication within the programme, including with administrative staff.
• Ensuring an open, timely and smooth communication with programme partners and other GIZ programmes.
• Supporting the internal and external representation of the programme in coordination with the Communication and PR Officer of the programme, the focal point person of the component, and the line management.
• Contributing to the communication work of the programme by providing input to and developing ideas for communication materials for social media, articles and other interventions, and forwarding them to the communication focal person in the componnet and the PR advisor of the programme.
• Ensuring visual documentation of activities, collection of stories and other relevant material with the appropriate consent.

Administration and Reporting:
• Participating actively in the monitoring of the programme and exchanging experiences and lessons learnt with other colleagues.
• Providing timely input to M&E and reporting requirements, including means of verification.
• Ensuring the timely and diligent update of GIZ’s reporting and monitoring tools
• Supporting administrative tasks for a smooth implementation of the programme in coordination with the administrative officer and line management.
• Providing relevant information to the line management for financial monitoring.
• Liaising with GIZ colleagues internationally and fostering knowledge and exchange on gender and youth
• Informing and training partners and GIZ staff on relevant developments on gender and youth related issues in the context of development cooperation
• Supporting partners in the administrative implementation of meetings, workshops and similar interventions.

Other Duties/Additional Tasks:
• Performs other duties and tasks at the request of management.

Qualifications
• Master in a relevant field, for example in Law, Political Science, Social Science, Development Studies, Gender Studies or other.

Details of experience
• Minimum 5 professional experience working on gender and youth issues
• Experience from governmental structures and their interaction with civil society.
• Experience from CSO networks and/or formal/informal participation processes is an asset.
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative research, data collection and data analysis



Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Associate Degree

Job application procedure
All interested and qualified persons are strongly encouraged to apply to the Head of Human Resources by email to vacancy@futureoptions.org Applications and CVs should be in one document and a maximum of 5 pages only. Please include name and contact of three references in the CVs. Please quote the position and reference number in the subject line. Applications should be received by 5:00 PM on 14th May 2023. Please note: This is a national position. Only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Application deadline: 2023-05-14

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