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Job Title:    Project Officer
Organisation: Fields of Life
Project Name: Irish Aid Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM/WASH) Project
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Program Manager, Water Sanitation and Hygiene
(WASH)
About US:
Fields
of Life is an international charitable organization which is committed to
sharing the Christian faith by collaborating with local communities and
churches in East Africa to bring about positive change through community based
projects. Through its WASH program, FOL seeks to improve health and quality of
life by positively impacting the socioeconomic development of the beneficiary
communities. The program incorporates its water and hygiene promotion projects
which provides reliable and sustainable water sources and seeks to improve
access to sanitation. Through campaigns like ‘I Am Girl’, the program
challenges negative attitudes, advocating and providing training in best
hygiene practices and reducing stigma associated with menstruation. It also
addresses cross-cutting issues like girls’ retention in education, gender
inequality, abuse, child protection, and disability within the most vulnerable
communities.
About Irish Aid Project:
Fields
of Life’s WASH program has received funding from Irish Aid’s Civil Society Fund
(CSF) and will be implementing a project on reducing barriers to Girls/Women’s
empowerment in Mubende and Mityana districts. The project will seek to reduce
barriers to women’s empowerment and gender equality associated with girls’
menstruation, gender based violence and absence of child protection
environments which prevent girls from fully participating in education in 04
primary schools.
 
Job Summary: The Project Officer – Menstrual Hygiene Management
(MHM/WASH) Project will be responsible for day-to-day implementation of the
project activities, plus other sanitation and hygiene promotion interventions
in Uganda.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:  
  • Offer technical expertise to the WASH team in
    implementing the project in line with WASH/MHM/Health sector guidelines/
    standards.
  • Build effective working relations with the
    school management, administration, students, community leaders and other
    stakeholders while also ensuring clear communication of the project and
    its purpose to them.
  • Work in close liaison with the WASH Program
    Manager and MEL department, facilitate participatory project monitoring
    and evaluation of project activities and the development and
    implementation of a learning framework
  • Preparation an submission of project related
    reports that are timely and of high quality based on the key project
    indicators and reporting formats as required by the donor and Fields of
    Life.
  • Build capacity of resource teams, IAG
    Champions to carry out community mobilization and sensitization on access
    to and importance of WASH, MHM services, Gender and Child Protection.
  • Support in convening and facilitating project
    workshops, meetings, health promotion and training (to the children,
    teachers and communities) on an on-going basis
  • In charge of the maintenance of the project
    database with all schools, beneficiaries and the different health aspects
    undertaken
  • Actively contribute to the initiative’s
    advocacy and external representation on issues relating to sanitation and
    hygiene’s MHM
  • Promote community and schools participation
    and involvement in decision making from pre-construction, construction and
    post-construction phases of WASH facilities while also monitoring their
    operation and maintenance.
  • Facilitating the mobilisation and
    sensitisation of communities where project inputs such as WASH/MHM, Child
    Protection and Gender, training have been provided and ensuring
    communication is maintained regularly
  • Actively participate in developing periodic
    (weekly, monthly, quarterly) project and activity work-plans and budgets.
  • Support documentation of lessons learned /
    success stories from the project and ensure that lessons and achievements
    are disseminated widely.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:  
  • The ideal candidate should preferably hold a Bachelor’s
    Degree Field of Development Studies, Public Health, Social Sciences, or a
    related field.
  • The applicant should have two to three years
    of related work experience
  • The Project Officer should have prior experience
    in implementing health promotion and/or sanitation projects with major
    focus in MHM and WASH.
  • Broad knowledge and understanding of a
    community development approach to sanitation and hygiene promotion project
    work
  • Ability to work in teams with good training,
    partnership building, networking, facilitation, documentation, report
    writing, and communication (both oral and written) skills in
    multi-cultural contexts.
  • Aptitude for community mobilisation and
    engagement
  • Self-motivated, enthusiastic with a desire to
    learn
  • Previous exposure and experience in mentoring
    and building the capacity of communities and partners is desirable
  • Capacity to work under pressure and manage
    personal stress levels
  • Computer knowledge in Microsoft Office Software
    (Word, Excel spread Sheets and PowerPoint presentation)
How to Apply:  
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their updated CVs and
cover letters with three professional referees to the address or e-mail below.
All applications shall be marked with the position title you are applying for. E-mails
that exceed 2MB will not be considered.
While
we thank all applicants for your interest, only those selected for interviews
will be contacted. Any form of lobbying will lead to automatic
disqualification. Ugandans and Non-Ugandans are all welcome to apply.
E-mail to: application@ppg.co.ug
Deadline: 6th May 2016
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