Fresher Project Officer (PO) NGO Jobs – ActionAid International

Organisation: ActionAid International
Duty Station:  Uganda
Reports to: Cluster Coordinator-Gulu
About US:
ActionAid
is an International Development Agency in over 50 countries in Africa, Asia,
Latin America and the Caribbean. ActionAid’s mission is to work with the poor
and the excluded people in the world to eradicate poverty by overcoming the
injustices and the inequity that cause it.
Job Summary: The Project Officer (PO)- Promoting Women Land
Rights and Livelihoods in Northern Uganda will be responsible for the
appropriate planning, implementation of the projects at the sub counties within
the project work plan in line with the department mission.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • Actively participate in developing project
    monthly, quarterly and annual work plans and operational plans for the
    land rights and livelihoods intervention as required.
  • Conduct data collection, needs assessment and
    baseline (start, mid and end line) for the women land rights protection,
    education and psychosocial support beneficiaries.
  • Facilitate the community to develop project
    activities and ideas, support the establishment and monitor implementation
    of beneficiary income generating activities in the area of women property
    rights support program.
  • Regularly facilitate awareness raising and
    community dialogues on the importance of women land rights to the
    community levels as well as awareness raising on women rights; peer to
    peer discussions and dialogues on women land rights protection concerns
    targeting community members, local authority; stakeholders
  • Facilitate review meetings with partners,
    community members and other stakeholder.
  • Facilitate documentation of all project
    activities, stories of change in regards to women land rights, compile all
    the minutes of the discussions and resolution reached in Acholi sub-region
    for dissemination purposes.
  • Facilitate quarterly mobile legal aid clinics
    for legal aid service delivery and awareness raising on land rights in the
    regions of Acholi and Lango .
  • Mentor, train staff and partner on land/
    property rights and national land policies to enhance their skills and
    knowledge to campaign against land rights abuse
  • Mobilize rural women into a critical mass for
    women’s land rights and justice campaigners for the Mt. Kilimanjaro
    project demands
  • Work in liaison with identified community
    leaders from formal and informal institutions to hold community dialogues
    to promote land rights messages and advocate for a multi-stakeholder land
    use planning committee that ensures the free, prior and informed consent
    of all communities affected by land transfers.
  • Actively participate in monitoring and
    evaluation of all the projects.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The applicant should preferably hold a Bachelor’s
    Degree in Law, Development studies or any social science discipline.
  • Post Graduate qualification in project
    planning and management, monitoring and evaluation or any related field is
    an added advantage. 
  • A minimum of two years of relevant working experience preferably in NGO sector
  • Strong facilitation skills
  • Good Knowledge of local Languages especially context
    and culture of Acholi is an added advantage.
  • Strong community mobilization skills
  • Networking and coalition/movement  building
  • Critical report writing and analysis
  • Excellent written and oral communication
    skills
  • Monitoring and evaluation skills
  • Good lobbying, advocacy and campaigning
    skills
  • Good conflict resolution skills;
  • Good leadership and management skills
How to Apply:
All
candidates are encouraged to either send their applications via E-mail or hand
deliver to Vacancies.Uganda@actionaid.org or addressed to: The Director Human
Resource/Organizational Effectiveness, ActionAid International Uganda, Plot
Number 2514/2515 Ggaba Road, Opposite Kampala International University P.O. Box
676 Kampala, Uganda.
Deadline: Thursday 9th June 2016 by 5:00 Pm
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