DEADLINE: 31/07/2024
Project Officers
Full-time
Empowerment & Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) Program
BRAC’s program for adolescents is designed to socially and economically empower teenage girls through providing safe spaces for them to socialize and receive mentoring, life skills and financial literacy. The ELA+ project is therefore seeking to recruit staff to fill vacant positions.
Job Title: Project Officers
Positions: 04
Core Roles and Responsibilities
- Take leadership during the implementation the project activities.
- Participate in regular coordination meetings with all the actors in the district, the sub counties and parish levels
- Support in developing and implementing weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual project work plans, project activities and budgets in line with the approved ELA plus project proposal, work plans and budgets.
- Collaborate with service providers to ensure referrals to other services such as psychosocial support, mental health, and family planning and livelihoods interventions.
- Assist with project risk management in the implementation of the project to minimize their occurrence and possible effects on the project in line with BRAC Risk Management policy and project risk mitigation measures.
- Support effective project budget utilisation, management and monitoring for activities directly implemented and ensure project performance target on monthly and quarterly basis are achieved.
- Support timely accountability for funds used to implement project in line with BRAC accounting policies and procedures and donor requirements.
- Mobilise target community members, children, youth, women, families and key stakeholders from the Sub County and district level to participate ELA plus project activities.
- Organise and directly facilitate trainings sessions and other capacity building initiatives for support committee members, mentors, youth groups, parents/ caregivers and male partners.
- Support the establishment and strengthening of ELA plus project groups or safe spaces for empowerment of vulnerable girls
Safeguarding roles
- Read, understand, practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
- Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.
Required Qualifications and Skills
University degree or equivalent in Social Works, Psychology, Gender, Development studies, Adult and Community Education, Business administration related degree desired a postgraduate diploma in project planning and management is added advantage, at least 2 to 4 years work experience in implementing Protection programs, preferable social protection, Gender, human rights work or legal assistance, in humanitarian or development settings, Prior experience providing services to children, adolescents, youth and young women at risk and victims of abuse, exploitation and violence, providing gender-sensitive and youth-friendly counselling services, and/or developing/implementing referral pathways, Previous experience working with a team in a cross-cultural setting
Persons with disabilities and women are encouraged to apply.
TO APPLY:
Interested candidates should send their Application indicating the branches of interest, CV and academic documents as one document addressed to the Head Human Resources on [email protected]. Deadline is 31 July, 2024. The subject must be the name of the position applied for strictly when submitting. Only complete applications will be accepted, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
NOTE: BRAC Uganda doesn’t charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process from the applicants. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of any communication purportedly on behalf of BRAC Uganda please send us an email before taking any further action in relation to the issue at hand.
BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation – regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure include extensive background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.
BRAC is an equal opportunities employer