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Job
Title: Policy Advocacy Specialist
Reports
to: FOREST Programme
Manager
Organisation: CARE International In Uganda (CARE)
Location: Kampala, Uganda

CARE International In
Uganda (CARE) seeks to recruit two qualified Ugandan nationals for positions in
a new Forest Resources Sector Transparency (FOREST) Programme that is launched
by CARE in 2013 for a 5 year period.
CARE works with national partners to make sustainable improvements in the lives
of the very poor. An important area of engagement is to improve transparency,
accountability and responsiveness in governance of Uganda’s natural resources. Uganda’s
forest cover is reducing at an alarming rate and if this trend continues
unabated, Uganda will within a few decades be without any significant forest
cover. The forests are essential for the Ugandan economy and livelihoods and
deforestation and forest degradation contribute significantly to global
greenhouse emissions. Efforts to arrest the situation are clearly insufficient
and ineffective. There are connections between forest degradation, illegal
logging, encroachment and corruption. The FOREST programme sees civil society
as the key actor in effecting change in the forestry sector. The programme is
lead by a CARE FOREST Programme Manager and will be implemented in partnership
with a handful of key strategic civil society partners.

Job Summary: The
incumbent has the responsibilities of the Policy Advocacy Specialist is to work
closely with partner organizations to ensure that the programme delivers
relevant support to the projects they are responsible for.

• Ensuring
  effective coordination, documentation and learning.
• Supporting
  joint efforts in national forest governance advocacy, linking these to
  regional and international initiatives.
• Facilitating
  the programme’s contribution to a stronger, more accountable and
  legitimate civil society through targeted capacity building initiatives.

Key
Duties & Responsibilities:
·        
Oversee
and guide partnership relations and processes within the programme.
·        
Negotiate
agreements and budgets with partner organisations.
·        
Technical
programmatic capacity building of partners within areas of forest governance,
policy advocacy and organisational development.
·        
Facilitate
cross partner experience sharing and scaling up of best practices.
·        
Facilitate
partners’ annual reviews of progress and work plans together with key stakeholders.
·        
Facilitate
coalition building from local to national and international level, linking
local and national experiences to global campaigns.
 

·        
Master’s
degree or higher in social sciences, economics, development studies,
environmental or forest-related discipline.
·        
Minimum
of five years of experience from policy advocacy work in Uganda and preferably
also regionally/internationally.
·        
Experiences
from natural resources governance and management work
·        
Experiences
with working in a partnership approach and supporting civil society

Excellent verbal and
written communication skills in English
Computer skills (email,
word processing, spreadsheets)

Please submit your
application in English by accessing www.infomania.co.ug
 and applying for the job online. You can
also email your application to recruit@co.care.org
 mentioning the title of job applied for
in the email subject field.

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