Job Title: Protection and Gender Assistant
Organisation: Alliance Forum
for Development-AFOD Uganda
for Development-AFOD Uganda
Duty Station: Uganda
Reference Number:
AFOD/U/VA/16-17/009
AFOD/U/VA/16-17/009
About US:
Alliance Forum for Development-AFOD Uganda is a non-profit,
nondenominational, apolitical and non-sectarian Humanitarian and Development
Organization incorporated in Uganda in 2015 with NGO board registration number
11619. AFOD Uganda seeks to work closely with rural and urban poor communities
across the country to address their real needs and build local partnership with
institutions/communities and support community structures to jointly identify
and address the underlying causes of poor health and steer social change.
nondenominational, apolitical and non-sectarian Humanitarian and Development
Organization incorporated in Uganda in 2015 with NGO board registration number
11619. AFOD Uganda seeks to work closely with rural and urban poor communities
across the country to address their real needs and build local partnership with
institutions/communities and support community structures to jointly identify
and address the underlying causes of poor health and steer social change.
Job Summary: The Protection
and Gender Assistant will be managing and coordinating gender and child
protection issues, providing technical guidance and policy interpretation to
all stakeholders and beneficiaries for decision-making.
and Gender Assistant will be managing and coordinating gender and child
protection issues, providing technical guidance and policy interpretation to
all stakeholders and beneficiaries for decision-making.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Visiting
villages, camps and other IDP settlements to meet with community members
in order to identify protection needs. - Tasked
with ensuring that assessments are undertaken in a consultative manner
including the participation of men, women, children and elderly. - Ensuring
that protection is mainstreamed throughout all data collection including a
focus on serving the most vulnerable members of the community. - Responsible
for strengthening research and relationship with community leaders
in order to maintain good access to persons of concern. - Tasked
with coordinating crossing issues with government institutions and
development partners. - Encouraging
and facilitating informal groups of IDPs to meet in order to collect
information about protection needs of the vulnerable community members,
identify possible community-based solutions and make referrals. - Making
connections with humanitarian services providers and encouraging their communication
with community members. - Offering
mediation to settle disputes where possible. - Keeping
records of the protection and humanitarian needs identified and the
actions taken to assist them. - In
charge of monitoring and reporting on matters of concern to all key
stakeholders - Completing
and submitting weekly reports. - Offering
technical guidance and policy interpretation with regards to gender mainstreaming
within the projects. - Setting
priorities, developing and implementing a clear and comprehensive gender framework
and action plan. - Sending
feedback to project staff to ensure the practical implementation of
activities within gender framework considering gender perspectives. - In
charge of reviewing, editing and giving monthly, quarterly and annual
progress reports on gender achievements. - Developing
gender action plan for mainstreaming gender. - Performing
any other relevant duties assigned from time to time.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
Experience:
- The applicant should preferably hold a Bachelor’s degree in development
studies, gender studies, social science, public admiration or related
field. - At least two years working experience with civil society organisation on
gender and protection or related field is an added advantage. - Strong sense of adaptability and ability
to work and live in stressed, unstable environment and multi-cultural
setting. - Willingness
to travel and work in remote areas - Code of conduct as relevant to procurement
and logistics, commitment, time management/ ability to work for longer
hours, loyalty, patience, emotional intelligence and Tolerance - Skills: Awareness raising and
outreach, excellent knowledge of Microsoft word and excel, fluency in both
spoken and written English, facilitation and coordination, team building
and management and report writing and presentation.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested Ugandan nationals should send
their applications with updated CVs in English to the: Human Resource Officer,
AFOD Uganda Country Office, Ntinda Minister’s Village, P.O. Box 11003 Kampala
Uganda or Email to: [email protected].
Applications can equally be submitted to Adjumani field office, next to CEFORD.
their applications with updated CVs in English to the: Human Resource Officer,
AFOD Uganda Country Office, Ntinda Minister’s Village, P.O. Box 11003 Kampala
Uganda or Email to: [email protected].
Applications can equally be submitted to Adjumani field office, next to CEFORD.
Deadline: 19th June 2017
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