Community Services Officer UNHCR Project Jobs – Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid (HIJRA)

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Job Title:        Community
Services Officer
Organisation: Humanitarian
Initiative Just Relief Aid (HIJRA)
Funding Source: UNHCR
Duty Station: Uganda
Reports to: Camp
Manager
About US:
Humanitarian
Initiative Just Relief Aid (HIJRA) is an international African humanitarian and
development organization that positively contributes towards improving the
living standards and conditions of those adversely affected by disasters and
conflict in the Horn, East & Central Africa by implementing WASH, Health,
Education, Livelihoods, Community service & development and Protection
programs in the region for a period of more than 20 years.
About UNHCR Project:
HIJRA with funding
from the UNHCR in Uganda is implementing a multi-Sectoral Program for refugees
in Oruchinga settlement (Isingiro district), Nakivale settlement (Isingiro
district) and Matanda Transit Center (Kanungu district).
Job Summary: The
Community Services Officer is mainly responsible for carrying out community
services & development activities through information dissemination,
trainings and encouraging community participatory approaches.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Continually sensitize the community and
    refugee leadership and other stakeholders of the importance of respectful
    dialogue with refugee community.
  • Work in close cooperation with refugee
    community/committees, develop social recreational and cultural activities
    in the settlement.
  • Identify key protection concerns through
    participatory process for different age, gender and diversity groups among
    camp population.
  • Responsible for ensuring that HIJRA has
    up to date records of refugee camp population, based on UNHCR
    registration, OPM and leadership structures.
  • Regular review of registration data,
    critical analysis of data compared to actual population, and
    identification of vulnerable groups and individuals for further
    interventions. Also identification of gaps between registration and actual
    population.
  • Periodically draft reports on community
    activities and work plans to the Camp Manager for donor reporting.
  • Tasked with the compilation of all
    sectoral monthly reports and work plans (WASH, CS/CD and Protection) and
    submission to the Camp Manager.
  • Actively contribute to proposal
    development for the organization.
  • Supervise volunteers and any other
    support staff under the community services sector at the transit center.
  • Assist and participate in development of
    HIJRA refugee program in consultation with other concerned OPs/IPs
  • Perform any other official duty that may
    be assigned from time to time by the Camp Manager.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
  • The ideal candidate for the HIJRA
    Community Services Officer job placement should hold a Bachelor’s degree
    in Development studies.
  • A minimum of three years of working
    experience in community based development.
  • Previous experience working with refugee
    populations
  • Prior experience working overseas in a
    humanitarian context
How to Apply:
All suitably
qualified and interested candidates should send an application letter and
Curriculum Vitae including telephone and email contacts of three referees
including your current/most recent employer.
Application should
be addressed to the:
Country Program
Manager,
Humanitarian
Initiative Just Relief Aid (HIJRA),
P.O. Box 37703,
Kampala, Uganda.
Email to:
vacancies.ug@hijra.or.ke. The subject line should read: “Community Services
Officer.”
Deadline: 17th September 2018
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