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Job Title: Project /District Field Officers (2 Job Opportunities)

Organisation: Uganda Youth and Adolescents Health Forum (UYAHF)

Duty Station:  Uganda

About US:

Uganda Youth and Adolescents Health Forum is a dynamic and leading youth led and youth serving health and human rights organization that works to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights for young people, enhance gender equality and promote economic empowerment and young people’s meaningful participation. UYAHF’s envisions a generation where young people are pro-active and meaningfully participate in national development processes and our overall goal is to empower adolescent girls and young women to live quality lives with equity, dignity and opportunities to realize their full potential.

About the project:

Uganda Youth and Adolescents Health Forum (UYAHF) with support from CARE International is implementing a seven-year program targeting gender transformative and sustainable change for out of school adolescent girls and their communities in Terego District, Uganda. The project entitled; “SHE SOARS (Sexual and Reproductive Health & Economic Empowerment Supporting Out of school Adolescent girls’ Rights and Skills), the program is being conducted in partnership with: The Center for Reproductive Rights (The Center), Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Rights (YCSRR), Restless Development and other local partners including UYAHF.

Job Summary:  UYAHF is looking to hire 2 proactive, strategic, and open-minded team members to join our Terego Field Office and play the role of District/project Field Officers split across different Sub-Counties that the project will be working in. The new team member(s) will play a critical role of building and sustaining grassroot structures and systems that will support UYAHF to realize the above ambitious goal in Terego district.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support development and implementation of project work plans and other relevant project technical tools on a monthly, quarterly and an annual basis.
• Timely preparation and submission of project activity reports on a weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis to the project coordinator to facilitate donor reporting.
• Organize, mobilize, and train communities and oversee the day-to-day implementation of project activities.
• Represent the project at the local, district, and national level engagements.
• Ensure proper accountability of project funds by providing timely accountabilities.
• Oversee and lead the implementation of the community-level components and project.
• Conduct training for adolescents and young people to empower them to meaningfully participate in the project’s activities at community, district, and national levels through their organized clubs.
• Participate in mapping of hotspots and other community structures to easily access underserved adolescents and young people.
• Lobby and advocate for Sexual Reproductive Health and livelihood needs of marginalized communities’ young people, including those in refugee settlement.
• Develop and strengthen partnerships and collaboration with key stakeholders and the district local government,
• Attend monthly district and UNHCR coordination meetings for health gender, GBV, child protection, and education among others.
• Conduct monitoring and evaluation of the project and its impact on communities.
• Maintain proper and up to date record of project assets and inventory in the Field O
• Map existing community groups for adolescent girls and boys, identify group leaders, and deliver gender/adolescent responsive and inclusive training for group leaders on life skills and SRHR information and services.
• Establish girls’ groups for out of school adolescent girls and deliver agreed proposed project curriculums.
• Establish Youth/Savings and Loan Association groups VSLA groups.
• Map existing Y/VSLA groups and modify models that are gender/youth/community responsive.
• Support vocational skills training/apprenticeship/IGAs for the boys and girls.
• Map and select existing Community Health Volunteers and Peer Educators.
• Conduct Behavior Change Outreaches.
• Identify and train Social Analysis and Action community facilitators.
• Train adolescent boys and girls to deliver gender-responsive Community Score Card (CSC) intervention with Health Care Service Providers and community.
• Support adolescent boys and girls to implement gender-responsive and inclusive CSC with HCPs and community members.
• Conduct needs assessments in target districts assessing the availability and clinical skills of Health. Care Service Providers to deliver a comprehensive package of SRH services.
• Train in-service Health Care Service Providers on revised gender/youth responsive inclusive and comprehensive Adolescent SRHR curriculum.
• Coach and mentor on revised gender/youth responsive inclusive and comprehensive Adolescent SRHR for Health Care Service Providers post-training.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal applicant must hold a Degree in social work, social science, public health, and medical-related studies. An additional master’s or postgraduate diploma shall be an added advantage.
• APPLICANTS MUST BE FROM TEREGO DISTRICT AND OR FORMER GREATER ARUA
• High levels of technical knowledge and the ability to work quickly and accurately.
• Demonstrate program and advocacy knowledge in humanitarian action and programming.
• At least three years working experience with credible CSOs.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience in project coordination and execution.
• Excellent communication and team working abilities.
• A strong can-do attitude and the passion to strive for excellence.
• A native of Terego and or former greater Arua and well versed with the lugbara languages.
• Ability to ride a motorcycle or willingness to learn (ridding permit must be attached – optional)
• Female applicants have an added advantage.
• Knowledge in SRHR advocacy and programming will be an added advantage.
• The candidate must adhere to the safeguarding, reporting, fraud prevention, and monitoring requirements of UYAHF, CARE International, and for this role.
• The candidate must be pro-choice.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested candidates should Please submit your CV (3 pages max) with a motivation/cover letter (2 pages Max) and two reference letters, to: info@uyahf.com and copy loketcho@uyahf.com

Job interviews will be held on 30th March 2022. Only successful candidates will be contacted for interviews utilizing evidence-based approaches to life skills, case management, and economic strengthening consistently.

Deadline: 28th March 2022

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