Several Project Officer Job Opportunities – Alive Medical Services (AMS)

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Job Title:   Project Officer (Several Job Opportunities)  

Organisation: Alive Medical Services (AMS)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

 

About US:

Alive Medical Services is a registered charity where we serve our clientele with love and dignity, helping people living with HIV/AIDS enjoy life to the fullest. Open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, our clinic offers compassionate, comprehensive, quality care free of charge to the vulnerable in our community. Using a community-based, client-centered and peer-led approach, AMS provides free comprehensive HIV/AIDS/Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) services to over 201,000 clients annually including over 90,700 youth, adolescent girls and young women, orphans, vulnerable and marginalized populations.

 

Job Summary:   The project Officer is responsible in ensuring the timely development of results based annual work plans with defined project objectives, strategies and approaches.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

  • The Project Officer will support the implementation of activities and ensure smooth completion.
  • Provide technical input to the government and other stakeholders in mainstreaming inclusive strategies in national and county with regards to policies, strategies, and frameworks on marginalized population services.
  • Will Closely Monitor Project implementation to identify best practices as well as constraints, the project officer will assist in the collection of and analyze data/information in collaboration with Monitoring and Evaluation Team. Ensuring that commodities such as self-testing kits and other commodities are available.
  • Conduct regular program support and monitoring field visits.
  • Contribute to the development of annual work plans and budgets, training plans, quarterly and annual reports
  • Organize and create platforms for developing and sharing best practices on inclusive Rights in demand creation and service delivery for youth, women, and persons with disabilities.
  • Monitoring progress of partners and stakeholders in applying inclusive strategies that benefit project activities.
  • Convene and lead quarterly project working group meetings with partners
  • Participate in country sector specific forums and county/regional levels as will be appropriate.
  • In collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation Team, collects and analyses data/information from the projects, consolidates project reports, and drafts weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual reports and donor reports
  • Providing technical support and inputs to the prog focusing on human rights; sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex issues; transgender human rights and legal gender recognition; civil society and community systems strengthening; Participating in the development of LGBTQI+ activities for different contexts on key emerging policy agendas, by drafting applicable documents, preparing presentations, and drafting components of briefings and speeches;
  • Providing inputs and compile relevant data related to regional external partnerships, including fulfilling corporate and donor reporting, monitoring and evaluation, advocacy and information-sharing requirements.
  • Supporting the project activities at regional level and supporting country offices as requested.


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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

  • The ideal candidate should hold a bachelor’s degree in Project planning and Management, Human Rights, Public Health, or related field
  • At least five years of working experience in Implementing projects relating to vulnerable and marginalised populations in their diversity, including those living with HIV, and other key and vulnerable populations.
  • Demonstrable skills and experience in project management (human and financial)
  • Excellent skills for networking and collaboration at local and international levels
  • Excellent communication and report writing skills in English.
  • Demonstrable skills and competences of working with diverse multidisciplinary teams.
  • High integrity, honesty and intrinsic motivation for sustainable HIV/SRHR in Uganda
  • Experience in interdisciplinary development projects, preferably also with international staff
  • Experience of working in an international and/or multicultural environment, with NGO experience an advantage.
  • Proven competence in administrative work including organizing workshops, seminars, conferences and trainings, updating and populating the Unit’s web page on a regular basis, being custodian of project and Unit materials and resources, organizing meetings, taking minutes and following up on matters and tasks.
  • Competence in effectively communicating organizational stands through statements and opinion pieces.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, team spirit, conscientiousness and the ability to go the extra mile.
  • Good budgeting and financial management and monitoring skills.
  • Able to speak different Ugandan Languages.

 

How to Apply:

If you meet the desired qualifications and work experience as listed below, please submit your CV and Cover letter as one document to redu@amsuganda.org

 

NB: Please kindly limit your documents to a size of 2MB

 

Deadline: 7th January 2023

 

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