Job Title: Governance and Accountability Officer (2 Positions)
Organisation: Enabel
Duty Station: Jinja and Fort Portal, Uganda
About US:
Enabel is the Belgian development agency. It implements the Belgian governmental cooperation. The agency also implements actions for other national and international donors. With its Belgian and international partners, Enabel provides solutions to address urgent global challenges: Climate Change, Urbanisation, Human Mobility, Peace and Security, Social and Economic Inequalities and Global Citizenship. With 1,800 staff, Enabel manages about 150 projects in twenty countries, in Belgium, Africa and the Middle East.
Job Summary: Enabel in Uganda is seeking to recruit dynamic and competent individuals to fill 2 vacancies for the position of Governance and Accountability Officer in the project offices in Fort portal and Jinja.
The person is responsible for supporting local stakeholders in developing formal and informal spaces for collaboration between public actors and civil society at the local level as well as boost innovative ideas (and consolidating existing ones) for direct citizen engagement and participation
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- You will conduct participatory analyses in each district on current practices of multi-actor planning, implementation and monitoring.
- You will develop actions to strengthen multi-actors coordination, as well as planning and monitoring inclusion of refugee needs and opportunities to feed into local programming and services;
- You will ensure efficient and effective budget implementation of activities in education and health projects.
- You will provide relevant information to advance the cause of citizen participation and engagement at international, national, and sub-national levels
- You will Coordinate with the research and development agencies in the regions to field test and disseminate innovations and practices designed for the conditions in the project districts;
- You commit to the vision, mission and values of Enabel:
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Master’s degree in social sciences, political sciences, law, public administration, human rights, economics or other areas closely relevant.
- At least five years of relevant experience in support to local governance processes
- Sound experience of approaches and tools for citizen participation and engagement at the local/sub national level
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in programme management, monitoring and evaluation, policy development in support to local governance processes
- Experienced in approaches and tools for facilitating multi-stakeholders’ processes, participatory approaches
- Experience with qualitative and quantitative M&E methods.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the decentralization context policies and institutions in Uganda and particularly with regard to the delivery of social services
- Sound knowledge of action learning mechanisms and participatory action research
- Competences in change management, learning and knowledge management;
- Clear and concise writing skills for reporting, administrative and technical documents;
- Communication, presentation and facilitation skills;
- Creative thinking and being pro-active i.e. taking initiatives and responsibility at the same time
- Good working knowledge of ICT technologies (related software, phone, email) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office).
How to Apply:
All candidates should submit their applications online at the link below with an updated CV (maximum 3 pages)
Deadline: 15th December 2023
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