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Job Title:  Project Officer (EASE)

Organisation: Community Consortium Uganda (CCU)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About Organisation:

Community Consortium Uganda (CCU) has operated in Uganda since 2006, supporting humanitarian and development projects. CCU has extensive experience delivering Health including community-based interventions and mental and psychosocial interventions to refugees in Uganda. We employ proven approaches in program management, supervision, community engagement, and the delivery of quality mental and psychosocial services. Our expertise includes Health system strengthening, primary healthcare service delivery, community-facility linkages, local capacity building at all levels of the health system, health financing, resource mobilization, management and leadership capacity strengthening for refugee-led NGOs, SBCC, strengthening of community structures, social mobilization, and gender, adolescent girls, and women’s empowerment programming

Job Summary:   To plan, facilitate and assess EASE sessions for adolescents and their caregivers according to EASE methodology quality standards. The EASE Project Officer will also assess, refer and follow-up adolescents requiring more Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) or other forms of support.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan, organize, conduct and document EASE sessions for young adolescents according to the methodology quality standards.
• Work with local authorities to identify and enroll adolescents and their caregivers based on an inclusion criterion.
• Develop weekly plans for sessions with adolescents and their caregivers.
• Mobilize adolescents and caregivers to attend weekly sessions.
• Facilitate and assess weekly sessions with different groups of adolescents and caregivers in local language.
• Ensure sessions are conducted in line with the EASE methodologies and quality standards.
• Ensure attendance is being recorded as per EASE standards.
• Manage EASE session resources well and use them for the intended purpose
• Support and coach-mentor EASE translators to learn on the job.
• Identify gaps among translators and support/mentor them to improve.
• Enable translators to acquire facilitation skills for group sessions.
• Report on activities implemented and concerns identified.
• Collect information and data from sessions for reporting.
• Timely project activity reports and recording
• Submits regular and timely reports to the Team Leader on progress towards outputs as well as challenges and successes.
• Documents beneficiary stories of change and takes good quality photos of activities with beneficiary consent.
• Collect feedback from adolescents and their caregivers on EASE activities as needed.
• Maintain a database and attendance trackers of beneficiaries based on EASE cohorts.
• Child safeguarding and case Management.
• Conduct safety audits to ensure spaces for sessions are safe for adolescents and caregivers.
• Ensure that safeguarding and protection procedures are understood and adhered to.
• Report all safeguarding and protection concerns on time to facilitate timely management.
• Identify, refer and follow-up adolescents and their caregivers in need of additional support to relevant partners.
• Provide Psychological First Aid (PFA) to identified cases before referral.
• Prepare and submit quality and timely reports as needed by partner.

Others

• Attend stakeholder meetings and represent the organisation!
• Perform any other duties as assigned by partner.
• Responsible and accountable for assigned project assets and supplies during the project life span.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• S/he must be a resident of the Settlement or District.
• S/he must have attained a degree or at least a diploma in the fields of, Social Work and Social Administration, Community Psychology, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Development Studies, Social Sciences.
• Ability to understand, speak and write English.
• Ability to speak the local refugee languages of settlement.
• Understanding of Child Safeguarding and Child Protection Policies is requirement.
• Competent using facilitation and helping skills.
• Good at communicating information in simple, interesting, and creative ways.
• Must be child friendly and act in the best interest of children as well as have a volunteer spirit.
• Demonstrated planning, implementation, and time management skills.
• A background or hands on experience in Mental health services is desired.
• Have a clean criminal record.
• Possession of riding skills and a driving license is required

Skills

• Strong facilitation skills
• Teamwork (team oriented)
• Strong social and communication skills
• Affinity with adults
• Good observation skills
• Willingness to work and live in remote areas.
• Creativity

How to Apply:

Candidates should submit their applications to communityconsortiumu@gmail.com

Deadline: 28th February 2025

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