Program Officer Jobs – ActionAid International Uganda

Job Title: Program Officer

Organisation: ActionAid International Uganda

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About Organisation:

ActionAid International Uganda (AAIU) is a Ugandan national development organization, affiliated with ActionAid International- a global federation of independent members and national programs working in 47 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas for a just and sustainable world. We have worked in Uganda since 1982. In Uganda, we have a physical presence in 15 districts, in addition to collaborative work with our partners, reaching out to 39 districts, with a deliberate focus on districts where the poor and vulnerable persons are concentrated.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Programme Coordination, Implementation and Monitoring
• Coordinate and monitor Program activities prepare and submit periodic reports that address community priority poverty issues
• Coordinate implementation of programme and project activities in the LRPs in line as laid down in annual plans and budgets.
• Support district-level planning, budgeting, activity scheduling, and partner work plan alignment.
• Assists the Field Programme Coordinator to identify Local rights community priorities through PRRPs; Community meetings; child focused days and utilise in planning for annual Programmes.
• Identify community priorities through PRRPs, community dialogues, women forums, youth platforms, and child-focused days.
• Support implementation of governance, livelihoods, women rights, youth empowerment, and social accountability interventions.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, biannual, and annual progress reports for submission to the supervisor.
• Document programme outcomes, lessons learned, innovations, and best practices
• Partner Support and Capacity Strengthening
• Support the institutional and Program capacity building initiatives of partners to implement Program activities as may be required by the Program coordinator
• Work with local partners and LRPs to assess institutional and programme capacity gaps.
• Support development and implementation of partner capacity strengthening plans.
• Review partner reports, budgets, accountabilities, and compliance documentation.
• Facilitate partner learning, reflection, and review meetings.
• Mentor partners in planning, reporting, HRBA, safeguarding, feminist leadership, and accountability systems.
• Support organisational self-assessments and follow-up improvement plans.
• Community mobilisation and Movement building
• Participating in and report on community mobilization initiatives
• Supports the mobilisation and nurture of women solidarity movements and networks to build young feminist leaders
• Supports the Field Programme Coordinators in the promotion of small hold farmers to form groups for a collective voice in articulating community problems
• Supports the encouragement of community participation and advocacy for democratic, electoral and political reforms
• Supports efforts to build capacities of communities to address their challenges
• Resource mobilisation and fundraising
• Participate in resource mobilization initiatives aimed at generating funding for existing gaps in the cluster(s) of a given thematic area
• Assists the cluster Coordinator to identify funding gaps
• Prepares and present/submit concept papers for funding keeps track of their status
• Reviews partner proposals and ensure they are aligned with community needs and priorities
• Ensures proper contract management in respect to the signed MoUs
• Makes periodic monitoring visits and produce reports in line with donor requirements
• Field Program compliance with policy and communication guidelines
• Monitor child sponsorship activities in the Regional Field Office for compliance with policy and communications guidelines
• Participates in sponsorship planning meetings and make pre-message collections
• Ensures quality and timely sponsorship communication child messages and community reports
• Follows-up on missing cases and respond to queries from the sponsorship unit
• Receives new profiles from the Regional Field Office and submit them to funding affiliates
• Ensures communities are sensitised on sponsorship mechanisms and photo updates made as required.
• Field program management
• Give necessary support to the Program coordinator for effective management of the Local Rights Programmes
• Ensures effective implementation of Programme plans and initiatives
• Shares relevant Programme information to the Programme Coordinator in a timely manner
• Represents the Program coordinator in different fora as may be delegated
• Prepares/develops various Program documents as may be necessary
• Prepares progress report to the Program Program coordinator covering Programme implementation in the Regional Field Office (s)

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in development studies, Social Sciences, or related field from a recognised institution.
• A relevant post graduate qualification and training in Human Rights Based Approaches, Project Planning and Management, is an added advantage.
• Essential experience
• A minimum of five years of similar work experience in a reputable organisation, preferable an NGO
• Demonstrated experience of at least two years in any one of the thematic areas of the sixth country strategy paper

Skills, Abilities and Competencies:

• Programme development and management
• Transformative leadership skills
• Ability to conduct feminist analysis
• Gender and Poverty analysis
• Governance accountability issues
• Planning, monitoring and evaluation.
• Management and supervisory skills
• Governance issues
• Mobilisation and empowerment
• Resource mobilisation
• Financial management
• Human Rights Based approach
• Environmental management
• Documentation and reporting
• Participatory approaches and methodologies
• Good interpersonal and people Management skills
• Partnerships and networking.
• Ability to establish critical working relationships
• Ability to promote and safeguard AAU policies
• Ability to live and work in rural communities
• Ability to conduct power analysis

How to Apply:

All Applications (Cover Letter, CV and certified academic documents as ONE DOCUMENT) sent via email to This vacancy has closed — applications are no longer acceptedApplications closedSee open jobs at ActionAid → clearly addressed to the Human Resources Officer, ActionAid Uganda, Plot 2514/2515 Ggaba Road, Kampala, not later than Friday 24th April 2026 by 1300hrs. We will respond to ONLY shortlisted Candidates.

Deadline: 24th April 2026

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Level of Education: bachelor degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60