Job Title: Project Officer – EAR Health

Organisation: World Vision Uganda

Duty Station: Minakulu, Uganda

About Organisation:

World Vision Uganda is a Christian Relief, Development and Advocacy Non-Government Organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We currently work in over 41 districts in Uganda. World Vision is committed to the protection of children and we will not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with children. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible. “Our Vision for every child, Life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every Heart, the will to make it so.”

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Project planning and implementation:

Quality Integrated EAR health Plans and budgets developed that ensure strong alignment with WV Uganda Country strategy 2026 – 2030.
Ensure intentional targeting and participation of RC and their households in the various project interventions (where applicable)
Support cluster/AP teams implementing grants and ensure the implementation is done in an integrated manner.
Support monitoring of project budgets, expenditures and execution ensuring that the Project is managed as per plan within time and budgets, meeting donor and community accountability
Effectively roll out and develop strong accountability mechanisms to capture feedback from external partners and District Health Department.
Lead implementation of project activities to ensure timely achievement of planned outputs and outcomes.
Coordinate ENT service delivery interventions across supported health facilities and strengthen the referral system.
Support advocacy and partnership initiatives for project ownership and sustainability, including strengthening partnerships with the district health team, sub-regional forums and implementing partners in relation to ENT service delivery.

Stakeholder engagement and Quality Assurance:

Identify and partner with Sub-Regional local organizations for sustainability and prepositioning purposes for the project
Engage the District Health Departments to coordinate the different actors in the districts for purposes of synergy and sufficient weight of action for key issues.
Facilitate advocacy engagements with Regional Referal hospitals to create points of referral for EAR health conditions.
Support implementation of technical area specific local advocacy plans with special interest to the operations of the CVA working groups.
In close collaboration with the MEAL team, track technical model fidelity ensuring they follow partnership standards.
Track and support implementation of recommendations from various accountability mechanisms such as reflection, finance and operation audits, project action learning and reviews.

Project Documentation and Learning:

Actively participate in the output and outcome monitoring processes to ensure technical quality and oversee the writing of the technical area specific section of the progress reports (semi-annual and annual).
Review monthly CHW reports and output data and support routine action planning ensuring that activity implementation impacts program outputs Quality Assurance

Regional Reflections

Link WVU’s outputs to the national Management Information Systems

Documentation of success/impact stories
Actively participate in grants reporting and ensures that grant projects participate in the TP specific reflections.
Compile progress reports (Monthly, Quarterly, Semi Annual and Annual) for management decision making in line with the project implementation plan and donor requirements.
Promote utilization of data/information from progress reports, baselines, evaluations and other assessments at project level through reflection and learning forums such as quarterly review meetings and management meetings or conferences for project partners.
Documentation of project learning, project most significant change stories, best practices realized from external engagement and partners working with the project.
Support Health Facilities to have databases to track beneficiary support from the project.
Develop and administer performance-monitoring tools to track Project indicators within project log frame.

Capacity Building

Build the capacity of partners to accurately monitor and evaluate the project output, outcomes and indicators’ progress through organizing training sessions or field visits.
Identify capacity building needs for external partners and report them for management attention
Strengthen the existing Joint District Health Sector engagements to facilitate adoption and tracking of EAR Health interventions by Health facilities, District and partners.

Any Other Duties

Carry out any other duties required by the PMs, and the Regional Manager in support of the overall Project agenda and organizational objectives in the Sub-Regions and Region.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

A Bachelor’s Degree in any Health related areas preferably in Nursing or Public health.
Minimum of 3 years of work experience in managing health related projects or programs is highly desirable. Experience in implementation and management of ENT programmes is an added advantage
Experience in proposal writing and development, grants management, report writing, research, monitoring and evaluation skills.
Prior experience in external partner and stakeholder engagement, networking and coordination.
Highly experienced in data management processes and field research skills.
Ability to work with inter-disciplinary teams and a wide range of program/project activities.
Experience working with grants is an added advantage.
Strong report writing and communication skills, both verbal and written.
Proactive personality, self-driven, confident and strongly motivated.
Good interpersonal skills, team player, facilitation skills.
Proven conceptual & analytical skills, ability to take an evidence-based approach to programming.
Spiritual maturity, interfaith knowledge and a biblical worldview – ability to articulate and model our Christian identity and mission in an inclusive way.
Experience with Health Project Implementation, including understanding of ENT services, is desirable.
Knowledge of designing and managing Project plans and budgets to facilitate improved service delivery and support related to development programming.
Experience in designing basic Project data tools, and the ability to coach and train others in their use is desirable.
Excellent command of MS Excel, and working knowledge of at least two office packages
Demonstrated experience in analyzing, interpreting, and reporting on M&E results so that lessons can be learned and incorporated into programming is desirable.