4 Project Officers job at BRAC

Vacancy Title:
4 Project Officers

Type:
FULL TIME

Industry:
Nonprofit, and NGO

Category:
Admin & Office

Jobs at:
BRAC

Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Duty Station:
Within Uganda, Uganda, East Africa

Summary
Date Posted:
Monday, July 29, 2024

Base Salary:
Not Disclosed

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Job Details:

BRAC is a global leader in creating large-scale opportunities for the poor. Founded in Bangladesh in 1972, it is now one of the world’s largest development organizations, touching the lives of an estimated 138 million people in 11 countries across Asia and Africa. For more information, please visit BRAC’s website.

Empowerment & Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) Program
BRAC’s program for adolescents is designed to socially and economically empower teenage girls through providing safe spaces for them to socialize and receive mentoring, life skills, and financial literacy. The ELA+ project is therefore seeking to recruit staff to fill vacant positions.

Job Title:
Project Officer

Positions:
04

Location:
Amudat, Kampala, Kasese, Kyegegwa.

Core Roles and Responsibilities:

• Take leadership during the implementation of the project activities.
• Participate in regular coordination meetings with all the actors in the district, the sub-counties, and parish levels.
• Support in developing and implementing weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual project work plans, project activities, and budgets in line with the approved ELA+ project proposal, work plans, and budgets.
• Collaborate with service providers to ensure referrals to other services such as psychosocial support, mental health, family planning, and livelihoods interventions.
• Assist with project risk management in the implementation of the project to minimize their occurrence and possible effects on the project in line with BRAC Risk Management policy and project risk mitigation measures.
• Support effective project budget utilization, management, and monitoring for activities directly implemented and ensure project performance targets on a monthly and quarterly basis are achieved.
• Support timely accountability for funds used to implement the project in line with BRAC accounting policies and procedures and donor requirements.
• Mobilize target community members, children, youth, women, families, and key stakeholders from the sub-county and district level to participate in ELA+ project activities.
• Organize and directly facilitate training sessions and other capacity-building initiatives for support committee members, mentors, youth groups, parents/caregivers, and male partners.
• Support the establishment and strengthening of ELA+ project groups or safe spaces for the empowerment of vulnerable girls.

Safeguarding Roles:

• Read, understand, practice, promote, and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• University degree or equivalent in Social Works, Psychology, Gender, Development Studies, Adult and Community Education, Business Administration. A postgraduate diploma in project planning and management is an added advantage.
• At least 2 to 4 years of work experience in implementing protection programs, preferably in social protection, gender, human rights work, or legal assistance, in humanitarian or development settings.
• Prior experience providing services to children, adolescents, youth, and young women at risk and victims of abuse, exploitation, and violence, providing gender-sensitive and youth-friendly counseling services, and/or developing/implementing referral pathways.
• Previous experience working with a team in a cross-cultural setting.
• Persons with disabilities and women are encouraged to apply.

Work Hours:
8

Experience in Months:
24

Level of Education:
Bachelor’s Degree

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