Programme Officer (Gender and Advocacy) NGO Jobs – SOS Children’s Villages

 

Job Title: Programme Officer (Gender and Advocacy)

Organisation: SOS Children’s Villages

Duty Station: Fortportal, Uganda

 

About US:

SOS Children’s Villages is an independent, locally registered, child-focused, social development non- governmental organization with a strong reputation for providing quality care and protection, education and health needs for vulnerable children. Since its inception in 1991, SOS CV Uganda has reached over 60,000 children, youths and adults directly and indirectly to become empowered and self-reliant to contribute significantly to the needs of their families and communities. Works in partnership with a number of donors, (institutional and corporate agencies) including; Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), Austrian Development Agency (ADA), Grieg Foundation, ERIKS Development Partner, USAID/Bantwana World Education, European Union, AVIS Foundation, Brand Charity, USAID/Uganda Private Health Support Program (UPHSP), Terre des Hommes (TDH), Stanbic Bank Uganda, DHL – Go Teach, Madhvani Group of Companies.

 

Job Summary: The Gender & Advocacy Programme Officer is aimed at supporting the integration of gender perspective to the projects work and ensure gender is mainstreamed & strengthened. This Position supports the project as well to develop appropriate advocacy strategies and ensure the development and delivery of strategic and impactful advocacy.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Programme Implementation

• Facilitate and support implementation of all gender and advocacy activities in the community.
• Facilitate and support the timely implementation of approved GREEN+ annual plans and budgets.
• Support program participants to access social protection services in collaboration with other stakeholders in the community.
• Community awareness dialogues or activities on gender and child related issues with stakeholders
• Engage Local government or other Policymaking bodies to Influence policy or regulation to favour Children in our targets group.

Programme Planning and Financial Management

• Support the community families, communities and other stakeholders to assess and identify root cause of vulnerability at family and community levels using appropriate participatory tools.
• Support the development of an appropriate action plan to meet the needs of each household and community.
• Facilitate the identification of opportunities and mobilization of local resources for the action plan to meet the needs of each household and community.
• Support the preparation of individual Family Development Plans
• Support the preparation of Community Development Plans
• Support the Family Strengthening Programme Coordinator to consolidate the Family Development Plans and prepare budgets to achieve the programme goals.
• Promote gender mainstreaming in all GREEN+ Child Protection and community development interventions.
• Ensure timely submission of program activities’ accountabilities and adhere to financial and procurement policies.

Children and youth Access to Essential Services

• Facilitate families to access essential services required to fulfil their children’s rights and development needs.
• Organise and facilitate the training of children and youth in child rights and responsibilities
• Facilitate and monitor children and youth access to education, health care and nutrition.
• Facilitate and monitor children’s access to vital registration, including birth certificates, national identification.
• Facilitate process of participation for the vulnerable and marginalised individuals (girls, women and PLWDs)

Capacity Building of Families/community

• Facilitate education & awareness of advocacy, gender, Policies/ laws and child rights for communities through trainings.
• Regular Coaching and mentoring of Role models to attain gender equality.
• Facilitate community structures to support activities of gender and advocacy
• Strengthen the capacity of the Community Structures to support quality care and protection

Networking and Partnerships

• Collaborate and facilitate mobilization of community members in addressing relevant advocacy issues- For example with community development structures, other stakeholder in the community not forgetting government departments for effective social protection service delivery to programme participants.
• Support functional sustainability of community-based networks on gender and advocacy support, social protection and other relevant development initiatives.
• Facilitate & coordinate advocacy research documentation & disseminate and inform influence decision makers.
• Identify opportunities for gender and advocacy supportive partnerships within the programme area.

Monitoring and Evaluation of program progress

• Facilitate and monitor GBV case management processes at all community levels
• Facilitate participatory monitoring and evaluation of the programme interventions.
• Facilitate regular data collection against the indicators
• Organize and facilitate regular project reviews with Community Family Development Planning Facilitators and other service providers on FSP.
• Carry out regular home visits to families on the programme and write home visit reports.
• Facilitate sharing of best practice amongst family groups.

Reporting, Resource Management and Documentation

• Prepare and submit timely progress reports to the FSP Manager on programme interventions.
• Document family and gender/advocacy success stories on programme interventions.
• Keep, maintain and information on files of allocated families on the programme in a timely manner
• Support family groups and community development structures to maintain stock books/GBV case registers.
• Submit accountability / reports for programme items distributed in the community to Finance and other relevant departments in a timely manner.
• Comply and adhere to SOS policies and guidelines.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal applicant must hold a bachelor’s degree in Development studies, gender & development studies, Rural development or related studies.
• A least four years proven & progressive experience working in Advocacy, gender and women empowerment issues.
• Good networking & alliance building of skills
• Support preparation & dissemination of information on gender issues that are relevant to the women and girls.
• Team work/collaboration
• Sound understanding of child rights, child development, family and community development, rights-based programming.
• Good communication and reporting skills. Computer literate.
• Understanding and ability to apply community development participatory methodologies.

 

How to Apply:

All interested individuals should send a motivation letter and CV as one PDF document/file (of maximum 8 pages for the Project Coordinator and 6 pages for all other positions), not later than 4:00pm on Friday 18th November 2022 via email to jobs@sosuganda.org and copy to mhu@mentalhealthuganda.org – subject line is the job title e.g. “Project Coordinator”. Do not send academic documents – heavy files containing academic documents or submitted as images, or any other that do not adhere to these instructions and or late applications, will not be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The motivation letter must also include the details of 2 suitable referees who can comment on the candidate’s ability. Women and Persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply, including those with a lived experience of mental health problems.

 

Note

• The commencement of these positions is subject to the availability of funding.
• SOS and MHU promote zero tolerance for discrimination/harassment based on gender, religious beliefs etc. All staff and volunteers shall adhere to strict guidelines in order to facilitate “silent” inclusion. Staff and volunteers also adhere to safeguarding provisions – a set of procedures and practices designed to ensure that no harm comes to project beneficiaries as a result of contact with MHU’s programs, operations or individuals.