Job Title: Membership Development Officer
Organisation: Uganda Association of Women Lawyers (FIDA Uganda)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
About US:
Uganda Association of women Lawyers (FIDA-Uganda) is a membership-based feminist organization established in 1974 to promote and defend human rights with emphasis on women and children as beneficiaries across the country. FIDA-Uganda’s mission is to advance gender equality through the promotion of women’s and children’s rights and its priority areas include; to promote justice frameworks that are gender responsive; to enhance social justice economic empowerment and inclusion for women; to promote gender justice through strategic partnerships and to enhance the capacity of FIDA-Uganda as a center for legal excellence for women lawyers. It also advocates for policies and practices at the national, regional, and international levels that more effectively protect the rights of women. FIDA-Uganda operates nationwide with a Secretariat in Kampala and other satellite districts across the country.
Job Summary: The Membership Development officer will develop and implement strategies that will ensure FIDA Uganda has a vibrant and growing membership; identify advocacy and learning of business and human rights in specific targets of project result frameworks; responsible for periodic internal reporting and annual donor reporting, among others.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold an Honours degree in Human Rights, Law and or relevant field
- At least five years of experience in project management with specific reference to business and human rights related programs.
- Extensive knowledge on business and human rights.
- Extensive knowledge on the gender concerns related to business, human rights and corporate accountability from a feminist perspective.
- Essential skills excellent verbal and writing skills.
- Negotiation and networking skills related to advocacy in national and regional policy space is desirable.
- Ability to build alliances and engage with civil society movements and coalitions.
- Language: Fluency in written and verbal English.
How to Apply:
All candidates should send their applications, updated CVs and credentials via Email to:
hr@fidauganda.org or hand deliver to the Human Resource Officer indicating the position applied for on the envelope.
Deadline: Friday 6th March 2023