Project Officer

Job Description

All Applications (Cover Letter, CV and certified academic documents as ONE DOCUMENT) sent via email to Vacancies.Uganda@actionaid.org 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.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Project Coordination and Activity Implementation
  • Coordinate effective implementation of project activities in line with approved workplans and donor commitments
  • Lead day-to-day coordination of all project activities across Kapchorwa LRP.
  • Develop implementation schedules, field plans, and stakeholder engagement calendars.
  • Ensure timely delivery of activities against objectives, indicators, and budgets.
  • Coordinate with internal departments, district stakeholders, and community structures.
  • Participate in review, planning, reflection, and adaptive management meetings.
• GBV Prevention and Social Norms Transformation
  • Implement community and school-based prevention interventions addressing GBV, FGM, and child marriage.
  • Facilitate community dialogues, school outreaches, and campaigns on GBV, FGM, SRHR, and child marriage prevention.
  • Engage parents, teachers, cultural leaders, religious actors, and men and boys in norm change processes.
  • Support establishment and strengthening of girls’ clubs, child rights clubs, and safe spaces.
  • Promote awareness of referral pathways, reporting channels, and survivor rights.
• Adolescent-Friendly Corner (AFC) Coordination
  • Support establishment and operationalisation of two AFCs in Health Centre IIIs
  • Coordinate with the District Health Office and health facilities to establish AFCs.
  • Support training of health workers and peer educators on youth-friendly SRHR and GBV services.
  • Facilitate mobilisation of in-school and out-of-school adolescents to access AFC services.
  • Coordinate outreach sessions, life-skills, mentorship, sports, and SRHR dialogues.
  • Monitor AFC utilisation and quality of adolescent service delivery.
• GBV Shelter and Referral Pathway Strengthening
  • Strengthen survivor-centred protection and referral systems
  • Coordinate with the GBV shelter team to ensure survivors access psychosocial, legal, medical, and reintegration services.
  • Facilitate district GBV referral pathway coordination meetings with police, health, probation, CSOs, and shelter actors.
  • Strengthen case referral linkages between communities, schools, health facilities, and the shelter.
  • Track response timelines, service uptake, and survivor follow-up outcomes.
• Protection of Girls at Risk
  • Strengthen school and community-based systems for identification and support of girls at risk of FGM and early marriage.
  • Work with schools, VHTs, local leaders, and child protection structures to identify at-risk girls.
  • Facilitate counselling, family mediation, and school retention or re-enrolment support.
  • Train teachers and community actors on safeguarding, early warning, and referral pathways.
  • Conduct follow-up visits to ensure sustained safety and wellbeing.
• Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods Support
  • Coordinate entrepreneurship and small business support for survivors and at-risk girls
  • Coordinate local enterprise scoping, market assessments, and beneficiary profiling.
  • Work with the District Commercial Officer and mentors to facilitate entrepreneurship training.
  • Support startup grant disbursement, business plan review, and accountability processes.
  • Monitor business take-off, market access, and linkage to government programmes including PDM, OWC, and YLP.
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Learning
  • Track project results, learning, and donor reporting requirements
  • Collect, verify, and submit sex-, age-, and disability-disaggregated data.
  • Prepare activity, monthly, quarterly, and donor narrative reports.
  • Support outcome tracking on social norms, service access, and economic resilience indicators.
  • Document lessons learned, case studies, success stories, and best practices.
  • Participate in review meetings, learning forums, and reflection spaces with district stakeholders.
• Safeguarding, Compliance and Risk Management
  • Ensure adherence to safeguarding, ethical programming, and risk mitigation standards
  • Mainstream safeguarding, survivor confidentiality, and child protection standards across all activities.
  • Ensure compliance with donor guidelines, AAIU policies, and statutory requirements.
  • Monitor project risks including retaliation, social resistance, and business failure.
  • Escalate safeguarding, operational, and protection risks in a timely manner.

Person Specification

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and Social Administration, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Gender Studies, Public Health, Project Planning and Management, or related field.
• Additional training in GBV programming, SRHR, child protection, safeguarding, or entrepreneurship development is an added advantage.
• Minimum 3 years’ relevant work experience in GBV prevention and response, child protection, SRHR, community systems strengthening, or livelihoods programming in a reputable NGO/INGO.
• Demonstrated experience working with district local governments, health facilities, schools, VHTs, and community protection systems.
• Strong project coordination and implementation skills
• Technical knowledge of GBV, FGM, child marriage, and protection systems
• Knowledge of adolescent SRHR and youth-friendly service delivery
• Community mobilisation and dialogue facilitation skills
• Multi-sectoral coordination and stakeholder engagement
• Livelihoods and economic empowerment programming skills
• Monitoring, evaluation, and data management skills.
• Report writing and analytical skills
• Strong safeguarding and survivor-centred programming
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and communication skills
• High integrity, confidentiality, and professionalism
• Ability to work in rural and hard-to-reach communities

How to Apply

All Applications (Cover Letter, CV and certified academic documents as ONE DOCUMENT) sent via email to Vacancies.Uganda@actionaid.org clearly addressed to the Human Resources Officer, ActionAid Uganda, Plot 2514/2515 Ggaba Road, Kampala, not later than Friday 24th April 2026 by 1300hrs