Project Officer

Key Duties 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

How to Apply

All Applications (Cover Letter, CV and certified academic documents as ONE DOCUMENT) sent via email to [[email protected]](mailto:email@example.com) 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.