Job Title: Awareness Creation Officers (80 Career Vacancies)

Graduate International Organization, commonly known worldwide as “graduate”. The Graduate International Organization was founded in 1992, for the purpose of implementing volunteer service-learning and community development programs that benefit the volunteer participants and positively impact the communities they serve.

GIO is an international volunteer service-learning and community development organization that taps into the talents and generosity of its volunteer participants from high schools, colleges and universities, staff, partners and advisors, both in the developed and developing world. GIO’s programs are grounded in a philosophy that the personal lives and activities of people around the world are increasingly intertwined. It is important that we understand the interrelatedness of our individual actions and the effect they have on health, social well-being, poverty, human rights, transparency, and environmental stability worldwide. We are all responsible for the health of the world.

In East Africa, GIO has its headquarter in Zanzibar-Tanzania, and operational office in Mombasa-Kenya, the office is currently working to establish sub head office in Kampala-Uganda in the mid-November.

About Youth Awareness Program-Uganda:

In 2013, Graduate International implemented a very successful awareness creation project in Tanzania. Youth Awareness Program (YAP-Uganda), is a two years project sponsored by Norway, Japan and United States of America Youth Empowerment Program aiming in creating awareness among the youth in Africa-Uganda and general population as a whole. The project is designed to address issues like, Awareness on Corruption, Human Rights, Drug Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Awareness on Human Trafficking, Awareness on Gambling, Awareness on Constitution and Democracy. YAP-Uganda constitutes various activities including Youth Trainings and workshops, Public Awareness Campaigns, Youth Public Forums, Integrating Media and Reality TV shows, and finally is youth mobilization and sensitization. General project objective is creating a competent, confident and a well-informed youth population on the current challenges facing Uganda, Africa and the world at large.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Awareness Creation Officers will be mobilizing and sensitizing community on the YAP-Uganda project goals and objectives
• Actively facilitating of the pre and post YAP surveys in the target areas.
• Organizing and facilitating local documentation and dissemination of YAP survey findings and good practices to local stakeholders.
• Responsible for facilitating mobilization, training/workshops and running of community awareness activities in their assigned areas.
• Facilitating dialogue among the community local leadership, government, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitating and supporting the community in linking up with the established local SMS based platform disseminating youth awareness messages and information
• Ensure smooth collaboration with vernacular radio station for dissemination of whether forecast information and education of youth population in the target area
• Actively facilitate establishment of 2 youth led mobile public theatres for integrating youth awareness in drug abuse, corruption, human rights, e.t.c
• Carry out mobilization and formation of community groups for trainings
• Facilitate the various groups trainings and the follow up with mentoring and support with relevant livelihoods inputs
• Conduct regular field monitoring of project interventions
• Develop and submit progress reports on timely manner and as per the donor agreement.
• Perform any other duties that may be allocated to him or her by the Project Field Supervisor.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicants must be graduates from high school, Certificate, Diploma or Degree level in the following areas of expertise namely community development, sociology, rural planning and development, education, business administration, marketing, procurement, mass communication or journalism, public relation, social well fare, project planning and management.
• High school applicants must have experience in various social works and must have attended capacity building trainings or workshops on social issues.
• Must be flexible to work anywhere in Uganda.
• After qualifying to Volunteer with GIO, Applicants must be willing to Apply and Enroll in Volunteers TOT Capacity Building Session, after being accepted to volunteer under Graduate International Organization. The training will be conducted by third party called TOT Experts and Consultancy Group.
• You must not be under full time employment when applying, because your time appropriation might hinder our projects’ success.
• Applicants with talents (art, music, football and netball) will be added advantage
• The applicants must be innovative and creative.
• Proven organizational, analytical, negotiating, communication (oral and written) and training skills
• Extensive knowledge of local language and sensitivity to culture is very necessary.
• Good community mobilization and sensitization skills
• Be a team player skills, Inter-personal skills, Leadership skills, Communication skills., Problem solving skills, Computer Skills
• All applicants must be living in Uganda at the time when the project commence, Uganda nationals are highly encouraged to apply.

Age Eligibility and Limitation: all applicants must be 18 years of age to 35 years only. Applicants who are older than the stipulated time can not apply.

Salary and Other Packages: Graduate International is only interested to work with volunteers who are eager to learn new things and share with the communities what they know towards creating a better and healthy community around them. GIO prefers volunteers who can devote their time without asking something of monetary value in return.Our organization do not pay salary to the volunteers of any kind, But on the other hand our organization only provides financial assistance to volunteers who are completely not employed, referring to volunteers who devote most of their time doing the organization’s field and office works.

Graduate international will provide the following to support unemployed volunteers for 25 working days per month ONLY.

• Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner/per diem: 30,500 UGX per day, paid on monthly basis (WORK DAYS ONLY)
• Communication for field work and organizing outreach meetings: Tsh 7,
• 930 UGX per day, paid on weekly basis.
• Accommodation when doing field work away from home: 30,500 UGX for county/rural field work, and 35,000 UGX for Cities (Kampala, Guru, Lira, Mbarara, Jinja, Bwizibwera, Mbale, Mukono e.t.c ) per each field day, Paid on weekly basis.
• The organization shall be providing undetermined personal pocket allowance of 76,000 UGX per month to facilitate smooth operation for the volunteers
• The organization will provide transport for long distance travel for field work or other office duties as per logistic

YAP-Uganda Volunteers Long Term Benefits:

• Employment opportunities in various positions after six months of volunteerism for volunteers, who prove their ability in innovation, hard-working, result oriented volunteers and committed volunteers.
• Exposing graduates to the real professional world by meeting with different people and potential organizations and hence becoming competent in the local and international job market
• Certificate of volunteering with GIO and official recommendation
• Volunteers will be free to terminate their volunteerism contracts upon two weeks official notification.

How to apply for the job:

All candidates should send E-mail copies of their CVs / Resumes to: yap-uganda@graduate.org With Email Subject: Name, Level of Education, Age, Year Graduated e.g John Peter, Diploma, 29 Years, 2009

NB: Please avoid multiple applications because our system will automatically delete your application if you send more than one application

Deadline: 31st August, 2014

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