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:
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
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.
YAP-Uganda Volunteers Long Term Benefits:
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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