Job Title: UNFPA Project Officer-FGM/C
Organisation: ActionAid
Duty Station: Amudat, Uganda
Reports to: Field Program Coordinator
About US:
ActionAid is an international Development Agency working in over 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. ActionAid Uganda’s mission is to achieve social Justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication by working with people living in extreme poverty and exclusion, their communities, people’s organizations, activists, social movements and their supporters.
AAIU is implementing the UNFPA FGM Project in phases since 2019. The project is engaging different actors, communities, and stakeholders towards influencing positive social norm change, and gender transformation in Eastern Uganda. This is intended to contribute to shifting the invisible and hidden power that resides in regressive cultural and social norms, beliefs that perpetuate harmful practices such as FGM and gender-based violence especially against women and girls. The respective staff will; plan, implement, monitor, and report on all the activities implemented UNFPA FGM Project in Karamoja Region (Amudat, Nakapipiriti and Moroto). The project officer will take lead to build networks, create linkages, and collectively work with other partners, stakeholders at district and national level, and community formations to achieve social norm change to end FGM/C and violence against women and girls in Uganda.
ActionAid Uganda with funding from UNFPA therefore, seeks to recruit a suitably qualified, self-driven, result-oriented, dynamic and competent person to fill the position of Project Officer – Amudat (1) Initial contract is 1 (one) year with possible renewal or extension.
Job Summary: The project officer will take lead to build networks, create linkages and collectively work with other partners, stakeholders at district and national level, and community formations to achieve social norm change to end FGM/C and violence against women and girls in Amudat, Nakapirpirit and Moroto).
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NB: The ability to speak and understand the local languages of Pokot and Karamojong is MUST.
How to Apply:
Applications (Cover letter, CV, and certified academic documents as ONE DOCUMENT) sent by email to Vacancies.Uganda@actionaid.org clearly addressed to: The Finance and Operations Manager, ActionAid Uganda, Plot number 2514/2515 Ggaba Road, Opposite Kampala International University P.O Box 676 Kampala
Deadline: Friday 27th January 2023 by 5:00 pm
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