Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Salary: Ush 2,400,000 – Ush 3,000,000 per month gross

About US:

Xavier Project is an international NGO registered in Kenya, Uganda and the UK employing 28 full time staff members and 30 community workers across the three locations. The main features of our work are the realisation of pioneering interventions that are implemented through the principles of community ownership. Xavier Project´s approach involves building holistic partnerships with refugee led organisations (RLOs) across East Africa through which we promote community-led learning, community capacity-strengthening and enterprise development. We act as facilitators, supporting the RLOs to deliver education services and scale-out enterprise within their communities. We currently support six RLOs in six different locations in Kenya and Uganda. Through community-led solutions, we aspire to provide more refugee children with access to quality learning, delivered in environments that are safe and inclusive, and foster social, emotional and extra-curricular learning. This is done through various innovative programmes such as tablet-based learning programme for primary school children, online-based learning programme for out-of-school youth or outreach programme aiming to improve the access of refugee children with disabilities to quality education.

About the Project:

Xavier Project is looking to recruit for the position of Programme Officer in our Uganda office who will predominantly work within our education programmes. The Programme Officer will be based in Kampala but will be required to make regular short-term field trips to our other two locations – Imvepi refugee settlement, northern Uganda and Rwamwanja refugee settlement, southwestern Uganda.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Supporting the Programme Lead in all stages of programming including design, planning, implementation and evaluation
• Providing supervision and support to field staff
• Contributing to the design of effective strategies to address challenges encountered during the life of the programmes
• Delivering a range of administration tasks including basic accountability, procurement, record maintenance, etc.
• Organising and attending implementation and monitoring field trips
• Producing reports, action plans and other relevant documents
• Conducting basic research activities
• Promoting local leadership and community-led solutions
• Active participation in promoting Xavier Project’s vision and mission
• Any other duties assigned

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate should have Tertiary education in relevant field
• Experience and good understanding of working in the education sector
• Strong interpersonal skills and empathy, particularly with regards to working with vulnerable people
• Willingness to travel within Uganda
• Experience working with budgets, work plans and reports
• Knowledge of procurement processes
• Fluency in both spoken and written English language
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office
• Reliability and self-reliance
• Ability to work in a team
• Motivation to cultivate and share knowledge
• Responsible and systematic work approach
• Enthusiasm and self-initiative

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Closing Date : 24 August, 2020