CARE Project Liaison Officer Jobs in Uganda
CARE Project Liaison Officer Jobs in Uganda
Job SummaryThe Program Liaison Officer (PLO) is a member of the program team and is responsible for ensuring effective coordination and communications across the program. this will require the PLO to understand the program needs, plans and stakeholders well.
It will also require the PLO to be good at organising, coordination, collaboration and communications.
The PLO will ensure effective liaison with government of Uganda (GOU) partners and stakeholders, coordinate and follow up actions from program meetings, workshops and conferences and ensure proper communications and visibility for the program.
This PLO will support the program team to ensure proper media engagement and engagement in policy and advocacy and to ensure that critical program events and visits are properly managed.
Specific Responsibilities
Responsibility #1: Government Liaison with GOU Partners and Stakeholders on the Program (25%)
The PLO is responsible for ensuring effective liaison with GOU partners in this program including Uganda Microfinance Regulatory Authority's (UMRA), Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
(MoFPED) Self-Help Group (SHG), PROFIRA and Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP), as well as other relevant GOU stakeholders who are not direct partners in this program.
Responsibility #2: Coordination & Follow Actions of Meetings, Workshops, Conferences (25%)
The PLO is responsible for ensuring proper coordination and follow up of actions from key program meetings (including steering committee (SC) and project management unit (PMU) meetings), workshops and conferences.
This will require the PLO to have basic understanding of the program and its different
aspects in order to be able to conceptualize, understand and steer the coordination of different meetings, workshops and conferences.
This will require the PLO to be conversant with organising and facilitating meetings, including virtual meetings as has become the new normal given the restrictions imposed by COVID-19.
It will also require the PLO to be able to meticulously, courteously and yet firmly
follow through the actions from these meetings, workshops and conferences with different partners and stakeholders to ensure that all actions and implemented within agreed timescales.
Responsibility #3: Communications and Visibility and Media Engagement (20%)
The PLO is responsible for ensuring robust communications and visibility for the program, ensuring that program communications and visibility plan is in place and communications and visibility materials are of high quality and meeting the donor, GOU and CARE rules and regulations for communications.
This will require the PLO to be conversant with communications and visibility guidelines of GOU, donor and CARE.
It will also require the PLO to be conversant with various communications and visibility tools and technology including digital tools and ICT.
The PLO is responsible for media engagement to ensure that the media of appropriately engaged in the communications and visibility of the program, and this will include mainstream and social media.
Responsibility #4: Support for Advocacy and Policy Engagement (10%)
The PLO will support the program team in advocacy and policy engagement, by constantly researching and exploring strategic opportunities and bringing to the attention of the program manager and advisors.
This will require the PLO to understand the context of women empowerment and financial inclusion in Uganda as a way to know where to search for the opportunities.
The PLO will support the program team to prepare and engage in various advocacy and policy technical working groups, platforms and alliances.
The PLO will support the program team to follow through the engagements, discussions and consultations related to advocacy and policy engagement to ensure meaningful engagement of the program in relevant advocacy and policy engagement opportunities.
Responsibility #5: Program Logistics, Field Visits and Visitors (10%)
The PLO is responsible for managing high level program logistics, field visits and visitorsto ensure effective use of program resources including time, money and expertise.
This will require the PLO to maintain a
calendar of critical program events and visitors and a standing log of critical program procurements and to ensure that the program team are updated on progress and obstacles that they need to unblock.
The PLO will ensure that the critical logistics required for program field visits and visitors are
properly organised and effectively delivered with zero delays and waste.
Responsibility #6: Promote Gender Equity and Diversity and Safeguarding Practices (5%)
Practice a behaviour consistent with CARE’s core values, and promotion of gender equity and diversity goals;
Plays a leadership role in identifying and implementing initiatives that enhance CARE’s commitment to gender and diversity.
Ensure that CARE Safeguarding policies and procedures are adhered to by all and the staff that S/he supervisors both directly or indirectly
Ensure that staff and related personnel under your jurisdiction are familiar with the following organisational policies and procedures and can identify when needed how these may have been breached;
Education, Experience, Skills and Knowledge
Essential
Bachelors’ degree in Communications OR Information Management studies or other relevant fields of studies in social sciences, development studies and humanities from a reputable institute.
A postgraduate degree in related field is an added advantage
At least 5 years working experience in a similar position, preferably with an international organization or any other reputable organization.
Very good knowledge of coordination and networking and stakeholder engagement
Good communications, Information Communication Technology and social media (digital platforms);
Good writing skills and proven experience writing newsletters, briefs, human interest stories, etc;
Very good computer skills in word-processing, publishing, spreadsheets;
Experience in and basic knowledge of photography and videography is a plus;
Website management knowledge is a plus;
Committed to CARE’s mission and vision and values, and particularly to Gender Equity and Diversity;
Excellent interpersonal and public relation skills.
Dynamic, creative, inquisitive and innovative individual with a passion for women and girls’ rights and a desire to capture how CARE’s work impacts them!
Desired
Professional training and experience in gender equality, women and girls’ empowerment
Professional experience in working with young people (youth) and refugee communities
Professional training in research, analytical writing, advocacy and policy influencing
Core Competencies
•Excellence: Sets high standards of performance for self and/or others; successfully completes
assignments; sets standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed; ensures interactions and transactions are ethical and convey integrity.
•Integrity: Maintains social, ethical, and organizational norms; firmly adheres to codes of conduct and ethical principles inherent to CARE.
•Communicating with Impact: Diplomatically, logically and clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the recipient / audience and helps them understand and retain their message.
•Management Excellence: Makes the connection between values and performance. Influences the
performance of others, and ultimately, the performance of the organization. Sets direction, coaches & develops, promotes staff wellness & safety, practices & promotes compliance, models gender equity &
diversity, communicates effectively.
•Developing Teams: Using appropriate methods and a flexible interpersonal style to help build a cohesive team; facilitates the completion of team goals.
•Diversity - Promoting, valuing, respecting and fully benefiting from each individual’s unique qualities, background, race, culture, age, gender, disability, values, lifestyle, perspectives or interests; creating and
maintaining a work environment that promotes diversity.
•Adaptability- Expected to well adjust with the country, the CO operating environment and with the Project team to function effectively and efficiently
•Coaching - Ability to demonstrate to enhance skills and capacity of staff working in the field and office for them continue to serve CARE in the future program activities
How to Apply
Candidates who are interested in the above job should submit an updated CV and Application letter giving a day time telephone contact and names, telephone contacts and email addresses of 3 (three) work related referees only through our recruitment email:(ugarecruitment@care.org) clearly indicating the Job title in the email subject.
The deadline for submitting CVs is 4th November, 2020. For any questions please
call our office on 0312258100/150.
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