Food for the Hungry Project Assistants Jobs in Uganda

Food for the Hungry Project Assistants Jobs in Uganda

Food for the Hungry (FH/U) is a Christian international relief and development organization that has been working in Uganda since 1989. FH is currently operating programs in Asia, Latin America and Africa with support offices in the UK, Canada, Switzerland, United States of America and Japan.

FH’s primary goal is to end all forms of poverty World-wide. FH promotes practice of performance, accountability, and risk management in line with FH’s “Transforming Field Experience (TFE)” re-imagination initiative.

In Uganda, FH is operational in the Districts of Adjumani, Kitgum, Lamwo, Kween, Mbale, Namutumba and Amudat Districts implementing programs in four main sectors of Education; Food Security and Livelihoods; Health/Nutrition and Disaster Risk Reduction; with the Head office located in Kampala.

FH Culture:

All we do, and how we do it, seeks to promote God’s beauty, goodness, and truth in a broken world. As such, we are defined by our ability to make people’s lives measurably better; our ability to deliver impact is the measure of our collective success.

For we know that we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God has already prepared in advance for us to do. At Food for the Hungry, we operate under a set of values called Heartbeat Values.

External Vacancy Announcement

FH/Uganda is actively seeking for qualified candidates committed to its Heartbeat and Corporate Strategy to fill the career opening on a rolling basis;

Position Type: Full Time National Staff

Location: Adjumani

Reports to: Project Officer- CYCC

Contract Length: 2 years (Fixed)

Start Date: December 2022- To be hired on rolling basis

Position Summary

Under the supervision of the Project Officer, the Project Assistant will supervise all project activities; undertake correspondence work, together with project office and supported by sector heads provide training to caregivers, cascade volunteers, church leaders farmer groups, VSLAs and youths and children clubs and other project activities.

He/she will participate in conducting surveys and assessments to determine training needs, mobilizing and sensitizing communities and stakeholders, forming beneficiary groups, designing and conducting training of beneficiaries in modern agriculture, business skills, essential Nutrition Practices, and post-harvest handling, supervision of the provision of seeds, tools, and other inputs.

Visit/follow up of crop development, creation of market linkages, and periodically advise/support beneficiaries to ensure successful implementation of the project according to proposal log frames.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Key Result #1: Targeting of beneficiaries:

Key Result #2: Sponsor-child communication

Key Result #3: Gender, social inclusion, protection, environment & Biblical worldview related activities

Key Result #4: Coordination and reporting

Education & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Humanities, Education, Social work, Community development, Development studies or another approved field of study from a recognized university.

A higher diploma with Early Child development bias is added advantage.

A minimum of two (2) years’ practical field experience working with communities and children in holistic, Social and spiritual Development

Experience in teaching/training adult learners, working with cascade groups as a model of program delivery

Knowledge of the local language is an added advantage


How to Apply

All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply by Clearly stating the position applied for in the Subject line and submitting only electronic copies in one pdf file not more than 25MB of an application letter, a detailed CV, contact telephone numbers, copies of relevant testimonials/certificates, names/contact details of three referees, addressed to:

The Human Resources Manager, Food for the Hungry Uganda Email: recruitment-fhuganda@fh.org not later than Friday 25th November, 2022 at 4:30pm.

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