Project Officer - Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health ( ASRH) – 2 positions ( Northern Uganda)

Deadline: 22 MAY 2020 - 20:59 UTC
KAMPALA, UGANDA
PROGRAMME OPERATIONS
FIXED-TERM CONTRACT
FULL-TIME

Save the Children International is currently recruiting for a Project Officer – Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive health in Northern Uganda to cover  (Acholi Sub Region, Lamwo, Nwoya and Amuru).  The Project Officer- ASRH is responsible for providing support to community and health facility to ensure access to ASRH information and services. He/She will be in charge of coordinating ASRH in schools and out of school interventions, ensure on time and quality planning, implementation, monitoring & evaluation and reporting of the Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health interventions. The candidate will take responsibility for support of the ASRH to increase the participation of Adolescents in the project to ensure their protection and enable them to develop to their full potential. He/ She may be called upon as and when necessary to support the emergency team in cases of humanitarian crisis.

To be successful for this role, you will have/bring the following:
•         Minimum of a Degree in Health, social sciences and other relevant qualifications.
•         At least 2 years working experience in planning and implementing development programmes in Uganda.
•         At least one year working on ASRH.
•         Willingness to work in a field setting.
•         Thorough understanding of Save the Children working principles and approaches of Child Participation, Child Rights Programming, Partnership, Child Safeguarding, Zero Tolerance, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programme Integration etc.
•         Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
•         Ability to intervene with crisis management or troubleshooting as necessary.
•         Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
•         Excellent time management and planning capacity
•         Excellent planning, coordination and reporting skills, with the ability to organize a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
•         Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must.
•         Availability and willingness to work extra hours during times of humanitarian responses.
•         Commitment to Save the Children values.
 
The organization:
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and protection.  We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize children’s rights and ensure their voices are heard.  We are working towards 3 breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

Application information
Please apply in English saving your CV and covering letter as a single document. Please apply online indicating 3 referees, two of whom should have been your direct supervisors.
Important to note: Testimonials/certificates SHOULD NOT be attached to application that is submitted online. Hand delivered applications will not be accepted and are therefore not considered during the shortlisting process.  
Application closes on May 22, 2020 at midnight Uganda time. We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.


Project Officer Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health – West Nile and Acholi Region Arua /Gulu Field Office

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Uganda Country Office- OperationsLOCATION: Arua/Gulu
GRADE:  Department: Health
Child Safeguarding: 
Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people.
ROLE PURPOSE: 
The job holder is responsible for providing support to community and health facility to ensure access to ASRH information and services. He will be in charge to coordinate ASRH in school and out of school interventions, ensure on time and quality planning, implementation, monitoring & evaluation and reporting of the Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health interventions. The Job Holder will take responsibility for support of the ASRH to increase the participation of Adolescents in the project to ensure their protection and enable them to develop to their full potential. 
The post holder may be called upon as and when necessary to support the emergency team in cases of humanitarian crisis.
SCOPE OF ROLE: Reports to the Program Manager – Arua
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
The following will be the areas of support and contribution;
Financial management:

• Maintain a monthly burn rate within the range of 95% - 105%
• Ensure that the funds requested for the programme activities are spent and accounted for, in line with the SCI financial management procedures and policies

Programme Implementation:

• Ensure that all ASRH planned activities are implemented on time, within scope and within budget.
• Ensure that 100% of the activities implemented meet the Quality bench mark standards.
• Develop or support the innovation approaches in meeting the unique needs of the children and communities.

Networking and collaboration 

• Represent Save the Children in various interagency and stakeholder forums with knowledge and expertise of Save the children’s thematic areas of works.
• Organizing and facilitate dialogue meetings, workshops and seminars with community, local government representatives, and partners to share experiences and lessons learnt.  
• Build and maintain linkages with other groups and Agencies operating in the area of Jurisdiction 

Community and health facility capacity strengthening on ASRH

• Sensitize the local community, teachers, pupils/students and health staff on the Save the children ASRH programme.
• Assess and identify ASRHR capacity needs for teachers and build their capacity for better ASRH outcomes for adolescents.
• Mobilize the local community to participate in the ASRH programme activities.
• Support the formation and capacity building of the partners, staff, community members in the community and health facility. 
• Support the participation of the children, community and partners in the process of planning, monitoring and implementation of ASRH programme

Child Participation:

• Support meaningful and age-appropriate participation of the adolescent in the ASRH activities; including planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the programmes.
• Implement the complaints response mechanism in line with the SC accountability framework. 

Monitoring, Reporting and Documentation:

• Monthly reports are prepared and submitted on every 30th day of the month. 
• Ensure that activity reports are prepared and filed for every completed activity
• Promote and undertake the documentation of good practices and synthesis of lessons learned, and ensure that these are reflected in the monthly, semiannual and annual reports.
• Undertake regular support supervision visits to schools, health facilities and community sites supported by the Programme to understand the ground situation and take necessary actions for improvement in quality of programmes for the children.
• Contribute to data collection, analysis and reporting on key programme indicators

Child Safeguarding 

• Take responsibility to review, understand and declare commitment to observe and implement child safeguarding policy. 
• Closely work with supervisors and or, Child Safeguarding Focal persons to ensure all child abuse or potential risks to children are recorded, reported and filed
• Observe confidentiality of all child information that may come to your possession either by virtue of your position as a SCI staff or unintentionally 

General:

• Comply with Save the Children policies and procedures. 

SKILLS AND BEHAVIORS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same.
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
• Future orientated, thinks strategically.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
• Values diversity sees it as a source of competitive strength.
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:
Honest, encourages openness and transparency.
Occasional duties: 
Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time by the line manager.
Judgment and Decision-Making: 

• The jobholder is an implementing officer and is authorized to make decisions/take actions on routine operational matters relating to data capture and input. 
• Decisions that require consultation with the line Manager and other senior managers include variations, approval of concepts and policy/procedural changes.

Academic background, experience and person specifications: 

• Minimum of a Degree in Health, social sciences and other relevant qualifications.
• At least 2 years working experience in planning and implementing development programmes in Uganda. 
• At least one year working on ASRH. 
• Must be willing to be based in the field. 
• Thorough understanding of Save the Children working principles and approaches of Child Participation, Child Rights Programming, Partnership, Child Safeguarding, Zero Tolerance, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programme Integration etc.
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Ability to intervene with crisis management or troubleshooting as necessary. 
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
• Excellent time management and planning capacity
• Excellent planning, coordination and reporting skills, with the ability to organize a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
• Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must.
• Availability and willingness to work extra hours during times of humanitarian responses. 

Contacts: 
Internal Contacts:

• Line Manager – Frequent contact  
• Area Manager – Frequent contact 
• Other Save the Children Staff – frequent contact
• HR staff – regular Contact 
• Head of Health and Nutrition – regular Contact.
• Technical Specialist ASRH-regular contact

External Contacts:

• Partners – frequent contact
• Children, stakeholders – frequent contact