Job Title: Senior Officer – Basic Education (01 position)
Job Description
Job Purpose
The job holder will be responsible for providing ongoing capacity support and coordination of the project partners with project planning, implementation, monitoring & evaluation and reporting.
Academic background, Experience & Person Specifications:
A minimum of a Degree in Humanities or a relevant discipline. Additional or post graduate qualification in Education is an added advantage
At least 3 years progressive experience in programme development and management with NGOs. Relevant experience supervising community based social development projects and with International NGOs particularly those addressing children’s rights and those applying partnership approach is desirable.
Thorough understanding of child rights issues, national poverty alleviation strategies as well as current national and international trends in to global poverty and development.
Specific familiarity with child rights issues in the NGO world or work
Strong financial, planning and budget management skills and experience.
Effective interpersonal skills – oral and written communication
Strong documentation, reporting, facilitation and presentation
How to Apply
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children and has program presence in over 120 countries in the world. Save the Children envisions a Uganda in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and Easting change in their lives. We strive to create impact for children by delivering our Programmes through partnerships, by being innovative by acting as the voice for and of children, and by achieving results at scale. In Uganda, we implement programmes in six thematic programme areas of Child Protection, Child Rights Governance. Education, Livelihoods St Food Security. Health and Nutrition and HIV/AIDS in development and emergency contexts. Save the Children delivers programs in over 36 districts m the North, Rwenzori, North-Eastern and Central regions of Uganda. Currently, Save the Children has a staff complement of 150 people and operates within a budget of approximately 20$ million each year. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfill their potential. In 2010, we reached more than 100 million children around the world. Save the Children seeks to fill the following vacant positions and applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced Persons.
Applications with detailed CVs indicating 3 referees, two of whom should have been direct supervisors and copies of academic testimonials. certificates should be submitted to;
The Head of Human Resources & Administration
Save the Children in Uganda
Plot 68/70. Kira Road
P.O Box 12018
Kampala
Or on email: recruitment@sciug.org
Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer, persons with disabilities and female candidates are encouraged to apply.
