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Gender and Safeguarding Officer, Next Creata job at Next Media | Apply Now
Kampala, Uganda
Next Media Group, established over 16 years ago, is Uganda's leading multimedia company, delivering news, entertainment, and digital content across television, radio, and online platforms. Under the leadership of CEO Kin Kariisa, the company has expanded from a single television station to a conglomerate comprising multiple TV stations, radio stations, and digital media outlets, including NBS TV, Sanyuka TV, Next Radio, and Nile Post.
Next Media is committed to innovative storytelling and has been recognized for its excellence in media, earning accolades such as the Public Opinion Awards. The company fosters a dynamic work culture that emphasizes creativity and growth, offering job opportunities across various departments, with details available on their official website. Their business model focuses on integrating traditional broadcasting with digital media to inform, educate, and transform audiences. With a diverse team and a reach that spans Uganda and beyond, Next Media upholds core values of integrity, innovation, and excellence.
The company actively engages in corporate social responsibility initiatives aimed at community development and empowerment. For more information, visit their official website at www.nextmedia.co.ug
Are you looking for Social work jobs in Uganda 2025 today? then you might be interested in Gender and Safeguarding Officer, Next Creata job at Next Media
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Deadline:
17 Nov 2025
Job Title
Gender and Safeguarding Officer, Next Creata job at Next Media
Next Media
Job Description
Job Title: Gender and Safeguarding Officer, Next Creata
Organisation: Next Media
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Background
The Next Creata Program is Next-Creata’s flagship intervention under the Uganda Creatives Program, implemented in partnership with Bayimba Foundation, ITC, and Mastercard Foundation. The program seeks to enhance skills, employability, and financial inclusion for 40,000 young women across Uganda’s creative economy through media production training, digital upskilling, market linkage, and entrepreneurial pathways.
Job Summary: The Gender and Safeguarding Officer plays a crucial role in ensuring that gender equity, protection, and inclusion are mainstreamed across all program activities. This role ensures compliance with the consortium’s safeguarding standards and supports downstream partners to uphold a zero-tolerance policy for sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH).
Purpose of the Role
To lead the integration of gender equality, safeguarding, and inclusion principles across the Next Creata Program, ensuring safe participation for all beneficiaries particularly young women, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and marginalized groups — while strengthening the safeguarding capacity of partners and trainers.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
Qualifications, Education and Competencies
See all details of the qualifications, competencies and education for this role under the "How to Apply" section below.
All candidates should send their applications with updated CVs via Email to: people@nextmedia.co.ug
Deadline: 17th November 2025
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How to Apply
Gender Mainstreaming and Inclusion
Develop and operationalize a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) framework for the program, aligned with ITC and Mastercard Foundation standards.
Integrate gender-sensitive approaches into curriculum design, training delivery, communications, and partner engagements.
Ensure the program effectively addresses barriers facing young women in accessing creative work opportunities (e.g., caregiving roles, mobility, discrimination).
Conduct gender analyses and contribute to designing interventions that promote equality in participation and leadership.
Advise the Program Lead and team on gender indicators, outcomes, and reporting requirements.
Safeguarding and Protection
Lead the implementation of the Safeguarding Policy across all Next Creata and partner operations.
Establish and maintain safe, confidential, and accessible reporting channels for program participants and staff.
Train all program staff, trainers, mentors, and downstream partners on safeguarding principles, SEAH prevention, and child protection.
Ensure that recruitment, training, and field engagement processes include safeguarding risk assessments.
Oversee investigations of reported safeguarding incidents in coordination with the Program Lead and consortium Safeguarding Desk.
Maintain a secure incident register and ensure timely documentation, escalation, and closure of cases.
Partner and Capacity Support
Build capacity of downstream partners and training hubs on gender equity, protection, and inclusive practice.
Support the MEAL Officer in integrating gender and safeguarding indicators in monitoring frameworks and data collection tools.
Ensure partners designate and train Safeguarding Focal Points within their teams.
Conduct regular compliance and safety audits of partner training spaces to ensure adherence to minimum safeguarding standards.
Awareness and Advocacy
Lead internal and external campaigns promoting gender equality and safe participation in the creative economy.
Collaborate with the Communications team to ensure visibility materials and media content are gender-responsive and empowering.
Represent Next Creata in consortium gender and safeguarding forums, ensuring alignment with wider sector best practices.
Document and share success stories that highlight women’s empowerment and inclusion milestones in the program.
Reporting and Compliance
Prepare quarterly gender and safeguarding progress reports for submission to the Program Lead and consortium.
Track gender-disaggregated data and safeguarding cases for reporting to the Mastercard Foundation and ITC.
Contribute to donor reports, ensuring inclusion of qualitative insights on women’s participation and protection outcomes.
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Bachelor’s degree in Gender Studies, Social Work, Human Rights, Development Studies, or related field.
Minimum 5 years of experience in gender mainstreaming, child protection, or safeguarding within development, education, or creative sector programs.
Proven experience implementing safeguarding frameworks, conducting investigations, and providing gender inclusion training.
Core Competencies
Ethical Integrity: Demonstrates discretion, empathy, and impartiality in managing safeguarding issues.
Gender Sensitivity: Deep understanding of intersectional gender issues and practical ways to operationalize equality.
Accountability: Ensures timely and accurate reporting of cases and compliance.
Cultural Competence: Sensitive to diverse cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic contexts in Uganda.
Collaboration: Works effectively with multidisciplinary teams and external partners.
Personal Attributes
Empathetic and trustworthy; maintains strict confidentiality.
Strong moral compass and respect for diversity.
Excellent communicator with a calm, supportive demeanor.
Passionate about women’s empowerment, youth inclusion, and safe workspaces.
Highly organized and detail-oriented with the ability to respond under pressure.
Expected Deliverables
Approved Gender and Safeguarding Implementation Plan.
Functional safeguarding reporting and referral system.
Gender-disaggregated reporting integrated in all MEL submissions.
Quarterly gender/safeguarding compliance reports and learning briefs.
Annual gender audit and case resolution summary.
