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Project Officer - Citizen Voice and Action Job at World Vision Uganda
World Vision Uganda
Job Description
World Vision Uganda is seeking a dedicated Project Officer - Citizen Voice and Action to spearhead social accountability initiatives and lead community mobilization efforts. The role involves strengthening community-based structures, facilitating advocacy dialogues, and ensuring the inclusion of marginalized groups in local governance processes. The successful candidate will work closely with local government and service providers to enhance service delivery through community-led action plans.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
1. Project Implementation and Community Engagement
- Lead the rollout of Citizen Voice and Action (CVA) processes including community mobilization, service monitoring, social audits, and community scorecards.
- Facilitate CVA training sessions for community groups, service providers, local leaders, faith leaders, youth, and district-level stakeholders.
- Support communities to develop Community Action Plans (CAPs) and follow up on implementation progress.
- Strengthen community-based structures such as CVA Working Groups, Child Well-being Committees, and citizen groups.
- Promote inclusion of women, PWDs, youth, and marginalized households in CVA processes.
- Mobilize and facilitate the engagements of stakeholders during planning and development meetings, workshops and other for a.
- Facilitate and Monitor implementation of planned activities and progress achieved by the project in the AP.
- Integrate crosscutting themes that include gender, CA inclusion, disability, DRR, CP, Youth CA’s and advocacy.
2. Mobilization of Community, local organizations, local government, and Private sector for effective project implementation.
- Innovatively support communities including Child Ambassadors (CA) households to participate in sector interventions
- Mobilize Households into household clusters and other institutions for integrated programs and effective program delivery
- Sensitize Communities to own project interventions through shared-roles for attainment of sustainability.
- Develop and implement a sustainability plan together with key stakeholders
- Strengthen government institutions and technical staff in planning and implementation of project plans.
- Mobilize grassroots organizations, Faith Communities and other civil society organizations to ending violence against children.
- Participate/represent world Vision Uganda in the sector review meetings both at community, sub county and district level
- Compile issue reports and position papers for sharing with relevant stakeholders at sub county and district level.
3. Stakeholder Coordination and Advocacy
- Strengthen coordination with district and sub-county leadership to enhance responsiveness to community priorities.
- Facilitate interface meetings, joint supervisions, and advocacy dialogues between citizens and service providers.
- Support integration of community identified priorities into local government plans and budgets.
- Engage line ministries, CSOs, and partners to advance social accountability at multiple levels.
4. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting
- Conduct routine monitoring of CVA activities and ensure quality standards are maintained.
- Collect data for tracking service improvements, community actions, policy influence, and participation of vulnerable groups.
- Document success stories, case studies, lessons learned, and change pathways.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual reports including activity updates and indicator progress.
5. Capacity Building
- Build capacity of community facilitators, local structures, volunteers, and sector partners on: - Social accountability; Citizen participation; Advocacy and negotiation; and Budget transparency and public expenditure tracking.
- Mentor community groups to independently conduct monitoring and advocacy processes.
6. Accountability, Safeguarding, and Compliance
- Ensure CVA implementation aligns with organizational policies, donor regulations, safeguarding standards, and Do No Harm principles.
- Promote integration of child protection, gender equality, disability inclusion, and social inclusion across CVA activities.
- Uphold strong community feedback and accountability mechanisms.
7. Compliance to performance standards and management.
- Integrate/Collaborate with other sector project officers/APC/Cluster Meal officers/SPOs for efficient programme delivery
- Ensure pro-active and strategic engagements with different structures at community, sub-county and district level for quality delivery of project models
- Project financial and asset resources are managed and used in line with policy guidelines.
- Provide accurate and timely variances explanations on project over and under expenditures
- Liaise with other Integrated Project Officers in implementing joint/integrated activities that target the same audiences in the same locations, in order to minimize wastage of resources and beneficiary apathy.
Qualifications, Education and Competencies
See all details of the qualifications, competencies and education for this role under the "How to Apply" section below.
Apply here: https://worldvision.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WorldVisionInternational/job/Odravu-Uganda/Project-Officer-Citizen-Voice-and-Action_JR49338
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