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Job Summary

Job Title:
Project Officer
Employer:
Water for People
Location:
Kampala
Country:
Uganda
Contract Type:
Full-time
Job Category:
social science jobs
Number of Positions:
1
Deadline:
Friday, 20 March 2026

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Water For People is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) that works with people and partners to develop innovative and long-lasting solutions to the water, sanitation, and hygiene problems globally. The organization strives to continually improve, experiment with promising new ideas, and leverage resources to multiply its impact.

Full-time

Deadline: 

20 Mar 2026

Project Officer Job at Water for People

Water for People

Job Description

Project Officer mobilizes communities for engagement in community development initiatives towards water, sanitation, and hygiene improvement. The incumbent supports communities to identify their own problems and to devise means of overcoming them.

Duties, Roles and Responsibilities

  1. Mobilize and facilitate the participation of communities, local institutions and local governments during the planning, implementation, and monitoring of community Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) interventions.
  2. Support communities to identify their sanitation and hygiene weaknesses and to devise means of overcoming them.
  3. Implement community and school sanitation and hygiene initiatives using proven approaches including CLTS, PHAST, PHASE, Market Based Sanitation Improvement Approach etc.
  4. Facilitate nurturing of local partnerships, networks and coalitions with civil society organizations and facilitate capacity building of communities and local institutions.
  5. Promotion of Sanitation as a business through building capacity of local sanitation value chain actors
  6. Facilitate the implementation, monitoring, and documentation of community sanitation interventions in line with approved plans and annual data monitoring.
  7. Monitor and ensure effective and quality communications between the Kitagwenda office, the sub-county local government and community structures.
  8. Collect and process accurate and timely information regarding programme activities.
  9. Support the finance team in identification and follow up service providers in Kitagwenda when the need arises.
  10. Work closely with the Education, Community Development officer at the District and Sub County for planning, activation, capacity Building and follow up of planned activities and regular meeting.
  11. Collect and process accurate and timely information regarding programme activities.
  12. Ensure communities are regularly involved in all phases of WASH programmes for school, Household and Health care facilities.
  13. Mapping of all community institutions (Churches, VSLAs, etc.) and developing action for engagement.
  14. Document successes, failures and lessons learnt and share knowledge internally and externally.

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