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Are you looking for management jobs in Uganda 2024? If yes, then you might be interested in Youth Engagement Lead job at Young African Refugees For Integral Development (YARID)
Kampala, Uganda
Full-time
How it started.
Sedrick Murhula and Kefa Mayange lived as refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo in the urban neighborhood of Nsambya in Kampala, Uganda. After living the everyday struggle and observing the same of their peers, they decided to rise up and make a change in their community.
In 2007, YARID was founded with the hope that young refugees living in Kampala can make a great impact in their communities and live successful lives despite the challenges of being refugees. With only one soccer ball and a passion to “be the change,” Sedrick and Kefa hosted their first event uniting refugees from Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi on the soccer field in Nsambya. This is where they started discussing issues related to their lives, offering motivational speeches, and communicating hope to improve the lives of refugees in Kampala.
The soccer program grew quickly, and many refugees expressed their challenges with communicating in English. Next, Sedrick and Kefa opened free English classes in a space offered by the J.O.S Church, where hundreds of young men and women joined. YARID programs grew rapidly as community needs arose.
In 2008, Robert Hakiza, also a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, joined Sedrick and Kefa’s efforts and helped bring the vision of YARID to life. Kefa and Sedrick invited Robert to join them as a co-founder and together they built one of the first refugee-led organizations in Uganda. The team grew with committed volunteers, including local Ugandans and other refugees, who joined YARID to contribute to the mission to serve refugees.
At the end of 2009, Kefa moved to join international humanitarian responses in the DRC, Sierra Leone, and Niger to develop his expertise in the context of conflicts, natural disasters, and epidemics with a focus on protection and humanitarian response management.
In 2012, Sedrick was granted refugee resettlement and moved to the United States where he continued his career in refugee advocacy and social innovation. Sedrick remained involved with YARID overseas organizing fundraisers, sharing the story of YARID, and supporting staff and programs from afar.
Since 2012, Robert has faithfully served as the Executive Director for YARID Uganda growing the organization and expanding partnerships through research and public speaking engagements.
Today, 15 years later, YARID is one of the best-known refugee-run organizations in Uganda with 130 employees (60% Refugees and 40% Nationals and 50% men & 50% women on staff). In 2022, we directly served over 8,000 refugees across three field offices in Kampala, Kyaka II, and Palabek refugee settlements addressing access to education, sustainable livelihoods, refugee protection, and continually advocating for the rights and opportunities for refugees.
Youth Engagement Lead job at Young African Refugees For Integral Development (YARID)
Young African Refugees For Integral Development (YARID)
As the youth Engagement Officer will lead the design and implementation of the youth activities and ensure the dissemination of gender transformative information to key stakeholders in the YARID operation areas. YARID is seeking for a Youth Engagement personnel to lead the sports and development department in ensuring that youth have access to sports activities to support their physical and mental health growth.
Design strategies that will ensure that the needs of young people and women of reproductive age are adequately addressed and enhance their access to a range of key services that include family Planning/ Reproductive Health information/services, post GBV care.
Create sports activities that focus on improving the physical and mental health of the young people in the community.
Lead development/adaptation of technical tools in consultation with the relevant program staff and other key stakeholders at all stages of the project implementation.
Provide technical support and build the capacity of program teams, staff teams and other partners in integrating providing care and support services to young people and women of reproductive age.
Provide technical guidance during the development of the program's annual work plan and participate in the planning and budgeting activities.
Manage project finances and other resources related to the implementation of activities in the assigned locations in line with the project’s finance guidelines.
Design and adapt communication strategies for targeting young people & women of reproductive age to create behavior change in the community.
Develop plans for promoting risk reduction and health-seeking behaviors among adolescents and young women
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A bachelor's degree in Social Science, Social Work, Youth development, or any other related field
Additional training at certificate level in management of sports youth programs is of added advantage.
A minimum of 2 years’ experience in management/coordination of Adolescent/Youth Sexual Reproductive Health interventions /community engagement.
Knowledge of Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Policies and strategies.
Fluency in English.
Knowledge of languages spoken by refugees such as French, Swahili, etc. will be considered an added advantage.
Excellent digital literacy competencies and conversant with e-commerce platforms.
Excellent communication skills and ability to convey information effectively both in verbal and written formats.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Knowledge of urban/community development.
Service-oriented with good interpersonal and facilitation skills.
Experience in skilling sectors and with refugees is considered an added advantage.
Candidates with displacement experience are encouraged to apply.
If you meet the above qualifications and are interested in this opportunity, please submit your application before the 14th of February 2024. Please note that there will be a rolling review of applications, so we encourage early application. Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.
Send your CV, application letter, LC1 letter, ID, and academic documents to human.resource@yarid.net with “Youth Engagement Lead” in the email subject line.
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