International NGO Jobs - Senior Officer FACT at Save the Children ~ Ugandan Jobline Jobs

Organisation: Save the Children

Project Name: Fertility Awareness and Community

Transformation (FACT) Project

Duty Station: Gulu, Uganda

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 lasting 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 2014, we reached over 143 million children

through our work around 52m directly and 91 million indirectly around 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 lasting 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 & Food Security, Health, Nutrition and

HIV/AIDS in development and emergency contexts. Save the Children delivers

programs in over 36 districts in the North, Rwenzori, North-Eastern and Central

regions of Uganda, Currently, Save the Children has a staff complement of over

200 persons. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them

fulfill their potential.

Job Summary:  The

Senior Officer FACT actively contributes to Save the Children’s capacity to

implement the Fertility Awareness and Community Transformation (FACT) Project,

as a means of increasing use of family planning by improving fertility

awareness and expanding access to fertility awareness-based methods (FAM).  The FACT Project is a research, intervention,

and technical assistance project focused on answering significant questions related

to fertility awareness and fertility awareness methods (FAM) implemented by

Save the Children International in collaboration with Institute for

Reproductive Health (IRH) George Town University in Northern and Eastern

Uganda. In Northern Uganda the project is specifically implemented in the

districts of Nwoya and Gulu, the project will test the hypothesis of working

through groups focused on non-health activities. Strong linkages to the health

system and collaboration with health workers, is essential to interventions

success. Save the Children leads the implementation of the intervention, based

on formative research conducted to inform intervention design. The job holder

will collaborate with Georgetown University Institute for Reproductive Health staff

on intervention design, implementation, and facilitating ongoing research

activities to test the hypothesis. The Senior Officer may be called upon as and

when necessary to support the emergency team in cases of humanitarian crisis.

All candidates who wish to

join the world’s largest Child-focused NGO, Save the Children International

should send their application letters with detailed CVs indicating three

professional referees, two of whom should have been direct supervisors and send

them to: The Director of Human Resources & Administration, Save the

Children, Plot 68/70, Kira Road, P.O Box 12018, Kampala, Uganda or via E-mail

to: uganda.recruitment@savethechildren.org