Role Overview Summary
The volunteer will provide support and capacity building at the country level and to VSO staff, consortium partners and other collaborating partners to enable them to: 1. gain skills and knowledge in social accountability relevant to the needs of the Intersectionality Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights programme; 2. Develop tools for undertaking social accountability activities within the programme; 3. Raise awareness and promote dialogue among different stakeholders to respond to the needs and priorities of vulnerable youth with compounded vulnerabilities across the programme; and, 4. To engage and mobilize vulnerable youth groups to lead their own advocacy agendas.
Ideal Applicant Summary
Qualifications
• At least a bachelor’s degree in a related subject preferably Policy, Political Science, Law, Gender, or Development studies.
Experience
• At least three years’ experience in social accountability, advocacy, and policy space as well as developing responses to SRHR issues in a development context.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively convene, coordinate and communicate with a diverse range of stakeholders and identifying their needs and using their own voice to express their priorities.
• Strong background in participatory community consultation.
• Experienced in designing and delivering community consultation programmes.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent written and communication skills especially when explaining complex concepts to audiences of different levels.
• Proven ability to train, coach and supervise others.
Skills/Abilities
• Building and sustaining working relationships: foster teamwork and collaboration with others for the benefit of a common goal.
• Open-minded and respectful: a non-judgmental approach that values other people and culture.
• Seeking and sharing knowledge: recognition that learning is a two-way and continuous process.
• Demonstrated organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Facilitating positive change: the ability to analyze problems and develop lasting solutions in line with VSO approaches.
• Adaptability: a flexible approach and the ability to adapt behavior to different situations.
• Resilience: the self-confidence to work with a variety of situations, diverse people, and ambiguity
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- Address Kampala, Uganda, East Africa
