BRAC
About BRAC
BRAC is an international development organization founded in Bangladesh in 1972, that partners with over 100 million people living in poverty to create opportunities to realize human potential. We are known for community-led, holistic approach and delivering long-term impact at scale. We work with communities in marginalized situations, hard-to-reach areas and post- disaster settings across Asia and Africa, with a particular focus on women and children.
Our Approach
We function as a solution ecosystem using an integrated model of social development, social enterprise, and humanitarian response, in partnership with communities. We collaborate with governments, policy makers, multilaterals, and civil society for sustainable impact at scale. Our systems change strategies are designed through special integration of gender and climate adaptation initiatives. BRAC contributes to the country’s socio-economic development by; setting the stage for a new generation of leaders through our Youth Empowerment, scaling quality, inclusive and joyful learning for, through Education, Putting the furthest behind first through our Ultra-Poor Graduation, investing in healthy, productive lives through our Health program, ensuring everyone has the tools to recover and rebuild through Emergency Preparedness and Response. Our interventions are conducted in 113 districts across all regions of Uganda.
About the project
BRAC Uganda in partnership with MasterCard Foundation supported over 5,000 young people to complete secondary education. Of these, about 2,575 transitioned to tertiary education. It can be said that over 2500 of the alumni did not transition to tertiary education. Regardless of whether these young people transitioned to tertiary education or not, with the transition rate into the world of work for Ugandan youth standing at 24%. The end line evaluation report for the scholarship program showed that about 24% out of the 5445 scholars were engaged in some professional or semi-professional vocation or enterprise, a significant number of the scholars were not able to transition into the world of dignified employment. The Scholars’ Transition Entrepreneurship Fund is intended to contribute towards more of the Alumni to transition into the world of gainful and dignified employment through entrepreneurship as a pathway.
Job Title: Project Officer, Scholars’ Transition Entrepreneurship Fund
Positions: 05
Location: Regional Offices
Job Purpose
The officer will lead the direct implementation of activities of the Scholars’ Transition Entrepreneurship Fund project of BRAC Uganda; including training and support supervision of young entrepreneurs, local stakeholder and community engagements, reporting writing, and participate in the design of new projects.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide mentorship and technical support to young entrepreneurs with guidance from the project manager through regular follow-up visits to the entrepreneurs to boost the growth of their social enterprises.
- Quality planning, and implementation of the Scholars’ Transition Entrepreneurship Fund at the regional level.
- Develop and implement capacity building plans for the young entrepreneurs based on capacity gaps identified.
- Identify, document, and share learning, challenges, successes, opportunities and recommendations monthly with the Project Manager.
- Boost knowledge management, communication and visibility of the project.
- Strengthen and maintain partnership, networking.
- Manage and uphold the implementation of BRAC policies including an effective safeguarding policy.
Safeguarding roles:
- Establish a safeguarding culture across all levels by implementing BRAC safeguarding policies. Responsible to ensure team members are appropriately trained, supported, and have access to resources regarding issues that are identified and actioned in accordance with the safeguarding policy and procedure.
- Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.
Job specifications
- The successful candidate should have a bachelor’s degree in education/ social sciences/ Development/ studies / in a related field.
- A Postgraduate qualification in relevant field such as project planning and Management/ entrepreneurship development is an added advantage.
- At least 3 years’ work experience in an Education, Youth empowerment, Social development related field, 2 of which should be in a similar position in a recognized NGO setting, Ability to problem-solve, multi-task, determine priorities, take initiative, maintain high levels of self-motivation, work as part of a team and independently as and when required, and in multi-cultural settings, Project implementation skills and a demonstrated ability in achieving agreed deliverables. Ability to create and sustain long term partnerships with District Local Governments, development partners and private actors.
Persons with disabilities and women are encouraged to apply.
TO APPLY:
Interested candidates should send their application letters, CV and academic documents as one document by email to bimcf.uganda@brac.net Deadline is 15th April 2024. The subject must be the name of the position applied for strictly when submitting. Only complete applications will be accepted, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
NOTE: BRAC Uganda doesn’t charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process from the applicants. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of any communication purportedly on behalf of BRAC Uganda please send us an email before taking any further action in relation to the issue at hand.
BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation – regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure include extensive background checks and disclosure of criminal records to fully ensure safeguarding.
BRAC is an equal opportunity employer.