Oxfam Novib

Project Officer- KAREP job

Location: Jobs in Uganda 2025 - 2026

Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day

Salary: UGX

No. of vacancies: 01

Deadline: 06 June 2025

Hiring Organization: Oxfam Novib

Job Details:

CONTEXT

Oxfam in Uganda started work in the 1960s delivering development and humanitarian support as part of the Oxfam confederation, a global movement of people fighting to end inequality and injustice. Today, we continue to tackle the inequalities that make and keep people poor. We save and protect people’s lives in times of crisis. We work with people to build their resilience and rebuild their livelihoods. We enable vulnerable people’s voices to be heard and campaign for genuine, durable change.

OBJECTIVE OF THE POSITION

The Project Officer- KAREP is responsible for implementation of the Karamoja Agro-Pastoral Resilience and Empowerment Project Focussing on Climate Smart Agriculture and Women Economic Empowerment. He/she will work in close cooperation with Resilience and Climate Justice Coordinator, Oxfam’s partners and implement the project in line with Oxfam Uganda country strategy, the donor requirements and the one program approach. The project Officer will continually identify partner capacity improvement needs and seek support from Oxfam team to provide partners with necessary technical support during implementation. The job holder will undertake periodic monitoring and evaluation, lead the process of donor reporting, resource mobilization and ensuring compliance on both Oxfam and partner side.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical

The project Officer will work hand in hand with the Climate Justice Coordinator to support in the Implementation of Karamoja Agro-Pastoral Resilience and Empowerment (KAREP) project. This will be in line with Resilient Livelihood theme and Oxfam Country strategy (OCS) and organizational policies.
Provide technical capacity to partners implementing Climate Smart Agriculture and Women Economic Empowerment interventions in Karamoja.
Facilitate the process of fundraising by documenting key learnings and providing technical inputs from KAREP project.
Contribute to preparation of project documents, such as project summaries and project overviews on Women Economic Empowerment through Agro-pastoral interventions and Climate Smart Agriculture.
Offer any other support to the program teams especially in areas of research, show casing, advocacy, campaigns, fundraising and public engagements in the spirit of a one program approach.
Coordinate partners to develop detailed operational plans, budgets, indicators and MEAL frameworks
Ensuring that partner project plans, proposals, work plans and budgets are developed in line with the Oxfam Country Strategy and donor guidelines.

Leadership

Carry out regular monitoring visits to partners and project locations to ensure that there is progress in implementation as planned.
Lead the process on donor reporting and adherence to donor requirements.
Work with Program Quality & Learning Coordinator (PQL), MEL Officer and Program Managers to ensure that the MEL Framework is effectively adopted by the partners and that monitoring data is well managed and readily available for program quality control.
Constructively support partners’ management of projects in the various stages of project cycle management, from project appraisal to reporting.
Conduct regular project reviews to discuss project progress with partners. share learnings and experiences that inform actions moving forward.
Lead the process of project documentation for visibility and learning.

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Date Posted: 2025-06-05

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