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| Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) |
Project Legal Officer job
Location: Jobs in Uganda 2025 - 2026
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
UGX
No. of vacancies: 01
Deadline: 19 December 2025
Hiring Organization: Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD)
Job Details:
Background information about the job or company (e.g., role context, company overview)
The Legal Officer will provide leadership for the delivery of rights-based legal aid and strategic litigation interventions under the GC7 TASO/Global Fund Project which aims to support Uganda is HIV and TB Reduction strategic plans. CEHURD is a sub-recipient (SR) under this project assigned to support access to HIV, TB, legal aid and other health services. This role includes strengthening access to justice for Key Populations (KPs), People Living with HIV (PLHIV), and Other Vulnerable Populations (OVPs), addressing human-rights related barriers to HIV, TB and Malaria services, and ensuring that CEHURDís legal and policy work contributes meaningfully to Ugandaís HIV and TB reduction strategies.
Responsibilities or duties
The officer will implement district and national-level legal aid activities, identify and pursue health rights violations suitable for litigation, coordinate capacity-building for community structures, and ensure alignment of legal interventions with institutional priorities and donor requirements. They will work collaboratively with district structures, paralegals, accredited court mediators, and health facility actors to provide a coordinated legal response. This role involves advancing the rights of vulnerable communities through engaging courts of law, quasi-judicial bodies, tribunals, and private law firms. The position holder provides technical expertise in litigation, legal representation, legal awareness, alternative dispute resolution and strategic partnerships, ensuring the programme remains responsive to contemporary and human rights challenges of communities.
The position holder will ensure alignment of project activities with institutional goals and objectives as well as synergies with other projects and institutional processes. Through building and strengthening strategic partnerships and use of strategic communication, the position holder will contribute to organizational learning, positioning, growth and development.
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Date Posted: 2025-12-15
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