Sightsavers has an exciting vacancy for a Project Officer to join our team based in Uganda. You will join our team and be instrumental in the planning, implementation and development of the objectives and targets of the Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Trust Trachoma programme.
The position reports to the Project Coordinator, Trust Project and will manage all aspects of the project cycle. You will have strong monitoring and evaluations skills as this is essential to the ongoing success of the programme. This roles requires an organised individual with the ability to ensure of project deliverables are met from transporting patients from camps to hospital to ensuring supplies are maintained in camp. You will be responsible to maintaining and developing strong relationships with the hospital management team, district officials and other crucial stakeholders.
The successful candidate will monitor the project expenditure and provide budget reports when required. This role requires someone to have strong project experience with the ability to analyse data and produce reports on the data to the wider team.
The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 3 years’ work experience, ideally in an INGO environment; experience in all aspects of Project Management in community level development programmes; and experience in health programming. The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience in programme and project management; monitoring and evaluation; report writing; and working with a number of partners. Experience and understanding of government systems particularly the health sector will be advantageous. A degree in relevant field (Social Sciences, Development Studies, Economics, Education or equivalent) would be advantageous.
You will have strong interpersonal, communication, capacity building or facilitation skills; ability to work under minimum supervision; ability to work with project budgets and in-depth knowledge of computer packages and Global ICT communication systems
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