4 Community Services Assistants Jobs at Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid

Job Title:       Community Services Assistant (4)
Employer: Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid (HIJRA)
Location: Uganda

Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid (HIJRA) is recruiting Community Services Assistants



Key Duties and Responsibilities:  
·         Keep abreast with political and social, economic and cultural developments that impact on the protection environment.
·         Actively participate in consultative processes with government counterparts, partners and persons of concern to develop and implement community-based protection strategies.
·         Establish links with inter-agency capacity building initiatives which promote participatory, community-based and AGD approaches.
·         Establish systems, including those managed by communities, to ensure that individual cases identified at the field level are assessed, referred as appropriate, and followed up using ProGres or other established case management systems.
·         Guide program/protection unit, country offices and partners, in order to integrate participatory, community-based and AGD approaches in the overall protection delivery strategy.


Education:  The ideal candidate for the HIJRA Community Services Assistant job placement should hold a Bachelor’s degree in Development studies, Social Sciences or related field.

Experience: A minimum of three years of working experience in the areas of community services, social work (e.g., gender, GBV programs, women's empowerment and protection, work with refugees) and/or human rights or related tasks in government, NGO or international organization.
Previous exposure and experience working overseas in a humanitarian context

How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send an application letter and Curriculum Vitae including telephone and email contacts of three referees including your current/most recent employer.

Application should be addressed to the:

Country Program Manager,
Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid (HIJRA),
P.O. Box 37703, Kampala, Uganda.

Email to: vacancies.ug@hijra.or.ke. The subject line should read: “Community Services Assistant.”

Deadline: 20th December 2016