International Alert is recruiting three new programme staff to join its expanding team in Uganda. The positions are:
Senior Programme Officer, Oil
Recruited to contribute to our expanding ‘Harnessing Oil for Peace and Development in Uganda’ project, the Senior Programme Officer will be have a talent for analytical thinking and persuasive communication, balanced with a constructive and highly collegial personal working style. S/he will be play a lead role in Alert’s national-level advocacy activities related to oil; and contribute to a consolidation and deepening of relevant relationships and partnerships across a range of relevant stakeholders. S/he will develop clear advocacy targets for Alert, and follow-up with relevant strategies and activities together with partners. The post holder will pro-actively engage in the growing national and international debate about oil in Uganda, developing and maintaining cutting-edge expertise concerning relevant developments, in order to advance Alert’s goals of coalition-building and promoting peaceful outcomes from oil in Uganda.
The ideal candidate will be educated to Masters level, and have a track record of successful implementation of advocacy work, as well as an excellent grasp of issues related to natural resource management/ oil governance in Uganda. S/he will have some experience of project management, and be able to produce excellent written work. S/he will have an innovative, creative and problem-solving attitude; and a proven ability to develop strong working relationships.
The posts will be based in Kampala, and involve frequent travel within and occasionally outside Uganda. For an application form and further information visit our website, www.international-alert.org
The closing date for applications is Friday 22nd July 2011. Please send your completed application form, clearly indicating which post you are applying for, to uganda_intern@international-alert.org.
Please note we do not accept CVs.
While International Alert will endeavour to contact all candidates within a reasonable time, this may not always be possible due to limited resources. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, you can assume that your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful. International Alert is an equal opportunities employer. All applicants will be judged strictly on the basis of merit.
International Alert is a 25-year old independent peacebuilding organisation. We work with people who are directly affected by violent conflict to improve their prospects of peace. And we seek to influence the policies and ways of working of governments, international organisations like the UN and multinational companies, to reduce conflict risk and increase the prospects of peace.
Alert’s Uganda programme has been running since 2007 and is in an exciting phase of growth and expansion of impact. It has the following strategic objectives:
• Harness the potential contribution of oil to Uganda’s peaceful development;
• Facilitate efforts to build a peace economy in Northern Uganda;
• Foster business networks promoting peace;
• Proved analytical leadership on the links between economy and conflict/economy and peace in Uganda.
To learn more about how and where we work, visit www.international-alert.org
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