Job Title: Project Officer (2 Job Opportunities)
Organisation: Mental Health Uganda (MHU)
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
Reports to: Project Manager, MHU
About US:
Mental Health Uganda (MHU) is an indigenous, non-governmental, membership-based organisation of people with a lived experience of mental health problems. MHU will implement a project to address mental health stigma and discrimination in Jinja City starting in November 2022. The project will use one of the approaches of lived experience leadership where people with personal experience of mental health problems ‘Champions’ will lead the change through ‘Social Contact’ events. These events will involve conversations in which someone with experience of mental health problems talks about their personal experience with someone who has not experienced mental health problems.
MHU will empower people with lived experience of mental health problems with the knowledge and confidence to challenge mental health stigma and discrimination. The empowered people will take the lead in the planning, and delivery of social contact events with technical support from Project Officers. MHU is now recruiting suitably qualified and competent Ugandans to fill these positions of Project Officers:
Job Summary: The Project Officer will be responsible for the overall local implementation of project activities related to mental health anti-stigma work in Jinja and will therefore carry the operational responsibilities towards project results. S/he will support and supervise the mental health ‘Champions’ based in communities. This will involve working with and through these volunteer Champions who will lead ‘Social Contact’ events. In these events people with personal experiences of mental health problems share those experiences with members of the public with the underlying aim of challenging stigmatising attitudes and behaviours.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Project Implementation
Monitoring and Evaluation
Reporting, Resource Management and Documentation
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
How to Apply:
All Interested individuals should send a motivation letter and CV all merged as one PDF document/file (of maximum 6 pages), via email to mhu@mentalhealthuganda.org subject line is the job title i.e. “Project Officer”. Do not send academic documents – heavy files containing academic documents or submitted as images and or late applications will not be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The Letter must also include the details of 2 suitable referees who can comment on the candidate’s ability. Women and Persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply including those with a lived experience of mental health problems.
Note: MHU promotes zero tolerance for discrimination/harassment based on gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity, religious beliefs, etc. All staff and volunteers shall adhere to strict guidelines in order to facilitate “silent” inclusion. Members will also adhere to MHU’s safeguarding provisions – a set of procedures and practices designed to ensure that no harm comes to project beneficiaries as a result of contact with MHU’s programs, operations or individuals.
Deadline: Friday 4th November 2022 at 4:00pm
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