One Young Dynamic Legal Officer Needed To Work In Karamoja Sub-Region

LANDnet Uganda is looking for a young dynamic Legal Officer with a minimum of 5 years of work experience to support its work on Land Management in the Karamoja sub-region.

Qualifications And Competencies:

• Ability to communicate efficiently and constructively in English in a variety of settings such as meetings, discussions with government and other partners, and training workshops.
• A Law Degree and a Diploma in Legal Practice with a Practicing Certificate.
• At least 5 years experience working on a legal Empowerment program.
• Strong Conceptual ability, writing skills in English, as well as experience in editing the written work of others.
• Able to build and nature relationship as well as partnership management
• Ability to work independently and high-level problem-solving skills.
• A good understanding of Land issues in Karamoja or Ateso.
• Project Management: Well organized, attentive to detail, able to set deadlines for providers, and have the people skills to get the best from others. Being self-driven, energetic, and keen to test skills. Able to appreciate the importance of being plan-full and scheduling the management of project activities without being inflexible or rigid.
• Persuasiveness ( Communication): Supports others in a team in making differences in standpoints and arguments explicit and considering them in a respectful manner and through the way in which he/she behaves, helps bring the various arguments into line.
• Results-oriented (Motivation): When collaborating with others, sees to it that all activities and decisions contribute to the team result, stimulate team members to take action where necessary, and takes action himself/herself when the achievement of results threatened.
• Diversity: Understands and appreciates issues from the perspective of other cultures, groups, communities, and others.
• Gender awareness: Has the ability to review society from the perspective of gender roles and understand how this has affected women's needs in comparison to the needs of men.
• Showing by displaying vision, action, and sticking to policy, that the aim is to achieve equity between men and women in society, taking into account the environment.
• Proficiency in English, Fluency in  Ngakarimojong, and willingness to reside in Moroto is an added advantage.

If interested, please send an email to the address below including; an application for this position, Curriculum Vitae, and copies of academic transcripts and certificates, by 31st April  2021

The Human Resource Officer
LANDnet Uganda
hr@landnet.ug / info@landnet.ug