Two Young Dynamic Legal Officers Needed to work in Acholi and Karamoja Sub-Regions

LANDnet Uganda is looking for young dynamic Legal Officers with a minimum of 5 years of work experience to support its work on Land Management in the Acholi and Karamoja sub-regions with a Gross pay of UGX 2,372,615 ( Uganda Shillings Two Million, Three Hundred Seventy-two Thousand, Six Hundred fifteen only)

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.
• 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 Acholi.
• 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 Acholi or Ngakarimojong, and willingness to reside in Kitgum or Moroto is an added advantage.

If interested, please send an email to the address below including; an application for this position/ District of Operations, Curriculum Vitae, and copies of academic transcripts and certificates, by 22nd January 2021

The Human Resource Officer

LANDnet Uganda

hr@landnet.ug / info@landnet.ug