Programme Officer - Organizational Development & Advocacy
Restless Development
Job Description
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. The original includes many with bold etc. We need to extract plain text and then apply tags.
We must preserve all original content word-for-word (no addition, removal, summarizing). That means we cannot drop any text, but we can remove the markup tags (span, style) as they are not content. However we must keep the text exactly as appears, including spaces and line breaks? We'll produce HTML with appropriate tags.
We need to identify sections: Title, Apply by date, About Restless Development, Our approach to safeguarding, About our Youth Employment Work, About the Role, Job title, Location, Salary, Preferred start date, Length of contract, Reports to, Expected travel, Key responsibilities (with subpoints), About you, Values and Culture, Equal Opportunities statement, Skills and Experience (Essential, Desirable), Remuneration, Work-life Balance (cut off). The original text ends abruptly: "Work-life Balance" then incomplete sentence. We must preserve all content word-for-word, so include that incomplete sentence as is.
We need to wrap paragraphs in . Use
for section headers (e.g., Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Education, Experience, Skills, How to Apply, Key Duties, About the Role). The original has headings like "About Restless Development", "Our approach to safeguarding:", "About our Youth Employment Work:", "About the Role", "Job title:", "Location:", "Salary", "Preferred start date:", "Length of contract:", "Reports to", "Expected travel", "Key responsibilities", "About you", "Values and Culture", "Skills and Experience", "Essential", "Desirable", "Remuneration", "Work-life Balance". We'll treat each bold line as a header (). However some are like "Job title:" which is a label; still we can treat as header.
We need to preserve the bold text exactly, but we will output as Job title:
etc. The colon is part of text.
We need to handle lists: The responsibilities sections have numbered headings then - . We'll keep the numbered heading as plain text within
maybe? Actually the original: "Key responsibilities" then a
then "1. Organisational Development." then etc. We'll convert "1. Organisational Development." to maybe a or keep as plain text? The instruction: Use
for section headers, - for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills). For responsibilities, we could treat each numbered item as a header? But they are not section headers; they are subheadings within responsibilities. The instruction says use
for section headers (e.g. Responsibilities, Qualifications...). So "Key responsibilities" is a section header -> . Then each numbered item could be a
with bold number? Or we could keep as
with the number text. The instruction didn't forbid
for other text. So we can put each numbered heading as
(maybe bold). But we must preserve original content word-for-word, so we need to keep the "1. Organisational Development." text exactly. We'll wrap it in
. Then the
- items follow.
Similarly for "2. Youth-led advocacy and community influence", etc.
Also there is a "5." item with line break after "5." then bold text on next line. We'll preserve.
Now we need to strip all and ,
, , etc. Also need to remove the tag? The original includes an for "our values". We must preserve the text content of the link, but remove the tag? The instruction: Preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. The link tag is not content; it's markup. We should remove the but keep the text "our values". However the link also has target attributes etc. Removing the tag is removing markup, not content. That's allowed. We must ensure we keep the text "our values". Also we need to keep the URL? Not required as content. So we can drop the entirely.
Also there is a stray "
" etc. We'll ignore.
Now produce HTML.
Let's extract the plain text sections in order.
I'll copy the original and manually extract.
Original text (with markup) as given:
Programme Officer - Organizational Development & Advocacy
Apply by 15th September 2026 at 5:00 PM (E.A.T)
About Restless Development
Restless Development Uganda is an agency for youth-led change; we support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. We make sure that young people’s voices are heard and that they have the power to mobilise action in their communities to respond to long-standing challenges. Across Karamoja, West Nile, Eastern and Central Uganda, we support young people to influence the decisions that affect their lives while strengthening the systems and institutions that enable them to realise their full potential. We also coordinate the Uganda Youth Collective, a national platform of over 600 youth-led organisations working together to amplify youth voices and influence policies through the National Youth Working Group. We are committed to creating an organisation that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally.
Our approach to safeguarding:
Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognise that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we expect all of our staff, young leaders and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.
About our Youth Employment Work:
Restless Development is implementing an inspiring youth employment portfolio designed to improve the economic resilience and livelihoods of young people by expanding their access to dignified and fulfilling work, entrepreneurship opportunities and inclusive financial services. Working across 13 Districts in Karamoja sub region, Eastern, West Nile, Western Uganda, and in central region. Our approach places young people at the center of programme design and delivery while strengthening the local systems that support dignified and fulfilling work. Our work equips young women and men with market relevant technical, entrepreneurial, and financial capabilities while connecting them to employers, markets, business development services and affordable financial products. We work through youth-led organisations to create coordinated pathways that support young people to transition successfully into employment, self-employment and enterprise growth.
Beyond supporting individual young people, we invest in strengthening the capacity of youth-led organisations and youth-led enterprises to deliver high quality employment pathways, promote youth leadership, and influence policies and systems that shape youth economic opportunities.Through this integrated approach, we are building stronger inclusive employment eco-systems that enable young people, particularly young women, refugees and young people with disabilities to access dignified and fulfilling work
About the Role
The Programme Officer – Organisational Development & Advocacy will support the implementation of organisational strengthening and community-level advocacy activities. The role will work closely with Youth-Led Organisations (YLOs), and consortium partners to strengthen local organisations as effective, sustainable, and youth - responsive actors contributing to dignified and fulfilling work opportunities for young people.
The programme officer will provide day to day implementation support for organisational development activities, including organisational assessments, capacity strengthening interventions,partner accompaniment, advocacy actions and documentation.The role will contribute to strengthening the ability of youth-led organisations to improve their governance, leadership, programme delivery systems, accountability approaches and ability to amplify youth priorities within local decision making spaces.
Job title:
Programme Officer - Organizational Development & Advocacy
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Salary: UGX 47,084,760 Gross Per Annum
Preferred start date: October 2026
Length of contract: 2 years
Reports to: Programme Coordinator.
Expected travel: Fairly regular international and domestic travel
Key responsibilities
1. Organisational Development.
- Support day-to-day implementation of organisational development and advocacy activities in line with approved work plans and guidance from the Programme Coordinator.
- Support organisational capacity assessments, and partner reflection processes.
- Support partners to develop and implement organisational improvement plans.
- Provide follow up support to partners to strengthen application of new knowledge systems and approaches.
- Provide logistical, administrative, and operational support for field-based organisational development and advocacy activities.
- Promote learning and collaboration among youth-led organisations to strengthen collective capacity and sustainability.
2. Youth-led advocacy and community influence
- Lead implementation of youth-led advocacy activities that amplify young people’s priorities and experiences related to employment, entrepreneurship and financial inclusion.
- Support YLO’s to engage communities and stakeholders through dialogues, consultations, forums and engagement platforms.
- Support mobilisation of young people and community stakeholders to participate in advocacy-related activities led by partners.
- Document community voices, youth perspectives, and emerging issues to inform advocacy initiatives.
- Support partners to develop advocacy messages. Stories of change, evidence products that support engagements with decision makers.
3. Monitoring, Documentation and Learning Support
- Collect, compile and maintain accurate information on youth engagement activities, partner support, and programme outcomes.
- Support monitoring visits, field verification, participant tracking, and documentation of programme implementation.
- Capture youth stories, experiences, feedback and lesson emerging from implementation
- Lead preparation of activity reports, partner updates, case studies and learning products.
- Contribute to programme reflection processes and adaptive learning discussions.
4. Safeguarding and Compliance.
- Uphold and apply Restless Development safeguarding, gender equality, diversity, and inclusion standards in all field activities.
- Identify and report safeguarding concerns in line with organisational reporting procedures.
- Ensure ethical engagement with young people and compliance with organisational policies during implementation.
- Support creation of safe environments where young people can participate freely and confidently.
5.
Cost-effective and transparent financial management
- Prepare and manage programme budgets and work plans.
- Adhere to Restless Development Uganda financial policies in all aspects of work.
Support the finance & admin unit in the development of financial reports.- Provide accurate narrative reports of funds spent to allow prompt reporting.
- Ensure timely requisitioning and accountability for activity funds as required.
- Ensure value for money in all finance transactions.
6. Others responsibilities
- Other duties as required, including occasional work on weekends for which time off in lieu (TOIL) can be taken.
About you
We are looking for people with the right competencies and skills for the role, and who demonstrate the personal qualities consistent with our values. Values and Culture
At Restless Development, we’re proud that the strength and integrity of our Values has been recognised by staff, young people, donors and others who we work with. Beyond this, we have a culture of recognising and celebrating both our Values and our global achievements with monthly Values Champions and an annual Values Day.
Restless Development is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. Restless Development will ensure that no applicant or staff member receives less favorable treatment on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital status, social status, caste, race, ethnic origin, religious belief, age, HIV status, disability, or any other factor that cannot be shown to be relevant to performance.
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Social
. The original includes many with bold etc. We need to extract plain text and then apply tags.
We must preserve all original content word-for-word (no addition, removal, summarizing). That means we cannot drop any text, but we can remove the markup tags (span, style) as they are not content. However we must keep the text exactly as appears, including spaces and line breaks? We'll produce HTML with appropriate tags.
We need to identify sections: Title, Apply by date, About Restless Development, Our approach to safeguarding, About our Youth Employment Work, About the Role, Job title, Location, Salary, Preferred start date, Length of contract, Reports to, Expected travel, Key responsibilities (with subpoints), About you, Values and Culture, Equal Opportunities statement, Skills and Experience (Essential, Desirable), Remuneration, Work-life Balance (cut off). The original text ends abruptly: "Work-life Balance" then incomplete sentence. We must preserve all content word-for-word, so include that incomplete sentence as is.
We need to wrap paragraphs in . Use
for section headers (e.g., Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Education, Experience, Skills, How to Apply, Key Duties, About the Role). The original has headings like "About Restless Development", "Our approach to safeguarding:", "About our Youth Employment Work:", "About the Role", "Job title:", "Location:", "Salary", "Preferred start date:", "Length of contract:", "Reports to", "Expected travel", "Key responsibilities", "About you", "Values and Culture", "Skills and Experience", "Essential", "Desirable", "Remuneration", "Work-life Balance". We'll treat each bold line as a header (). However some are like "Job title:" which is a label; still we can treat as header.
We need to preserve the bold text exactly, but we will output as Job title:
etc. The colon is part of text.
We need to handle lists: The responsibilities sections have numbered headings then - . We'll keep the numbered heading as plain text within
maybe? Actually the original: "Key responsibilities" then a
then "1. Organisational Development." then etc. We'll convert "1. Organisational Development." to maybe a or keep as plain text? The instruction: Use
for section headers, - for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills). For responsibilities, we could treat each numbered item as a header? But they are not section headers; they are subheadings within responsibilities. The instruction says use
for section headers (e.g. Responsibilities, Qualifications...). So "Key responsibilities" is a section header -> . Then each numbered item could be a
with bold number? Or we could keep as
with the number text. The instruction didn't forbid
for other text. So we can put each numbered heading as
(maybe bold). But we must preserve original content word-for-word, so we need to keep the "1. Organisational Development." text exactly. We'll wrap it in
. Then the
- items follow.
Similarly for "2. Youth-led advocacy and community influence", etc.
Also there is a "5." item with line break after "5." then bold text on next line. We'll preserve.
Now we need to strip all and ,
, , etc. Also need to remove the tag? The original includes an for "our values". We must preserve the text content of the link, but remove the tag? The instruction: Preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. The link tag is not content; it's markup. We should remove the but keep the text "our values". However the link also has target attributes etc. Removing the tag is removing markup, not content. That's allowed. We must ensure we keep the text "our values". Also we need to keep the URL? Not required as content. So we can drop the entirely.
Also there is a stray "
" etc. We'll ignore.
Now produce HTML.
Let's extract the plain text sections in order.
I'll copy the original and manually extract.
Original text (with markup) as given:
Programme Officer - Organizational Development & Advocacy
Apply by 15th September 2026 at 5:00 PM (E.A.T)
About Restless Development
Restless Development Uganda is an agency for youth-led change; we support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. We make sure that young people’s voices are heard and that they have the power to mobilise action in their communities to respond to long-standing challenges. Across Karamoja, West Nile, Eastern and Central Uganda, we support young people to influence the decisions that affect their lives while strengthening the systems and institutions that enable them to realise their full potential. We also coordinate the Uganda Youth Collective, a national platform of over 600 youth-led organisations working together to amplify youth voices and influence policies through the National Youth Working Group. We are committed to creating an organisation that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally.
Our approach to safeguarding:
Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognise that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we expect all of our staff, young leaders and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.
About our Youth Employment Work:
Restless Development is implementing an inspiring youth employment portfolio designed to improve the economic resilience and livelihoods of young people by expanding their access to dignified and fulfilling work, entrepreneurship opportunities and inclusive financial services. Working across 13 Districts in Karamoja sub region, Eastern, West Nile, Western Uganda, and in central region. Our approach places young people at the center of programme design and delivery while strengthening the local systems that support dignified and fulfilling work. Our work equips young women and men with market relevant technical, entrepreneurial, and financial capabilities while connecting them to employers, markets, business development services and affordable financial products. We work through youth-led organisations to create coordinated pathways that support young people to transition successfully into employment, self-employment and enterprise growth.
Beyond supporting individual young people, we invest in strengthening the capacity of youth-led organisations and youth-led enterprises to deliver high quality employment pathways, promote youth leadership, and influence policies and systems that shape youth economic opportunities.Through this integrated approach, we are building stronger inclusive employment eco-systems that enable young people, particularly young women, refugees and young people with disabilities to access dignified and fulfilling work
About the Role
The Programme Officer – Organisational Development & Advocacy will support the implementation of organisational strengthening and community-level advocacy activities. The role will work closely with Youth-Led Organisations (YLOs), and consortium partners to strengthen local organisations as effective, sustainable, and youth - responsive actors contributing to dignified and fulfilling work opportunities for young people.
The programme officer will provide day to day implementation support for organisational development activities, including organisational assessments, capacity strengthening interventions,partner accompaniment, advocacy actions and documentation.The role will contribute to strengthening the ability of youth-led organisations to improve their governance, leadership, programme delivery systems, accountability approaches and ability to amplify youth priorities within local decision making spaces.
Job title:
Programme Officer - Organizational Development & Advocacy
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Salary: UGX 47,084,760 Gross Per Annum
Preferred start date: October 2026
Length of contract: 2 years
Reports to: Programme Coordinator.
Expected travel: Fairly regular international and domestic travel
Key responsibilities
1. Organisational Development.
- Support day-to-day implementation of organisational development and advocacy activities in line with approved work plans and guidance from the Programme Coordinator.
- Support organisational capacity assessments, and partner reflection processes.
- Support partners to develop and implement organisational improvement plans.
- Provide follow up support to partners to strengthen application of new knowledge systems and approaches.
- Provide logistical, administrative, and operational support for field-based organisational development and advocacy activities.
- Promote learning and collaboration among youth-led organisations to strengthen collective capacity and sustainability.
2. Youth-led advocacy and community influence
- Lead implementation of youth-led advocacy activities that amplify young people’s priorities and experiences related to employment, entrepreneurship and financial inclusion.
- Support YLO’s to engage communities and stakeholders through dialogues, consultations, forums and engagement platforms.
- Support mobilisation of young people and community stakeholders to participate in advocacy-related activities led by partners.
- Document community voices, youth perspectives, and emerging issues to inform advocacy initiatives.
- Support partners to develop advocacy messages. Stories of change, evidence products that support engagements with decision makers.
3. Monitoring, Documentation and Learning Support
- Collect, compile and maintain accurate information on youth engagement activities, partner support, and programme outcomes.
- Support monitoring visits, field verification, participant tracking, and documentation of programme implementation.
- Capture youth stories, experiences, feedback and lesson emerging from implementation
- Lead preparation of activity reports, partner updates, case studies and learning products.
- Contribute to programme reflection processes and adaptive learning discussions.
4. Safeguarding and Compliance.
- Uphold and apply Restless Development safeguarding, gender equality, diversity, and inclusion standards in all field activities.
- Identify and report safeguarding concerns in line with organisational reporting procedures.
- Ensure ethical engagement with young people and compliance with organisational policies during implementation.
- Support creation of safe environments where young people can participate freely and confidently.
5.
Cost-effective and transparent financial management
- Prepare and manage programme budgets and work plans.
- Adhere to Restless Development Uganda financial policies in all aspects of work.
Support the finance & admin unit in the development of financial reports.- Provide accurate narrative reports of funds spent to allow prompt reporting.
- Ensure timely requisitioning and accountability for activity funds as required.
- Ensure value for money in all finance transactions.
6. Others responsibilities
- Other duties as required, including occasional work on weekends for which time off in lieu (TOIL) can be taken.
About you
We are looking for people with the right competencies and skills for the role, and who demonstrate the personal qualities consistent with our values. Values and Culture
At Restless Development, we’re proud that the strength and integrity of our Values has been recognised by staff, young people, donors and others who we work with. Beyond this, we have a culture of recognising and celebrating both our Values and our global achievements with monthly Values Champions and an annual Values Day.
Restless Development is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. Restless Development will ensure that no applicant or staff member receives less favorable treatment on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital status, social status, caste, race, ethnic origin, religious belief, age, HIV status, disability, or any other factor that cannot be shown to be relevant to performance.
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Social
). However some are like "Job title:" which is a label; still we can treat as header.
We need to preserve the bold text exactly, but we will output as Job title:
etc. The colon is part of text.
We need to handle lists: The responsibilities sections have numbered headings then - . We'll keep the numbered heading as plain text within
maybe? Actually the original: "Key responsibilities" then a
then "1. Organisational Development." then etc. We'll convert "1. Organisational Development." to maybe a or keep as plain text? The instruction: Use
for section headers, - for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills). For responsibilities, we could treat each numbered item as a header? But they are not section headers; they are subheadings within responsibilities. The instruction says use
for section headers (e.g. Responsibilities, Qualifications...). So "Key responsibilities" is a section header -> . Then each numbered item could be a
with bold number? Or we could keep as
with the number text. The instruction didn't forbid
for other text. So we can put each numbered heading as
(maybe bold). But we must preserve original content word-for-word, so we need to keep the "1. Organisational Development." text exactly. We'll wrap it in
. Then the
- items follow.
Similarly for "2. Youth-led advocacy and community influence", etc.
Also there is a "5." item with line break after "5." then bold text on next line. We'll preserve.
Now we need to strip all and ,
, , etc. Also need to remove the tag? The original includes an for "our values". We must preserve the text content of the link, but remove the tag? The instruction: Preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. The link tag is not content; it's markup. We should remove the but keep the text "our values". However the link also has target attributes etc. Removing the tag is removing markup, not content. That's allowed. We must ensure we keep the text "our values". Also we need to keep the URL? Not required as content. So we can drop the entirely.
Also there is a stray "
" etc. We'll ignore.
Now produce HTML.
Let's extract the plain text sections in order.
I'll copy the original and manually extract.
Original text (with markup) as given:
Programme Officer - Organizational Development & Advocacy
Apply by 15th September 2026 at 5:00 PM (E.A.T)
About Restless Development
Restless Development Uganda is an agency for youth-led change; we support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. We make sure that young people’s voices are heard and that they have the power to mobilise action in their communities to respond to long-standing challenges. Across Karamoja, West Nile, Eastern and Central Uganda, we support young people to influence the decisions that affect their lives while strengthening the systems and institutions that enable them to realise their full potential. We also coordinate the Uganda Youth Collective, a national platform of over 600 youth-led organisations working together to amplify youth voices and influence policies through the National Youth Working Group. We are committed to creating an organisation that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally.
Our approach to safeguarding:
Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognise that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we expect all of our staff, young leaders and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.
About our Youth Employment Work:
Restless Development is implementing an inspiring youth employment portfolio designed to improve the economic resilience and livelihoods of young people by expanding their access to dignified and fulfilling work, entrepreneurship opportunities and inclusive financial services. Working across 13 Districts in Karamoja sub region, Eastern, West Nile, Western Uganda, and in central region. Our approach places young people at the center of programme design and delivery while strengthening the local systems that support dignified and fulfilling work. Our work equips young women and men with market relevant technical, entrepreneurial, and financial capabilities while connecting them to employers, markets, business development services and affordable financial products. We work through youth-led organisations to create coordinated pathways that support young people to transition successfully into employment, self-employment and enterprise growth.
Beyond supporting individual young people, we invest in strengthening the capacity of youth-led organisations and youth-led enterprises to deliver high quality employment pathways, promote youth leadership, and influence policies and systems that shape youth economic opportunities.Through this integrated approach, we are building stronger inclusive employment eco-systems that enable young people, particularly young women, refugees and young people with disabilities to access dignified and fulfilling work
About the Role
The Programme Officer – Organisational Development & Advocacy will support the implementation of organisational strengthening and community-level advocacy activities. The role will work closely with Youth-Led Organisations (YLOs), and consortium partners to strengthen local organisations as effective, sustainable, and youth - responsive actors contributing to dignified and fulfilling work opportunities for young people.
The programme officer will provide day to day implementation support for organisational development activities, including organisational assessments, capacity strengthening interventions,partner accompaniment, advocacy actions and documentation.The role will contribute to strengthening the ability of youth-led organisations to improve their governance, leadership, programme delivery systems, accountability approaches and ability to amplify youth priorities within local decision making spaces.
Job title:
Programme Officer - Organizational Development & Advocacy
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Salary: UGX 47,084,760 Gross Per Annum
Preferred start date: October 2026
Length of contract: 2 years
Reports to: Programme Coordinator.
Expected travel: Fairly regular international and domestic travel
Key responsibilities
1. Organisational Development.
- Support day-to-day implementation of organisational development and advocacy activities in line with approved work plans and guidance from the Programme Coordinator.
- Support organisational capacity assessments, and partner reflection processes.
- Support partners to develop and implement organisational improvement plans.
- Provide follow up support to partners to strengthen application of new knowledge systems and approaches.
- Provide logistical, administrative, and operational support for field-based organisational development and advocacy activities.
- Promote learning and collaboration among youth-led organisations to strengthen collective capacity and sustainability.
2. Youth-led advocacy and community influence
- Lead implementation of youth-led advocacy activities that amplify young people’s priorities and experiences related to employment, entrepreneurship and financial inclusion.
- Support YLO’s to engage communities and stakeholders through dialogues, consultations, forums and engagement platforms.
- Support mobilisation of young people and community stakeholders to participate in advocacy-related activities led by partners.
- Document community voices, youth perspectives, and emerging issues to inform advocacy initiatives.
- Support partners to develop advocacy messages. Stories of change, evidence products that support engagements with decision makers.
3. Monitoring, Documentation and Learning Support
- Collect, compile and maintain accurate information on youth engagement activities, partner support, and programme outcomes.
- Support monitoring visits, field verification, participant tracking, and documentation of programme implementation.
- Capture youth stories, experiences, feedback and lesson emerging from implementation
- Lead preparation of activity reports, partner updates, case studies and learning products.
- Contribute to programme reflection processes and adaptive learning discussions.
4. Safeguarding and Compliance.
- Uphold and apply Restless Development safeguarding, gender equality, diversity, and inclusion standards in all field activities.
- Identify and report safeguarding concerns in line with organisational reporting procedures.
- Ensure ethical engagement with young people and compliance with organisational policies during implementation.
- Support creation of safe environments where young people can participate freely and confidently.
5.
Cost-effective and transparent financial management
- Prepare and manage programme budgets and work plans.
- Adhere to Restless Development Uganda financial policies in all aspects of work.
Support the finance & admin unit in the development of financial reports.- Provide accurate narrative reports of funds spent to allow prompt reporting.
- Ensure timely requisitioning and accountability for activity funds as required.
- Ensure value for money in all finance transactions.
6. Others responsibilities
- Other duties as required, including occasional work on weekends for which time off in lieu (TOIL) can be taken.
About you
We are looking for people with the right competencies and skills for the role, and who demonstrate the personal qualities consistent with our values. Values and Culture
At Restless Development, we’re proud that the strength and integrity of our Values has been recognised by staff, young people, donors and others who we work with. Beyond this, we have a culture of recognising and celebrating both our Values and our global achievements with monthly Values Champions and an annual Values Day.
Restless Development is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. Restless Development will ensure that no applicant or staff member receives less favorable treatment on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital status, social status, caste, race, ethnic origin, religious belief, age, HIV status, disability, or any other factor that cannot be shown to be relevant to performance.
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Social
maybe? Actually the original: "Key responsibilities" then a
- etc. We'll convert "1. Organisational Development." to maybe a
- for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills). For responsibilities, we could treat each numbered item as a header? But they are not section headers; they are subheadings within responsibilities. The instruction says use
for section headers (e.g. Responsibilities, Qualifications...). So "Key responsibilities" is a section header ->
. Then each numbered item could be a
with bold number? Or we could keep as
with the number text. The instruction didn't forbid
for other text. So we can put each numbered heading as
(maybe bold). But we must preserve original content word-for-word, so we need to keep the "1. Organisational Development." text exactly. We'll wrap it in
. Then the
- items follow.
Similarly for "2. Youth-led advocacy and community influence", etc.
Also there is a "5." item with line break after "5." then bold text on next line. We'll preserve.
Now we need to strip all and ,
, , etc. Also need to remove the tag? The original includes an for "our values". We must preserve the text content of the link, but remove the tag? The instruction: Preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. The link tag is not content; it's markup. We should remove the but keep the text "our values". However the link also has target attributes etc. Removing the tag is removing markup, not content. That's allowed. We must ensure we keep the text "our values". Also we need to keep the URL? Not required as content. So we can drop the entirely. Also there is a stray "
" etc. We'll ignore. Now produce HTML. Let's extract the plain text sections in order. I'll copy the original and manually extract. Original text (with markup) as given:Programme Officer - Organizational Development & Advocacy
Apply by 15th September 2026 at 5:00 PM (E.A.T)
About Restless Development
Restless Development Uganda is an agency for youth-led change; we support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. We make sure that young people’s voices are heard and that they have the power to mobilise action in their communities to respond to long-standing challenges. Across Karamoja, West Nile, Eastern and Central Uganda, we support young people to influence the decisions that affect their lives while strengthening the systems and institutions that enable them to realise their full potential. We also coordinate the Uganda Youth Collective, a national platform of over 600 youth-led organisations working together to amplify youth voices and influence policies through the National Youth Working Group. We are committed to creating an organisation that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally.
Our approach to safeguarding:
Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognise that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we expect all of our staff, young leaders and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.
About our Youth Employment Work:
Restless Development is implementing an inspiring youth employment portfolio designed to improve the economic resilience and livelihoods of young people by expanding their access to dignified and fulfilling work, entrepreneurship opportunities and inclusive financial services. Working across 13 Districts in Karamoja sub region, Eastern, West Nile, Western Uganda, and in central region. Our approach places young people at the center of programme design and delivery while strengthening the local systems that support dignified and fulfilling work. Our work equips young women and men with market relevant technical, entrepreneurial, and financial capabilities while connecting them to employers, markets, business development services and affordable financial products. We work through youth-led organisations to create coordinated pathways that support young people to transition successfully into employment, self-employment and enterprise growth.
Beyond supporting individual young people, we invest in strengthening the capacity of youth-led organisations and youth-led enterprises to deliver high quality employment pathways, promote youth leadership, and influence policies and systems that shape youth economic opportunities.Through this integrated approach, we are building stronger inclusive employment eco-systems that enable young people, particularly young women, refugees and young people with disabilities to access dignified and fulfilling work
About the Role
The Programme Officer – Organisational Development & Advocacy will support the implementation of organisational strengthening and community-level advocacy activities. The role will work closely with Youth-Led Organisations (YLOs), and consortium partners to strengthen local organisations as effective, sustainable, and youth - responsive actors contributing to dignified and fulfilling work opportunities for young people.
The programme officer will provide day to day implementation support for organisational development activities, including organisational assessments, capacity strengthening interventions,partner accompaniment, advocacy actions and documentation.The role will contribute to strengthening the ability of youth-led organisations to improve their governance, leadership, programme delivery systems, accountability approaches and ability to amplify youth priorities within local decision making spaces.
Job title:
Programme Officer - Organizational Development & AdvocacyLocation: Kampala, Uganda
Salary: UGX 47,084,760 Gross Per Annum
Preferred start date: October 2026
Length of contract: 2 years
Reports to: Programme Coordinator.
Expected travel: Fairly regular international and domestic travel
Key responsibilities
1. Organisational Development.
- Support day-to-day implementation of organisational development and advocacy activities in line with approved work plans and guidance from the Programme Coordinator.
- Support organisational capacity assessments, and partner reflection processes.
- Support partners to develop and implement organisational improvement plans.
- Provide follow up support to partners to strengthen application of new knowledge systems and approaches.
- Provide logistical, administrative, and operational support for field-based organisational development and advocacy activities.
- Promote learning and collaboration among youth-led organisations to strengthen collective capacity and sustainability.
2. Youth-led advocacy and community influence
- Lead implementation of youth-led advocacy activities that amplify young people’s priorities and experiences related to employment, entrepreneurship and financial inclusion.
- Support YLO’s to engage communities and stakeholders through dialogues, consultations, forums and engagement platforms.
- Support mobilisation of young people and community stakeholders to participate in advocacy-related activities led by partners.
- Document community voices, youth perspectives, and emerging issues to inform advocacy initiatives.
- Support partners to develop advocacy messages. Stories of change, evidence products that support engagements with decision makers.
3. Monitoring, Documentation and Learning Support
- Collect, compile and maintain accurate information on youth engagement activities, partner support, and programme outcomes.
- Support monitoring visits, field verification, participant tracking, and documentation of programme implementation.
- Capture youth stories, experiences, feedback and lesson emerging from implementation
- Lead preparation of activity reports, partner updates, case studies and learning products.
- Contribute to programme reflection processes and adaptive learning discussions.
4. Safeguarding and Compliance.
- Uphold and apply Restless Development safeguarding, gender equality, diversity, and inclusion standards in all field activities.
- Identify and report safeguarding concerns in line with organisational reporting procedures.
- Ensure ethical engagement with young people and compliance with organisational policies during implementation.
- Support creation of safe environments where young people can participate freely and confidently.
5.
Cost-effective and transparent financial management- Prepare and manage programme budgets and work plans.
- Adhere to Restless Development Uganda financial policies in all aspects of work.
Support the finance & admin unit in the development of financial reports.- Provide accurate narrative reports of funds spent to allow prompt reporting.
- Ensure timely requisitioning and accountability for activity funds as required.
- Ensure value for money in all finance transactions.
6. Others responsibilities
- Other duties as required, including occasional work on weekends for which time off in lieu (TOIL) can be taken.
About you
We are looking for people with the right competencies and skills for the role, and who demonstrate the personal qualities consistent with our values. Values and Culture
At Restless Development, we’re proud that the strength and integrity of our Values has been recognised by staff, young people, donors and others who we work with. Beyond this, we have a culture of recognising and celebrating both our Values and our global achievements with monthly Values Champions and an annual Values Day.
Restless Development is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. Restless Development will ensure that no applicant or staff member receives less favorable treatment on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital status, social status, caste, race, ethnic origin, religious belief, age, HIV status, disability, or any other factor that cannot be shown to be relevant to performance.
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Social
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