Programme Officer - Youth Engagement

Programme Officer - Youth Engagement (Internal Recruitment)

Apply by 14th September 2026

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 thier 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 – Youth Engagement will lead the implementation of the youth-led approach across our employment and market systems portfolio by coordinating day to day youth engagement activities and ensuring young people are meaningfully involved. Working closely with the programme coordinator, the role will support the delivery of youth centered interventions that strengthen young people’s participation.

The Programme Officer will be responsible for facilitating youth engagement activities that strengthen the agency, voice, leadership and participation in pathways towards dignified and fulfilling work. The role will provide field level technical and coordination support to youth led organisations to strengthen youth participation, inclusive programming, youth feedback mechanisms and community driven solutions. He/she will support youth engagement activities across skilling, enterprise development, financial inclusion, employment pathways, while ensuring that young people’s lived experiences and aspirations inform programme decisions.

Job title: Programme Officer - Youth Engagement

Location: Kampala, Uganda

Salary: UGX.