Community Facilitator, WASH-SRHR Project

About the role

WaterAid Uganda's Programme Department is looking for a Community Facilitator for its WASH-SRHR integration project in Buyende District. The postholder works directly with communities, health facilities and schools, bringing people together through dialogues and group sessions, supporting community groups and collecting the information the project needs. The contract is fixed and renewable based on performance and funding.

Key responsibilities

• Share project information with communities, leaders and facility users in accessible ways for women, adolescents and people with disabilities
• Mobilise participants for dialogues, trainings, scorecard sessions, barazas, joint monitoring visits and campaigns, ensuring venues, timing and materials are inclusive
• Keep an up-to-date list of villages, leaders, groups and contacts
• Facilitate quarterly inclusive community dialogues on barriers to using SRHR and WASH services and record issues and agreed actions
• Hold regular dialogues with men, religious and cultural leaders, adolescents and women's groups to challenge harmful gender and social norms
• Run Together We Decide and Journeys Plus sessions with men and with adolescent girls and boys
• Support hygiene and menstrual health promotion, hand hygiene and sanitation days, and share materials in accessible formats and local languages
• Support women- and youth-led village savings and loan associations in meetings, saving and record keeping
• Write weekly activity plans and monthly reports for the project officer and carry out other duties assigned
• Champion WaterAid's commitments to equity, inclusion and safeguarding

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in public health, community development, social work, environmental health or a related field; a diploma with strong field experience will be considered
• At least three years' experience in community mobilisation, health promotion, or WASH, SRHR or gender projects
• Experience facilitating groups and working with village health teams, local leaders and people with disabilities
• Fluent Lusoga and English, good knowledge of the Buyende community and its culture
• A valid motorcycle riding permit
• Eligibility to work in Uganda

Required skills

• Good spoken and written communication and basic reporting skills
• Able to use a smartphone or tablet to collect data
• Preferrably: training or experience in gender transformative approaches, adolescent SRHR or safeguarding; village savings and loan associations, community scorecards or participatory methods; basic sign language or other ways to communicate with people with disabilities; living in the project area

Applications close on 25 November 2026 at 12:00 PM (UK time). Applicants must complete pre-screening questions and upload a CV and an essential cover letter in English. Background checks are carried out after recruitment and before employment begins.