About Organisation:

Uganda Free Zones and Export Promotions Authority (UFZEPA) is a Statutory Government Agency established by the Free Zones (Amendment) Act 30 of 2024, and is responsible for the establishment, development, management, marketing, maintenance, supervision and control of Free Zones; the development, promotion and coordination of all export-related activities; and to provide for related matters.

Job Summary: Support the Senior Research Officer in undertaking research on best practices for implementing Free Zones.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• • Conduct comparative studies on incentives and tax regimes
  • Prepare statistical profiles on regions
  • Prepare policy briefs
  • Build database for Free Zones activity reports
  • Produce research papers on investment performance and opportunities
  • Maintain market intelligence service supporting all departments

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics or Quantitative Economics

Work Experience

• • Working experience: Nil

Competencies

Technical

• Research skills
• Analytical skills
• Planning, organizing and coordinating
• Information Communication Technology
• Human Resources Management

Behavioral

• Team work
• Concern for Quality and Standards
• Accountability
• Ethics and Integrity
• Communicating effectively

Interested candidates, who fully meet the requirements, should submit their applications with a comprehensive curriculum vitae with three (3) referees and their daytime contact details, copies of academic certificates and transcripts, and other relevant certificates, including O and A Level, Bachelor’s Degree and Post Graduate Academic and Professional Qualifications online at the link below

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The application and all attachments should be sent as one file in PDF format properly labelled with the Applicants name and position applied for.

ONLY applications submitted online will be considered.

Applicants who do not hear from us should consider their applications unsuccessful.

Applicants can only apply for a maximum of two (2) positions.

All applications should be addressed to:

The Executive Director,

Uganda Free Zones and Export Promotions Authority (UFZEPA),

6Th floor, Communications House,

Plot 1 Colville Street, Kampala. Uganda