Job Title: Security Guard
Reports to: Human Resource & Administration
Salary Scale: Salary Grade UR 8
Age limit: Not more than 40 years

Job Purpose:To undertake patrol duties to inspect, check, guard and protect infrastructural facilities, buildings and installations including equipment, machinery and property against theft, fire, equipment malfunctions, vandalism and illegal entry

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

1. Patrol assigned areas to detect and prevent signs of intrusion and examines doors, windows and gates to ensure they are securely locked.
2. Raise the alarm or responding to the alarm and investigates disturbances.
3. Check for irregularities, such as fire hazards, leaking water pipes and calls the police or fire departments in cases of fire emergency or presence of unauthorized persons.
4. Guard entrance or exit, checking identification cards, screening individuals and motor vehicles as well as preventing passage of people or prohibited articles from entering or leaving restricted areas.
5. Provide information and warning violators of rule infractions, such as loitering, smoking, or carrying forbidden articles.
6. Apprehend, detain or evict intruders, offenders and violators from premises using force when necessary.
7. Write reports of daily activities and irregularities, such as property damage, leaking pipes, theft, fire or presence of unauthorized persons or unusual occurrence.
8. Perform any other duties assigned to you by the Director and the designated supervisor,

Minimum Qualifications

• Uganda Certificate of Education
• Certificate of Good Conduct in Security Operations or Law Enforcement
• Six (6) months on-the-job training in law enforcement or security work

Tenure: The tenure of office for all positions is a 5-year contract renewable upon satisfactory performance.

Application Procedures:

Interested persons with the above requirements should  download NARO Application Form here. Attach a recent passport photo and fill it in triplicate; attach detailed curriculum vitae with copies of academic certificates and testimonials to the undersigned not later than 5.00 pm on 3rd November 2025

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and notified via the NARO website, telephones and e-mail addresses as provided on the application form. Shortlisted candidates will be required to provide certified copies of their Academic Qualifications.

Only applications responding to this advertisement and its attendant timelines will be received.

The Director General, 
National Agricultural Research Organization, 
Plot 11-13, Lugard Avenue,
P.O.Box 295 
Entebbe - Uganda