Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries Social Inclusion Specialist Jobs in Uganda

Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries Social Inclusion Specialist Jobs in Uganda

Reports to: Project Manager

Duty Station: Lira

Contract Duration: Two-year contract renewable based on satisfactory performance against agreed targets and deliverables.

Main duties and responsibilities

Reporting to the Project Coordinator, the main duties of the Social Inclusion Specialist include:

Under the guidance of the Project Manager, serve as focal point and advocate for mainstreaming of poverty, gender and youth targeting throughout project activities

Ensure that the project activities are implemented in an integrated manner and take into account the needs of the local communities and the poor households

Support local governments and other implementing partners to integrate cross cutting issues into project activities to ensure that correct targeting is done

Assist the DCDOs in each district to plan and undertake community mobilization, sensitization, community entry, situation analysis, social and institutional mapping, wealth ranking, and assessment of existing community groups as a basis for beneficiary selection

Take responsibility for identification and overseeing the contracting of ToT for roll-out of training for implementing partners and farmer groups in Gender Action Learning Systems (GALS) for oil seeds value chains

Take responsibility for overseeing and back-stopping the task of Poor Households’ (HH) Support, including but not limited to technical support for contracting of a service provider for update of the HH mentoring guide and trainer’s manual including mainstreaming of GALs visioning and PRA tools and direct training of district CDO staff and HH mentors.

Monitor the implementation of the services and the outcomes achieved by the service providers with regard to farmer group composition, social inclusiveness, internal cohesion and reciprocal trust

Maintain working relationships with the GoU ministry(s) responsible for gender, community development and youth affairs

Assist the MEL specialist to monitor the effectiveness of poverty, gender, youth and vulnerable group targeting and to draw lessons

Any other relevant

duties as may be assigned by the project coordinator.

Minimum Academic Qualifications

Applicants should be Ugandans holding an Honours Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science or a field related to Rural Community Development plus a minimum of a post graduate Diploma in any of the above fields from a recognised University/ Institution.

Working Experience

A minimum of 7 years of experience in community development and applied gender mainstreaming at project or institutional level.

Experience with poverty, gender and youth targeting in agriculture-based rural development programmes.

Mastery of Participatory Rural Appraisal, experience in designing and implementing successful communication and knowledge management strategies for sustainable development.

Familiarity with household mentoring approaches and GALS is of added advantage.

Competencies

Rural development project management and implementation

Good computer skills

Strong inter-personal skills

Strong analytical skills

Self-motivated and creative thinker

Proven ability to work in teams

Strong social skills and open-minded personality

Ability to work independently and with limited supervision and to deliver work under pressure.

How to Apply

All candidates should send their written applications with copies of identification documents ,academic credentials, testimonials and detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV), indicating contact details of (03) referees addressed to the

Permanent Secretary,

Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries,

P.O. Box 102 Entebbe,

Uganda

Or hand delivered to the Ministry Registry located at Plot No.14 Lugard Road, Entebbe

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted Submission deadline: Friday 4th November 2022

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