World Vision NGO Project Officer - Agriculture and Financial Inclusion - ANCP Regreening Project - Jobs in Uganda

World Vision NGO Project Officer - Agriculture and Financial Inclusion - ANCP Regreening Project - Jobs in Uganda

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Background

World Vision Uganda (WVU) is a Christian relief, development and advocacy non-government organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We currently work in 43 districts and have 48 Area Programmes implementing projects in health & nutrition, water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH), livelihoods & resilience, education and child protection. World Vision (WV) is committed to the protection of children and adult beneficiaries from exploitation and abuse and will not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with these beneficiaries. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible.


Purpose

The Agrobusiness and financial inclusion Officer will provide leadership in program implementation, program monitoring, and evaluation in relation to value chain addition, livelihoods, vocational and skills development, market access and system’s strengthening.


Key Outputs/Responsibilities.

Ensure effective activity planning, quality implementation, monitoring of technical models and approaches.

Provide technical guidance to World Vision and Consortium partners on development of agrobusiness, financial inclusion and value chain development DIPs and work plans.

Support development of annual agrobusiness and financial project activity plans, updated quarterly reports in collaboration with key departments and oversee implementation to high standards by scope & timelines.

Provide advice on business planning, financial management and day-to-day management of Agro-enterprises, value chain commodities and available financial services to project teams and participating communities.

Provide technical support to farmer-led enterprises in terms of leveraging their capacities to become more business and profitable-oriented.

Support the establishment and strengthening of groups of smallholder farmers to form market-oriented enterprises that enable them to engage more effectively in emerging market system; train the group on VSLA/SILC methodology and other business and financial management.

Lead the identification of respective area women centered interventions and climate smart value chain commodities based on agrobusiness and value chain commodity principles.

Provide training of extension service providers, farmers, traders, input dealers and other value chain actors on the best business management and post-harvest handling practices.

Lead in identification of respective area women centered interventions, climate smart financial inclusion and marketing, and its link with value chain commodities and other technology marketing based on appropriate models with WVU- Staff, consortium staff and participating community.

Engage with local government structures and leaders to interface with cooperatives, rural producer organizations, farmer groups, traders and possessors to improve the Agrobusiness policy environment.

She/he will identify, define, prioritize and oversee delivery of ANCP agribusiness and value chain commodity cycle implementation centering empowerment of women, girls, men, and boys and persons with disability.

Lead and supervise capacity building activities on business development and VSLA through formal trainings, on-job mentorship, and support supervision to ensure that it is adopted and practiced.

Strengthen the value chain actors for continuous end-to-end market linkages to increase efficiency in inputs and output markets.

Support farmer groups develop workplans and other value chain actors engaged by the project.

Conduct regular assessment on market demands and requirements and disseminate to stakeholders.

Develop indicators for monitoring performance as well as the status of direct beneficiaries and also day-to-day activities implementation through providing guidance and template based on overarching Logic Model/ Logframes, implementation plan for groups formed, and operationalizing backstopping.

Stakeholders’ Engagement, Networking & Collaboration:

Ensure coordination of project Agrobusiness, finance inclusion and value chain development activities with other stakeholders especially Yumbe DLG, Organizations of with Environment and Livelihood interventions, OPM, UNHCR and Ministry of Agriculture, animal industries and Fisheries and Ministry of Finance.

Participate in stakeholder joint engagements, planning meetings, sector committees and zonal working groups, and other for a at settlement, district, sub county and national levels.

Build staff, Consortium and community volunteers’ capacity on agribusiness, financial inclusion, and value chain programming.

Carryout capacity gap assessment for project staff, stakeholders and Consortium staff, through providing training, field monitoring, and creating cross learning platforms.

Act as a Livelihoods liaison between the consortium partners and the Technical Advisory Team (TAT) sharing agreed standards, approaches, tools and models as well as guidance from time to time.

Work closely with other sector thematic teams/ leaders and stakeholders at the district and sub-county to facilitate the implementation of project activities.

Maintain good coordination and working relationships with OPM, UNHCR, Humanitarian Actors, sub-county, district leaders and other central government departments and Agencies.



Documentation, Reporting and knowledge management of agrobusiness, financial inclusion and Value Chain Development activities:

Ensure agribusiness and financial inclusion parameters are integrated into MEAL processes, indicator setting and log frames.

Advise staff and consortium partners in obtaining agrobusiness, finance inclusion and value chain and gender disaggregated specific data.

Participate in data collection on Livelihoods, financial inclusion, value chain and agribusiness together with the MEAL team including rapid needs assessments, joint assessments, post distribution monitoring, evaluation and cross sectoral learning.

Develop, publish and document evidence of Project impact on financial inclusion and Gender mainstreaming in agrobusiness and livelihoods project interventions.


Child Protection and Wellbeing:

Monitor the wellbeing and child abuse cases and report any incidents in line with child protection policy and guidelines.

Work with local leaders to protect children from child violations and abuses.

Sensitize children including most vulnerable, guardians/ parents and other stakeholders about children’s rights and responsibilities.


Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience.

Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture, agricultural Economics, agribusiness management, Gender Studies, Social Work, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Sociology, Human Rights or any other relevant fields.

This position requires at least 3-4 years of experience working in Livelihood, Agribusiness, private sector, gender, disability, Environment and natural resources management and development programming, with a strong focus on partnering with the Government Ministries, departments, District authorities and private sector; preferably in rural economy contexts.

Experience with Market Facilitation, supporting systemic change and promoting supporting services indirectly, preferred knowledge and experience in Business financing for SMEs.

Broad knowledge and understanding of Livelihood programming, emerging agrobusiness, financial inclusion and value chain principles, models, approaches and tools, is essential.

Experience working with vulnerable communities and familiarity implementing agriculture related programmes with INGOs, consortia arrangements in humanitarian and development contexts.

Proven facilitation, presentation skills and experience in technical trainings for different categories of participants, stakeholder mapping and demonstrating high integrity, innovativeness and dependability.

Experience in analytical skills, evidence-based programme design, assessments, monitoring & evaluation.

Perform other duties as required.



Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only



How to apply
For more information and job application details, see; World Vision NGO Project Officer - Agriculture and Financial Inclusion - ANCP Regreening Project Jobs in Uganda

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