World Vision Resilience & Livelihood Technical Program Officer Jobs in Uganda

World Vision Resilience & Livelihood Technical Program Officer Jobs in Uganda

Background

World Vision Uganda is a Christian relief, development and advocacy non-government organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.

We currently work in over 82 districts in Uganda implementing projects in health & nutrition, water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH), livelihoods & community 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 the beneficiaries above.

All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible.

Due to expansion in scope of our programmes, we are now seeking for qualified and passionate individuals willing to share in our vision and join our team in the position below.

Position: Resilience & Livelihood Technical Program Officer

Report to: Resilience & Livelihood Technical Programme Manager

Location: Tororo District

Purpose of the position:

Contribute to achieving World Vision Uganda’s (WVU) child wellbeing targets in designated clusters through planning, monitoring and implementing the Resilience & Livelihood programme in line with applicable technical approaches and WVU national strategy.

Oversee roll out of best practices and models in a manner that promotes ownership, sustainability.

Key Outputs/Responsibilities.

Project planning and implementation

Ensure that the cluster designs are in line with the Resilience &Livelihood national office strategy

Supervise and monitor ongoing activities under the Cluster Resilience & Livelihood projects

Ensure quality in the roll out of project models ensuring sufficient funds allocated to particular activities in annual plans

Coordinate and oversee Cluster Resilience &Livelihood projects being implemented by partners and technical resource persons.

Initiate and participate in Production and food production district Advocacy initiatives

Liaise with the National office technical specialists for quality implementation of Resilience &Livelihood projects.

Ensure cross cutting themes are mainstreamed in Resilience &Livelihood projects.

Ensure operational integration with other WV sectors in intervention areas such as Health, education and child protection.

Work with CSDAs to ensure Registered Children and their households are participating and benefiting from health programme interventions.

Technical support and training

Identify local level capacity needs and support capacity building activities for WVU staff and partners to improve the quality of resilience &Livelihoods

Participate in development /adaption of training curriculum/manuals for implementation in the program area

Mobilization and conducting trainings to build capacities of

staff and partners on Resilience &Livelihood models

Provide mentoring and coaching to Farmer organizations helping in strengthening their organizational and institutional capacities

Identify technical experts to train partner with in training farmer organizations and community groups

Liaise with the National Office technical specialists on staff capacity building in Resilience & Livelihood programming

Partnership and networking

Identify and build strategic linkages, relations, collaborations and networks with partners and other stakeholders in implementation at the District level.

Participate and represent WVU in key donor engagements and technical working forums at district, Region and National level when applicable

Point of contact for consultation on issues to do with Resilience and Livelihood Cluster programming.

Work closely with District initiatives through the District Cooperative alliance and Production department Office

Research, Documentation and Evidence building

Effectively document all information related to project successes, innovations and promising practices and disseminate through appropriate mechanisms.

Responsible for capturing child well-being indicators related to Resilience and Livelihood projects in the cluster

Ensure identification of research areas, conduct research and document key learning

Conduct information needs assessments in sustainable agriculture, value addition and marketing

Spear head the Cluster Resilience & livelihood output & outcome monitoring processes

Support processes of project baselines and evaluation of Resilience & Livelihood projects and interventions.

Quality Implementation

Track and manage budgets allocated for the projects across assigned APs

Produce timely, accurate, compliant and quality reports

Participant in Cluster management meetings and reflection forums

Support implementation of grants and PNs in area of operation

Resource Acquisition

Identify and initiate viable funding proposals for resource acquisition to support Resilience &Livelihood programme interventions.

Participate in resource mobilization through concept papers/proposal writing for fund raising and market them with support offices and other donors

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience

A Bachelor’s Degree in BSC Agriculture

5 years practical experience in food security programming including Natural resource management. At least three of which must have been involved in program planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

Good Training facilitation and coordination skills

Experience in development of Proposals/concept papers development for fund raising

Excellent Research, monitoring and evaluation skills

Experience in conducting Needs assessment and report writing

Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.

Highly motivated to achieve quality results and service

Demonstrated accountability and integrity

Ability to communicate effectively

A good team player

Ability to work with communities

Willingness to stay upcountry

World Vision Resilience & Livelihood Technical Program Officer Jobs in Uganda