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• Formulate and implement strategies and
  interventions to sustainably increase household income-generation and
  savings among vulnerable participants and households targeted by the
  project.
• Provide technical and management
  leadership including designing and implementing technical strategies,
  programs or tools in specific technical areas related to family-centred
  economic strengthening.
• Facilitate the integration of House Hold
  Economic Strengthening with other result areas including but not limited
  to increased access to health and social services for OVC, AGYWs, and
  their families
• Identify breakthrough
  innovations/strategies in the field of Household Economic Strengthening
  and integrate these into on-going project designs to increase efficiency
  and impact.
• Ensure linkage of OVC households to
  existing social safety net programs, and supporting the beneficiaries to
  transition to HES initiatives

• Significantly contribute to work plans,
  quarterly and annual reports, financial reports, and other reports and
  papers summarizing project results and evidence.
• Provide technical leadership to ensure
  economic strengthening activities are in line with globally-recognized
  best practices for addressing needs of OVC, youth and their caregivers.
• Take lead in Economic Development/
  Household Economic Strengthening innovations and specifically in
  partnership with other organizations, support of self-sustainable economic
  empowerment for Community Health Workers, application of Business
  Facilitation Model, and Savings model using Accumulative Savings and
  Credit Associations (ASCAs)/Village Savings and Loans (VSLs) and use of
  mobile money technology
• Ensure all economic strengthening
  strategies are gender-sensitive and promote equitable programming.
• Manage project activities and set high
  quality performance targets ensuring adherence to technical standards,
  best practices and donor guidelines.
• Conduct periodic field visits to identify
  and assess the quality of services and the impact of program inputs, and
  to ensure regular communication with IPs and counterparts at all levels.

• Equip partners with skills and resources
  to assess outcomes, as well as strengths and weaknesses of HES activities.
• The incumbent will facilitate access
  through partner and stakeholder organizations to a full range of economic
  strengthening options depending on the needs and resources available to
  households (i.e. market opportunities, group savings, income generation,
  micro-enterprise development training, farming-as-a-business, extension
  services, other vocational training opportunities, etc.),
• Promote linkages and complementarities
  between similar donor funded projects and facilitate relationships between
  partners, market actors and organizations with special expertise in HES
  activities

• Regularly monitor and maintain relevant
  manuals, training materials and reports for economic strengthening.
• Mentor economic strengthening/livelihoods
  staff of local partners, conduct trainings, lead workshops, and facilitate
  group interaction as part of project execution toward specific outputs and
  objectives.
• Build capacity of staff, implementing
  partners, government counterparts, and other stakeholders in strategies
  for economic strengthening of households.
• Impart, in liaison with other specialists,
  appropriate mentoring, coaching and capacity building in order to equip,
  motivate and empower OVC Support Officers and other field teams for
  effective implementation of the Project

• Build and maintain regular contact with
  counterparts in Ministry, District, Donor, Private Sector, and Academic
  institutions in order to enhance appropriate policy development and
  guidance documents for economic empowerment.
• Develop and nurture coordination and
  collaboration between MUg programs and other complementary donor and
  government programs
• Support OVC Officers to successfully
  engage, strengthen and consolidate the capacity of Community-Based
  Organizations sub granted to strengthen income generating activities

• Work in liaison with the M&E, and
  Program Impact Teams to design and agree on a measurement (M&E) system
  for the CSS program
• Prepare accurate and timely reports and
  success stories on the CSS program to showcase project lessons, and
  results to contribute to the wider sector and institutional knowledge.
• Routinely track performance of the CSS
  program portfolio in line with program/project goals
• Coordinate the documentation and
  publication of program results and impact.

• Working with the research team lead on the
  development of research concepts, publication of articles in peer reviewed
  journals and abstracts for conference presentation and facilitate uptake
  of research findings and documentation of best practices for
  implementation of evidence based Prevention, Care and Treatment
  interventions.
• Participating in research concepts
  development and writing of research grants for care and treatment
  interventions.
• Lead on in the publication of scientific
  peer reviewed papers, abstracts, policy briefs and articles to disseminate
  lessons learnt from the care and treatment program and interventions.
• Facilitate the translation of research
  findings to program implementation.
• Supporting Mildmay Uganda research Ethics
  Committee by reviewing proposal in the Care and Treatment technical area.

• The ideal candidate for this vacancy must
  hold a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Social Sciences,
  Agriculture, Agribusiness, Development studies or a related field of study
  from a recognized University.
• At least five years’ experience managing
  complex development activities.
• Evidence of leading or being significantly
  involved in the design, implementation, reporting and evaluation of
  evidence-based economic/livelihood activities targeting vulnerable groups.
• Significant exposure and experience in
  working effectively with government representatives, for-profit private
  sector entities, local community organizations, donors and other
  stakeholders, particularly at the sub-national level;
• Demonstrable experience in integrated OVC
  focused HES/Livelihood related programming preferably in the areas of
  business skills, employment creation, market access and micro-finance
  services (savings, credit and micro-insurance)
• Demonstrable experience coordinating
  development projects preferably in: HIV/AIDS, Micro-enterprise
  Development, Agriculture, Rural Finance
• Previous experience using participatory
  and citizen led development approaches like VSLA, Farmer Field Schools,
  M4P is required
• Previous exposure and experience in
  integrating Livelihoods into other programs, particularly HIV will be an
  added advantage
• Knowledge and ability to use “circular
  program” techniques i.e. use policy to inform programming and in-turn use
  program practice to inform program improvement and inform policy design
  will be an advantage.
• Demonstrable experience with Participatory
  Community Approaches
• Technical proficiency in design,
  implementation, and M&E for similar projects/programs
• Dynamic systems thinking, high taste for
  innovation, and continuous quality improvement
• Strong leadership, analytical and
  organizational skills.

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