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• Roll
  out WVU Economic Models including Saving Groups, Business Facilitation,
  Local Value Chains and micro enterprise development to the youth in the
  project area.
• Facilitate
  the integration of youth financial inclusion with other result areas
  including but not limited to gender, disability, and child protection
  among the youth.
• Promote
  financial inclusion partnership with other organizations, financial
  institutions, government programmes and private sector targeting the youth.
• Support
  self-sustainable economic empowerment for the youth through Business
  facilitation Model, and youth Savings groups as well as embracing mobile
  technology.
• Support
  Community Based Trainers to mobilize and sensitize youth as well as
  empower and support youth to engage in income generating activities in the
  project area.
• Ensure
  linkage of youth to existing social safety net initiatives and support the
  beneficiaries to transition to external financial inclusion initiatives in
  the project area.
• Provide
  mentorship and coaching to Community Based Trainers in the course of their
  day to day execution of their duties.
• Organize
  and facilitate Training of Trainers for Community Based Trainers and youth
  groups in financial literacy, entrepreneurship and other cross-cutting
  issues within the project.
• Participate
  in quality review and capacity building meetings for community volunteers
  and community beneficiaries.
• Implement
  market led value chain activities and enterprises that will enhance
  improved livelihoods, access to incomes and other basic services for the
  target youth.
• Strengthen
  youth organized groups by developing their capacity and supporting them to
  transition into enterprise groups.
• Support
  youth groups to access relevant services such as extension in the
  production value chains and relevant trainings for the enterprises and
  skills development.
• Adopt
  youth tailored commercial models to support commercialization of
  enterprises and strengthen them as service providers through skills
  development.

• Co-ordinates
  activities within the Financial Literacy component of the project
  including partnership liaison.
• Follows
  up the project monitoring system, updates information concerning the
  progress of the project, periodically documents and reports the results of
  the activities
• Facilitates
  communication with different stakeholders.
• Observes
  topics directly related to the project through evaluation by the press,
  direct dialog, forum participation, public hearings, seminars, etc.
• Assists
  in the planning, coordination, and documentation of meetings, workshops,
  seminars and other activities of the project, focusing on the technical
  aspects.
• Contribute
  to enhanced awareness/reputation of technical and vocational education as
  a means to improve employment and income perspective of youth.
• Supports
  public relations pertaining to Financial Literacy project activities in
  the project.
• Supports
  short-term consultants and experts of the project to fulfill their tasks
  during their assignment nation.

• Facilitate
  networking with local government institutions and other partners within
  Kampala in planning and implementation of programs.
• Identify
  and nurture local partnerships with grassroots civil society
  organizations, Religious institutions and Local councils.
• Engage
  micro, small and medium enterprises, business associations/trade unions
  and cooperatives in the identification of occupations and enterprise skill
  sets for potential commercial for the youth.
• Identify
  specific private sector stakeholders who are prepared to identify and
  support potential self-employment opportunities for the young people
  within the project.
• Facilitate
  growth of strong grassroots movements on specific advocacy issues
  affecting youth financial literacy within the project areas.
• Facilitate
  performance of financial literacy component across target youth within the
  project.
• Participate
  in the development, implementation and review of the Annual Work Plans
  jointly with M&E, TVET, and other components of the project.
• Coordinate
  with the project manager to ensure that appropriate controls, monitoring
  and evaluation tools are in place and being utilized in a timely manner
  during every activity of the project in accordance with the donor and WVU
  established standards and policies.
• Compile
  and submit concise and accurate reports to the project manager in
  established formats and standards.
• Engage
  and advocate with respective city authorities and local communities on the
  needs of youth and accessibility to available resources.
• Make
  deliberate efforts to establish contacts with government line ministries
  and institutions, Agencies and NGOs dealing with youth livelihood
  activities to identify areas of possible collaboration and knowledge
  sharing.
• Maintain
  contacts with local leaders and grass root youth establishments and
  beneficiaries.
• Work
  closely with internal departments, project partners and external
  stakeholders and ensure good working relations prevail.
• Represent
  World Vision at stakeholder meetings in the division and be a regular
  advocate on issues in the area of Health, Livelihoods, Education and Child
  Protection sectors.

• Participate
  in delivery of the studies and baselines during the inception phase of the
  project.
• Ensure
  timely and quality submission of work plans on monthly, quarterly and
  annual basis.
• Responsible
  for collection of monthly progress data from youth saving groups and using
  the same data to update the project saving groups MIS.
• Ensure
  timely, high quality and complete submission of activity reports on
  monthly, quarterly and annual progress reports as well as any other
  reports required which may be required.
• Ensure
  mechanisms are in place to follow up on key issues during implementation
  of activities including tracking of progress toward achieving set
  objectives.
• Monitor
  progress of programme/project interventions against plans within the
  Project.
• Document
  and share the most significant change stories of financial literacy
  beneficiaries.
• Prepare
  and submit timely reports on monitoring giving both quantitative and
  qualitative data/information measuring progress against set
  benchmarks/indicators; highlighting project achievements, constraints and
  key recommendations.
• Organize
  review, reflection and learning forum for Youths, Partners, community,
  local organizations and government to share best practices and success
  stories.
• Monitor
  and document learnings on young people to young people Life skills
  mentoring.

• Engage
  with internal departments and external partners to assess and address the
  existing child protection, Gender and Disability in the community using
  the existing referral pathway.
• Develop
  capacity building plan for financial literacy stakeholders in the project
  area on issues pertaining to Child Protection, Gender and Disability
  issues.
• Support
  advocacy to ensure Child Protection, Gender and Disability policy
  implementation.
• Conduct
  dialogue with relevant stakeholders to lobby for implementation of the
  existing laws.
• Support
  Inter-sectoral, Inter agency networking and coordination in developing
  Child protection programs and services.

• The
  ideal candidate for the World Vision Community Development Facilitator
  Business and Entrepreneurship UPLIFT Project job opportunity should hold a
  University degree in Business studies, Social Science, Development
  Studies, or related fields.
• A
  minimum of three years’ experience working with communities facilitating
  development.
• Previous
  experience in Business/Entrepreneurship interventions among urban youth
  populations.
• Aware
  of non-formal/formal financial environment, business operation conditions
  among urban youth.
• Prior
  experience in working with local youth organizations and businesses in the
  private sector.
• Broad
  knowledge and understanding of various business development models fit for
  youth economic empowerment.
• Excellent
  interpersonal skills for productively interacting with a range of
  organizations and stakeholders.
• Prior
  experience working with international NGOs and local Partners is
  preferred.
• Familiarity
  with VSLA MIS, Training Needs Assessments and conducting Training of
  Trainers.
• Excellent
  oral and written English skills as well as good spoken Luganda.
• Must
  be highly reliable and independent.
• Ability
  to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability
  to ride motorcycle with class ‘A’ riding license.
• Communicating
  information effectively.
• Practicing
  accountability & integrity.
• Influencing
  individuals and groups.
• Learning
  for growth and development.
• Practicing
  gender and cultural diversity.

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