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• Identify technical capacity and challenges for beneficiaries, skills
  and knowledge they have in VSLA, business development and income
  generating activities.
• Facilitate establishment of village saving and loan groups among
  beneficiaries.
• Train beneficiaries on VSLA methodology, including group governance
  and leadership, rapid appraisal of income generating activities.
• Oversee and monitor the VSLA groups on share purchases, social
  contributions, borrowing and repayment of loans to ensure proper
  documentation and recording of VSLA cash box.
• Ensure timely procurement of and delivery of right quality and
  quantity of VSLA kits.
• Assist in solving any conflicts within VSLA group members.

• Conduct regular follow up visits to VSLA groups, and their IGAs, and
  to members to see if they are applying the practises, and provide
  technical advice and mentoring.
• Track progress of the VSLA groups and keep records.
• Carry out quarterly meetings with beneficiary groups to assess
  performance at the community and project level.
• Facilitate data collection from saving and loan groups, and manage
  the information flow to the Team Leader and Program Manager.
• Support the preparation of VSLA groups own monitoring plans.
• Consolidate and compile monthly, quarterly and annual reports,
  inclusive of success stories and lessons learnt.

• Conduct awareness on VSLA and IGA activities among communities and
  local leaders.
• Develop work plans to ensure effective implementation of VSLA
  activities.
• Facilitate the identification and formation of local VSLA groups
  among beneficiaries.
• Keep up-to-date with development issues and trends with regard to
  VSLA, community development in Uganda and refugee work.

• Facilitate and link VSLA members to trainings on life skills such as
  basic literacy and numeracy, household financial affairs, risk management
  and planning.
• Facilitate and link VSLA members to economic development and income
  generating activities.
• Make sure there is balanced gender representation amongst
  beneficiaries.
• Liaise with the Livelihood and Business Training Team Leader for all
  decisions related to VSLAs and livelihoods, and carry out other duties as
  may be assigned.

• The ideal candidate for the Finnish Refugee Council (FRC) VSLA Field
  Officer job must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Community Development,
  Sociology, Business Administration, Micro Finance, Economics or similar.
• Experience in VSLA methodology, livelihoods, microfinance and IGA
  methodology.
• Experienced facilitator and trainer, with training material
  development skills.
• Three years of professional work experience in VSLA methodology and
  IGA promotion.
• Working experience in resilience initiatives is highly preferred.
• Willingness to travel and live in several rural project locations.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and achieve results.
• Experience working with non-governmental organisations and local
  communities, authorities.
• Ability to use standard computing packages.
• Knowledge of some of the languages spoken by major refugee groups is
  a must; Kiswahili, Kinyarwanda, Madi, Nuer, Dinka.

• Gross salary request,
• Maximum 4-page long CV
• Contact details (email and telephone) of
  3 professional reference persons.

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