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• Identify technical capacity and challenges for beneficiaries, skills
  and knowledge they have in income generation, livelihood activities,
  agribusiness etc. including saving and loans.
• Facilitate establishment of Business Skill Learning groups.
• Identify and train volunteer Business Facilitators at community
  level to teach and mentor business learners.
• Provide advisory and mentoring support to existing farmer groups
  doing small scale agriculture related income generation.
• Train beneficiaries on group governance and leadership, rapid
  appraisal of income generating activities, IGA development and other
  capacity building trainings in order to enhance groups’ knowledge and
  skills to manage themselves independently.

• Conduct regular follow up visits to Business learning groups, and
  learners’ IGAs, to see if they are applying the practises, and provide
  technical advice and mentorinig.
• Track progress of the Business learning groups, IGA groups (mostly
  agriculture related) and keep records.
• Facilitate data collection, and manage the information flow to the
  Team Leader and Program Manager.
• Support the preparation of IGA groups own monitoring plans.
• Consolidate and compile monthly, quarterly and annual reports,
  inclusive of success stories and lessons learnt.

• Conduct awareness on Small Business Skill Training course and IGA
  activities among communities and local leaders at refugee settlements and
  nearby Ugandans.
• Develop work plans to ensure effective implementation of Business
  Skill Training.
• Facilitate the identification and formation of local IGA groups
  among beneficiaries.
• Keep up-to-date with development issues and trends with regard to
  income generation, small business, community development in Uganda and
  refugee work.

• Facilitate and link IGA members to trainings on life skills such as
  basic literacy and numeracy, VSLA, household financial affairs, risk
  management and planning.
• Facilitate and link IGA members and Business Skill learners to
  economic development activities, income generating activities etc. provided
  by other actors.
• Make sure there is balanced gender representation amongst
  beneficiaries, and women, youth and disabled are included.
• Participate and represent FRC in settlement level Livelihood Working
  groups.
• Liaise with the Livelihood and Business Training Team Leader for all
  decisions related to Business Skill learning groups, IGA activities, VSLAs
  and livelihoods, and carry out other duties as may be assigned.

• The ideal candidate for the Finnish Refugee Council (FRC) Rural
  Livelihood Officer job must hold a Bachelor’s degree in
  Entrepreneurship, Business management, Agribusiness, Rural Development or
  similar with strong experience on agriculture related income generation.
• 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 agriculture related
  IGA and business 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 and NGOs.
• Ability to use standard computing packages.
• Knowledge of languages spoken by major refugee groups; Kiswahili,
  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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