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Job Title:    Field Associate (3 Job Opportunities)

Organisation: Village Enterprise

Duty Station:   Uganda

About US:

Village Enterprise’s mission is to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship and innovation. Village Enterprise targets the poor, provides business training, seed capital/startup funds and on-going mentoring to over 10,000 new entrepreneurs to start 3,000 enterprises each year. Since its inception in 1987, Village Enterprise has started over 40,000 micro-enterprises.

About DREAMS Project:

Delivering Resilient Enterprises and Market Systems (DREAMS) for refugees provides an innovative solution that will drive refugee self-reliance. Working in Uganda and Ethiopia–home to 10% of the world’s refugee population–DREAMS will provide 150,000 of the most vulnerable refugees with the security and dignity that comes from providing for one’s family. The program will integrate two proven models –poverty graduation and Market Systems Development –layering these approaches in a new way that will ensure that the poorest refugee households are able to improve their income and well-being significantly. Graduation will provide the capital and skills to support refugees as they establish their businesses, and Market Systems Development will help build market access pathways to ensure those businesses can be successful. Through rigorous evaluation, we will generate evidence that DREAMS’ approach to self-reliance is not only possible, but also more cost effective than long-term food assistance.

Job Summary:  The Field Associate coordinates program implementation in remote communities and contribute to the growth and success of the organization. The Field Associate is a self-driven, self-sufficient staff member, who excels at training others and coordinating activities, while also critically analyzing the program and providing feedback to senior management.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Business Mentor Activities
• Bi-weekly meetings and Induction Training for BMs
• Program Reporting
• Managing Partnerships
• Internal activity coordination
• Vision trip and Donor Visits
• Business Mentor Performance Reviews, Capacity building and professional development
• Communication and Management
• Logistics
• Administration
• Safeguarding

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a University degree or equivalent in development, program management, international development or other relevant field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least two years of experience working in antipoverty, VSLA, financial inclusion programs.
• Providing detailed and timely feedback where necessary
• The Field Associate provides detailed, relevant feedback when requested
• He/she should think of how to improve synergies of the team and improve workflow as a team
• Should have IT and computer Skills especially in MS Office, google docs and email
• Great quality of work output
• Ability to build and lead a team, resolve conflicts
• Ability to enhance capacities of team members
• Outstanding communication skills both in writing and spoken, and via other forms. Fluency in Lugbara and/or Arabic is an added advantage

How to Apply:

All candidates should please send your application and CV in single attachment to ugandajobs@villageenterprise.org addressed to the Human Resource Coordinator, P.O BOX 274, Soroti-Uganda. Email subject should read ‘’DREAMS PROJECT FIELD ASSOCIATE’’.

Your cover letter should explain why your experience and background make you the ideal candidate for this position, and should be no more than one page.

Note: Please do not contact Village Enterprise to enquire as to the status of your application. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Deadline: 17^th December 2021.

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