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Job Title:  Program Officer – Energy Access Project

Organisation: Mercy Corps

Duty Station:  Yumbe, Uganda

Reports to: Senior Program Officer

About US:

Mercy Corps is an international non-profit organization which implements high-quality, analytical development programmes in very difficult places. Mercy Corps has been operating in Uganda since 2006. It has and continues to implement programs in Acholi and Karamoja sub regions. Mercy Corps is taking a community-led, market driven approach to address poverty and food insecurity needs through interventions that get to the root causes and contributing factors of economic vulnerability.

Job Summary:  The Program Officer – Energy Access Project will support the community level teams in adapting and scaling integrated activities in respective Districts in collaboration with local government and private sector structures. The Program Officer will be responsible for oversight of quality activities in the assigned District, and supervising the Program Assistant. The Program Officer will ensure the day to day implementation of the diverse Pump-up activities in consultation with the other program management team members, and work closely with the partners. He/she will provide technical and operational support to the Program Assistant ensuring that activities are implemented according to scope and timeline.

The Program Officer will directly respond to the needs of communities through the integrated set of activities under Pump-up. The Program Officer will work closely with the Technical Team to best determine layering of activities within a community, based on need and availability of resources.  The Program Officer will collaborate with the wider Implementation team to ensure that activities are sequenced, layered and integrated for comprehensive service delivery. The Program Officer will closely work with staff from local partners in the Pump-up Activity to strengthen integration. The Program Officer will work closely with MEL teams to ensure that data capture takes place.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Program Implementation

• Provide leadership and daily oversight for planning and implementation of Pump-up Activities including; mentorship, support supervision and managerial support to the program assistant in the respective two districts.
• Support the program management team in the development of activity plans, budgeting and reporting formats
• Support in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the program activities, in accordance with Pump-up objectives.
• Supervise the activities and performance of Program Assistant; participate in routine team meetings, adhere to performance review timelines, troubleshoot challenges and standardize implementation approaches.
• Identify and document best practices and failures in Pump-up Activity programming and provide timely feedback to the program team.
• Assist with ensuring timely and consistent submission of project reports, success stories and other relevant data (i.e. weekly, monthly and quarterly reports)
• Provide oversight to the program assistant in regards to adhering to procurement, finance and security policy and procedures, ensuring proper documentation of processes.
• Work closely with the overall program team to coordinate day to day operations and logistics to maximize use of resources and ensure complementary programming.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Provide ongoing mentorship to Program Assistant on data collection processes for completeness, accuracy and timely submission. And, entry to regularly update the Activity Tracker.
• Responsible for the assigned District data collection including gender and age disaggregated data, data validation, assuring quality control measures, timely data submission and communicating to MEL sector focal person.

Influence and Representation

• Assist with support and coordination of visits from district and sub-county government, regional and HQ based staff and external visitors, such as donors and media.
• Support the program manager in coordination and communication of field activities with other NGO and local government partners to avoid duplication of services.
• Establish and maintain a productive working relationship with the local Government and Sub Counties, working in unison to develop complementary joint monitoring, evaluation and adaptive management structures where possible.

 




Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Diploma or Degree in a related field
• Three years of related professional experience.
• Demonstrated skills in data collection, verification, and documentation.
• Proven skills in networking, team building, community consultations and organizational development;
• Excellent reporting, communication, and representation skills
• Willingness to consider new perspectives, promote gender equality and engage in advanced gender training
• Ability to ride a motorcycle and he/she should be in possession of a valid driving/riding license
• Proven knowledge and capacity in using computer basic applications MS word, Excel and internet
• In-depth knowledge of the social, cultural and economic context of the project areas
• Fluency in local languages prevalent within the operational district where assigned (highly desired)
• The ability to communicate effectively, respectfully and enthusiastically with community structures will be one of the position’s three success factors. The second will be the degree to which the Program Officer drives results, producing scheduled outputs at deadline and to expected quality.
• The third success factor will be the degree to which the officer effectively gathers activity monitoring and evaluation data and utilizes data to inform activity implementation and program learning.

How to Apply:

All candidates should submit their applications online at the link below.

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Deadline: 25^th July 2023

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