The Ugandan Jobline

• Work
  with the PC to develop weekly and monthly work plans to support timely
  delivery of activities
• Work
  with the CF to ensure that livestock-related project activities are
  implemented and outputs achieved as planned and within the agreed budget,
  including:
• Mobilising
  and provide ongoing support to women’s livestock groups – delivering
  ongoing training in areas such as leadership and group dynamics, savings
  and credit, goat rearing and land use and fodder management
• Establishing
  and provide ongoing support to a group level revolving scheme, ensuring
  relevant group level by laws and agreements are in place and being adhered
  to.
• Facilitating
  technical training of community animal health workers (CAWHs) and
  supporting CAWHs to cascade their learnings
• Providing
  technical support in the establishment of breeding stations and technical
  breeding training
• Organising
  technical training of buck keepers
• Promotion
  of saving culture and of good nutritional practices
• Ensure
  that Farm Africa Approaches to livestock programming are used to guide
  high-quality delivery
• Work
  in close collaboration with the wider L4L team in Uganda and Ethiopia, and
  in particular the Senior Livestock Officer in Uganda, to ensure
  consistency in delivery across all project sites
• Ensure
  that livestock-focused activities are aligned with, and mutually
  supportive of other interventions in the same areas
• Work
  with the Project Coordinator (PC) and the Project Accountant and
  Administrator (PA&A) to ensure all activities are planned and
  conducted according to the organization and the donor financial and
  procurement requirements and procedures.

• Support
  the PC & PA&A with activity planning and budgeting as requested
• Keep
  abreast of activities being implemented by other partners operating in a
  similar intervention area and sharing this information with the PC and
  wider team as appropriate
• Proactively
  identify and monitor any risks to non-delivery and, where required,
  develop and implement action plans to address issues identified.
• Support
  the PC to identify and analyze the causes of spend variances to the budget
  and make recommendations on actions to be taken as required

• Contribute
  to internal and external reporting, with a particular focus on collecting
  and collating information from women’s livestock groups supported by the
  project.
• Regularly
  report on implementation learnings, and make recommendations on areas for
  improvement or changes in delivery strategy to the PC
• Contribute
  to the development and implementation of the Monitoring, Evaluation &
  Learning Plan (MLP) – and in particular support with developing data
  collection tools that can be used to collect relevant data on the progress
  of women’s livestock groups.
• Contribute
  to quarterly internal progress reviews and annual project performance
  review sand workshops.
• Collect
  information for stories, case studies and lessons learnt as required

• Hold
  weekly work planning meetings with the Community Facilitator ensuring that
  she/he is delivering activities as per agreed work plans and budgets
• Provide
  leadership and motivation to the Community Facilitator building
  values-based team working and individual staff skills relevant to the
  project. 
• Regularly
  provide both informal and formal coaching and feedback to the Community
  Facilitator and effectively and promptly deal with any poor performance
  and actively recognise and encourage strong performance.
• Ensure
  that Community Facilitator has objectives in place (as per Farm Africa’s
  performance management framework) and that annual appraisals and quarterly
  review meetings are held to discuss progress and personal development.
• Play
  a key role in delivering the wider objectives of both the L4L programme,
  and Farm Africa’s work in Uganda.
• Work
  with AFRII (implementing partner) to ensure collaborative and integrated
  delivery of support to women’s livestock groups
• Support
  the implementation of the project’s visibility strategy in line with donor
  guidelines.
• Work
  in close collaboration with the L4L Ethiopia Team – ensuring that
  knowledge, learnings and tools are shared across the two project locations
• Maintain
  regular and effective communications with the wider project team, Uganda
  Country Office and implementing partners.
• In
  consultation with the PC, act as an ambassador, promoting the project and
  the work of Farm Africa, including hosting visitors, speaking at
  workshops, conferences and meeting donors and other officials as and when
  required.
• Contribute
  to the development of relevant Farm Africa policies and strategies

• The
  ideal candidate for the Farm Africa Livestock Officer job placement must
  hold a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Agriculture, Livestock, Rural
  Development, Pastoral Development, Rural Livelihoods or other relevant
  field
• Demonstrable
  technical knowledge (academic or practical) of small ruminant management
  and breeding systems
• Further
  relevant academic qualification in the area of Agriculture, Livestock,
  Rural Development, Pastoral Development, Rural Livelihoods or other
  relevant field
• At
  least three years’ experience delivering practical training and support in
  the livestock sector.
• Demonstrable
  technical animal health/veterinary knowledge (academic or practical)
• Experience
  working with pastoralist communities
• Experience
  of supporting rural communities with fodder and/or land use management
• Experience
  of organising technical trainings for CAHWs
• Experience
  of mobilising project participants and engaging them in project activities
• Experience
  of establishing or supporting the development of village level savings
  groups
• Experience
  of working in Karamoja 
• Experience
  of designing and conducting trainings for pastoralist communities
• Experience
  of designing and conducting trainings using gender-sensitive techniques
  and methodologies
• Experience
  of data collection for monitoring and evaluation purposes
• Experience
  of delivering technical training and support to CAHWs and/or developing
  training materials for CAHWs
• Experience
  of promoting behaviour change within rural communities 
• Experience
  of supporting the establishment of livestock breeding services
• Ability
  to build strong relationships with stakeholders and communities based on
  trust and collaboration.
• Ability
  to communicate and share knowledge with a broad range of stakeholders with
  differing backgrounds and abilities.
• Skills
  in problem identification, analysis and solving of complex issues
• Fluent
  written and spoken English
• Ability
  and willingness to travel widely and frequently both within and outside
  the Karamoja sub-region
• Confident
  user of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Willingness
  to ride a motorcycle in the field, with a valid riding permit (Class A)
• Desirable: Fluency in Karamojong

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