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• Drawing
  from the objectives and agreed upon key activities in the project
  proposals, develop detailed yearly and quarterly implementation plans and
  related budgets while ensuring synergies between the different
  initiatives;
• Ensure
  DIPs (Detailed Implementation Plans) are followed and closely monitored
  for each initiative to ensure timely 
  implementation of activities and within available resources and
  immediately report any problems or deviations from plans;
• Ensure
  logistics for all training, capacity building, research and other events
  have been prepared and organized in line with CARE’s & donors’
  internal procedures and to create the best possible environment and
  conditions for participants in these different events;
• Responsible
  for monitoring the initiatives’ budget, reviewing monthly expenditure
  reports and ensuring budgets are used in accordance with CARE’s and the
  donors’ rules and regulations. This involves planning and designing
  activities in ways that fit the available budgets, reviewing monthly
  expenditure reports,  working
  closely with finance to prepare accurate and timely donor financial
  reports and ensuring allocation of expenses to the right budget lines,
  preparing quarterly projection of needed funds, pipeline projections, etc.
  
• Responsible
  for preparing procurement plans for all goods and services related to
  these initiatives, according to approved budgets and activity plans and in
  line with both CARE and the donors’ procurement rules and policies
• Ongoing
  identification of staffing needs in managed initiatives, recommends
  changes of staffing structure as needed and develops / adapts job
  descriptions as needed;
• Direct
  supervision of staff assigned to initiatives under direct management,
  which includes development of annual performance objectives and proactive
  management of performance through day to day guidance and coaching, formal
  mid-term and annual performance reviews and support to staff to achieve
  their personal and professional development objectives.
• Ensures
  synergy across the supervised initiatives as well as efficient use of
  resources across initiatives and also with other initiatives under CARE’s
  Humanitarian Program;

• Ensure
  projects under direct management have results based monitoring and
  evaluation system in place with SMART indicators, with the engagement of
  local partners and the development of a learning system that not only
  generates quantitative data but allows for ongoing collection of
  participants views on the programs’ relevance and success;
• Ensure
  that project indicators are sex disaggregated and gender sensitive;
• Ensure
  each project has a database to allow keeping track of project participants
  in each component, without double counting across components;
• Ensure
  CARE and partner staff are trained on the developed monitoring and
  evaluation system;
• Coordinate
  and manage the design of the base line, midterm review and end line and
  final evaluation;
• Facilitate
  and document regular project reviews with key partners and ensure these
  reviews inform project implementation and are used to improve project
  quality;
• Writes
  and support direct reports to write briefs, human interest stories and
  papers that can be used for advocacy or information purposes;
• Assists
  team members and partners to write reports on their sector of intervention
  and coordinates process of consolidation of reports for internal purposes
  as well as donor reports, as per guidelines of the donor; It is critical
  to ensure reports are a true reflection of implementation and reflect
  progress as well as challenges and lessons learnt;
• Ensure
  learning products are developed in coordination with relevant colleagues,
  with a focus on livelihood initiatives;
• All
  the above is in close collaboration with and technical support from the
  MEAL Humanitarian Advisor.

• Support
  team to develop, resource (through proposal writing) and implement
  innovative livelihood interventions with a view of building the refugee
  community self-reliance and increase their resilience;
• Ensure
  proposed livelihood interventions:
• Promote
  gender equity;
• Reduce
  the risk exploitation and abuse, including of GBV by offering dignified
  livelihood enhancing opportunities to vulnerable groups, with a focus on
  refugee women and girls;
• Are
  at least environmentally friendly and if possible even have a positive
  impact on the environment;
• Do
  not exacerbate the risk of conflict between groups of refugees and between
  refugees and hosting communities;
• Focus
  on youth and take the specific needs and potential of women, girls, men
  and boys into account;
• Lead
  to Women and Girls Economic Empowerment and resilience;
• Promote
  innovations including use of cash, use of ICT and mobile technology, pilot
  new ideas;
• Build
  on CARE Uganda’s strengths in the financial inclusion sector, in Women’s
  Economic Empowerment and on relationships with existing partners (banks,
  private sector, etc);
• Based
  on the above criteria, the IMLS will develop a gender, youth and
  environment friendly livelihood strategy for CARE’s humanitarian program
  in West Nile, within three months;
• The
  IMLS will then use this strategy to contribute to the development of
  proposals and budgets for livelihood programs in West Nile; 
• The
  IMLS will work closely with other managers and colleagues and provide them
  with technically support to ensure potentially livelihood components under
  their projects align with the livelihood strategy for West Nile. This will
  include conducting training of staff and partners, conducting field
  visits, facilitating workshops, supporting directly certain activities
  such as developing training modules on livelihood, etc
• As
  the technical lead on livelihood, the IMLS will supervise all livelihood
  focussed studies, research of all projects. This may include identifying
  research needs, developing TORs for consultants, protocols for livelihood
  focussed research, supervising consultants, etc
• Ensure
  coordination with other livelihood actors in West Nile, with a focus on
  areas of operations, including representation of CARE in livelihood
  technical working group coordinated by UNHCR and any other relevant
  technical working group;

• Identify
  local partners with capacity and interest in livelihood programming in our
  humanitarian area of operations and collaborate with Grants and Contracts
  to conduct due diligence and organizational capacity assessments in line
  with policies before signing MOUs with them;
• Ensure
  selected partners who will implement livelihood activities with CARE as
  sub grantees have clear MOUs, Scopes of Work and detailed budgets as per
  policy and are very clear about their role;
• Ensure
  partners’ capacity development plans are developed based on findings of
  due diligence and capacity assessments; Ensure on-going capacity building
  at institutional, organizational and technical level, including attention
  to Gender Equity and Diversity;
• Manage
  relationships with these livelihood partners to ensure deliverables are
  met timely and with the required quality; In cases where partners also
  work with CARE’s long term development program team, this may involve
  coordinating with colleagues in other parts of CARE Uganda;
• Ongoing
  review and assessment of partners performance and provision of support as
  needed through development, implementation and monitoring of partners’
  capacity development plans and close tracking of progress against scopes
  of work, work plans and budgets;
• Propose
  revisions of SOWs, workplans and budget of partners as needed;
• Ensure
  partners’ reports, both financial and narrative, are submitted timely and
  analysed and that feedback is shared with partners;
• Ensure
  all partners’ agreements are in line with CARE’s sub agreement policy;
• Ensure
  partners have in-depth knowledge of the projects’ objectives and strategies;
  
• Ensure
  that partners are involved in all critical moments and events of the
  projects (design phase, consultancies, planning meetings, review meetings,
  baseline, midterm review, endline, 
  steering committee meetings, etc.) and that all key information is
  shared with them in a transparent manner and in real time;

• The
  applicant for the CARE International Initiative Manager (Livelihood
  Specialist) job placement should preferably hold a Bachelor’s degree in
  Economics, Rural Development, Agriculture or related field (though a
  Master’s degree is preferred)
• Expert
  level knowledge and at least five years practical experience in livelihood
  programming in rural Uganda, preferably with refugee and / or displaced
  populations;
• Experience
  in at least two of the following fields required: cash transfer programs
  (cash for food, cash for work, etc), financial inclusion (VSLAs and bank
  linkages), market engagement and value chain approaches, on and off farm
  livelihood preferred;
• Experience
  in the use of ICT in livelihood programs required;
• Experience
  with youth livelihood programs preferred;
• Advanced
  knowledge and at least 5 years of proven practical project management
  experience (managing at least three different grants at once), including
  strong skills and experience in M&E, report writing, participatory
  planning, financial management, Human Resource Management.
• People
  manager with proven experience 
  managing diverse teams and individuals’ performance for success,
• Excellent
  verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Computer
  literate  (email, word processing,
  spreadsheets,)
• Personally
  committed to gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment with ability
  to lead to organizational change processes that aim at making
  organizations more gender aware, gender committed and gender competent.
• Both
  a team player as well as able to work independently with minimum
  supervision

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