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• Develop work plans, cash projections,
  procurement and spending plans and ensure timely implementation of program
  activities.
• Manage the project budget and identify new
  activities and make recommendations for redirecting any savings into
  supporting additional activities. Any major changes should be passed by
  the Technical Coordinator for approval before changes are made to the
  spending plan.
• Strengthen networking and collaboration with
  relevant stakeholders such as district officials, young mothers, and
  community leaders in target sub counties to ensure delivery on the new
  parenting project.

• Overall responsibility for the training and
  roll out of the youth and livelihood activities at field level.
• Supporting the ERD Technical Coordinator with
  technical inputs to contribute to the relevance and high quality nature of
  the business and life skills modules.
• Supporting and where relevant facilitating
  the mobilisation, training and mentoring of youth and livelihoods program
  officers and team leader.
• Providing ongoing support to staff and youth
  for effective market assessments; designing tools, data collection,
  analysis and reporting.
• Capacity building/training for staff,
  stakeholders and youth beneficiaries to ensure the effective and timely
  roll out of the youth saving clubs.
• Carrying out research and analysis of youth
  and livelihoods programming options to ensure evidence based program.

• Support staff to continuously monitor all
  project activities against work plans, and where possible provide guidance
  for improved project implementation. Update work plans and spending plans
  as necessary.
• Provide on-going feedback to the ERD
  Technical Coordinator to ensure program quality and impact is enhanced,
• Write and submit timely monthly reports,
  annual donor reports highlighting major areas of progress, challenges,
  lessons learnt to the ERD TC.
• Lead sharing of experiences and profiling of
  IRC work and best practices through participating in district wide
  networks.
• Keenly track youth indicators captured in the
  existing log frame.
• Document success stories and best practices
  for wider dissemination into the community, district and with donors,

• Offer technical support and guidance to the
  Y&L team leader and Program Officers to ensure effective and efficient
  program planning, implementation and quality outputs.
• Carry out staff capacity needs assessment,
  develop and implement staff development plans including on-job training,
  mentoring and coaching to ensure professional growth and development for
  excellent performance.
• Identify the strengths and areas of
  improvement and provide candid feedback to promote improvement in
  implementation and team spirit.
• Carry out regular staff meetings to ensure
  programming achievements, and issues are addressed in a timely fashion

• When relevant, support the ERD Technical
  Coordinator to develop evidence based and relevant project concept notes
  and proposals.
• Work closely with District and other
  stakeholders to gather up to date qualitative and quantitative data to
  support project proposals.
• Provide up- to-date costs and other inputs
  into proposal budgets.

• The applicant for the International Rescue
  Committee (IRC) Youth & Livelihoods Manager vacancy should hold postgraduate
  qualifications in Economics, Rural Development or Development Studies;
  First degree in Social Science, or Development Studies is essential;
  additional training in enterprise development is added advantage.
• A minimum of five years’ experience in
  project design, monitoring and evaluation with excellent aptitude in
  logical framework approach and analytical report writing; practical
  experience of working with youth is required.
• Security awareness and ability to pay
  attention to details.
• Proven ability to plan ahead and yet
  accommodate unexpected tasks.
• Excellent communications, networking and
  liaison skills.
• Flexible and able to adapt to the logistical
  constraints in Karamoja.

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