6 Mercy Corps International Non-profit Careers – Economic Development Officers

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Organisation: Mercy
Corps
Project Name:  The North Karamoja Growth, Health, and
Governance Program
Duty Station:  Kotido, Uganda
About Mercy
Corps: 
Mercy Corps implements high quality, analytical development work in
very difficult places. We have been operating in Uganda since 2006 and
currently implement development programs in the Acholi and Karamoja sub-regions
of Uganda with funding from USAID, EC, SDC, and USDA. We were recently awarded
a market-development focused 5-year USAID/Food for Peace-funded program working
in the northern half of Karamoja, and are in search of six creative problem
solvers with private sector experience to fill the position of Economic
Development Officers. The project, called ‘The North Karamoja Growth, Health,
and Governance Program’, aims to support the immediate needs of program
beneficiaries while promoting long-term development by spurring systemic
improvements in key economic sectors of northern Karamoja. The Economic
Development Officer will participate in the daily implementation of the
development programming through support to key business partners including commercial
banks, MFIs, SACCOs, agro processors, traders, transporters, input sellers,
pharmacies, animal and human healthcare providers, consumer goods retailers,
and a host of other actors.
Job Summary: The Economic Development Officer is
responsible for assisting in the implementation and support of facilitation
projects that make beneficial products and services accessible to households
within the geographic focus of the program. These activities will work almost
exclusively through private sector actors, seeking to crowd in provision rather
than displace or replicate private actors with donor-funded services.
Facilitation of projects will include, but are not limited to, support the
creation of an enabling financial inclusion environment, increasing access to
tillage services, improving access to beneficial and life-saving health
products, developing agent input and aggregator networks, improving the service
offerings and profitable provision of community animal health services,
commercializing access to fuel efficient stoves, increasing availability of
solar products and improved accessibility to local hand pump repair and spare
parts.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Program:
  • With support
    from the team leader, carry out market assessments, value chain analyses,
    and the development of sector-focused strategies;
  • Recommend
    program priorities and explore, evaluate and present new opportunities
    that with high potential for impact;
  • Introduce the
    program to relevant stakeholders including local business owners, local
    representatives and community members. Foster ongoing positive cooperation
    with these stakeholders;
  • Ensure an
    integrated approach to program implementation in order to maximize
    resource utilization and synergy between the staff and different MC programs,
    if any;
2. Partnership Management:
  • Identify,
    assess and develop partnership strategies for potential private sector GHG
    partners;
  • Establish and
    maintain productive working relationships with sub-county and district
    leaders and production and marketing departments, soliciting their
    participation in all activities where appropriate;
  • Carry out
    on-site field visits regularly to provide technical review and/or design
    suggestions;
  • Work with
    team leader(s) and Mercy Corps technical staff in order to develop
    potential projects, implement and closely monitor selected economic
    development projects including detailed work plans and business plans.
3. Monitoring and Evaluation:
  • Create a
    dynamic program environment that promotes inquiry;
  • Take primary
    responsibility for sector-focused data gathering;
  • Establish
    procedures and guidelines to monitor and evaluate the progress and impact
    of economic development support work including setting and measuring
    benchmarks along results chains;
  • Analyze
    project implementation strategies to identify constraints to program
    success and provide timely recommendations;
  • Provide data
    in support of team submission of timely weekly, monthly, and quarterly
    reports that will be indicative of program progress during implementation.
4. Where needed support external evaluations by research partner
Feinstein International Centre and other organizations;Work in liaison
with the Chief Learning Officer to ensure accurate and timely flow of
information from the field for entry in the database and for preparation of PR
materials
5. Other:
  • Conduct
    himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner as to
    bring credit to Mercy Corps and to not jeopardize its humanitarian
    mission;
  • Perform any
    other duties as assigned by the line manager.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
  • The ideal candidate
    should possess a good University degree in business, economics or a
    related field
  • Two or more years’
    professional experience
  • Past experience
    working in Retail Banking
  • Possess willingness to
    work on the field
  • Possess the ability to
    interact effectively with a wide variety of people
  • Ability to evaluate
    businesses and business plans
  • Highly developed
    skills in networking, team-working, and community consultations
  • Good report writing,
    communication and representation skills
  • Fluency in spoken and
    written English. Fluency in Ngakarimojong and Ethurr is an advantage
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send
their applications including a cover letter clearly stating your salary
requirements, CV (with 3 referees), and copies of academic
qualifications/certificates to the HR/Admin Manager, Kampala Head Office in
Nsambya on Plot 1102 Nsambya Estate Road. Kampala, Uganda or to Mercy
Corps Offices in Kitgum. E-mailed applications with cover letter
to: mcuganda@ug.mercycorps.org will also be accepted. 
NB: Only short-listed candidates will be
contacted by Mercy Corps. Female Candidates are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: 19th March, 2014

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