10 World Vision Jobs – Community Development Assistants

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Organisation: World Vision Uganda
Reports to:  Market Facilitator
Project:                    Long term investment for food and economic empowerment in Uganda – LIFE Uganda
Duty Stations:        Kamwenge, Kiboga, Mpigi, Nakasongola and Amuria, Uganda
About WVU:
World Vision Uganda is a Christian Relief, Development and Advocacy Non-Government Organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We currently work in over 40 districts in Uganda. World Vision is committed to the protection of children and we will not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with children. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible. “Our Vision for every child, Life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every Heart, the will to make it so.”
Job Summary: The Community Development Assistants will ensure quality and scalable impact of the agriculture and saving component of the LIFE project in collaboration with selected local facilitators within a designated ADP.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Project implementation 
  • Provide extension services to project using Farmer Field School (FFS) methodology and the local facilitators in recommended agricultural practices.
  • Identify lead/ potential project participants for planting materials multiplication and standard maintenance.
  • Organize Child Nutritional and farmers field days as well as farmers’ exchange visits.
·        Create awareness of child protection in the community and among local institutions/ CBOs.
·         Organize and conduct voucher support for participants to access and utilize agriculture production technologies.
·         Facilitate the use the saving groups’ methodology and linkages to ensure participants have access to financial service.
·         Facilitate local value chain development in the community.
2. Capacity building and training
  • Conducting trainings to build capacities on; group management, financial literacy, basic market skills, value chain innovation, NRM, production skills and savings methodology
  • Recruitment, training, coaching and supervision of local facilitators
  • Provide ongoing training of producer groups and saving groups in identified technical gaps.
·        Monitor multiplication plots for adherence to improved agricultural techniques.
·        Conduct weekly support visits to the groups to ensure that the groups are saving.
3. Mobilization and Group facilitation
  • Mobilization of producers into functional producer and saving groups.
·         Mobilization and awareness raising with local leadership.
·         Mobilize and sensitize local famers, local and regional traders for voucher distribution.
·         Mobilization of participants to participate in financial institution, buyers and input dealers outreach meetings.
4. Engagement and networking
  • Identify and build strategic linkages, relations, collaborations and networks with partners and other stakeholders in implementation.
  • Link the project participants to technology inputs, saving tool kits and survives.
  • Facilitate project review meetings with key stakeholders (local facilitators) in the community.
  • Ensure that LIFE project activities are integrated or synchronized with ongoing ADP interventions in order to ensure sustainability and avoid duplication
5. Documentation and reporting
  • Produce timely, accurate, compliant and quality reports to the direct supervisors.
  • Document and report initial market assessment findings
  • Conduct monitoring and savings data collection, verification and submission of the accurate savings data. 
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
  • The candidate should hold a Bachelors or diploma in Agriculture or related fields; specialization in crop science or extension is preferred with strong experience of agriculture production processes and value chain development.
  • Specialized training value chain development, farming as a business, seed multiplication, VSLA methodology and or collective marketing is an added advantage.
  • Three or more years experience in value chain development, agribusiness, seed multiplication, market led agriculture or holistic livelihood project implementation.
  • Strong experience in networking, community mobilization and facilitation
  • Report writing experience,
  • Commitment to implementing WV’s vision and mission at all levels and in all aspects of the project is necessary,
  • Relevant teamwork experience and good interpersonal skills,
  • Ability to work sensitively with people from a variety of social backgrounds is required.
  • Knowledge of the local language will be an added advantage.
  • Mature Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities
How to Apply: 
All suitably qualified candidates must send their applications with complete Curriculum Vitae, via email to wvujobs@wvi.org.  Please address the application to the People and Culture Specialist (Recruitment) and do indicate the post title in the email subject line.
NB: Qualified female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.
Deadline: 30th August, 2013.  
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