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Job Title:   Community Resilience &
Livelihoods Program Manager

Organization:  Hope Worldwide International
Uganda

Duty Station:   Kampala, Uganda

Reports to:  Programmes Coordinator

About US:

Hope Worldwide International Uganda is a registered  non-profit making organization limited by
guarantee under s.371 (1) of the companies act, and also as a non-governmental
organization under the NGO registration statute 1989, with registration No:
2159. It was established for charitable, benevolent and developmental purposes
founded on Christian principle. Our focus is to Create hope and an enabling
environment for children and women to attain their full life potential  through improved  Agricultural services, Education and life
skills development, Integrated Health, Legal and Human rights advocacy, water
/environmental protection, Community Resilience, Livelihoods and Climate
Change.

Job Summary:  The Community Resilience & Livelihoods
Program Manager  will acrtively contribute
to achieving Hope Worldwide International-Uganda’s (HWI-U) child wellbeing
targets in designated intervention clusters 
through planning, monitoring and implementing the Community Resilience
& Livelihood programme in line with applicable technical approaches and
HWIU national strategy. Oversee roll out of best practices and models in a
manner that promotes ownership, sustainability.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

Project planning and implementation

·      
Manage all aspects of the Community Resilience
& Livelihood Program including recruitment, supervision and capacity
building of all CRLH staff; review project proposal materials and develop a
detailed implementation and monitoring plan and adapt program to changing
context as needed.

·      
Discuss and agree with programmes Coordinator,
and other stakeholders on proposed activities, implementation and monitoring
plan, roles and responsibilities of each team member.

·      
Supervise and monitor ongoing activities under
the Community Resilience & Livelihood projects

·      
Ensure quality in the roll out of project models
ensuring sufficient funds allocated to particular activities in annual plans

·      
Coordinate and oversee Community Resilience
&Livelihood projects being implemented by partners and technical resource
persons.

·      
Initiate and participate in Production and food
production district Advocacy initiatives

·      
Liaise with the National office technical
specialists for quality implementation of Community Resilience &Livelihood
projects.

·      
Ensure cross cutting themes are mainstreamed in
Community Resilience &Livelihood projects.

·      
Ensure operational integration with other HWI
sectors in intervention areas such as Health, education and child protection.

·      
Work with CSDAs to ensure Registered Children
and their households are participating and benefiting from health programme
interventions.

Technical support and training

·      
Identify local level capacity needs and support
capacity building activities for HWIU staff and partners to improve the quality
of resilience &Livelihoods

·      
Participate in development /adaption of training
curriculum/manuals for implementation in the program area

·      
Mobilization and conducting trainings to build
capacities of staff and partners on Resilience &Livelihood models

·      
Provide mentoring and coaching to Farmer
organizations helping in strengthening their organizational and institutional
capacities

·      
Identify technical experts to train partner with
in training farmer organizations and community groups

·      
Liaise with the National Office technical
specialists on staff capacity building in community Resilience & Livelihood
programming

Partnership and networking

·      
Identify and build strategic linkages,
relations, collaborations and networks with partners and other stakeholders in
implementation at the District level.

·      
Participate and represent HWIU in key donor
engagements and technical working forums at district, Region and National level
when applicable

·      
Act as a Point of contact for consultation on
issues to do with Community Resilience and Livelihood program.

·      
Work closely with District initiatives through
the District Cooperative alliance and Production department Office

Research, Documentation and Evidence building

·      
Effectively document all information related to
project successes, innovations and promising practices and disseminate through
appropriate mechanisms.

·      
Responsible for capturing child well-being
indicators related to Resilience and Livelihood projects in the cluster

·      
Ensure identification of research areas, conduct
research and document key learning

·      
Conduct information needs assessments in
sustainable agriculture, value addition and marketing

·      
Spear head the Cluster Resilience &
livelihood output & outcome monitoring processes

·      
Support processes of project baselines and
evaluation of Resilience & Livelihood projects and interventions.

Quality Implementation

·      
Track and manage budgets allocated for the
projects across assigned APs

·      
Produce timely, accurate, compliant and quality
reports

·      
Participant in Cluster management meetings and
reflection forums

·      
Support implementation of grants and PNs in area
of operation

Resource Acquisition

·      
Identify and initiate viable funding proposals
for resource acquisition to support Community Resilience &Livelihood
programme interventions.

·      
Participate in resource mobilization through
concept papers/proposal writing for fund raising and market them with support
offices and other donors

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·      
The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in
BSC Agriculture

·      
Five years of practical experience in food
security programming including Natural resource management.

·      
At least three of which must have been involved
in program planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

·      
Good Training facilitation and coordination
skills

·      
Experience in development of Proposals/concept
papers development for fund raising

·      
Excellent Research, monitoring and evaluation
skills

·      
Experience in conducting Needs assessment and
report writing

·      
Must be a committed Christian, able to stand
above denominational diversities.

·      
Highly motivated to achieve quality results and
service

·      
Demonstrated accountability and integrity

·      
Ability to communicate effectively

·      
A good team player

·      
Ability to work with communities

How to Apply:

All candidates should fill in this Application Form, Download Here, fill it and attach your personal testimonials as
one PDF Document and send back to us using the email info@hopeworldwideuganda.org.

N.B: No hand delivery application will be accepted.

Deadline: 28th
February 2020

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