Vacancy title:
Livelihoods Officer

Jobs at:
Care International

Deadline of this Job:
not later 28th October 2017

Duty Station:
Arua Care Sub Office

Job details:
About CARE International
CARE international is a leading global development and humanitarian organization. ln 2016, CARE worked in 94 countries around the world, supporting 962 poverty-fighting, development and humanitarian aid projects, reaching more than 80 million people.

CARE international in Uganda works with others to make a sustainable improvement in the lives of the very poor, with a focus on women and girls. Our current program focuses on women and girls‘ economic rights, particularly financial inclusion and governance of natural resources women and girls depend upon, and on their sexual and reproductive health rights, including a life free of violence. CARE international in Uganda seeks highly motivated and qualified development professionals with genuine commitment to gender equality and women and girls’ rights to fill up the following position;

Job Title: Livelihoods Officer-Arua Care Sub Office

Job Summary
Reporting to the Initiative Manager, the Livelihoods Officer is the lead in the area of livelihoods implementation in Omugo Camp, located in Arua, West Nile. Working closely with a local partner NGO, will advise on the selection of youth entrepreneurs from refugee and host communities for trainings and oversee mapping of marketable business skill and business opportunities, and conduct information, Education, and Communication (IEO) sessions within the community. The Livelihoods Officer will also effectively manage youth start-up grants, ensuring that gender sensitive and environmental friendly business proposals for financial and technical support are properly drafted, reviewed and supported to transform community youth ideas into successfully run, more self-reliant business. The Livelihoods officer will ensure that the approved work plan is properly implemented as agreed with the supervisor. The Livelihood Officer will ensure planning and preparation of weekly, monthly and quarterly work plans and reports on field activities are properly drafted and timely submitted to the initiative Manager. S/he is responsible for writing and documenting case stories of lessons learnt. The Livelihoods Officer will maintain, monitor and update a gender and age disaggregated livelihood data system for use by CARE and other implementing partners. S/he will monitor business start-up grants and perform monthly spot-checks on established youth business Initiatives.

Job and person specification (Requirements)

• Must have a Bachelor Degree in Business Management, or similar.
• Possession of a Diploma in Education, or vocational training is desirable.
• At least 1 year experience in managing Economic and Social Empowerment projects with ability to deliver sustainable community based business entrepreneurships or hands on skills in implementation of livelihood projects, preferably in the refugee context.
• Strong inter-personal communication skills; sound judgment and decision making skills.
• Ability to network, build relationships and establish collaboration with different partners, agencies local and international networks.
• Ability to work and provide guidance to both female and male youth
• Cultural sensitivity and empathy with populations affected by and recovering from conflict

Job application procedure
Interested persons meeting the above requirements should submit their application letter clearly articulating alignment with the above profile and an updated detailed (CV) giving day time telephone contacts and names, telephone contacts and email addresses of 3 (three) work related referees to ugarecruitment@care.org  not later 28th October 2017.

All those who applied to the first advert are requested not to re-apply.
For any questions please call our office on 0312258100/121