Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Position Overview:
The Sustainability Expert will lead the ARMSS Sustainability Analysis, providing oversight and direction to the team to ensure the development and delivery of high-quality, timely deliverables.

Level of Effort Expectations:
This position is expected to have an LOE of 50 days.

Responsibilities:
• Provide overall leadership for the team.
• Contribute to the development of data collection tools and help facilitate orientation of the data collection teams.
• Schedule appointments with partners, subcontractors, and USAID.
• Conduct KIIs and FGDs and support data analysis.
• Support report writing and dissemination with key stakeholders.
• Review stakeholder inputs and incorporate feedback into final deliverables.
• Work collaboratively with team members and ULA.
• Lead the finalizing of the analysis design.
• Consolidate individual input from team members and coordinate the process of assembling the final findings and recommendations into a high-quality document/report.
• Coordinate activities, including arranging periodic meetings.
• Spearhead the preparation and presentation of the key findings and recommendations to the Local Partners, USAID/Uganda, and other major stakeholders.
• Ensure the clarity, completeness, and practicality of the overall approach, including a demonstrated understanding of USAID’s sustainability and capacity building rationale, application, and detailed contents, as well as relevant solutions to issues pertinent to the quality control and review findings for this analysis.
• Ensure the responsiveness of the approach and the deliverables outline to the purpose as described in the scope of work.
• Demonstrate the realism of the approach to completing the work in the timeline required.
• Respond to comments from the mission.
• Engage meaningfully with the Local Partner senior leadership in Kampala concurrently with personnel in their regional locations, if any.
• Apply an understanding of sustainability approaches, tools, and methodologies in the context of the transition to local partners initiative in Uganda.

Deliverables:
• In-briefing
• Inception report
• Presentation of preliminary findings
• Draft evaluation report
• Final evaluation Report

Requirements:
• Postgraduate qualification (Master’s) in an appropriate field, with an area of expertise in research; sustainable development; organizational development; capacity building; monitoring and evaluation; knowledge management; change management; NGO operations, rules and regulations in Uganda; or another related field.
• At least 5-10 years of professional experience in conducting sustainability analyses and qualitative and quantitative data collection/analysis.
• Possess business development knowledge with an NGO focus; strategic planning skills; resource mobilization knowledge; an understanding of partnership management and human resources; procurement, acquisition, and assistance experience; and training and facilitation skills.
• Past experience conducting similar activities and projects is required. Relevant experience in the sub-Saharan region, especially in Eastern/Southern African and within Uganda for USAID Local Partners, in the past 3 years is preferred.
• Experience in copy editing, supervision, and managing field work.
• Strong communication and report writing skills.
• Ability to travel within Uganda.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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