Summary
Date Posted: Monday, April 08 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Purpose of the Job
The Project Officer shall be responsible for Implementing initiatives to boost income generation, job creation, and access to green jobs by members of vulnerable households.

Responsibilities of THE PROJECT OFFICER
• Coordinate Income generation initiatives.
• Develop monthly and activity plans with the Project Manager to support the implementation of the Project.
• Coordinate identification, selection, and verification of members of vulnerable households for community enrollment managed saving groups in collaboration with the relevant refuge settlement authorities, local leaders, and community development officers.
• Coordinate the recruitment of community-Based facilitators/mobilizers/trainers following relevant laws governing informal saving groups and Stromme Foundation’s program manual for community-managed saving groups.
• Coordinate relevant training for the community-based facilitators in collaboration with the Stromme Foundation Income generation and job creation specialists.
• Monitor and supervise the CBFs to deliver the training package to CMSG members.
• Facilitate linkages of CMSG members to formal financial services and other development programs
• Supervise the community-based facilitators.
• Organize community-based facilitators’ monthly review meetings.
• Prepare activity, monthly, and quarterly reports.
• Enforce compliance with all safeguarding, safety, and health procedures at all activities of community-managed saving groups, community campaigns, and other project activities.
• Mainstream all Stromme Foundation crosscutting issues (Gender, Disability Inclusion, Climate) in income generation and job creation interventions.

Coordinate green Jobs’ creation.
• Coordinate the market surveys to identify viable green jobs.
• Coordinate the selection and enrollment of youth and bonga graduates into community-based technical and vocational training programs.
• Coordinate the selection of local artisans for training participants in green skills.
• Deliver relevant training and orientation of local artisans following the relevant training materials.
• Supervise local artisans to deliver technical and vocational training in line with industry standards.
• Coordinate the assessment of trainees’ competencies and skill sets in collaboration with the Stromme Foundation’s Income generation and job creation specialist.
• Coordinate internships, apprenticeships, job placements, and other linkages for graduates.

Stakeholders Engagement, Networking and Collaboration
• Mobilize and coordinate appropriate stakeholders’ participation in project
• Represent Stromme Foundation and Kulika Uganda in sector working group meetings in the settlements and other platforms as delegated by the Project manager.
• Work with the Project Manager to foster good working relations and new networks and collaborators in the project area to support project implementation.
• Coordinate community advocacy campaigns for beneficiaries as appropriate.

Documentation, monitoring, and reporting
• Maintain an up-to-date database of CMSG and green skills participants.
• Compile activity and periodic reports in appropriate formats.
• Participate in annual and quarterly review meetings for animators to reflect on the project objective and overall progress and create spaces and opportunities for action-learning.
• Participate in all project data collection processes such as assessments, routine monitoring, and evaluations.
• Participate in Data Quality Assurance activities in collaboration with the Stromme Foundation
• Document participants’ stories of change, and success stories to demonstrate project outcomes and impact.

Personal Specifications
• Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, agribusiness, microfinance, entrepreneurship, rural development, business management, business, and vocational education,
• 3 years of work experience in implementing Climate-smart agriculture, village savings and loans groups, savings and credit organizations, microfinance, and vocational skilling.
• Fluency in the language of the intervention area
• Good knowledge of government community development programs.
• Basic monitoring and Evaluation skills.
• Experience in working with refugee and host communities.
• Strong networking, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Excellent report writing and presentation skills are a must.



Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

To apply for this job email your details to recruitment@kulika.org 



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