2 Fresher Livelihood Assistant NGO Job Opportunities – Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO)
Job Title: Livelihood Assistant (2 Fresher Jobs)
Organization: Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO)
Duty Station: Uganda
Reports to: Project Officer
About US:
Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO) is a National Non-Government organization which was founded in 1986 by Ugandan mothers committed to providing relief aid to needy children left parentless by the civil turbulence of the mid-1980s and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Its vision is to have “a society where all children live a full life “and a mission to” promote survival, development, participation & protection of orphans& vulnerable children in Uganda.”
About Project:
General Food Assistance and Nutrition in Refugee Settlements is a World Food Funded Project and will be implemented by Hunger Fighters in Consortium with UWESO in Oruchinga, Nakivale and Kyangwali refugee settlements.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist the Project Livelihood Officer in the registration of beneficiaries; verification of needs based on home visits, post-distribution monitoring; and/or provision of assistance in line with UWESO policies and donor requirements.
- Ensure that the most vulnerable beneficiaries are selected in line with the approved beneficiary selection criteria.
- Organize, facilitate and supervise community mobilization activities.
- Conduct participatory assessments of community training and infrastructural needs.
- Technical support and rollout of various agronomic pieces of training (e.g. linking land preparation, planting, fertilizer dosing, pre-harvest and post-harvest loss reduction, integrated pest management systems, etc.).
- Mainstream women-friendly agronomic activities, with a focus on tree planting.
- Provide extension services to project beneficiaries
- Drawing linkages to existing local markets to respond to the market needs and build a network between farmers and the markets.
- Communicate with beneficiaries on project objectives, targeting criteria and beneficiary entitlements.
- Serve as a resource to households on best-practices for small scale agriculture and livelihood endeavours.
- Understand and promote UWESO’s approach of gender mainstreaming throughout all project activities.
- Verify and update the beneficiary registers in close cooperation with the M&E Assistant and report back to the Project manager.
- Follow up on all beneficiaries regularly to ensure that the implemented activities are in line with schedules provided.
- Participate in the preparation of weekly and monthly plan and schedules to be submitted to the Project Officer within given deadlines.
- Prepare and submit reports and other updates as required.
- Work directly with community-based facilitators and community focal points in conducting vulnerability assessments to host community, IDPs and returnees and livelihoods needs and market assessments.
- Establish a strong working relationship with targeted communities, including local leaders and identification of local focal points.
- Participate in market monitoring and ensure continuous market analysis.
- Ensure accountability mechanism are embedded in project implementation.
- Strengthen the linkages between community-based health structures for early case identification, referral and management of Moderate Acute Malnutrition.
- Implement the mother care groups approach in the areas of operation by supporting the communitybased Facilitators in the identification of care groups, selection of household support groups and behaviour change promotion among the communities.
- Provide relevant information in the development and dissemination of relevant IEC materials on nutrition activities such as IYC in coordination with the MEAL Assistant
- And any other activities demanded by the Supervisor
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a University degree in agriculture, agronomy, food security.
- One to two years of experience with NGO work in the area of livelihoods or related fields.
- Good command of English both written and spoken.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and within teams, with the highest standards of accountability.
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
- Ability to manage competing priorities.
- Good analytical and report writing skills including the use of graphs.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their applications with copies of academic transcripts, detailed CVs, contact addresses of three professional referees to:
Human Resource Officer, Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans, Plot 2 Tagore Crescent, Kamwokya, P.O. BOX 8419, Kampala. Tell: 0392 777 448
Or Email to: jobs@uweso.org (All email applications should be in a single PDF file of maximum size – 5MB)
Deadline: 11th December, 2019 by 5 pm.
NB: We shall respond to shortlisted candidates. All invitations for interviews will be done formally.