Entry Level Gender Officer– H202Go Project Jobs – Agriworks Innovations (U) Ltd
Job Title: Gender Officer– H202Go Project
Organisation: Agriworks Innovations (U) Ltd
Duty Station: Uganda
About US:
Agriworks Uganda Ltd. is a small agricultural technology company operating in Uganda, providing irrigation and other technologies to smallholders. Agriworks develops, produces, and sells an innovative product line of small scale irrigation technologies and services to commercial smallholder farmers, as well as products such as grain storage bags.
Job Summary: The Gender Officer will run one of two premises involved in our ongoing project titled H202Go. This project will run a pilot service that uses motorcycle riders to provide irrigation services to farmers, organized into groups for training and organizing irrigation days. The role of this position is to increase participation of women in the project, as clients who use and benefit from the irrigation service. This includes identifying women in project areas who would like to participate, understand their constraints to irrigating their plots, and identifying ways that women can benefit from family plots which they work on in the program.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Operations planning
- Work with directors and other staff to develop monthly and quarterly operations targets
- Communicate operational targets to staff and develop weekly operations plans with staff members and other stakeholders
Identifying potential women participants
- Meet women in areas with registered groups and make lists of potential participants
- Hold initial discussions with women to get their views as to who to include and how to increase participation
Holding meetings with both women and men in the area to develop local strategies for women to participate in the irrigation service
- Identify reasons for lower women’s participation in the irrigation service
- Formulate strategies with participants for how to increase women’s participation as plot managers and their benefits of engaging in family plots
- Engage with men in the area who would be stakeholders in encouraging women’s participation
Develop targets and track levels of women’s participation in each service area
- Work with other directors to develop evaluation strategy for women’s engagement
- Create targets for each area with registered groups for women to participate as plot managers, or beneficiaries from irrigation plots
- Track these targets and update regularly
Provide support to women who participate in the irrigation service
- Hold ongoing meetings and personal visits to women who aim to participate in the service
- Offer additional advice and technical support related to using the irrigation service to individuals
Support other project staff in H2Go activities
- Support other project staff on onboarding participants, especially among women
- Support other project staff on farmer trainings for irrigation service
Book-keeping, cash handling, and reporting
- Keep paper and digital records of all field activities (attendances, field notes, etc)
- Ensure all weekly reports and files are submitted on time
- Ensure all finances received are deposited promptly into company account
- Ensure all expenses are recorded daily and updated to company
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Degree or Diploma in agriculture or business related field
- At least two years of field experience working to help women become more empowered in farming, especially horticulture and irrigation
- Two years experience in vegetable production or extension and / or small business administration
- Communication: The successful applicant will communicate effectively both within and outside the company. This includes good judgment about when and how to communicate relevant information. The candidate will have strong skills in accurate, concise, and comprehensive communication in verbal, written, and digital formats.
- Expertise in Business Operations: This includes knowledge of bookkeeping principles, inventory management, business documentation, and customer support.
- Ability to Learn Quickly: There will be a number of skills which must be learned on the job. We expect the applicant to be able to focus on training and self-learning to rapidly gain expertise in various skills required to complete the roles of the position
- Competency with computer and smartphone applications
- Ability to ride motorcycle with valid permit an advantage
- Planning and management skill
- Experience in horticulture production and training farmers
- Language skills: Required: English Fluency Lugisu or Luganda Proficiency Desired: Kiswahili Proficiency
How to Apply:
All candidates should send their updated CVs to agriworksug@gmail.com