IGA Officer NGO Job Careers – Action Against Hunger
Organization: Action Against Hunger
Duty Station: Uganda
Starting Gross Salary: UGX 1,785,000 /=
About US:
Action Against Hunger is a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger. We save the lives of malnourished children. We ensure families can access clean water, food, training, and health care. We enable entire communities to be free from hunger. With more than 6,500 staff in over 45 countries, our programs reached 14.9 million people in 2015.
Job Summary: The IGA Officer will be supporting implementation of the income generating activities in line with donor requirements and Action Against Hunger programme Strategy.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Organize technical trainings on Income Generating activities.
- Monitor, follow up and regularly support each IGA.
- Organize market linkages for IGAs.
- Organize best performing IGA beneficiaries in groups to strengthen their capacity to interact with other actors of the value chain.
- Prepare weekly and monthly individual work plans of the IGA team and submit to the program manager for approval and implementation.
- Organize material distribution to beneficiaries for startup of the IGAs.
- Participate in beneficiary profiling, beneficiary registration, and base line-end line assessments in liaison with the PMU of the project through technical review and guidance on data collection tools.
- Document and compile reports on project activities including Monthly & Quarterly donor reports, internal reports (Project Activity Reports (APRs) and activity reports (meetings, and any other activity).
- Support the establishment of a database for all project activities to regularly monitor and evaluate their activities.
Gender Equality Commitments
- Foster an environment that supports values of women and men, and equal access to information.
- Provide a work environment where women and men must be evaluated and promoted based on their skills and performance.
- Respect beneficiaries’ women, men, children (boys and girls) regardless of gender, sex orientation, disability, religion, race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, or marital status.
- Value and respect all cultures.
Fiscal Responsibility
- Prepare monthly forecast, procurement requests to submit to PM for approval and implementation III.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree (honors) in economics, business, marketing, or any other relevant field. Additionally, a diploma in related studies with at least 5 years’ practical experience in a successful IGA related project shall be considered.
- You have previous work experience with a busy multi-sectoral setting/programming and in a refugee setting.
- You have strong communication skills (written and oral) in English.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently.
- Extremely flexible with the ability to cope with stressful situations.
- Excellent reporting skills with good.
- Culturally sensitive.
- You are enthusiastically pursuing a career in Program implementation
- Fluency in written and spoken Kiswahili
- You must be physically fit and reliable, able to ride a motorcycle with valid riding permit.
- You have extensive knowledge in irrigation system installation, maintenance and repair.
- Ability to lift 50lbs or more and excavating/back filling necessary holes and trenches in a safe manner.
- Ability to interact professionally with all customers, employees and those from external organizations.
- Ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision.
- You have professional experience working with irrigation system installation, maintenance and repair.
How to Apply:
All candidates should fill the application form online at the link below.
Deadline: 12th December 2019