Programme Officer — Value Chain and Livelihoods Job Placements – DanChurchAid (DCA)
Job Title: Programme Officer — Value Chain and Livelihoods
Organization: DanChurchAid (DCA)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
DanChurchAid is a faith-based, non-missionary relief and development organization based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and founded in 1922. Our key competencies are food security and food crisis response, humanitarian cash transfer programming, civil society development and humanitarian mine action. DCA is a member of the ACT Alliance, which is a faith-based, non-missionary humanitarian alliance, and one of the five largest NGO Alliances in the world with a combined turnover of over 1.5 billion USD annually.
Job Summary: The Programme Officer (P0) has overall responsibility to grow and manage the Building Resilience Programme Portfolio, develop and coordinate relevant partnerships, promote private sector engagement and strengthen the capacity of Build Resilience partners to empower farmers to organise and to produce for the market.
The PO is responsible for the overall design, implementation. and finalization of projects under the Build Resilience programme and to ensure that the programme contributes to DOA Uganda Country Programme Objectives. He/she will, in addition proactively support resource mobilisation efforts for the Build Resilience programme in liaison with the partner organisations, the DCA Resource Mobilisation and Grants Advisor, the Digital and Innovation Coordinator and DCA’s self-implementing colleagues. .
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- In close collaboration with the HoP, prepare the Build Resilience Programme for review, evaluation/learnings and approval.
- Coordinate efforts to build social, economic, and environmental resilience in the Build Resilience Programme
- Provide strategic guidance on inclusive business strategies, pro poor market development approaches and decent job creation for especially youth and women.
- Support partners in facilitating formation and strengthening of farmers‘ producer and marketing groups, and foster linkages between producers, processors, traders, financial institutions, policy-makers and other relevant actors in the value chain. Identity potential private sector actors to participate in various subsectors of the agricultural value chains.
- In close collaboration with the HoP assist partners in developing proposals for approval and funding.
- Provide direct capacity building support of partners (during monitoring visits, written feedback, interaction with partners, etc.) and organize formal training sessions, including thematic training.
- Ensure that all partners submit timely and quality narrative and financial reports, including annual audit reports.
- Collaborate with self-implementing colleagues to secure flow of learnings and innovation between DCAS partners and the DCA stall, that are implementing livelihood activities.
- Identify other relevant activities which DCA Uganda alone or together with partners can implement to strengthen the programme i.e. exposure visits, external trainings, reviews etc. In this, special focus should be on linkages and potential synergies with DCA self- implementing activities.
- In cooperation with the HoP, Global Funding Adviser and the Digital and Innovation Coordinator, the P0 contributes actively to
- Identifying funding sources for the Build Resilience programme and if possible, DCAs Build Resilience work within DCA’s self-implementation work {i.e Nexus Projects)..
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Business Development or related field.
- At least eight years of practical experience of managing value chain and livelihoods projects
- Good track record in leading and coordinating multi-stakeholder teams
- Extensive experience and knowledge of value chain development for agro business, market facilitation, supporting systemic change
- Experience on working with Local Partner Organizations under cooperation and partnership agreements
- Practical experience in working with private sector
- Knowledge of and application of UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
- Experience of digital financial solutions and using mobile technology is an advantage
How to Apply:
All interested and qualified candidates are encouraged to apply online at the link below
Deadline: 15th August 2020