Project Officer (Income Generation And Job Creation) - Yumbe

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.