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Programme quality

• Provides high quality technical support to the implementation of ZOA Uganda’s climate resilience, livelihoods, food security and renewable energy and environment programme; supporting projects throughout the project management cycle, including technical review of procurement tasks, workplans, and activity descriptions;

• Develops and upholds a coherent ZOA Uganda CRL strategy in line with national and/or international trends, approaches and standards.

• Promotes innovation in the CRL sector through varied partnership models

• Provides additional oversight to high-risk activities in the CRL sector to ensure technical integrity throughout implementation

• Produces technical guidelines and tools as required to facilitate technically sound implementation

• Provides direction and support to the design, testing, and evaluation of innovations to advance CRL programming

• Supports project teams to integrate climate resilience approaches into their implementation

Learning and capacity strengthening

• Contributes to the development and implementation of CRL Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) plans

• Contributes to learning and knowledge development for ZOA (worldwide) specifically related to CRL with a specific focus on food security and livelihoods, crop production, agri business development and agricultural related income generating activities, skilling, green energy, and climate resilience, NRM and SLM

• Builds capacity of CRL project staff on key project concepts and build capacity and ensures capacity strengthening of co-implementing partner(s) in line with identified needs;

• Rolls out the Environmental Stewardship Tool (EST) across ZOA Uganda projects

• Recommends strategic training opportunities for project staff.

• Stays abreast of technical developments in the CRL field,

• Leads or participates in maintaining updated capacity statements, program descriptions, or other documentation useful in articulating CRL approaches and achievements

Proposal development

• Identifies new funding opportunities for ZOA Uganda;

• Leads or participates in development of high quality CRL project proposals;

• Collaborates with, Programme Managers, Project Managers, Field based staff, and finance department for proposal development.

Reporting

• Reviews, and where required leads, the writing of donor reports in line with contractual obligations;

• Contributes to ZOA’s quarterly and annual reports, the annual Country Plan (CP), and new strategy development (the current country strategy runs 2023-2025).

Stakeholder management

• Builds and upholds relationships with key CRL stakeholders in Uganda

• Represents ZOA Uganda externally in relevant CRL planning and coordination meetings, specifically at national level – e.g. the Sector Working group and applicable task teams.

• Links with stakeholders active in ZOA’s sectors and promote ZOA’s approaches

Localisation

• Leads on the identification of strategic local partners working in CRL

• Initiates and builds partnerships with local partners for collaboration on proposals and implementation

• Provides capacity building in technical livelihood, food security and climate resilience areas to local partners

• Documents successes and lessons learned in localisation, climate resilience and livelihoods

Other activities

• Champions greening of ZOA Uganda’s operations internally

• Provides input to communication and visibility efforts, e.g. online, printed materials, ZOA’s international website;

• Supports the recruitment of project staff; when necessary reviewing the job descriptions, participating in job interviews;

• Any other duty assigned by the Manager of Programme Quality or Country Director.