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Cooperatives Strengthening Officer Job at Integrated Seed and Sector Development Uganda
Integrated Seed and Sector Development Uganda
Job Description
ISSD Uganda is seeking a dynamic and experienced Cooperative Strengthening Officer to lead efforts in strengthening participating cluster cooperatives under the She Works Project. The role focuses on building institutional capacity, improving governance, and enhancing market access to ensure cooperatives are sustainable and economically viable.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Conduct Cluster cooperative Institutional Diagnostics/assessments on governance, digital readiness & safeguarding, gender, youth and disability inclusion.
- Design and deliver training programs on cooperative governance, financial literacy, record-keeping, and business management.
- Identify women and youth led entrepreneurial initiatives that emerge because of enhanced collaboration within the project communities and guide them into clustering around a common interest Provide the selected entrepreneurial groups & cooperatives with tailor-made training to improve their business skills, governance, financial sustainability, accountability and client focus and support them into participating in developing business plans
- Identify a range of relevant financial services products for the cooperatives & entrepreneurial groups, assess groups' constraints to access each product and broker access to finance and investment between the entrepreneurial groups and various financing structures
- Monitor implementation of the young women business enterprises and report the performance of each entrepreneurial initiatives as per the set milestones
- Establish and maintain effective links with all key project stakeholders (e.g. district authorities and other development organizations) to strengthen collaboration with the project on agribusiness related issues Identify areas for synergy with other aBi Development funded interventions within the project site to complement project interventions and address issues beyond the project's scope
- Support the project M&E team to develop and maintain an M&E system for the project interventions, especially development of a proper data collection system
- Document best practices and lessons learnt of the project and support to replicate it Compile and prepare periodic progress reports highlighting progress made in improving marketing opportunities for young women & their entry into cooperatives based on project periodic plans
- Facilitate partnerships between young women traders, cooperatives, agro-processors, retailers, and exporters
- Support cooperatives in accessing certifications & formal markets
- Build capacity of cooperatives on coffee quality improvement & handling.
- Train cooperatives on digital platforms for market information (e.g., e-commerce, price tracking).
- Support piloting warehouse receipt system engagements at selected cooperative
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