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Project Officer job at Self Help Africa (SHA) | Apply Now
Napak, Uganda
At Self Help Africa, our mission is to alleviate hunger, poverty, social inequality and the impact of climate change. We achieve this through community-led, market-based and enterprise focused approaches to agricultural development, ensuring that people with have access to:
Nutritious food
Decent incomes and employment
Clean water and basic services
All while sustaining natural resources.
Our aim is to transition communities out of long-term poverty through work that gives them greater control over their futures and provides a better quality of life. The main focus of our work is in sub-Saharan Africa, where global hunger and poverty is most acute, but we also work in Bangladesh and Brazil. We believe that equitable economic development is key to ending poverty.
Our core areas of focus are:
Sustainable landscapes, resilient food systems and healthy communities.
Sustainable businesses, decent employment and thriving economies.
Crisis response and resilience.
System strengthening and an enabling policy environment.
Are you looking for Management Jobs in Uganda 2024? If yes, then you might be interested in Project Officer job at Self Help Africa (SHA
Full-time
Project Officer job at Self Help Africa (SHA)
Self Help Africa
The purpose of the job is to facilitate the planning and implementation, monitoring and reporting of project activities directly with beneficiaries and other stakeholders. This also includes technical backstopping and other support to beneficiary individuals, producer organisations and associations and other stakeholders like local CBOs/NGOs, Local Government and private sector players, who are working with project beneficiaries.
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Facilitate planning process and implementation of activity plans with project beneficiaries/ participants
Develop and share activity implementation plans based on the approved project document
Sensitise communities on project interventions, including sustainable natural management strategies, and approaches.
Establish good relationships with local leaders, opinion leaders and local government technical staff in the area.
Coordinate mobilization and scheduling of community and/or group meetings.
Facilitate participatory needs identification and problem analysis and planning sessions.
Make follow-ups to review progress on the implementation of the agreed plans.
Prepare reports on group and/or community planning processes, activity implementation and project progress in accordance with the implementation plan.
Liaison and linkage with government officials, local businesses, CBOs and other service providers within the project area.
Promote linkages and cordial relationships with government officials and other NGOs
Identify public and private sector service providers within the project area whose services and activities may be useful to the project beneficiaries
Provide information to the beneficiary communities and groups on existing service providers and businesses in the area.
Support the Regional Programme Manager in creating awareness on project activities and approach to government officials, businesses and NGOs in the project area.
Perform any other assignment that may be given to you regarding linkages and liaison with other NGOs, private and the government sectors.
Supporting institutional and business development for smallholder farmers and/or farmer groups
Support groups formation and organisational development processes, including registration and development of constitutions and/or group rules/regulations
Training smallholder farmer group members and leaders in group dynamics,
Prepare and conduct producer/ farmer organization and association profiling and capacity assessment to identify needs including training and other capacity needs.
Develop and or improve training material
Lead in training in Farmer Field School (FFS) approach Good Agronomy Practical (GAPs), soil and water conservation, farming as a business, postharvest handling, VSLA/SWAPP and value addition in accordance with the training, curriculum agreed.
Link farmers to market players including input providers, post-harvest equipment, suppliers, financial institutions, market information providers, and buyers.
Oversee the implementation of green economy business opportunities (including ecotourism and waste management) and management of challenge fund
Lead and organise farmers to engage in the establishment of demonstration sites for learning and replication of CSA practices.
Contribute to the planning and carrying out of exchange visits, conferences, and farmer exhibitions on product marketing.
Support the integration of nutrition, wash and gender into the project activities
Sensitise communities on and nutrition gender-related issues.
Identify and promote measures/approaches to enhance the integration of nutrition, wash and gender into project activities according to the project document.
Work with M&E Officer to ensure nutrition and gender concerns are manifested in the project M&E reports
Conduct any other duties assigned to you by your supervisor concerning the maximization of nutrition and gender integration in project activities.
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)
Support the implementation of the M&E plans
Facilitate learning, promote peer-to-peer learning between staff and partners, participate in relevant national networks, and actively engage in organization-level focal groups.
Explore opportunities for positioning, innovation, upscaling and potential follow up projects
SERVICES
COMMERCIAL
SERVICES
INDUSTRIAL
SERVICES
RESIDENTIAL
Minimum of Bachelors Degree in any field (preferably Agriculture, Agribusiness, business administration, or related disciplines)
Experience in participatory market system programming and value chain analysis/Development of different agricultural commodities
Understanding of key aspects of SHA development work; including food, nutrition, gender and livelihood security and other cross-cutting themes (e.g. youth, social inclusion, environment, HIV and AIDS);
Skills in training and facilitation of community processes, including organization and mobilization of communities and networking among different development partners such as youth groups, community-based organisations, government officers and SHA staff;
Ability to effectively use MS Office suite;
High level of integrity and high standards of personal conduct;
Desirable
Experience working in project geographical region
Experience working with farmer groups and private sector actors.
Key Relationships:
Internal
Project Manager, Project Officers, technical Coordinators & other project staff
Self Help Africa Uganda Country Programme Staff and administrative staff
External Farmer groups, youth and women groups, government departments, private enterprises, donors, Civil society organisations
Most Critical Proficiencies:
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work as part of team across different cultures.
Ability to work with minimum supervision and take initiative
Ability to solve problems and take corrective action.
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