Project Officer Resilience & Livelihood at World Vision International

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Back ground

World Vision Uganda (WVU) is a Christian relief, development and advocacy non-government organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We currently work in 43 districts and have 48 Area Programmes implementing projects in health & nutrition, water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH), livelihoods & resilience, education and child protection. World Vision (WV) is committed to the protection of children and adult beneficiaries from exploitation and abuse and will not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with these beneficiaries. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible.

Due to expansion in scope of our programmes, we are now seeking for a qualified and passionate individual willing to share in our vision and join the team in the following role.

Position:         Project Officer Resilience & Livelihood officer

Report to:       Area Programme Coordinator

Location:         Odupi, Arua District

Advert Start Date:     10th October 2023

Advert End Date:       16th October 2023

Purpose of the position:

To implement field level Resilience and Livelihood programmatic activities in line with targets and partnership standards in a manner that contributes to sustained and improved child wellbeing.

Key Outputs/Responsibilities.

Project Implementation and sustainability  

•    Develop annual project activity plans and update quarterly in collaboration with key departments and external stakeholders, and oversee implementation to high standards by scope and timelines
•    Provide expertise and technical assistance in agronomy and agribusiness, climate smart agriculture, marketing, IGA, DRR and Natural Resource Management.
•    Promote the use of modern farming practice and techniques through training, advising farmers, farm visits and demonstrations so as to transform targeted families from subsistence to commercial farmers in line with GoU policy.
•    Provide technical advice and support on enterprise development initiatives with high environmental integrity.
•    Identify and promote local innovations through adaptive research among farmers in response to climate change in their communities.
•    Established block gardens and demonstration plots to act as learning and multiplication sites for farmer groups
•    Participatory selection of beneficiaries, prioritization of income generating activities, life skills awareness raising, and capacity building of the groups.
•    Identify technical capacity and challenges for beneficiaries, skills and knowledge they have in agronomy, business development and income generating activities.
•    Ensure timely procurement of and delivery of right quality and quantity of farmer inputs.
•    Organizing weekly field planning meetings with community-based facilitators to guide effective implementation
•    Promote Resilience and Livelihoods programme model for faster adoption of improved farming technologies towards building secure livelihoods for the marginal poor.    •

Quality Technical program and projects effectively and efficiently implemented
•    Proposed activities will be implemented according to schedule.
•    Better living conditions for the affected persons as they will be able to meet most of their basic needs.
•    Awareness created among different stakeholders on WV interventions in the area.
•    Improved livelihood resilience of smallholder farmes for economic empowerment

Stakeholders Engagement, Networking and Collaboratio
•    Take overall lead in the coordination of field level activities and represent World Vision in Settlement level livelihood working group meetings
•    Facilitate the engagements of stakeholders during planning and development meetings, workshops and other fora.
•    Develop the farmer’s capacity to improve production and productivity of selected enterprises of desired quality by the market through demonstrations to farmer’s
•    Organize quarterly review meetings for partners and communities at the project sites to reflect on project approaches, tools, impact of interventions, best practices, exit and sustainability strategies as well as create spaces and opportunities for action-learning and debate
•    Ensure integration of the project with other Resilience and Livelihood on going activities including that of World Vision, partners and government.    •    Improved relationship between World Vision, the UN technical specialist and local government line departments.

Documentation, Reporting and knowledge management  

•    Writes and submits comprehensive monthly progress reports, and specific activity reports, and any other reports when necessary to his/her supervisor in a timely manner.
•    Participate in monthly and quarterly financial reporting, including realization of activities versus budget utilization; (Providing input) rationale on financial reporting.
•    Annual review of progress towards project objectives.
•    Take lead in documentation and sharing of Impact/success stories and best practices to promote learning.

•    Good quality reports submitted timely on monthly, quarterly, Biannually or annual bas
•    Project achievements, successes and lesson learned shared among all stakeholders.
•    Best practices and innovations are well documented and shared for scale up and learning

Community engagement and advocacy

•    Develop farmer’s capacity to improve production and productivity of selected enterprises of desired quality by the market through demonstrations to farmer’s
•    Mobilize and facilitate the engagements of stakeholders during planning and development meetings, workshops and other fora.
•    Coordinate partners and communities in implementation of agreed action plans.
•    Ensure integration of project with other ongoing Resilience and Livelihood activities including that of World Vision and government.    •    Community engaging for improved Resilience & Livelihood Services for economic empowerment
•    Strong cohesion among groups/cooperatives.
•    Improved farmers’ knowledge on good agronomic practices for enhanced production and productivity

Child Protection and Wellbeing
•    Monitor the wellbeing and child abuse cases and report any incidents in line with child protection policy and guidelines.
•    Work with local leaders to protect children from child violations and abuses
•    Sensitize children including most vulnerable, guardians/parents and other stakeholders about children’s rights and responsibilities.    •    Child protection integrated into livelihoods and environment interventions to ensure child safety and reduce/ eliminate child abuse and exploitation among all stakeholders.
•    Improved child well being

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience.

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s in agriculture or agribusiness or any other relevant discipline.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in community work and engagement Agricultural, Economic Development and  Livelihood Entrepreneurship, micro finance  and strong agribusiness skills
• Computer literate
• Writing and reporting skills
• Networking and influencing skills Ability to communicate in applicable local language(s) Passion for children.
• Track record demonstrating high integrity, reliability and dependable Ability to work with minimal supervision.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only