Livelihoods Assistant job at ALIGHT (Formerly known as American Refugee Committee)

July 12, 2024 Business, Featured, Full-time

Jobs at: ALIGHT (Formerly known as American Refugee Committee)

Application Deadline: Thursday, July 18, 2024

Duty Station: Within Uganda, Nakivale, East Africa

Summary:

Job Details:

Key Duties & Responsibilities: Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

Promote the use of modern farming practices and techniques through training, advising farmers, farm visits, and demonstrations to transform targeted families from subsistence to commercial farmers.
Identify project beneficiaries in collaboration with local structures and in accordance with laid-down guidelines/rules and timeframe.
Ensure smallholder farmers’ groups are mobilized, organized, and strengthened into strong business groups for bulk purchase of inputs, value addition, bulking, and collective marketing of produce.
Develop the farmers’ capacity to improve production and productivity of selected enterprises of desired quality.
Coordinate project activities with OPM, UNHCR, government extension agents, and other partners at the community level.
Carry out monitoring visits to verify information provided by Community-Based Facilitators.
In liaison with the Livelihoods Officer, prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual work plans and reports.
Support M&E teams in data collection and updating group information and their achievements.
Manage and mentor Livelihoods volunteers under his/her supervision.
Perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements:

University Degree in Agriculture or Agribusiness from a recognized institution/Diploma in sustainable agriculture.
A minimum of 2 years’ work experience implementing agro-based and social business livelihoods.
Experience in entrepreneurship, VSLA, and agribusiness.
Knowledge of farmer field school approach and climate-smart agriculture.
Experience in writing reports.
Must be fluent in written and spoken English.
Motorbike riding experience with a valid riding license.
Knowledge of Kiswahili, the local language of the population, and Kinyarwanda is an added advantage.

Key Behaviors & Abilities:

Ability to work individually and within a team.
Ability to write clear, detailed, and concise reports on the computer and consistently meet deadlines.
Willingness to travel throughout communities and work in a participatory manner with a variety of populations.
Strong knowledge of the local population and language.
Ability to handle stressful working conditions with limited supervision.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job Application Procedure: Interested and qualified candidates, click here to apply.