Job title: Food Security and Livelihood Officer
Organization: Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS)
Location: Kampala
Roles and responsibilities:
- Support field-level technical assessments in coordination with the Food Security and Livelihood Manager and other partners involved in the food security and livelihood programme, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific analysis of refugee’s needs.
- With support from the Food Security and Livelihood Manager and/or other senior programme staff, develop activity plans and budgets, contributing towards overall project implementation.
- With support from the Food Security and Livelihood Manager and/or other senior programme staff, support with inputs in the development of high-quality concept notes and proposals aiming at attracting new project funding.
- In collaboration with the Branch Manager and Volunteer Management Officer, support the identification and recruitment supervision, coaching, training and retention of community mobilisers and/or project volunteers.
- With support from the URCS Monitoring & Evaluation team support the M & E plan implementation within the FSL projects, ensuring this links to reporting requirements.
- Work closely with partners and their staff to ensure project activities are implemented on time and within the stipulated quality, and to ensure adequate community engagement and accountability mechanisms, including feedback from beneficiaries (PDM, Beneficiary Satisfaction Survey,).
- With the support of the Food Security and Livelihood Manager, provide direct project implementation to ensure timely delivery of project activities in line with logframe.
- Prepare timely programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with URCS requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
- To ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Standards and Red Cross Code of Conduct.
- Foster positive relationship (collaboration and networking) at District Level and refugee settlement levels.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the Food Security and Livelihood project activities and volunteers in the elaboration of a Food Security and Livelihood Interventions Strategy;
- Undertake any other FSL-related tasks as assigned by the Food Security and Livelihood Manager.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture, Food Security, Natural Resource Management, or any related field from an approved, recognized and reputable university.
- Minimum 2 years’ experience working in a similar position and or Food Security and Livelihoods Programming in a Humanitarian or development context;
How to apply:
filled application form and attach your academic transcripts and certificates. The filled application forms, academic transcripts and certificates should be e-mailed to;
vacancies@redcrossug.org
or hand delivered, and or by post to:
The Secretary General,
Uganda Red Cross Society,
Plot 551/555 Rubaga Road,
P.O. Box 494, Kampala, Uganda.
Email; vacancies@redcrossug.org
Deadline: Sept 11th 2023
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