World Vision Uganda is a Christian Relief, Development and Advocacy Non-Government Organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice in over 27 districts of Uganda. World Vision is committed to the protection of children and does not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with children.
All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible. "Our Vision for every child, Life in all its fullness.
Our prayer for every Heart, the will to make it so." World Vision Uganda is seeking to hire qualified persons to fill the following positions.
Position: Livelihood Specialist
Reports to: Director, Ministry Quality
Duty Station: National Office
Location: Kampala
Purpose of position:
Providing technical advice to WVU and supporting programs/projects in planning, designing, monitoring and evaluating livelihoods interventions.
Key Result Areas
• Support WVU National Office in developing sustainable livelihoods security strategies.
• Provide technical advice on best practices and approaches to sustainable livelihoods programming.
• Provide technical backstopping on livelihoods intervention/program implementation and document lessons learned.
• Support WVU to develop and use innovative approaches to monitor and evaluate the performance, effectiveness/impacts of livelihoods interventions.
• Assist in monitoring the implementation of the livelihoods security strategies.
• Support fund raising activities through networking, proposal and concepts development (as necessary) for livelihoods interventions.
• Build and strengthen effective relations and partnerships between WVU and actors on livelihoods for networking and cross learning to enrich WV livelihoods programs/ interventions.
• Support food Security and livelihood response programming in emergency contexts
• Identify the needs and organize trainings to develop the capacity of WVU staff and partners to increase their competence in sustainable livelihoods.
• Participate in the recruitment, selection and induction of new livelihoods program/project staff.
• Assist in developing terms of reference (TOR) for WVU livelihoods consultants.
• Represent WVU in livelihoods forums- meetings, workshops, conferences and contribute to technical interactions and discussions on the same.
Job requirement
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• At least a Bachelor degree in Agriculture or related fields and post graduate qualification in rural economy (agricultural economics, agribusiness, or other development oriented fields)
• Project proposal writing and documentation skills
• Good communication and networking skills
• At least 5 year hands-on experience in designing and managing sustainable food security/livelihood interventions
• Training facilitation and coordination skills
• Research, monitoring and evaluation skills
How to apply
How to apply:
Interested persons who meet the above criteria should submit their applications together with an updated CV) with at least three suitable referees with their telephone contact to; wvujobs@wvi.org strictly (Please indicate on subject the position you are applying for)
Human Resource Manager,
World Vision Uganda, Plot 15 B Nakasero Road,
P.O0 Box 5319, Kampala
Deadline for receiving applications: 27th July, 2011.