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CARE Partnerships and Innovation Specialist Jobs 2023 – Uganda NGO Jobs

CARE Partnerships and Innovation Specialist Jobs 2023 – Uganda NGO Jobs.

CARE Uganda looking for “Partnerships and Innovation Specialist”.

Applicants with a degree in University Degree may apply on or before August 06, 2023.

For 75 years, CARE has led the way to a better life for the world’s most vulnerable people. This year, CARE and partners worked in 111 countries, reaching more than 174 million people around the world through 1,600 projects.

CARE Partnerships and Innovation Specialist Jobs 2023

The CARE has published a job vacancy announcement on July 22, 2023 for qualified Uganda’s to fill in the vacant post of Partnerships and Innovation Specialist to be based in Kotido, Uganda.

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Position Partnerships and Innovation Specialist-CLIRK Project
Location Kotido, Uganda
Country Uganda
Total Vacant Post N/A
Qualification University Degree
Experience Required Minimum Five years
Application Deadline August 06, 2023

CARE Job Vacancy 2023

Specific Responsibilities

Responsibility #1: Technical Leadership and steering of the innovation cycle (30% of the time)

  • Take the lead on the ideation process in liaison with the SIM and the relevant partners, ensuring that proposed innovations address the needs of targeted communities.
  • Develop clear value propositions for solutions using tools such as the business canvas.
  • Define proof of concept and testable hypothesis for the innovative solutions
  • Validate the food and energy solutions and their pathways to scale.
  • Support the identification of scaling partners and facilitate their sustained engagement along the innovation cycle.
  • Coordinate the interventions of private sector partners in liaison with the different Local Government and/or settlement level structures from ideation to scaling of innovative solutions.

Position in Organization:

  • Salary: UGX0 – 0 ()
  • Category: Climate
  • Location: Kotido
  • Expiry: 06, Aug 2023
  • Gender: Not Set
  • Job Type: Permanent
  • Qualification: Post Graduate D
  • Experience: 6 Years

Qualification:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business management, entrepreneurship, or another business-related field. Alternatively, a bachelor’s degree in public health/nutrition, international development, business administration, or related studies will be considered if the candidate demonstrates additional relevant experience. A postgraduate Diploma in any field is a MUST.
  • Minimum of 6 years experience in facilitating community development programs. Experience working in the Innovation ecosystem is a MUST.
  • 5 years experience in an incubator, a start-up, social enterprise, innovation space, and/or project management /NGO experience
  • Experience in business administration or project management
  • The incumbent will need to demonstrate expertise in innovation and partnership management.

Essential skills and competences

  • A team player and self-starter with good networking skills and project management skills
  • Eagerness to build partnerships and projects outside of traditional humanitarian/ development fields and to challenge traditional ways of working.
  • Experience working with and managing innovation projects.
  • Knowledge of issues connected to climate change and resilience in the Karamoja region.
  • Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Capable of working independently.
  • Demonstrated experience in building excellent relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
  • Excellent commination skills and ability to synthesize information from various sources.
  • Good oral/written and interpersonal skills.
  • Confident communication and documentation skills; ability to represent CARE to a variety of stakeholders in a range of forums.
  • Able to work in a cross-cultural environment with multi-national staff.
  • Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools (PowerPoint, Excel, word, etc.).

Desirable

  • Basic understanding of innovations, new technology, and entrepreneurship skills
  • Good understanding of innovation and the issues and challenges around it
  • Experience working in the private sector and with start-ups.
  • Able to produce high-quality reports/papers.

How to Apply CARE Partnerships and Innovation Specialist Jobs 2023

Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.

Then to apply, go to https://royalty.thorn-soft.com/recruitment/job-details.php?job=81

The Closing Date: August 06, 2023.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

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