CRS Senior Project Officer Livelihoods Jobs 2023 – Uganda NGO Jobs.
CRS Uganda looking for “Senior Project Officer Livelihoods”.
Applicants with a degree in Bachelor’s Degree may apply on or before April 30, 2023.
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peace building.
CRS Senior Project Officer Livelihoods Jobs 2023
The CRS has published a job vacancy announcement on April 15, 2023 for qualified Uganda’s to fill in the vacant post of Senior Project Officer Livelihoods to be based in Yumbe, Uganda.
| Recruiter | Catholic Relief Services (CRS) |
| Position | Senior Project Officer Livelihoods |
| Location | Yumbe, Uganda |
| Country | Uganda |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | Bachelor’s Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum Three years |
| Application Deadline | April 30, 2023 |
CRS Job Vacancy 2023
Job Responsibilities
- Provide strategic technical management and oversight on agriculture activities throughout their design and implementation in line with CRS quality principles and standards and industry best practices. This includes supporting climate-smart agriculture implementation through a contextual analysis, analyzing the barriers for uptake of climate smart agricultural best practices and innovative practices, and formulating recommendations for smallholder farmers, partners and local governments.
- Provide technical direction and capacity strengthening to the project participants and partners to enhance program quality and impact.
- Monitor and document progress of the agriculture activities through field visits, meetings with consultant, reviewing of consultant’s reports and provision of feedback.
- Provide technical input into the development and implementation of the program agricultural MEAL framework and ensure integration of innovations and best practices.
- Lead the documentation and dissemination of learning on promising scalable climate smart agricultural practices and lessons learned to share with the Yumbe Regreening Consortium, as well as other key stakeholders.
- Ensure timely and appropriate agriculture-related expenditures in line with detailed implementation and procurement plans, allocated budgets, and efficient use and stewardship of project material resources.
- Ensure effective partner management through periodic review of partners’ work plans and budget, follow-up, and timely submission of narrative and financial reports to facilitate proper tracking of resource use.
- Initiate and strengthen strategic relationships with key stakeholders such as the Yumbe Regreening consortium partners, OPM, UNHCR, other NGO actors, district local government and refugee welfare committees.
- Contribute to the proactive pursuit of opportunities for new funding to ensure growth of the country program agricultural sector portfolio in line with agency, regional, and country program strategic priorities.
- Lead the development and implementation of tailored climate-smart agriculture training and coaching programs for small holder farmers (including refugees and host communities), extension services providers (public, private, NGOs etc.), farmer cooperatives on climate-proofing agricultural production systems for selected crops.
Position in Organization:
- Job Title: Senior Project Officer –Livelihoods
- Supervisor: Project Manager I -Agriculture
- Department: Emergency and Refugee Response
- Position Type: Full-Time
- Band: Eight (8)
- Location: Yumbe
Qualification:
- Strong communication skills and ability to conduct trainings under extreme conditions.
- Bachelors’ degree in agriculture or other relevant field with a minimum of 3 years working experience
- Proven track record with over 3 years of experience in climate smart agriculture methods in rural areas; these include agroforestry and conservation farming.
Personal Skills
- Private sector experience is an asset.
- Computer literacy skills.
- Good observation, active listening and analysis skills with ability to make sound decisions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact effectively with diverse groups
- Highly proactive, results-oriented and service-oriented
- English fluency, including oral and written skills, required.
Desirable attributes
- A capacity and desire to pass on skills and information, a confident communicator and willing to work in a collaborative and respectful way with target communities.
- Flexibility and ability to work under pressure and meeting deadlines in changing situations.
- Knowledge and understanding of good practices in protection mainstreaming.
- Knowledge of the local languages spoken by South Sudanese and host communities living in or near Bidibidi refugee settlement.
How to Apply CRS Senior Project Officer Livelihoods 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://launchpadrecruitsapp.com/jobs/senior-project-officer-livelihoods-78334/screen/app_59fcb49182c1a4e99755d66a#/
The Closing Date: April 30, 2023.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
| Job Advertisement | Download |
| Official Website | www.crs.org |
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