NGO Jobs in Kampala, Uganda; Livelihoods Project Officer

Job Title: Livelihoods Project Officer
Salary Grade: Grade 4
Job Location: Kampala,Uganda
Employer: Trocaire Uganda


About Trócaire
Trócaire is the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
We work with some of the world’s poorest people, supporting communities and delivering long-term change to people’s lives.
Established in 1973, today Trócaire works in over 20 countries on issues including livelihoods, human rights, gender equality, HIV, climate change and emergency relief.
In Ireland, we raise awareness about the causes of poverty through our outreach programmes in the education sector, through parish networks, and through our public campaigns and advocacy work.
Trócaire was set up in 1973 by the Bishops of Ireland to express the concern of the Irish Catholic Church for the suffering of the world’s poorest people.

Job Requirements:
• Graduate education and/or professional qualification in an appropriate technical subject or subject relevant to development/livelihoods work and Project Management.
• Minimum three (3) years work experience in the field of implementing development projects (experience of work in a livelihoods context will be an advantage).
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills in English (essential).
• Regular donor reporting, preferably for DFID.
• Coordinating or managing development programmes through local partners.
• Carrying out community-based needs assessment.
• Programme planning, preferably through programme cycle management, and monitoring and evaluation
• Proven experience in capacity building processes and techniques, and the provision of technical advice through on the job training.
• Financial management within a development programming context.
• Implementing social welfare (food-for-work, cash vouchers etc) programmes.
• Working with international donors, especially DFID.
• Working in support of national NGOs and partners in developing countries.
• Action oriented person with initiative and self-motivation.
• Excellent all-round communication skills, both facilitating and presenting but also producing written work of a high quality in the English Language.
• Ability to organize his/her work independently, also, ability to prioritize, meet strict deadlines and multitask.
• Good inter-personal skills with the ability to communicate sensitively to a broad range of people and organisations within a cross cultural context.
• Ability to work effectively within a team and in support of colleagues, and to provide leadership and direction for the small team, retaining courtesy in stressful environments.
• Proven organisational and administrative skills, including familiarity with standard IT packages, their applications and specifically Word and Excel.
• Commitment to a partnership approach, sympathetic to the Catholic Social Teachings.
• Willingness to go the extra mile when work demands.


Job Duties:
• Provide strategic oversight of designing, planning, budgeting, implementing monitoring, reviewing and reporting of the DFID funded programme, tracking use of financial resources and activities to make sure they are in accordance with the Contract.
• Liaise with members of the finance team to ensure effective financial management through monitoring and reviewing expenditures to ensure reports are accurate and consistent to the Contract.
• Guarantee partner compliance with the terms and conditions of the DFID Contract.
• Organize regular planning and progress reviews.
• Present up to date reporting to the donor in an accurate and efficient manner through liaising with the 11 key partners, the County Management Team, the Livelihoods Programme Officer and the Regional Team.
• Ensure a clear focus on the achievement of results as per the DFID Project Proposal. This will entail extensive work with partners and all other stakeholders.
• Prepare consolidated programme reports of a high quality on a quarterly basis in cooperation with partners and Trocaire departments.
• Ensure a clear focus on the achievement of results as per the DFID proposal. This will entail extensive work with partners and other stakeholders.
• Use Results Based Management (RBM) /M&E techniques, methods and their applications and enhance the capacities of partners where required.
• Ensure organizational set-up and project management systems are fully functional and create best possible enabling environment for high level performance of Trocaire and the implementing partners.
• Ensure constant monitoring and analysis of the Project environment, and timely readjustment of programme. Ensure that results and lessons learned feed into the analytical and project work (i.e. results used to make decisions).
• Ensure preparation of brochures, publications, press releases for dissemination and visibility of the project as per the agreed Proposal.
• Accompanying visitors / delegations as part of the programme monitoring.
• Facilitate capacity building for the partner including on the job training, workshops, exchange visits and formal training courses in project, technical and organizational issues
• Work with partners to gather lessons learnt, best practice and stories of change across the project
• Support the Programme Officer (and, whenever necessary, Country Management Team) in monitoring food security, livelihoods trends and humanitarian needs that may undermine food security and livelihoods in the Uganda.
• Ensure that all relationships with partners are consistent with the principles and values set out in the Policy Agreement.
• Making reference to the Partner Capacity Building Framework, develop partner capacity building plans to strengthen and support partners in their identified areas of weakness, and in consultation with the partners establish clear targets, indicators, review periods and review these on a regular basis.
• Collaborate with the Country Management Team and members of the finance team to ensure that all existing partners have completed the Partner Governance and Finance Capacity Assessment and that it is undertaken with new partners prior to making any commitments.
• Promote accountability of partners to target communities
• Promote and strengthen partnership with government particularly in building capacity of duty bearers in target communities.
• Represent Trócaire in relevant assessments, forums and networks.
• Maintain relationships with donor agencies, church partners and other groups working on the Livelihood Programme.
• Liaise with the local government officials and ensure that partners keep local authorities informed of Trócaire’s supported programmes.
• Accompany visitors (Trócaire or external) to programme sites and carry out promotional or media work as directed from time to time.
• Ongoing analysis of the sustainable livelihoods sector in Uganda and global developments within the field.
• Completion of the Annual Programme Review process, incorporating clear evidence of progress and challenges and adhering to internal and external reporting requirements.
• Completion of mid-term and end-of-project/programme evaluations, annual development of the Livelihood Programme and design of any new programmes.
• Ensure that the learning from the evaluation process is explicitly incorporated into future project implementation.
• Adopt evaluation methodologies that maximise opportunities for learning for Trócaire and the Partners.
• Support the Programme Officer and Regional Institutional Funding Officer (RIFO) in identifying new institutional funding sources for the programme.
• Additional details of exceptional aspects of the job
• Undertake other agreed tasks related to Trócaire sustainable livelihoods and humanitarian programming and projects as needed such as assistance with preparation of proposals, reports, project summaries, monitoring visits etc. at the request of the Programme Officer.

Contract Duration: 2 Years

Deadline Date: 22/05/2014

How to Apply:
Please send your CV and Cover letters to:
Email: HR@trocaire.or.ke with Subject Uga 211.