USAID SCORE Project Technical Advisor - Socioeconomic Strengthening Job Placement - AVSI Foundation

Organization: AVSI Foundation

Project Name: USAID Sustainable, Comprehensive Responses for

vulnerable children and their families (SCORE) Project

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: SCORE Chief of Party

AVSI

Foundation is an international not-for-profit, non-governmental organization

(NGO) founded in Italy in 1972. Its mission is to promote the dignity of the

person through development cooperation activities, with special attention to

education, according to the social teaching of the Catholic Church. AVSI has

been present in Uganda since 1984, first supporting hospitals and agriculture

projects in Gulu and Kitgum districts, and later expanding around 1990 to

establish the present-day headquarters in Kampala, offices in Pader, Gulu and

Kitgum, and project activities in 12 other districts. AVSI staff has remained

through the long periods of instability in northern Uganda caused both by

anti-government rebellions led by Lord’s Resistance Army, and by conflict

across the northern border in Sudan, which caused displacement in both

countries.

AVSI

is leading a consortium of partners including CARE, TPO and FHI360 is

implementing a USAID funded project titled “Sustainable, Comprehensive

Responses for vulnerable children and their families – SCORE” in 23 districts

in Uganda.

Job Summary: The Technical Advisor – Socioeconomic

Strengthening will be responsible for ensuring high quality programming and

implementation of socioeconomic strengthening activities.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Work in liaison with the SCORE Chief of
  
  Party, Program Manager, Area Managers and Project Officers to provide
  
  technical support to the high quality programming and implementation of
  
  socioeconomic strengthening activities;


• Develop technical standards for quality
  
  programming in the technical area, ensuring integration with all SCORE
  
  program areas;


• The incumbent will also develop
  
  tools/guidance/ protocols/ manuals and other materials for implementation
  
  of quality programming;


• Design/coordinate/ facilitate capacity
  
  building of implementing partners in this technical area;


• Provide continuous support supervision,
  
  monitoring and evaluation and quality assurance to project activities in
  
  the technical area to ensure achievement of targets;


• Train, mentor and support SCORE program
  
  officers concerned with Objective 1 within the regional teams;


• Build and strengthen relevant linkages with
  
  service level actors including private sector firms in order to enable
  
  vulnerable children households’ access and utilize these linkages


• Select and document promising practices for project
  
  reports and publications and prepare abstracts for conferences/meetings in
  
  his/her technical area


• Actively participate in proposal writing and
  
  other programmes development initiatives


• Participate in all Technical Steering
  
  Committee meetings


• Represent SCORE in official meetings
  
  concerning the technical area.


• Represent AVSI in official meetings when
  
  required by supervisors


• Perform other duties within area of
  
  responsibility, as requested by the Chief of Party.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The ideal candidate for the USAID SCORE
  
  Project Monitoring and Evaluation Officer job opportunity should hold a
  
  Master’s degree in Economics, Business Development, Agricultural
  
  Economics, Rural Development, or any other relevant field from a
  
  recognized institution.


• A minimum of eight years working experience
  
  in a holistic livelihoods improvement program with practical experience in
  
  Agriculture, OVC, socio-economic development, monitoring and evaluations.


• Broad knowledge and experience in research
  
  and analysis, reviewing and conducting assessment, and developing
  
  recommendations to inform plan formulation and implementation


• Significant experience in managing
  
  partnerships, and organizational capacity building of local organizations


• Previous exposure and experience working with
  
  different community/rural micro finance products


• Ability to work with both formal and informal
  
  community organizations in a rural setting.


• Good people management skills – team building
  
  initiatives


• Effective interpersonal skills – oral and
  
  written communication skills


• Computer literacy skills


• Previous experience working in apprenticeship
  
  programs

All

suitably qualified candidates should send their application letters, accompanied

with updated Curriculum Vitae indicating three professional referees and copies

of relevant certificates via e-mail with the subject line indicating

‘Application for Technical Advisor – Socioeconomic Strengthening – Kampala’

addressed to:

The

Human Resource Manager,

P.O.

Box 6785, Kampala, Uganda.

E-mail

to: hr.kampala@avsi.org

Deadline: 31^st March, 2016