Resilience Advisor - GOAL International

Organisation: GOAL International

Duty

Station: Kampala, Uganda

GOAL is an international humanitarian

agency dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the poorest of the poor.  We are a non-denominational, non-governmental

and non-political organisation. GOAL Uganda country project focuses on two of

GOAL’s three strategic sectors: Health (including WASH and health

accountability programming); and Livelihoods. GOAL Uganda mainstreams HIV,

gender, child protection and the environment/DRR across all programming. GOAL

works on a district focused approach, and uses a mixture of direct

implementation and partnerships with local civil society organisations, private

sector partners and District Local Government to give effect to our mission.

Job

Summary:  The Resilience Advisor will support the

strategic implementation of GOAL Uganda’s resilience strategy, to build

capacity across the country programme where needed, seek out strategic

partnerships and oversee any subsequent partnership agreements, and source new

resources to scale up resilience initiatives within GOAL programmes.

Key

Duties and Responsibilities: 

·        
Technically

support the country programme and team to implement the resilience strategy

across the livelihood and WASH programmes.

·        
Provide

oversight to the land tenure partnerships and programmes that will begin in

northern Uganda.

·        
Techncially

support the livelihood team to work with on and off farm businesses to build

climate-smart technologies and improved agricultural practices into their

businesses and services offered for increased environmental resiliency.

·        
Support

the livelihood team to improve business resiliency.

·        
Support

the WASH team to build elements of Integrated Water Resource Management into

their programme.

·        
Build

and strengthen working relationships for potential partnership and/or

consortium.

·        
Source

new funding for resilience programming.

·        
Represent

GOAL at networking and sectorally relevant meetings and events.

·        
Stay

up-to-date with the latest discourse, research and dialogue surrounding

resilience in the Horn of Africa.

·        
Significantly

contribute to future strategy development processes.

Qualifications,

Skills and Experience: 

·        
The

ideal candidate must hold a Master’s degree in environment, development or

related subject;

·        
At

least five years’ experience in broad resilience programming including DRR;

·        
Working

knowledge and experience of Ugandan resilience networks;

·        
Demonstrated

experience in successful fund raising;

·        
Prior

experience in programming surrounding land rights, security and tenure is

desired

·        
Previous

experience with the Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approach is an added

advantage

·        
Past

exposure and experience in research, design or implementation of resilience

programming for Northern Uganda and pastoral communities is desired

·        
Established

donor relationships in the sector is desired

·        
Excellent

analytical and writing skills (English);

·        
Excellent

communication skills (written, spoken, facilitation, mentoring and

influencing);

·        
An

individual with initiative, who is performance driven and has considerable planning

and organizational skills;

·        
Ability

to travel up to 50% from base

All suitably qualified and interested

applicants should send their applications which must include at least 4

reference contacts (2 professional, 2 character references, including your

supervisor and the most recent/previous employer), and daytime contact number

to; The Human Resource Manager, GOAL Uganda via E-mail to:

AdminKampala@ug.goal.ie

NB: Please do not attach

certificates and indicate the Position applied for in the email subject.

Deadline:

5th January 2016