USAID RWANU Project Jobs - Labour Market Systems Advisor at ACDI/VOCA

Project: Resiliency through Wealth, Agriculture, and

Nutrition in Karamoja (RWANU)

Reports to: Chief of Party

About USAID RWANU Project:

ACDI/VOCA

is an international NGO that is currently implementing the USAID-funded PL 480

Title II Development Food Assistance Program entitled “Resiliency through

Wealth, Agriculture, and Nutrition in Karamoja (RWANU).” The RWANU Program aims

to reduce food insecurity among vulnerable rural populations in selected

sub-counties of Amudat, Moroto, Napak and Nakapiripirit. The Program’s

strategic objectives are (1) improved availability and access to food and (2)

reduced malnutrition in pregnant and lactating mothers and children under five.

The RWANU Program takes a preventive approach to reducing malnutrition,

focusing on the first 1,000 days of life when conditional food rations will

have the highest impact. RWANU promotes diversified livelihoods strategies

including linkages to market opportunities to ensure long-term food security

and resilience to food insecurity shocks.

Job Summary: The Labour Market Systems Advisor will support the

USAID RWANU Project and where appropriate other rural development activities

undertaken by ACDI/ VOCA in the  Eastern

Africa particularly in designing and implementing innovative labor market

components and interventions, with the aim to improve working conditions and

access to employment opportunities for poor households who depend on wage labor

incomes for food security and as pathways out of poverty. The overall

responsibility of the Labor Advisor is to drive the labor market dimension of

RWANU/AV by leading the formulation and implementation of all labor-related

activities within the project and advising management on labor-related

approaches that will optimally improve overall poverty and food security

outcomes.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Conduct a situational analysis on all RWANU
  
  activities/ interventions with a view to prioritizing labor interventions
  
  with the greatest potential to influence short, medium and long-term
  
  poverty reduction outcomes.


• Plan and implement a dedicated quantitative
  
  labor market survey to quantify labor demand and supply to better shape
  
  ACDI/ VOCA’s understanding of the importance of wage incomes as part of
  
  different households’ livelihood portfolios.


• Plan and implement trainings for Field
  
  Extension Workers (FEWs) and other RWANU staff on labor-related issues and
  
  support the mainstreaming of a labor perspective in all RWANU activities.


• The incumbent will develop/formulate
  
  performance indicators for all labor market support activities by RWANU
  
  for measuring impact and supporting learning on the project as well as
  
  agency-wide learning across ACDI/VOCA and USAID, and support AV/USAID
  
  monitoring team in incorporating these indicators into RWANU’s M&E
  
  framework.


• Re-analyze the RWANU database of
  
  beneficiaries on labor market participation and identify critically
  
  labor-dependent households as well as non-RWANU community members for
  
  possible enrolment as primary beneficiaries of RWANU’s labor
  
  interventions.


• Keenly analyze and re-categorize all RWANU
  
  beneficiaries to determine existing and potential employers with a view to
  
  formulating a support system that can potentially increase employment
  
  opportunities in the project areas.


• If feasible, re-arrange existing RWANU groups
  
  of beneficiaries in order to better reflect and control the impact of
  
  socio-economic differentiation among RWANU beneficiaries.


• Support Mother Care Groups (MCGs) to devise
  
  ways through which mothers can participate in labor markets without
  
  negatively affecting their child care role.


• Design and lead the implementation of a
  
  program for raising awareness and reducing child labor within RWANU areas
  
  through awareness-raising, trainings of FEWs, MCGs and employers, and
  
  incorporation of a ‘zero-child-labor’ component in the pilot reward scheme


• The incumbent will formulate and implement an
  
  appropriate ‘rewards/incentivizing’ pilot scheme for inducing good
  
  employment practices and rises in agricultural wage work, particularly in
  
  key sub counties such as Namalu.


• Identify and promote strategic partnerships
  
  for promoting coordinated hiring of workers with emphasis on the most
  
  vulnerable individual; such partnerships could be with local development
  
  actors such as NGOs, district authorities and research institutions.


• Design and lead the implementation of
  
  appropriate concept(s) for facilitating labor mobility across selected sub
  
  counties/districts so as to balance labor demand and supply especially for
  
  those critically in need.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The ideal candidate for the USAID RWANU
  
  Project Labour Market Systems Advisor career placement should hold a
  
  Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, or related subject matter.


• A minimum of three to five years’ experience in
  
  analyzing, designing and/or managing implementation of labor market
  
  development activities.


• Analytical systems thinker familiar with
  
  rural labor markets.


• Computer literacy i.e. proficient in word
  
  processing and data analysis software abilities.


• Excellent oral communication skills

All

suitably qualified and interested candidates who desire to work in the USAID

RWANU Project should send their applications (only by e-mail) addressed to the

Human Resources Manager attaching their application letters and CV to

jobs@acdivocaug.biz

NB: Women are encouraged to apply as ACDI/ VOCA is an

equal opportunity employer. Only those shortlisted for interviews will be

contacted.

Deadline: 15th April 2016