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Project Assistant - Resilience and Livelihood job
Location: Jobs in Uganda 2025 - 2026
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
UGX
No. of vacancies: 01
Deadline: 10 October 2025
Hiring Organization: World Vision
Job Details:
KEY RESULT AREAS:
Project Implementation and sustainability
- Develop annual project activity plans and update quarterly in collaboration with key departments and external stakeholders, and oversee implementation to high standards by scope and timelines
- Provide expertise and technical assistance in agronomy and agribusiness, climate smart agriculture, marketing, IGA, DRR and Natural Resource Management.
- Promote the use of modern farming practice and techniques through training, advising farmers, farm visits and demonstrations so as to transform targeted families from subsistence to commercial farmers in line with GoU policy.
- Provide technical advice and support on enterprise development initiatives with high environmental integrity.
- Identify and promote local innovations through adaptive research among farmers in response to climate change in their communities.
- Established block gardens and demonstration plots to act as learning and multiplication sites for farmer groups
- Participatory selection of beneficiaries, prioritization of income generating activities, life skills awareness raising, and capacity building of the groups.
- Identify technical capacity and challenges for beneficiaries, skills and knowledge they have in agronomy, business development and income generating activities.
- Ensure timely procurement of and delivery of right quality and quantity of farmer inputs.
- Organizing weekly field planning meetings with community-based facilitators to guide effective implementation
- Promote Resilience and Livelihoods programme model for faster adoption of improved farming technologies towards building secure livelihoods for the marginal poor.
Stakeholders Engagement, Networking and Collaboration
- Take overall lead in the coordination of field level activities and represent World Vision in Settlement level livelihood working group meetings
- Facilitate the engagements of stakeholders during planning and development meetings, workshops and other fora.
- Develop the farmer's capacity to improve production and productivity of selected enterprises of desired quality by the market through demonstrations to farmer's
- Organize quarterly review meetings for partners and communities at the project sites to reflect on project approaches, tools, impact of interventions, best practices, exit and sustainability strategies as well as create spaces and opportunities for action-learning and debate
- Ensure integration of the project with other Resilience and Livelihood on going activities including that of World Vision, partners and government.
Before you apply, please take note of the following:
- 📌 Carefully read through the full job description and requirements.
- 📌 Tailor your resume and cover letter to highlight relevant skills and experience.
- 📌 Follow the application instructions exactly as provided (e.g., subject line, attachments).
- 📌 Ensure that your documents are professionally formatted and free of errors.
- 📌 Submit your application before the stated deadline to avoid disqualification.
- 📌 Prepare for potential interviews by researching the organization in advance.
- 📌 Only apply if you meet the minimum qualifications to improve your chances.
WE WISH YOU GOOD LUCK!
Date Posted: 2025-10-06
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