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Date Posted: Monday, September 05, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Job Summary:
The Economic Strengthening (ES) Coordinator is mainly responsible for leading the design, integration, monitoring and documentation of socio-economic services in key program domains to ensure comprehensive HIV Service delivery. The ES coordinator will take technical leadership in designing and promoting use of low-risk but high impact community based economic interventions to diversify and stimulate growth in household income and integrate economic activities with complementary interventions across the KCHS project. This includes assisting families in income generation, access to group based savings and allocating household resources to improving children and youth’s wellness outcomes. She/he will be knowledgeable about evidence-based low cost but high impact household economic strengthening approaches/strategies that address the different levels of vulnerability.


Key Duties and Responsibilities:
● Formulate and implement strategies and interventions to sustainably increase household income-generation and savings among vulnerable households targeted by the project.
● Provide technical and management leadership including designing and implementing technical strategies, programs or tools in specific technical areas related to family-centred economic strengthening.
● Facilitate the integration of Household Economic Strengthening with other result areas including but not limited to increased access to health and social services for OVC, and their families.
● Identify breakthrough innovations/strategies in the field of Household Economic Strengthening and integrate these into on-going project designs to increase efficiency and impact.
● Ensure linkage of OVC households to existing social safety net programs, and supporting the beneficiaries to transition to HES initiatives
● Significantly contribute to work plans, quarterly and annual reports summarizing project results and evidence.
● Provide technical leadership to ensure economic strengthening activities are in line with globally-recognized best practices for addressing needs of OVC, youth and their caregivers.
● Ensure all economic strengthening strategies are gender-sensitive and promote equitable programming.
● Manage project activities and set high quality performance targets ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices and donor guidelines.
● Provide mentorship and coaching to Economic strengthening officers, conduct trainings, lead workshops, and facilitate group interaction as part of project execution toward specific outputs and objectives.
● Equip economic strengthening officers with skills and resources to assess outcomes, as well as strengths and weaknesses of HES activities.
● Regularly monitor and maintain relevant manuals, training materials and reports for economic strengthening activities.
● Work in liaison with the M&E, and capture data on ES activities
● Prepare accurate and timely reports and success stories on the KCHS project to showcase project lessons, and results to contribute to the wider sector and institutional knowledge.

Job requirement / qualifications
● Degree in: social work and social administration, development studies, guidance and counselling, or related fields from a recognized institution.
● At least two years of experience working on under large complete OVC programs preferably PEPFAR/USAID, with strong economic strengthening experience.
● Experience/exposure to VSLA/SILC methodology layered programming
● Demonstrated passion for learning and problem solving
● Demonstrated capacity to coordinate service delivery and work as part of a complex and integrated team
● Relevant experience in documentation, reporting and records management is a requirement.
● Excellent writing skills.
● Good communication skills and ability to communicate in the local and national languages.
● Computer skills in PowerPoint, Word, Excel.



Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Interested and Qualified, Hand deliver your application letter together with the relevant documents, photocopy national ID, an updated CV with 3 recognised referees, their addresses and telephone contacts.
The deadline for submission is 12th September 2022.

Applications should be addressed to:
The Diocesan Health Coordinator
Masaka Diocese
P.O Box 14
Masaka Uganda
Tel: +256772318806

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