Vacancy title:
Project Assistant - Resilience and Livelihood

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Professional Services, Category: Management]

Jobs at:
World Vision

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, October 10 2025

Duty Station:
Uganda | Kampala | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, October 3 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Reports to: Area Program Coordinator

Location: Omugo Area Program

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.

Documentation, Reporting and knowledge management 

• Writes and submits comprehensive monthly progress reports, and specific activity reports, and any other reports when necessary to his/her supervisor in a timely manner.
• Participate in monthly and quarterly financial reporting, including realization of activities versus budget utilization; (Providing input) rationale on financial reporting;
• Annual review of progress towards project objectives;   
• Take lead in documentation and sharing of Impact/success stories and best practices to promote learning.

Community engagement and advocacy

• Develop farmer's capacity to improve production and productivity of selected enterprises of desired quality by the market through demonstrations to farmer's
• Mobilize and facilitate the engagements of stakeholders during planning and development meetings, workshops and other fora.
• Coordinate partners and communities in implementation of agreed action plans.
• Ensure integration of project with other ongoing Resilience and Livelihood activities including that of World Vision and government.

Child Protection and Wellbeing

• Monitor the wellbeing and child abuse cases and report any incidents in line with child protection policy and guidelines.
• Work with local leaders to protect children from child violations and abuses
• Sensitize children including most vulnerable, guardians/parents and other stakeholders about children’s rights and responsibilities.

Minimum education, training and experience requirements to qualify for the position:

• Minimum of Bachelors in Agriculture or Agribusiness or Forestry or Development Studies or any other relevant discipline.  Experience in community work and engagement Agricultural, Economic Development and Livelihood is and added advantage
• Climate Smart Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, micro finance and strong agribusiness skills
• At least three years’ experience working with vulnerable communities and familiarity with humanitarian programming and implementation

Professional Experience

• Minimum of 3-years professional work experience in project management, Livelihoods and microfinance enterprise development
• Experience of data collection, collation, analysis, and report writing
• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
• Strong leadership, organizational and analytical skills, and ability to work under pressure
• Excellent verbal and written skills in English
• Excellent computer skills, particularly with Microsoft Excel, spreadsheets.
• Must be able to ride a motor cycle with a clean riders’ license, class A. 

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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