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Job Title ⇒ Youth Savings and Loans Associations YSLA and Girls’
Socio-Economic Empowerment Specialist
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Organization ⇒ CARE International
Project Name ⇒ Women, Adolescents and Youth Rights and Empowerment
Programme
WAY
Duty Station Uganda
About US ⇒
CARE is a global leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending
poverty. We are known everywhere for our unshakeable commitment to the dignity
of people. CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and
achieve social justice. We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice,
where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity and security.
We put women and girls in the centre because we know that we cannot overcome
poverty until all people have equal rights and opportunities. CARE has been
working in Uganda for 50 years and in 2019/2020, we improved the lives of 2.6
million people 60% women. Our goal for the next five years is to reach ten
million people, through our gender transformative, resilience building, and
lifesaving programs.
Job Summary ⇒ The Youth Savings and Loans Associations YSLA and Girls’
Socio-Economic Empowerment Specialist is responsible for developing and
implementing WAY project interventions specifically targeting girls aged 15 to
19 years. S/he leads the successful delivery of the Youth and Adolescent
empowerment processes in the WAY programme in the eleven districts of West
Nile and Northern Uganda namely Arua, Madi-Okollo, Terego, Yumbe, Moyo,
Obongi, Adjumani, Amuru, Agago, Kitgum and Lamwo as well as twenty-three
Refugee Settlements Spread Across Madi-Okollo, Terego, Yumbe, Obongi,
Adjumani and Lamwo. The YSLA and GSEE Specialist will be a dynamic team
player with strong technical skills in youth entrepreneurship, income
generating activities IGAs and socio-economic empowerment. S/he has an in-
depth understanding of YLSA and the socio-economic status of girls as a
marginalized and a vulnerable category of youth and adolescents. S/he must be
familiar with the inherent gender norms that tend to marginalise girls and
women, leading into a path of marginalisation very early in their lives. The
Specialist should be familiar with the development-humanitarian nexus
programming, have a passion for youth and girls’ socio-economic empowerment;
promoting gender equality and diversity, engaging men and boys, curbing GBV;
and promoting adolescent sexual reproductive health rights. The incumbent
should have strong mobilisation, networking and relationship building skills
and be familiar with working in partnership with local governments and Refugee
Settlements Authorities. The YSLA and GSEE empowerment Specialist provides
technical oversight in capacity development interventions, needs assessments,
mentorships and support supervision of the girls and their groups. The key
responsibilities of the position include working closely with the Initiative
Manager, other Specialists, Coordinators, district based staff and the entire
WAY team, agents and Volunteers to roll out the youth and girls’ empowerment
processes and be accountable for verables. S/he ensures periodic reviews,
documentation as well as timely planning and reporting. The incumbent should
have practical knowledge and capacity for layering SRHR, GBV, IGAs and other
activities on the YSLA platforms within the overall objectives of the project,
namely promotion of SRHR and GBV Prevention. The position is based in Kitgum
with substantial travel of up to 70% of the time to project districts in
Acholi and West Nile sub-regions. The incumbent may be transferred based on
CARE organisational needs.
Key Duties and Responsibilities ⇒
Work with WAY team to implement the YSLA approach and girls socio-economic
strengthening interventions. 40% of time
⇗ Conduct participatory identification and capacity assessment of existing
girls’ groups and support formation of new ones as necessary.
⇗ Lead team members, girls’ groups and WAY platforms on integrating and
rolling out the YSLA approach for out of school girls.
⇗ Develop and implement YSLA and girls’ socio-economic empowerment activities
for the WAY Programme.
⇗ Review, revise and/or adapt training materials and conduct TOTs in YSLA
methodology
⇗ Develop training resources and conduct TOTs in enterprise development and
advanced business skills
⇗ Champion formal financial linkages and product development that suit the
YSLA beneficiary category.
⇗ Champion Digital access to financial services and Financial Education to
address the day-today needs of the targeted girls.
⇗ Develop value chain development and market access training guides for
building capacities of YSLA members
⇗ Review and realign existing YSLA training manuals and ensure they are
tailored to the local context for the desired target groups.
⇗ Facilitate Apprenticeship and skills development for the girls
⇗ Spearhead leadership and life-skills training for the girls, mentoring,
coaching and growth processes.
Technical support to girls’ groups and strengthening capacity on YSLA and
GSEE. 25 % of time
⇗ Facilitate capacity strengthening for staff, girls’ groups and other actors
to implement YSLA and girls’ socio-economic empowerment deliverables
⇗ Mentor, coach and monitor the progress of girls’ groups, CARE staff and
ensure a high quality of work on the ground in rolling out of the YSLA and
girls socio-economic empowerment approach
⇗ Provide technical support to CARE projects involved in YSLA methodology and
economic empowerment, specifically contributing to integration and synergy
between Humanitarian and Development Programming within CARE Uganda Country
Office
⇗ Engage as appropriate in broader CARE Uganda programme initiatives such as
WAYFIP, WENG, Emergency and Gender/GBV/SRH
Coordinate and nurture relationships with Local Governments, Refugee
Settlements and Donor Field Actors for synergy 20% of the time
⇗ Facilitate and strengthen networking between key stakeholders that underpin
the socioeconomic economic empowerment of girls e.g. government, banks,
private sector, religious and cultural institutions.
⇗ Develop and support a collaborative and transparent working relationship
between CARE and stakeholders on the ground based on effective and timely
communication
⇗ Foster linkages and networking between the girls’ groups and other YSLA
partners in the private and public sector.
⇗ Support girls’ groups and staff to identify structural constraints that can
be addressed by an advocacy intervention and bring them to the attention of
the Initiative Manager.
⇗ Effectively represent the program at relevant fora
⇗ Represent CARE in relevant events and for a such as district and refugee
settlement level coordination mechanisms aimed at harmonizing integration of
programmes
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning 10 % of time
⇗ Work with the MEAL TEAM, to support the design and implementation of
monitoring and evaluation systems in relation to the girls’ socio-economic
empowerment approach.
⇗ Participate in the development and continuous review of the overall project
M&E systems.
⇗ Contribute to the designing of effective monitoring and evaluation tools to
collect relevant programme impact information.
⇗ Participate in the preparation of annual and quarterly implementation plans
and timely reporting
⇗ Participate in the preparation and documentation of stories of change,
lessons learnt and organize sharing of the documented lessons
⇗ Participate the Country Office Programme Quality and Learning Activities.
⇗ Share monitoring and progress reports on a regular basis.
⇗ Responsibility #5 Any Other duties 5%
⇗ Participate in CARE country programme business development including
proposal development and fundraising in areas of technical competence or as
assigned
Qualifications, Skills and Experience ⇒
⇗ The ideal applicant must hold a Master’s degree in business development,
Economics, Adult education, Sociology or related graduate qualifications.
⇗ Advanced knowledge and at least five years of proven practical experience
technically supporting gender transformative approaches.
⇗ At least 5 years of hands on professional experience in community
development work including working with institutions, understanding their
culture, breaking taboos in conversations, ability to discuss sensitive topics
such as masculinity and sexuality in a sensitive but direct way.
⇗ Experience working with large, cross cultural teams with multiple
deliverables is desirable.
⇗ Strong inter-personal communication and facilitation skills; sound judgment
and decision making skills.
⇗ Ability to network, build relationships and establish collaboration with
different government institutions, development agencies, local and national
networks.
⇗ Ability to link with community activists and social movements
⇗ Working knowledge of M&E, and strong report writing and documentation
skills.
⇗ Unshakable commitment to gender equality and empowerment of women and
girls.
⇗ Practical experience on girls social – economic empowerment, implementing
income generating activities and layering services over YSLA platforms
⇗ Experience with humanitarian-development nexus programming.
How to Apply
All Candidates who are interested in the above job should submit an updated CV
and Application letter giving a day time telephone contact and names,
telephone contacts and email addresses of 3 three work related referees only
through our recruitment email ugarecruitment@care.org
]mailtougarecruitment@care.org clearly indicating the job title in the
email subject.
CARE is an equal opportunities, gender sensitive, corruption, sexual
exploitation and abuse intolerant employer.
Please Note that CARE International in Uganda does not ask any applicant
payment for any recruitment process
Deadline 17 th August 2020
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