Technical Advisor Job Opportunity at AVSI Foundation

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Work in liaison with the SCORE Chief of Party, Program Manager, Area Managers and Project Officers to provide technical support to the high quality programming and implementation of socioeconomic strengthening activities;
• Develop technical standards for quality programming in the technical area, ensuring integration with all SCORE program areas;
• The incumbent will also develop tools/guidance/ protocols/ manuals and other materials for implementation of quality programming;
• Design/coordinate/ facilitate capacity building of implementing partners in this technical area;
• Provide continuous support supervision, monitoring and evaluation and quality assurance to project activities in the technical area to ensure achievement of targets;
• Train, mentor and support SCORE program officers concerned with Objective 1 within the regional teams;
• Build and strengthen relevant linkages with service level actors including private sector firms in order to enable vulnerable children households’ access and utilize these linkages
• Select and document promising practices for project reports and publications and prepare abstracts for conferences/meetings in his/her technical area
• Actively participate in proposal writing and other programmes development initiatives
• Participate in all Technical Steering Committee meetings
• Represent SCORE in official meetings concerning the technical area.
• Represent AVSI in official meetings when required by supervisors
• Perform other duties within area of responsibility, as requested by the Chief of Party.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The ideal candidate for the USAID SCORE Project Monitoring and Evaluation Officer job opportunity should hold a Master’s degree in Economics, Business Development, Agricultural Economics, Rural Development, or any other relevant field from a recognized institution.
• Significant experience in managing partnerships, and organizational capacity building of local organizations
• Previous exposure and experience working with different community/rural micro finance products
• Ability to work with both formal and informal community organizations in a rural setting.
• Good people management skills - team building initiatives
• Effective interpersonal skills - oral and written communication skills
• Computer literacy skills
• Previous experience working in apprenticeship programs

How to Apply:  

All suitably qualified candidates should send their application letters, accompanied with updated Curriculum Vitae indicating three professional referees and copies of relevant certificates via e-mail with the subject line indicating ‘Application for Technical Advisor – Socioeconomic Strengthening – Kampala’ addressed to:

The Human Resource Manager,

AVSI Foundation,

P.O. Box 6785, Kampala, Uganda.

E-mail to: hr.kampala@avsi.org

Deadline: 31^st March, 2016