Livelihoods Volunteer job at international rescue committee

international rescue committee

Livelihoods Volunteer job Post

Location: Jobs in Uganda 2022 - 2023

Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day

Salary: UGX

No. of vacancies: 01

Deadline: 14 August 2022

Hiring Organization: international rescue committee

Job Details:

Livelihoods Volunteer

Job Description
The Livelihoods Volunteer will be responsible for providing technical support in vocational skills training, apprenticeship, skills certification, Urban Savings and Loans Association (USLA), and micro-enterprise.

Duties and Responsibilities
• Support in registration, and preparation of payments for the different service tracks i.e vocational skills training, apprenticeship, skills certification, Urban Savings and Loans Association (USLA), and micro-enterprise in dropin and commcare at the IRC Livelihood Center.
• Support with soft skills trainings for vocational & apprenticeship clients including job readiness.
• Support with USLA group formation and facilitation of trainings on VSLA methodology for USLA formed groups.
• Provide technical backstopping for USLA groups on a weekly basis during group Sittings and collection of weekly/monthly savings data from the USLA groups.
• Identify mature VSLA groups for financial linkages and train them in bank linkage processes.
• Support in monitoring of clients placed with Apprenticeship hosts in the different divisions
• Participate in the M&E data collection and documentation of success stories as required.
• Act as channel for feedback through who community members and leaders can communicate with the IRC during community engagements.
• Identify specific protection needs and preliminary referrals to service providers (both state and humanitarian actors)
• Support with translation/Interpretation for the clients

Key Working Relationships
Position Reports to: Business and Enterprise Development Manager.
Position Indirectly Reports to: Senior Livelihoods Officer, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, VSLA Officer, Cash and Markets Officer, Community and Client Engagement Officer.

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management or Administration, Marketing, Business Development or related field.
• Good knowledge of the low-income residential areas of Kampala City will be an added advantage.
• Excellent networking and liaison skills.
• Strong computer and analytical report writing skills.
• Good problem-solving and management skills.
• Good negotiation and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work in a team
• Good standard of spoken and written English language skills essential.

Please note:
This position is open only to Ugandan nationals.
Deadline for receiving applications is August 14th 2022.