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Job Title ⇒ Financial Inclusion Officer
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Organization ⇒ Mercy Corps
Duty Station Uganda
Reports to ⇒ Financial Inclusion Team Leader
About US ⇒
Mercy Corps has been present in Uganda since 2006, focusing its interventions
on economic and agricultural development, maternal child health and nutrition,
governance, conflict management and humanitarian response. In 2017, Mercy
Corps had an impact on almost 1 million beneficiaries in Uganda through our
work focusing on building resilience and enabling economic growth, improving
opportunities to attain better health and nutrition, and improving governance
and conflict management. Common themes include community engagement, inclusive
development, gender, and working in partnership with local government, the
private sector and civil society actors.

About USAID Project
The $41 million USAID Food for Peace Activity Apolou and the $5 million
USAID Resilience Challenge Fund RCF Activity support agriculturalists, agro-
pastoralists, and pastoralist households living across the districts of
Amudat, Kotido, Kaabong, Karenga, and Moroto in Karamoja.
Job Summary ⇒ The Financial Inclusion Officer will implement all aspects of
the market systems development strategy in the Apolou Activity. This includes
strengthening private sector interventions in livestock and agriculture value
chains, as well as scaling up financial inclusion and other products/services
as relevant. The Financial Inclusion Officer will work directly with the
Financial Inclusion Team Leader to developing agent input/output and
aggregator networks, increasing local partners' access to market information
and financial services. The Officer will ensure that private sector led,
project-support development is tailored to the unique needs, opportunities and
constraints of women and youth and that activities are integrated with all
other consortium supported sectors.
Key Duties and Responsibilities ⇒
Strategy & Vision
⇗ Support the Financial Inclusion Team Leader to develop and implement team
strategy
⇗ Identify new opportunities for innovation and growth among private sector
led interventions
Program Management
⇗ Participate in market assessments in the target communities to determine
capacity gaps, business opportunities and potential hindrances that could be
mitigated through engagements with public and private sector actors. This will
include but not be limited to rapid market assessments, value chain analysis
and business support activities for the key stakeholders.
⇗ Identify and engage private sector actors to effectively expand their
business models in Karamoja Sub Region. This will include profiling businesses
and conducting due diligence on potential partners, support the negotiation
process to finalize teaming and partnership agreements, and providing ongoing
business development support to key partners
⇗ Foster ongoing positive cooperation with relevant stakeholders including
SMEs and the public sector to identify, assess and develop networks for
potential linkages between market actors, producers and final consumers etc.
⇗ Identify capacity gaps of MSME partner actors in Karamoja, design and
conduct tailor made trainings, mentorship and coaching to boost their
competitiveness in the market and boost returns on investment,
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
⇗ Establish procedures and guidelines to monitor and evaluate the progress
and impact of economic development support work including setting and
measuring benchmarks along results chains;
⇗ Keenly analyze project implementation strategies to identify constraints to
program success and provide timely recommendations to inform decision making
processes.
⇗ Provide data in support of the team's submission of timely monthly and
quarterly reports, strategic reviews, annual reports and midterm evaluations
that will be indicative of program progress during implementation.
⇗ Collect data about all groups working with the financial inclusion
intervention and work with MEL team to update CommCare with up to date group
data.
Influence & Representation
⇗ Ensure close coordination and sharing of information with relevant
stakeholders such as local government authorities, financial service providers
and NGOs as and when advised by the line manager.
⇗ Liaise with local government officials, local NGOs and civil society
organizations, and other key stakeholders to ensure support for and acceptance
of Mercy Corps' market based interventions.
⇗ Coordination with District Implementation Team
⇗ Build the capacity of the members of the implementation team on their
particular sector through orientations, one on one discussions and
demonstrating in the field.
⇗ The district implementation team after conducting a needs assessment will
decide an intervention to be layered. The district implementation team will
require support in developing a sector specific plan for a particular
community. The member of the technical team will support the district team to
plan the intervention that is related to the particular sector and purpose.
⇗ The district implementation team member will mobilize the extension service
agents which will go on to mobilize the community groups to provide the
services to conduct the activity in the field. The member of the technical
team will coordinate with the district implementation team to conduct the
activities in the field.
⇗ The technical team member will monitor the activities conducted in the
field and provide feedback to the technical extension service agents to
improve the quality of implementation of activities.
⇗ The technical team member will meet quarterly with the district
implementation team to review the activities conducted in the field and
reflect with the team to understand how the quality of implementation of
activities would be improved.
⇗ Collaborate with the MEL team on the design and implementation of the
Apolou CLA/Learning Agenda
Finance, Compliance AND Operations Management
⇗ Ensure compliance with donor and Mercy Corps regulations related to
financial inclusion
⇗ Generate activity scopes of work for review by team leader


Qualifications, Skills and Experience ⇒
⇗ The applicant for the Mercy Corps Financial Inclusion Officer job placement
must hold a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Agribusiness, or other
related field
⇗ At least two years of work experience with the private sector or market
facilitation approaches
⇗ Familiarity with the Karamojong business environment will be an added
advantage.
⇗ Excellent English Language skills, with Nga'Karimojong language skills a
plus
⇗ Computer literate with dexterity with Microsoft Office
⇗ Success Factors
⇗ The success of the Financial Inclusion Officer is measured by the ability
to effectively implement a light touch market system strategy,
⇗ The capacity of the officer to positively collaborate across teams,
ensuring that MSD interventions are relevant, and gender and youth inclusive.
⇗ The extent to which the MSD/ FI approaches are layered onto other Apolou
interventions that are implementing through group strategies.
How to Apply
All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply online at the link
below
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Deadline 30 th September 2020

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