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Job Title ⇒ Financial Inclusion Team Lead - Apolou
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Organization ⇒ Mercy Corps
Duty Station ⇒ Uganda
Reports to ⇒ Livelihoods Manager
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.

Job Summary The Financial Inclusion Team Leader will be responsible
for the overall management and coordination of a Market Systems based pro-poor
economic initiatives program that is primarily focusing on strengthen service
and product delivery across all the Purpose 4 sectors of financial inclusion,
business enabling environment, livestock inputs and marketing, and ag-input
and commodity marketing. The MSD Manager will lead, coordinate and manage all
activities related to the implementation of the program and operations in
Karamoja, Apolou operational districts. The Financial Inclusion Team leader
provides technical leadership, supervises program staff, and coordinates the
implementation of all program activities ensuring the programs are on time, on
scope and on budget. The MSD Manager promotes a culture of constant program
improvement, mentor the program team, integrate monitoring and evaluation into
program activities and ensure the delivery of high-quality program that
delivers impact. She/he also identifies opportunities to operationalize
recommendations from ongoing context analyses.
The Financial Inclusion Team Leader is responsible for 1 implementation,
sustainability and potential scale up program activities 2 management of
operations and logistics, 3 security management, 4 team management, 5
reporting, and 6 coordination. The success of the Financial Inclusion Team
Leader will be measured on the degree to which he/she shall promote pro-poor
private sector growth in Karamoja using a light touch approach designed to
encourage sustainability and reduce dependency, both of business partners and
community beneficiaries. The second success factor will be the degree to which
the MSD manager is able to effectively integrate with other sectors in order
to maximize impact.
Key Duties and Responsibilities ⇒
Strategy & Vision
⇗ Develop the strategy for and subsequently implement innovative actions for
market systems development, both in building the capacity of local business
actors, crowding in additional actors, and ensuring an enabling environment
for pro-poor business growth in Karamoja
⇗ Actively advance Mercy Corp’s connections to market actors at local,
regional and national level, seeking avenues for partnership, collaboration
and coordination of activities.
⇗ Provide strategic and technical MSD leadership across the consortium, in
further developing and refining the project strategy; provide guidance for the
program leadership, team members and partners on implementation of the MSD
related intervention strategies;
⇗ Lead research and monitoring of market systems analyses, business cases and
intervention plans in the selected sectors to improve impact, particularly for
the scale up of livestock value chains, agriculture value chains and financial
inclusion.
Program Management
⇗ Identify and analyze systemic constraints and opportunities within and
between the value chains, and design appropriate market driven interventions
to address the gaps and barriers in market systems using MSD approach.
⇗ Participate in designing and conducting market awareness-raising campaigns
and undertake market assessments and research that will inform the scale-up
strategy in Karamoja.
⇗ Use an adaptive management approach to continuously reflect on MSD progress
and MSD integration with overall consortium, ensuring active learning and
course correction where strategies and coordination are falling short.
⇗ Establish and oversee the effective monitoring and evaluation of MSD
activities, developing monthly and quarterly reports and contributing to
required indicator tracking
⇗ Ensure MSD activities are gender and youth sensitive with a focus on
building resilience in vulnerable populations
⇗ Ensure coordination of consortium and external partners around the MSD
approach, contributing to MSD advocacy with district, regional and national
partners
Team Management
⇗ Directly supervise team of MSD Officers, mentoring the team in order to
build technical capacity and ensure best practice in implementation as well as
adherence to Mercy Corps’ internal policies and procedures.
⇗ Promote accountability, communicate expectations and provide constructive
feedback informally and formally via regular one on ones and performance
reviews.
⇗ Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members
strive to achieve excellence
⇗ Lead capacity development initiatives for project team members through
trainings, mentoring and coaching to ensure there is a cohesive understanding
of market systems and project implementation approaches
⇗ Liaise with other Managers and Team Leaders to ensure consortium is
integrated in approach, on-scope, on-time and on-budget.
⇗ Guide program team and work with M&E staff to develop, document and
implement adaptive management practices that lead to improved quality and
responsive implementation
⇗ Work with program and M&E staff to ensure high quality measurement on key
performance indicators for MSD
Finance & Compliance Management
⇗ Ensure compliance with donor and Mercy Corps regulations related to MSD
Activities
⇗ Develop MSD team budgets, ensure adherence to MC Uganda Field Finance
Manual and Field Procurement Manual for all MSD activities, and oversee
implementation of key budget lines
Influence & Representation
⇗ Represent Mercy Corps’ approach at key government, coordination and
advocacy platforms.
⇗ Identify and engage with technical, private and public sector partnerships
needed to execute program strategies and support the growth and formalization
of partnership arrangements as necessary
⇗ Conduct himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner
as to bring credit to Mercy Corps and to not jeopardize its humanitarian
mission.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience ⇒
⇗ The applicant for the Mercy Corps Project Officer – GIRL job must hold a
BA/S or equivalent in economics, agri-business, rural development and a
relevant field; an advanced degree is preferred
⇗ Five to seven years of agriculture/livelihoods program implementation and
management experience in a market-based approaches
⇗ Five years of practical field experience managing related market system
projects; preferably in Northern Uganda
⇗ Demonstrated strong theoretical and applied knowledge of livelihood and
market systems development programming and familiarity designing assessments
⇗ Previous experience of working in insecure environments and applying market
based approaches in fragile contexts ideally including experience in an
emergency response.
⇗ Strong writing and report development skills
⇗ Experience coordinating and leading partners and stakeholders
⇗ Prior experience in developing partnership with both private and public
actors as part of program implementation in achieving projects desired goals
⇗ Experience managing staff and ability to work with a consortium programming
staff
⇗ Must be able to work independently while being a strong team player
⇗ History of working effectively with private sectors, INGO and NGO partners;
⇗ Demonstrated ability to work in complex programming and volatile
environments;
⇗ Oral and written English skills required.
⇗ Success Factors Define the specific behavior and attitudes
critical to success in the position at time of hire and as it develops over
time in paragraph form soft skills.
Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer; Qualified female candidates are
strongly encouraged to apply.
How to Apply ⇒
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
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Deadline 22 nd January 2021

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