USAID’s Integrated Community Agriculture and Nutrition Activity (ICAN) is USAID/Uganda’s flagship resilience project, awarded in July 2018. The Activity goal is to enhance the resilience of vulnerable households in the eight districts of Kanungu, Kisoro, Rukungiri (Kigezi sub-region); Gulu, Lamwo, Nwoya (Acholi sub-region); Kaabong and Kotido (Karamoja sub-region). ICAN Activity is majorly aimed at strengthening community resilience in the event of shock and stress with four core purpose areas: Increasing the resilience of Vulnerable households in 8 districts ;increasing economic and diversified livelihood activities; improving food and nutrition security; enhancing inclusive and effective governance processes; Gender and social inclusion being a cross-cutting component.
The development hypothesis is that If USAID ICAN increases the economic opportunities and supports the diversification of vulnerable Ugandans, support the adoption of practices to improve their nutritional status and support the participation in inclusive effective governance processes, then they will achieve sustainable gains in their ability to respond to and recover from shocks and stresses, increasing their resilience.
Since October 2018, USAID ICAN has been implementing activities in 4 selected sub counties of Kotido (Kacheri, Rengen, Nakapelemoru and North Division and 3 in Kaabong (Lolelia, Sidok and Loyoro)
ICAN in partnership with Aridland Development Programme and Diocesan Development Services is currently recruiting for the shortly mentioned positions:
Position: FIELD OFFICERS
Number of opportunities available: 04 per partner
Location: Kotido (4-positions)
Travel: 100% within the communities of Kotido
Line Manager: Program Coordinator DDS-NK
Duration: Maximum of two years
Role Purpose
Support the day to today implementation of USAID ICAN activities in the districts of Kotido or Kaabong. The role shall involve, planning, implementation and reporting on progress to the program coordination consultant. The successful candidate shall work with community-based structures such as Village Health Teams, Business Service Providers, Elder’s councils, Governance Champions and also provide oversight to other local civil social organizations engaged by USAID ICAN. Specifically, it shall include the following;

Key Areas of Accountability.
• Prepare and submit timely plans for district of jurisdiction to the Program Coordinator.
• Provide technical backstopping to community-based resource person engaged by ICAN in implementation of activities. The community resource persons shall include; VHTs, BSPs, governance champions and ere leaders.
• In consultation with the Regional Team Lead and respective thematic area technical leads, monitor the day to day implementation of work done by private partners and other CSOs engaged by ICAN.
• Identify technologies, practices, tools, equipment, and partners that have the greatest potential to improve the resilience capacities of the target households and communities.
• Facilitate participatory disaster risk mapping; training of stakeholders on resilience; development of community resilience plans; monitoring of the implementation of resilience plans and Early Warning Systems strengthening of ICAN beneficiaries.
• In consultation with the M&E Coordinator, ensure timely submission of all required data.
• Ensure that BSPs, VHTs and Governance Champions understand and implement the ICAN activities as per approved approaches. The Field Officers shall provide regular updates on the functionality and effectiveness of this community resource persons on their day today implementation of activities.
• Organize review meetings with community resource persons under area of jurisdiction to inform implementation progress, share lessons learnt and updates from management.
• Provide accurate, effective and timely reports that closely track implementation of approved work plans.
• Represent USAID ICAN in the relevant sub county meetings e.g. budget conferences and sub county disaster Management meetings.
• Directly supervise and provide leadership to trainings of community groups at sub county level to ensure effective use of resources and successful targeting of services to the beneficiary farmers.
• Perform any other duties as assigned as assigned by the Program Coordinator.

Key Deliverables
• Monthly and Quarterly reports
• Weekly briefs to line manager
• Weekly schedule of activities
• Meeting minutes and briefs
• Monthly M&E data files

Qualifications, Skills and Experiences
• The ideal candidate for this vacancy should hold a relevant diploma or degree in areas to include; agriculture, business administration social work, nutrition, good governance, community phycology etc. In addition, Diploma holders should have Minimum of 3 years’ experience in community level development interventions while degree holders should have minimum of 1 years’ experience. Preference shall be those experience in the areas of food security, nutrition, good governance, market development and livelihoods in Karamoja region
• Good leadership skills with ability to take personal initiatives to achieve results with minimal supervision. Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, and Power Point), Web Conferencing applications and information management systems.
• Strong relationship management skills and the ability to work effectively in an environment of cultural diversities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skill
• Possession of a valid riding permit is a must.
• Practical ability to ride a motorcycle is A must.
• Ability to communicate in the Ngakarimojong is a must

To apply, submit a CV and short cover letter outlining your suitability for the role, Academic documents and recommendation letter from your pastor, priest or religious leader. Please email your applications to

diocesan.developmentservicesnk@gmail.com  with a reference “ICAN –Karamoja /Indicate position applied for”. Or Submit hand delivered applications to

The Executive Director, 

Diocesan Development Services - North Karamoja,

 P.O. Box 26, Kotido.