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• Inclusive and effective governance
  contributes to food and nutrition security
• Improved health and nutritional status
  of pregnant and lactating women, children under five, and adolescent girls
• Improved WASH conditions
• Adolescent girls, adolescent boys, women
  and men access diverse and secure livelihoods through improved capacities
  and strengthened market systems

• Formulate the strategy for and
  subsequently implement innovative actions for livestock market systems
  development, both in building the capacity of local livestock actors,
  crowding in additional actors, and ensuring an enabling environment for
  pro-livestock growth in Karamoja
• Actively advance Mercy Corp’s
  connections to livestock actors at local, regional and national level,
  seeking avenues for partnership, collaboration and coordination of
  activities.
• Work with the MSD Manager to develop
  livestock related research and monitoring of livestock market systems
  analyses, business cases and intervention plans in the selected sectors to
  improve impact

• Work in consultation with the Mercy
  Corps livestock health Production and Marketing teams, national drug
  companies, district veterinary officers and other key partners in planning
  and implementation of veterinary service extension activities of Apalou
  program according to the approved work plans and budgets;
• Work with livestock producers have
  improved knowledge and skills and adopt practices that are nutrition
  sensitive and support resilience,
• Work closely with farmers to
  commercializing livestock value chains and live animal trading and
  profitable provision of community animal health services and increasing
  fodder production,
• Work with Livestock output markets to
  facilitate strengthening and expansion
• Work with youth to improve on and off
  farm livelihood opportunities in the livestock sector
• Work with the DVOs office to facilitate
  creation of an enabling environment in Karamoja for livestock is to
  support target markets and improved nutrition and security.
• Work closely with agro-vet shops and
  livestock traders to identify capacity gaps of CAHWs and farmers’
  challenges and provide technical support, design tools and activities for
  improvement and follow up the implementation;
• Work in liaison with the district
  veterinary officers and agro-vet shops, the LTO will design and implement
  a supervisory plan for CAHWs to ensure quality service delivery to
  farmers;
• Build and maintain close coordination
  and co-operation with district veterinary department, ministry of
  agriculture, research institutions, sector working groups and development
  agencies to ensure synergy and improved coordination among
  programs/interventions;
• Work closely with NDA to oversee the
  work to control the illegal sale of animal drugs in the markets;
• Work with DVOs to plan and support
  disease surveillance activities and vaccination campaigns – including
  poultry and Newcastle disease, foot and mouth disease etc;
• Offer technical support to national drug
  companies, agro-vet shops and CAHWs to promote herd health program at
  kraal and household levels

• 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.
• Work closely with other team members to
  ensure consortium is integrated in approach, on-scope, on-time and
  on-budget.

• Ensure compliance with donor and Mercy
  Corps regulations related to livestock Activities
• Develop team budgets, ensure adherence
  to MC Uganda Field Finance Manual and Field Procurement Manual for all
  livestock activities

• Identify, build and manage collaborative
  partnerships with key private sector gatekeepers
• Represent Mercy Corps’ approach at key
  government, coordination and advocacy platforms.

• The ideal candidate for the Mercy Corps
  Livestock Officer job opportunity should hold a Bachelor’s Degree in an
  animal related science (Veterinary medicine, animal husbandry; production
  and marketing) or its equivalent;
• A minimum of three years of relevant
  experience with proven technical experience in the field;
• Willingness to work in the field with
  agro-vet shops, Community animal health workers, kraal leaders and
  communities;
• Possess the ability to interact
  effectively with a wide range of partners; private sector, government and
  civil society;
• Skills in team work, holding community
  consultations and organizational development;
• Excellent reporting, communication and
  representation skills
• Skills in networking, team-working, and
  community consultations
• Good spoken and written English. Fluency
  in Ngakarimojong and Pokot is an advantage

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