Participatory Integrated Planning Advisor job at SNV
Posted by: great-volunteer
Posted date: 2025-Jul-30
Location: Uganda, Kampala
Participatory Integrated Planning Advisor 2025-07-29T19:03:24+00:00 SNV https://cdn.ugashare.com/jsjobsdata/data/employer/comp_4043/logo/snv.jpg https://snv.org/ FULL_TIME Uganda Kampala 00256 Uganda Nonprofit, and NGO Management 2025-08-18T17:00:00+00:00 Uganda 8 The Participatory Integrated Planning (PIP) Advisor will introduce, implement and monitor the PIP approach in the selected project communities and will provide technical insights and advisory services on supporting selected communities and small holder farming (SHF) households (HH) in those communities to develop a 5-year development vision and therewith related action plan. The PIP Advisor is specialized in community and SHF HH development plans and provides technical services on relevant products and interventions. The PIP Advisor gives input to smallholder farmers to meet the agreed objectives and realise successful interventions. The PIP Advisor identifies opportunities and areas for improvement, to ensure quality delivery. as well to be supportive in preparing relevant concept notes (CN), Terms of Reference (ToR) as well as supporting the PM in annual reports. The PIP advisor will manage a team of 50+ PIP field officers, partly INCLUDE employed staff and a large number of field officers contracted via local service providers. The Job requires regular travel within Busoga region, but also to the other three project regions to activate, guide and monitor PIP communities, conduct fact findings and assessment of PIP implementation, and for regular consultation with peer projects, funded by EKN. Job Description Responsibilities - Introduce, implement and monitor all PIP activities, including the planning, inception, implementation, within scope, budget, timeline and acceptable quality levels
- Take responsibility for the relationship with relevant project partners, both present and in the future including local & national government and international organisations
- Contribute to the design of follow-up interventions, taking leadership of design process in consultation with the PM
- Act as technical lead for the introduction of PIP and aims to create an environment for the implementation PIP to meet its objectives.
- Contribute to SHFs household knowledge development, ensure lessons learned are harvested, documented, communicated, and applied in daily practice and may be appointed as (national) focal point of an expertise network.
- Participate in INCLUDE strategic positioning meetings and act as a representative and knowledgeable face of the SNV organisation to the project partners and the donor EKN.
- Identify opportunities for Business Development policies and procedures
Qualifications - Master’s degree in Agriculture, Agribusiness, social sciences with specialization in Community Development, Natural Resource Management, Land use and Management, Agroforestry and any other relevant technical field.
- A minimum of 10 or more years’ experience in development work and project implementation or technical field
- Experience in working with household participatory approaches with local communities of not less than 8 years in related projects/programs.
- Experience with relevant technical models such as INRM, catchment management, agribusiness, private sector engagement and local Value Chain Development, among others.
- Experience in community work and engagement Agricultural, Economic Development, Livelihood and specific technical expertise such as GESI, Farming Systems, Sustainable agriculture, land use and management or crop production is an added advantage.
- Experience in applying the PIP approach (or similar methodology) at both the conceptual and operational level is a key requirement.
- Ability to work effectively with multiple partners including (local leaders, government parish, sub-county, village officials), other NGOs, value chain actors in the communities.
- Ability to ride a motorcycle with a valid riding permit is an advantage.
Additional Information Key Competencies - Leadership: The ability to provide direction and guidance to a group of people and to encourage cooperation between team members to attain an objective.
- Planning and organising: The ability to determine goals and priorities and to assess the actions, time and resources needed to achieve those goals.
- Decisiveness: The ability to make active decisions or to commit oneself by speaking one’s mind and taking position.
- Problem analysis: The ability to detect problems, recognise important information and link various data to trace potential causes and look for relevant details.
- Result orientation: The ability to take direct action to attain or exceed objectives.
- Focus on quality: Setting high quality standards and striving for continuous improvement and quality assurance.
JOB-68891afc84c1d Vacancy title:
Participatory Integrated Planning Advisor Jobs at:
SNV Deadline of this Job:
Monday, August 18 2025 Duty Station:
Uganda | Kampala | Uganda Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, July 29 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed JOB DETAILS: The Participatory Integrated Planning (PIP) Advisor will introduce, implement and monitor the PIP approach in the selected project communities and will provide technical insights and advisory services on supporting selected communities and small holder farming (SHF) households (HH) in those communities to develop a 5-year development vision and therewith related action plan. The PIP Advisor is specialized in community and SHF HH development plans and provides technical services on relevant products and interventions. The PIP Advisor gives input to smallholder farmers to meet the agreed objectives and realise successful interventions. The PIP Advisor identifies opportunities and areas for improvement, to ensure quality delivery. as well to be supportive in preparing relevant concept notes (CN), Terms of Reference (ToR) as well as supporting the PM in annual reports. The PIP advisor will manage a team of 50+ PIP field officers, partly INCLUDE employed staff and a large number of field officers contracted via local service providers. The Job requires regular travel within Busoga region, but also to the other three project regions to activate, guide and monitor PIP communities, conduct fact findings and assessment of PIP implementation, and for regular consultation with peer projects, funded by EKN. Job Description Responsibilities - Introduce, implement and monitor all PIP activities, including the planning, inception, implementation, within scope, budget, timeline and acceptable quality levels
- Take responsibility for the relationship with relevant project partners, both present and in the future including local & national government and international organisations
- Contribute to the design of follow-up interventions, taking leadership of design process in consultation with the PM
- Act as technical lead for the introduction of PIP and aims to create an environment for the implementation PIP to meet its objectives.
- Contribute to SHFs household knowledge development, ensure lessons learned are harvested, documented, communicated, and applied in daily practice and may be appointed as (national) focal point of an expertise network.
- Participate in INCLUDE strategic positioning meetings and act as a representative and knowledgeable face of the SNV organisation to the project partners and the donor EKN.
- Identify opportunities for Business Development policies and procedures
Qualifications - Master’s degree in Agriculture, Agribusiness, social sciences with specialization in Community Development, Natural Resource Management, Land use and Management, Agroforestry and any other relevant technical field.
- A minimum of 10 or more years’ experience in development work and project implementation or technical field
- Experience in working with household participatory approaches with local communities of not less than 8 years in related projects/programs.
- Experience with relevant technical models such as INRM, catchment management, agribusiness, private sector engagement and local Value Chain Development, among others.
- Experience in community work and engagement Agricultural, Economic Development, Livelihood and specific technical expertise such as GESI, Farming Systems, Sustainable agriculture, land use and management or crop production is an added advantage.
- Experience in applying the PIP approach (or similar methodology) at both the conceptual and operational level is a key requirement.
- Ability to work effectively with multiple partners including (local leaders, government parish, sub-county, village officials), other NGOs, value chain actors in the communities.
- Ability to ride a motorcycle with a valid riding permit is an advantage.
Additional Information Key Competencies - Leadership: The ability to provide direction and guidance to a group of people and to encourage cooperation between team members to attain an objective.
- Planning and organising: The ability to determine goals and priorities and to assess the actions, time and resources needed to achieve those goals.
- Decisiveness: The ability to make active decisions or to commit oneself by speaking one’s mind and taking position.
- Problem analysis: The ability to detect problems, recognise important information and link various data to trace potential causes and look for relevant details.
- Result orientation: The ability to take direct action to attain or exceed objectives.
- Focus on quality: Setting high quality standards and striving for continuous improvement and quality assurance.
Work Hours: 8 Experience in Months: 12 Level of Education: bachelor degree Job application procedure Interested in applying for this job? Click here to submit your application now
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