Uganda: Natural Resource Team Leader, Mercy Corps (Contingent upon funding)

Oct 2, 2014 | Mercy Corps

General Position Summary:

The NRM Team Leader will be responsible for overseeing program activities aimed at strengthening the horizontal and vertical linkages that support good governance of community assets and resources derived from the natural environment, including the land and the naturally occurring elements above and below it. The NRM Team Leader will lead the PROGRESS processes for engaging communities, governments and private sector actors in collective action plans that support household and community access to and management natural, physical environment and the socio-ecological systems supported by it. This can include access to land and water resources for both human consumption and livestock range-land and watering, plus innovative methods for land restoration, watershed and water resource management, energy conservation and alternative energy solutions, and climate-smart agriculture

Essential Job Functions:

Program Implementation:

• Engage with remote communities to establish priorities for community-led natural resources management, and lead process for developing community NRM plans
• Work in conjunction with local government to advocate for community NRM needs and priorities, especially around land access and rangeland management for Karamoja and water resources for production as well as livestock watering.
• Identify pilot opportunities for community NRM plan implementation and manage pilot projects and monitor for possibility of scale up.
• Work within national and local government strategic plans for resource management and advocate for cohesive implementation of projects that demonstrates government responsiveness to community processes.
• Identify opportunity areas for alternative methods of climate-smart agriculture, such as the “green” livelihoods zones and traditionally agriculturally intensive districts of Karamoja. Work with Mercy Corps technical staff, Consortium members such as University of Nairobi and local partners to establish locally appropriate pilots.
• Work with private sector and line ministries to address environmentally harmful methods of extracting local natural resources and support policy formulation around sustainable methods, alternative energy mechanisms, and water management and conservation.
• Coordinate with counterpart agencies and organizations involved in conservation, climate change adaptation for information exchange, learning and optimizing efforts and resources.

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