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Cooperatives Strengthening Officer Job Post
Location: Jobs in Uganda 2025 - 2026
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
UGX
No. of vacancies: 01
Deadline: May 05 2026
Hiring Organization: Integrated Seed and Sector Development Uganda
Job Details:
Job Title: Cooperatives Strengthening Officer
Project: She Works Project
Location: Western Uganda (Rwenzori, Albertine and Kigezi regions)
Available Opportunities: 01
Start Date: May 2026
Organisational Setting
Integrated Seed and Sector Development Uganda (ISSD Uganda) is an independent local NGO in Uganda, which aims to be a leading agricultural development organization in fostering resilient seed and food systems for sustainable agricultural production. ISSD Uganda builds on the impactful outcomes and experiences of the successfully implemented seed projects that focused on; seed sector transformation; capacity building and knowledge transfer; partnerships and sector coordination, as well as supporting fragile communities including refugees. Over the years, ISSD Uganda development work has evolved to multiple sectors including skilling for decent livelihoods in various agricultural value chains, Tourism and hospitality
Our priority target groups include women, youth, refugees, internally displaced persons, smallholder farmers and MSMEs. These are supported through programs codesigned to improve livelihoods, food security, and the economic independence of smallholder farmers and agri-entrepreneurs.
Project Overview
The Empowering Young Women Entrepreneurs in Agriculture stimulated by Coffee (EYE-C) program aims to create dignified and sustainable work opportunities for young women (18-35) in Uganda. Implemented by a consortium of aBi Development, Café Africa, and the International Women in Coffee Alliance, together with cluster partners, the program focuses on the coffee value chain and complementary enterprises such as horticulture, pulses, poultry, banana, apiary, and briquettes. It also promotes inclusion of young women with disabilities and supports women-led MSMEs.
The EYE-C She Works Project is a cooperative-based initiative operating in Kigezi, Rwenzori, and Albertine regions. It equips young women with skills for employment, entrepreneurship, and income generation. By strengthening agricultural practices, promoting farmer groups, and improving access to markets, the project empowers women to increase incomes and enhance their decision-making power within households and communities.
Position Overview
ISSD Uganda is seeking dynamic and experienced Cooperative Strengthening Officer who will lead efforts to strengthen participating cluster cooperatives. The role focuses on building institutional capacity, improving governance, enhancing market access, and fostering inclusive growth for cooperatives as a one stop centre for bundled services (inputs, markets & finance). The Officer will work closely with cooperatives, local government, private sector partners, and Cluster partners to ensure cooperatives are sustainable, gender-responsive, and economically viable.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Cooperative & young women entrepreneurial Capacity Building
- Conduct Cluster cooperative Institutional Diagnostics/assessments on governance, digital readiness & safeguarding, gender, youth and disability inclusion.
Design and deliver training programs on cooperative governance, financial literacy, record-keeping, and business management. - Identify women and youth led entrepreneurial initiatives that emerge because of enhanced collaboration within the project communities and guide them into clustering around a common interest Provide the selected entrepreneurial groups & cooperatives with tailor-made training to improve their business skills, governance, financial sustainability, accountability and client focus and support them into participating in developing business plans
Identify a range of relevant financial services products for the cooperatives & entrepreneurial groups, assess groups’ constraints to access each product and broker access to finance and investment between the entrepreneurial groups and various financing structures
Monitor implementation of the young women business enterprises and report the performance of each entrepreneurial initiatives as per the set milestones
Establish and maintain effective links with all key project stakeholders (e.g. district authorities and other development organizations) to strengthen collaboration with the project on agribusiness related issues Identify areas for synergy with other aBi Development funded interventions within the project site to complement project interventions and address issues beyond the project’s scope
Support the project M&E team to develop and maintain an M&E system for the project interventions, especially development of a proper data collection system
Document best practices and lessons learnt of the project and support to replicate it Compile and prepare periodic progress reports highlighting progress made in improving marketing opportunities for young women & their entry into cooperatives based on project periodic plans
Market Linkages and Value Chain Integration
- Facilitate partnerships between young women traders, cooperatives, agro-processors, retailers, and exporters
- Support cooperatives in accessing certifications & formal markets
- Build capacity of cooperatives on coffee quality improvement & handling.
Train cooperatives on digital platforms for market information (e.g., e-commerce, price tracking).
Support piloting warehouse receipt system engagements at selected cooperative
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness Management, Agricultural marketing, Rural Development, or any agricultural related degree obtained from a reputable Institution
- At least five (5) years’ experience working with cooperatives and rural micro-to-small scale businesses providing either business development services, training and/or technical assistance
- At least five (5) years’ experience in managing market-led value chain development projects and market systems development
- Working knowledge of identifying opportunities for value addition and market access at the producer and aggregator level
- Experience in working with financial institutions to improve farmers’ access to financial services
- Experience in coffee value chain development and agribusiness finance
- Ability and demonstrated experience of appraising business cases;
- Experience in female and youth entrepreneurship programs;
- Strong agribusiness relationship management experience and focus with the ability to stimulate trust and manage various stakeholders;
- Excellent communication in English (written and oral), reporting and presentation skills;
- Flexible approach to take on additional responsibilities as assigned/delegated;
- Willingness to travel to all project locations;
- Excellent organizing, negotiation, influencing and advisory/coaching skills
- This is a field-based position requiring significant travel (approx. 90% of the time).
Application procedure
Interested and qualified candidates are encouraged to apply for this job by emailing your cover letter and CV maximum 4pages to hr@issduganda.org, while indicating the job title in the email subject not later than 5th May 2026 at 5:00pm EAT. For more details visit the ISSD Uganda website via: www.issduganda.org.Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Date Posted: 2026-04-24
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