Job Tittle: Field Assistant
Position type: Full time
Start date: September 2026
Place of duty: Hoima
Reports to: Intervention Manager
Collaborates with: Project Manager, M&E Manager, Communication Officer, Operations team.
About Swisscontact
Swisscontact was established in 1959 as an independent organization by prominent individuals from the
worlds of commerce and science in Switzerland. It is exclusively involved in international cooperation and
since 1961 has carried out its own and mandated projects. Since it was founded, Swisscontact has
maintained close ties with the private sector. Swisscontact is currently active in 38 countries implementing 120 projects with a workforce of over 1,000 people. The organization is based in Zurich. Swisscontact concentrates on private sector development, specifically in skills development, enterprise promotion and Trade.
For over 20 years now in Uganda, Swisscontact has been strengthening people’s competencies, improving their employability, increasing enterprise competitiveness, and promoting social and economic systems which promote inclusive development, reaching over 70,000 direct beneficiaries (25,000 women) with innovative skills, diverse markets and information, various financial products/services, and life skills. Our current portfolio includes 7 projects focusing on skills development, enterprise promotion, trade, entrepreneurship and agribusiness in 30 districts in Uganda.
Purpose of this role
The Field Assistant is a vital member of the technical implementation team that directly implements the
project Interventions, along with the mission and vision of Swisscontact in Uganda, to meet specific project targets of the objectives and propose Interventions and partnerships therein. The field assistants’ duties will involve applying the inclusive systems development (ISD) approach to facilitate the implementation and monitoring of project interventions through partners from the private and public sectors. S/he will be directly responsible for mobilizing and supporting stakeholders and project partners to participate in sector promotional meetings, workshops, and other project activities.
Tasks and Responsibilities
Technical and Programmatic support:
Market Systems Development programming
- Under the guidance of the Intervention Manager, undertakes co-creating business models suitable for WeWork-Creating Green and Decent Jobs interventions; Access to Information and Skills; Access to Finance and; Access to Forward and Backward markets. Stakeholder and private Sector Engagement:
- Under the guidance of the Intervention Manager, supports the mapping, onboarding, and maintenance of business relationships with private sector actors at various levels (MSMEs and large enterprises) in close collaboration with the project team.
Support in Intervention management and Partnership engagements:
- Under the guidance of Intervention Manager, work with MSMEs to understand their business constraints and design interventions and business models that create growth opportunities for enterprises and beneficiaries.
- Under the guidance of Intervention Managers, support the ideation, co-creation, and design of business partnerships with targeted businesses to enhance and streamline trade routes in horticulture value chains within target areas.
- Under the guidance of Intervention Managers, lead in business development efforts by identifying and engaging the private sector, supporting onboarding, and facilitating post-agreement planning processes to strengthen market linkages and systems.
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans, and reports.
- Utilize project management tools to monitor work progress; workplan, budget, forecasts and expenditures.
- Actively participate in weekly check-ins and report progress on a weekly, monthly, and semiannual basis in consultation with the Monitoring team.
M&E, Learning and Mentorship Agenda:
- Work closely with MRM team towards project baseline data, supporting quantitative data collections from the project participants.
- Routinely support monitoring and tracking project progress, addressing any issues that arise.
- Support rigorous database updates from project implementations
- Actively participate in the knowledge management activities; case studies and success story identification and harvesting from the project participants and partners
- Support developing and closely follow up updates on HMD-Uganda learning agenda and significant change stories from the program participants.
- Participate in internal learning cycles/ Topics that facilitate team growth
- Act as business coach to agripreneurs and project partcipants
- Participate in tracking system level changes that could occur because of the project interventions.
Operational support:
- Cross Departmental Collaboration; Finance, Operations as well as with Enabel office teams to ensure smooth running of field offices at the respective location.
- Plan field trips and activities ensuring compliance with policies and procedures.
- Manage logistics and work stream tasks in your respective region.
Stakeholders’ Relationships:
- Close monitor, interface and collaborate with Enabel Intervention Managers and other team members in respective locations.
- Collaborate with Governmental institutions for both civil and political forces within the regions to ensure smooth project implementations
- Liaise and collaborate with other Swisscontact projects to ensure effective integration of interventions across projects.
- Identify other implementing organisations for potential collaboration
- Liaise with identified private sector actors to support the linkages with local business practitioners in the targeted areas.
- Build relationships with other implementing partners to ensure the project deliverables are met and coordinated.
Required skills and experience
- Strong understanding of Inclusive Systems Development (Market Systems Development)
approaches and private sector engagement therein in Uganda’s agricultural sector. - Excellent knowledge of Uganda’s horticultural sector, including value chains, key actors, and
dynamics - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience working in multi-cultural teams
and presenting findings in both reports and presentations.
Personal traits
Proactive, self-driven, results-oriented, positive attitude, collaborative, flexible, values-oriented and
enthusiastic.
Qualification
The Field Assistant must possess a degree in Agriculture, Agribusiness, Development Studies, Rural
Development with related work in horticultural value chains and at least 2 years’ experience in
related field.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified companies, and or individual consultants should apply by submitting their
technical and financial proposal to ug_info@swisscontact.org copying
caroline.gumisiriza@swisscontact.org and peter.oryem@swisscontact.org by 15th September 2026.
Female candidates with a private sector background are strongly encouraged to apply.
