CHARITY JOBS IN AFRICA

Organization: Mildmay Uganda
Country: Uganda
Closing date: 17 Nov 2014

Mildmay Uganda

Mildmay Uganda is a national Non-Government Organization operating in Uganda since 1998 specialising in delivery of comprehensive health care delivery including HIV prevention, care and treatment; health systems strengthening; programming for vulnerable children, orphans, youth and households; health training and education; and research. Currently, Mildmay Uganda concentrates its efforts in 16 districts of Central Uganda with additional strategic interventions in other regions across Uganda. The organization is gradually expanding its program reach in other areas of Uganda.

Mildmay Uganda is leading a consortium of five national, regional and international organizations to apply for an anticipated USAID Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) project in Uganda. We seek a competent person to fill a high-caliber executive-level position of Chief of Party (COP) with a record of accomplishment of leading and managing complex international development projects in the Eastern and Southern African Region. The COP will provide overall leadership, mentorship and technical direction for the project, ensuring achievement of all project deliverables. The COP will be the primary liaison with USAID and will be responsible for overall project leadership and management to ensure effective execution, reporting, accountability and compliance. The COP will coordinate with government and other stakeholders to ensure that activities complement ongoing initiatives and adhere to local, national and global standards and practices.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for the overall planning, implementation and management of the project as well as the achievement of the goals and objectives of the project in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Serve as the team lead for the project and ensure strong communication and coordination with and between all team members as a means to effectively achieve program objectives. Encourage transparency among and between members to promote coordination and effectiveness.
• Design and implement a clear leadership and mentorship strategy to build local staff capacity to lead and manage future programs of similar or related scale and complexity
• Lead the planning of project activities and set high quality performance targets ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices and donor guidelines.
• Design strategies, partnerships and interventions that enlist and ensure inclusive and meaningful participation of all marginalized sections of the target populations with specific focus on youth, women, and children with disability.
• Serve as the primary point of contact and collaboration for the team and in-country stakeholders, including USAID, implementation partners, government partners and other key stakeholders.
• Ensure timely, high-quality and complete submission of work plans, quarterly and annual reports, financial reports, and any other reports required by the donor.
• Promote sustainability of project activities with effective networking, linkages to other programs, capacity building of project staff, and institutional strengthening of implementing partners and community-based organizations.
• Responsible for creating networks and forums for the dissemination of project results and impact and working with stakeholders to ensure these inform future OVC programming and policy.

Minimum Qualifications:

· Master's Degree or higher in international development, business administration, social sciences, public health, or a closely related field is required.

· The CoP must have strong leadership qualities and depth and breadth of technical and management expertise, as demonstrated by a minimum of ten years of progressively increasing experience in designing, implementing and managing large, complex projects involving multiple partners, in/for developing countries, five years of which must have been in a Chief of Party/Director role of a large development program of comparable size and scope.

· Management experience with a USG cooperative agreement preferred.

· Experience with child welfare and protection programs, systems strengthening, capacity building, economic strengthening, service delivery, quality improvement or policy development is required.

· S/he must also have demonstrated international credibility as a leader on matters of the social service sector in developing countries. Experience working in Eastern or Southern Africa will be an added advantage.

· S/he must have experience interacting with government agencies, host country governments and counterparts, and international donor agencies.

· Strong interpersonal, writing and oral presentation skills in English are also required.

How to apply:

Please send a detailed CV with a covering letter, including 2 referees, Certified Academic Transcripts to: Executive Director, Mildmay Uganda, Entebbe Road, Lweza, P.O. Box 24985, Kampala or by Email:hr@mildmay.or.ug not later than 17th November 2014. Indicate current salary and benefits

Organization: Mildmay Uganda
Country: Uganda
Closing date: 17 Nov 2014

Mildmay Uganda is a national Non-Government Organization operating in Uganda since 1998 specialising in delivery of comprehensive HIV/AIDS services including care, treatment and other complementary social services using a family centred approach; as well as Systems Strengthening, Training, and Research. Currently, Mildmay Uganda concentrates its efforts in 16 districts of Central Uganda with isolated strategic operations across the country, and is gradually expanding its program reach in other areas of Uganda.

Mildmay Uganda is leading a consortium of five national, regional and international organizations to apply for an anticipated 5 year USAID Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) project in Uganda. We are seeking for an experienced Economic Strengthening Technical Director to work as part of the senior management team and specifically leading the household economic strengthening component of the program. The Economic Strengthening Technical Director will be the technical lead in designing innovative and transformative strategies and interventions, and effectively deliver them to economically empower vulnerable households to enable them meet all the needs of vulnerable children under their care.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide technical leadership in the design and implementation of a range of innovative economic strengthening interventions with keen focus of household hold food security, agribusiness, micro-enterprise development and access to affordable finance for poor and vulnerable households
• Facilitate development of sustainable inclusive business relationships and partnerships between targeted farmer groups and private sector actors in local, regional and international markets to ensure sustainable, effective and mutually beneficial market relationships with opportunities for co-production, sub-contracting and joint marketing.
• Identify, assess and develop partnership strategies for potential private sector, civil society and government partners.
• Facilitate the growth of a sound agro-based private sector using the value chain approach including nurturing the gradual growth of small holder farmers groups into viable producer organizations through improved access to finance, production capacity building and access to local, and export markets
• Establish and maintain productive working relationships with other livelihood programs and support activities in the target districts by government, other development actors, the private sector as well as exploring opportunities for jointly developing such new interventions.
• Ensure all agro-based economic activities are climate change sensitive using such approaches as climate smart agriculture
• In collaboration with the Global Impact Investment Manager, develop an innovative and transformative impact investment program to attract additional resources to stimulate agro-business in the target districts using such tools as angel investments, crowd funding, and strategic social investments

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's Degree or higher in social sciences or social work, rural development, agri-business, sustainable agriculture or a closely related field is required.
• S/he must have at least eight years of experience designing, implementing and managing Household economic strengthening initiatives in/for developing countries.
• Experience in leveraging private public partnerships is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal, writing and oral presentation skills in English are also required.
• Two years of experience working in a developing country is desired. Experience in design and implementation of Innovative Development Financing tools and impact investments will be an added advantage

How to apply:

Please send a detailed CV with a covering letter, including 2 referees, Certified Academic Transcripts to: Executive Director, Mildmay Uganda, Entebbe Road, Lweza, P.O. Box 24985, Kampala or by Email:hr@mildmay.or.ug not later than 17th November 2014. Indicate current salary and benefits

Organization: Mildmay Uganda
Country: Uganda
Closing date: 17 Nov 2014

Mildmay Uganda is a national Non-Government Organization operating in Uganda since 1998 specialising in delivery of comprehensive health care delivery including HIV prevention, care and treatment; health systems strengthening; programming for vulnerable children, orphans, youth and households; health training and education; and research. Currently, Mildmay Uganda concentrates its efforts in 16 districts of Central Uganda with additional strategic interventions in other regions across Uganda. The organization is gradually expanding its program reach in other areas of Uganda.

Mildmay Uganda is leading a consortium of five national, regional and international organizations to apply for an anticipated 5 year USAID Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) project in Uganda. We seek a competent person to fill a high-caliber executive-level position of Deputy Chief of Party (DCoP). The DCoP will form part of the project leadership team and will specifically will exercise technical leadership of the program; lead a team of senior staff and sub-partners; and ensure quality, timely and efficient program execution.

Please note that the DCoP deputizes the COP and responsibilities are similar to that of the CoP.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Development, Business Administration, Social Sciences, Public Health or related field; strong leadership qualities;
• Strong depth and breadth of technical and management expertise;
• At least 5 years’ experience in designing and implementing large projects; experience of multi-stakeholder environment.
• The successful candidate will also possess: a good track-record in executing programs that address OVC protection and care; expanding access to essential services for OVC; increasing access to protection and legal services for OVC; and strengthening institutional, policy, legal and other mechanisms supporting OVC.

Ugandan nationals and those from East African Region are encouraged to apply.

How to apply:

Please send a detailed CV with a covering letter, including 2 referees, Certified Academic Transcripts to: Executive Director, Mildmay Uganda, Entebbe Road, Lweza, P.O. Box 24985, Kampala or by Email:hr@mildmay.or.ug**not later than 17th November 2014. Indicate current salary and benefits**