Chemonics International Inc., a US-based international development organization, seeks a Collaborating, Learning, & Adapting (CLA) Director for the anticipated USAID five-year Integrated Child and Youth Development (ICYD) Activity in Uganda. This activity will aim to improve youth learning outcomes (P1-P4 reading in local language and English), while ensuring that children and youth are safe and healthy in their community and learning environments. Specifically, this activity will improve learning outcomes, address primary school retention, provide technical assistance to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) service providers, and employ high-impact local partnerships to accomplish the activity’s objectives. This position will be based in Kampala, Uganda with intermittent travel throughout the country. Responsibilities include: Coordinate, plan, and implement institutional learning activities supporting the achievement of Activity goals and objectives, such as special studies, pauses and reflection activities, after action reviews, briefings, and communities of practices, learning events and/or seminars; Oversee all Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) tasks, ensuring that ICYD’s data processing environment is responsive to USAID and PEPFAR reporting and learning requirements; Oversee all communications efforts to share programmatic approaches and collaborate where possible with key in-country actors, including other USAID/Uganda activities; Develop tools and resources to create, capture, organize, translate, share, and apply knowledge to improve the project and build capacity for integrating and adapting to lessons learned and changes in project context. Minimum Qualifications: Master’s degree in a relevant field (such as international affairs, communications, knowledge management, organizational development, or relevant discipline); Minimum seven years of experience working in capacity building, management consulting, and/or organizational development, with at least five years of experience working on a USG-funded project; Demonstrated experience with USAID’s CLA approach required; Strong qualitative and quantitative skills with demonstrated experience in data collection, data analysis, data quality assessments, and performance monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of education, OVC, and health programs preferred; Excellent written and oral English abilities required; Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity. Candidates will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted. Actual hiring is contingent on Chemonics being awarded the activity and on USAID approval. The protection of your personal data is important to Chemonics. If you are located in the EU, please read our EU Recruiting Data Privacy Notice to learn how we process your personal data. For more information, please read the EU Recruiting Data Privacy Notice here: https://chemonics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EU-Recruiting-Data-Privacy-Notice-12.2018.pdf Learn more...

Chemonics International Inc., a US-based international development organization, seeks an Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Technical Director for the anticipated USAID five-year Integrated Child and Youth Development (ICYD) Activity in Uganda. This activity will aim to improve youth learning outcomes (P1-P4 reading in local language and English), while ensuring that children and youth are safe and healthy in their community and learning environments. Specifically, this activity will improve learning outcomes, address primary school retention, provide technical assistance to OVC service providers, and employ high-impact local partnerships to accomplish the activity’s objectives. This position will be based in Kampala, Uganda with intermittent travel throughout the country. Responsibilities include: In close collaboration with relevant program staff, the OVC Technical Director provides overall technical oversight and guidance to OVC service delivery and capacity building of local partners. The OVC Technical Director will: Oversee key interventions for OVCs, including HIV and gender-based violence prevention and response, linkages to clinical services, education support services, and economic strengthening initiatives; Oversee use of education subsidies and economic strengthening interventions that enable families to meet school-related expenses; Support the use of a case management approach to ensuring service delivery to vulnerable children; Ensure Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe (DREAMS) services are delivered according to PEPFAR and/or USAID/Uganda guidance; Work with the CLA Director to support collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) to drive quality improvement among local OVC partners; Develop and implement (or support implementation of) plan to build the technical capacity of local OVC partners to serve as prime USAID award holders; Oversee strengthening of pre-service institutions to improve newly qualified social workers’ ability to successfully support OVCs and address child protection and child abuse, among other related issues. Minimum Qualifications: Master’s degree in social sciences (e.g. social work, management, child development), public health, or related field; Minimum seven years of experience in technical direction of international programming that works to improve child protection, health, and safety; Experience building the capacity of and providing technical assistance to local partner organizations, especially those in the health and social welfare sectors; Extensive knowledge of OVC, HIV/AIDS, social services management, and child welfare in the Ugandan context, including familiarity PEPFAR DREAMS approach and with Journeys curriculum for HIV and violence prevention; Minimum five years of demonstrated excellence in a management position, including direct supervision and evaluation of professional staff/consultants and management and oversight of multiple concurrent project activities and deliverables; Excellent written and oral English abilities required;  Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity. Candidates will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted. Actual hiring is contingent on Chemonics being awarded the activity and on USAID approval. The protection of your personal data is important to Chemonics. If you are located in the EU, please read our EU Recruiting Data Privacy Notice to learn how we process your personal data. For more information, please read the EU Recruiting Data Privacy Notice here: https://chemonics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EU-Recruiting-Data-Privacy-Notice-12.2018.pdf Learn more...

Chemonics International Inc., a US-based international development organization, seeks an Education Technical Director for the anticipated USAID five-year Integrated Child and Youth Development (ICYD) Activity in Uganda. This activity will aim to improve youth learning outcomes (P1-P4 reading in local language and English), while ensuring that children and youth are safe and healthy in their community and learning environments. Specifically, this activity will improve learning outcomes, address primary school retention, provide technical assistance to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) service providers, and employ high-impact local partnerships to accomplish the activity’s objectives. This position will be based in Kampala, Uganda with intermittent travel throughout the country. Responsibilities include: In close collaboration with relevant program staff, the Education Technical Director provides overall technical oversight and guidance to program work related to: building on recent early grade reading (EGR) support to the Ministry of Education and Sports (MOES); addressing primary school retention through a combination of family, community, and school-based interventions; and delivering effective technical assistance and support to MOES and other public/private institutions to progressively transition EGR in-service training from donor support. The Education Technical Director will: Provide technical oversight of ICYD’s efforts to strengthen learning outcomes for children and youth; Develop and oversee the implementation of ICYD’s EGR approach at scale, building from Uganda’s recent successes and addressing constraints to progress; Contribute to the adaptation and/or expansion the Journeys curriculum to meet the needs of all target districts in HIV and violence prevention; Provide technical oversight of ICYD’s efforts to improve school retention, including design of interventions intended to strengthen education subsidies, social welfare referral network strengthening, sensitization of caregivers, and teacher training; Oversee strengthening of pre-service institutions to improve newly qualified teachers’ ability to increase student learning outcomes; Work with the CLA Director to support collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) among counterparts to drive quality improvement in learning outcomes and school retention. Minimum Qualifications: A minimum of a Master’s Degree in education, international development, or related field required; Master’s Degree in education policy, planning, curriculum development or reading instruction preferred; A minimum seven years of experience in technical direction of international programming that works to improve early grade reading and/or primary school retention; Prior experience with the development of, or overseeing the development of, early grade reading materials, teacher training programs, classroom monitoring protocols, and student assessments; experience with school-related gender-based violence and positive discipline training preferred; A minimum five years of demonstrated excellence in a management position, including direct supervision and evaluation of professional staff/consultants and management and oversight of multiple concurrent project activities and deliverables; Familiarity with Journeys curriculum for HIV and violence prevention, social welfare referral systems, and PEPFAR/OVC programming;  Excellent written and oral English abilities required; Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity. Candidates will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted. Actual hiring is contingent on Chemonics being awarded the activity and on USAID approval. The protection of your personal data is important to Chemonics. If you are located in the EU, please read our EU Recruiting Data Privacy Notice to learn how we process your personal data. For more information, please read the EU Recruiting Data Privacy Notice here: https://chemonics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EU-Recruiting-Data-Privacy-Notice-12.2018.pdf Learn more...

Finance Officer –Kyangwali..Open to Ugandan Nationals Only Uganda, Norwegian Refugee Council The Finance Officer will on a monthly basis support the Area and Country offices in internal reporting and account analysis. Perform accounts payable accounting function including receiving and matching invoices, account coding, preparation of disbursements and accounts payable related record keeping. Application deadline: 27/11/2019 Employer: Norwegian Refugee Council Town/city: Kikube District Title: Finance Officer –Kyangwali Full-time/part-time: Full-time Employment type: Contract Percentage of full-time: 100 Webcruiter ID: 4157932340 Positions: 1 Start date: 30/11/2019   Social sharing : Duties and responsibilities Support the Area Manager in Kyangwali in day to day reconciliations and financial analysis Provides assistance in timely monthly closing and ensuring Area Offices are able to close on agreed upon deadlines Review financial reports and documents from the field offices and insure that they are timely received. Work closely with logistic department to insure that asset register is updated regularly and match physical assets. Prepare a trip report for each assignment and submit to Finance Coordinator and Finance Manager. Provide training and support to finance and non-finance staff regarding generally accepted financial procedures and NRC internal controls. Assist in yearend closing and audit document preparation Participate in and facilitate country finance workshops and training as required; Maintain open communication with Finance, program staff and others for all financial clarifications In collaboration with AM and Field Coordinator development of area master support budget Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Commerce, Finance or Accounting.   Minimum of 5 years relevant experience.  Three (3) years’ progressive experience in financial management, budget monitoring, audit compliance, and risk management.  Familiar with3 year of INGO experience is a plus.   CPA2 qualification is added advantage. Knowledge of Aggresso is added advantage. Personal qualities Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills. Strict attention to policy and practice detail Very strong financial analysis skills High integrity Good knowledge of financial reporting systems in donor funded work We can offer 12 Months contract with possibility of extension subject to funds. We highly encourage female candidates to apply. Learn more...