2012 latest NGO jobs Programme Officer: East & Southern Africa

Org- The International HIV/AIDS Alliance. Brighton, UK.
Job- Programme Officer- East & Southern Africa
Closing date: January 31, 2012.

Description:

The International HIV/AIDS Alliance supports communities to meet the challenges of HIV/AIDS and build healthier communities. Our vision is a world in which people do not die of AIDS. Since 1994, the Alliance and its partners have supported over 3,000 projects, in over 40 countries, reaching millions of people.

The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is seeking a Programme Officer in our East & Southern Africa team who will be responsible for programme development, monitoring and reporting, contract oversight, programme implementation and budget control of Linking Organisation programmes in assigned countries.

The successful candidate will be an experienced Programme Officer with sound knowledge and experience of HIV and AIDS programming, who possesses the right mix of skills and experience in programme start up and management. They will be highly motivated, flexible, capable of working both independently and as part of a team, and able to exercise leadership in the secretariat in support of country programmes. Fluency in Portuguese is essential.

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2012 Job Opportunities in NGO- Chief of Party (International Rescue Committe)

Chief of Party- Thailand
Deadline: 23 February 2012
Job type: Permanent Salary: TBD
Location: Thailand
Organisation: International Rescue Committee (IRC)

The IRC has been providing humanitarian assistance to refugees in Thailand since 1975, working with refugees and displaced Burmese since 1990. IRC is seeing a Chief of Party (COP) in anticipation of USAID issuing an award of co-operative agreement for the Humanitarian Assistance to Displaced Persons from Burma (HADPB) project.
SCOPE OF WORK:
The COP is responsible for ensuring that the HADPB project is implemented in accordance with the cooperative agreement, USAID regulations, and internationally recognized quality of assistance standards. The COP will be the primary representational link with USAID staff, and will work closely with the Regional Mission to provide project updates, discuss strategies, obstacles, performance plans, and indicator success, and liaise with USAID contracting officers, technical support staff and outside contractors as required. The COP will also hold primary responsibility for interactions with HADPB consortium partners, as well as primary oversight of the project partnerships with Royal Thai Government (RTG) ministries, non-governmental organizations, and community-based partner organizations. The COP will hold primary responsibility for ensuring the achievement of the core HADPB objective of supporting a staged transition of project leadership and management of service delivery systems to self-sustaining local partners, while providing healthcare, education, food and other humanitarian assistance in ways which are impactful, cost-effective, and strengthen the resiliencies of the most vulnerable persons from Burma. In addition, the COP will represent HADPB to all key stakeholders, government officials and donors at coordination fora and other related seminars and meetings. This position reports to the Representative for East Asia.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Provide strategic leadership and direction, define and implement activities to achieve the greatest coverage and impact possible;
  • Review, in coordination with key project staff, yearly work and performance plans to ensure long-term and short-term priorities are on track;
  • Manage the overall project by planning, monitoring and evaluating project activities in accordance with the cooperative agreement;
  • Manage relations with consortium partners, and oversee relations with all other project partners, including RTG ministries, non-governmental organizations and community-based organizations;
  • Ensure strong collaborative partner relationships - based on principles of mutual trust and respect, mutual accountability, reciprocity, inclusion and transparency – with all project partners throughout the life of the project;
  • Ensure that the sub-grant award and monitoring process is aligned with project goals and objectives;
  • Host the Project Management Group and the Project Advisory Committee, chairing both fora on behalf of IRC as appropriate;
  • Lead responsibility for ensuring the achievement of the core HADPB project objective of supporting a staged transition of project leadership and management of service delivery systems to self-sustaining local partners, while providing healthcare, education, food and other humanitarian assistance in ways which are impactful, cost-effective, and strengthen the resiliencies of the most vulnerable persons from Burma;
  • Ensure that project initiatives appropriately address the needs of the most vulnerable beneficiary population in the most efficient, cost-effective manner;

2012 Job vacancies-Regional Humanitarian and Logistics Manager- Save the Children

Regional Humanitarian and Logistics Manager

Posted: 21 December 2011 Deadline: 15 January 2012
Job type: Permanent Salary: TBD
Location: Turkey
Organisation: Save the Children UK
Save the Children is a global child rights organisation with a dual mandate to deliver world-class, quality programming in health, education and child protect and to be the leading INGO for children in emergencies.
Save the Children:
• reaches 50 million children every year
• raises $1.4 billion for children every year
• has 29 national organizations in North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia
• works in more than 90 countries and has over 15,000 employees


The role
As a member of the MEE regional team, you will take shared responsibility for the transformation of the region to a new operating model whilst delivering Save the Children’s strategy within the region.

You will ensure and enable that Country Offices in the region 1) meet operating standards for preparedness; 2) grow their humanitarian programme portfolio and programming capacity; 3) respond effectively and efficiently to humanitarian crises; 4) access surge capacity, humanitarian management and DRR expertise from Members.
You will support and enable the MEE Regional Office to 5) meet back office requirements for all humanitarian crises; 6) maintain appropriate regional emergency preparedness; 7) engage with regional humanitarian partners.
You will be responsible for Logistics for the region and also to provide technical support and capacity building to Country Office Logistical staff on all aspects of logistics and operational programme delivery.
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2012 Call for Nominations- King Baudouin African Development Prize

The King Baudouin African Development Prize

Deadline: 5 February 2012

Monetary Value: 150,000 EUR

Eligibility: Individuals and organisations from Africa
Born in 1930, Prince Baudouin of Belgium succeeded his father, King Leopold III, in 1951. The King Baudouin Foundation is independent and pluralistic. It was founded in 1976 to mark the 25th anniversary of King Baudouin’s reign
The King Baudouin African Development Prize rewards outstanding contributions of individuals or organizations in the development field in Africa.
The Prize spotlights innovative initiatives which improve quality-of-life and empower local communities to take development into their own hands
True to the personality and values which inspired its creation, the aim of the King Baudouin African Development Prize is to acknowledge the work of persons or organisations which have made an exemplary contribution to development in Africa. It also seeks to draw public attention to the many inspirational stories of hope, struggle and success which emanate from the development field in Africa.
Who qualifies as a candidate?                       
  • The candidate must be either an individual or an organisation
  • Several individuals or organisations that are not structurally linked cannot be presented as one single candidacy.
  • A former Prize winner may not be submitted a second time as a candidate. If a candidate was not withheld, it may however be submitted again for a next Prize.
Who can submit a candidacy?
The submission of a candidate’s file may only be undertaken by a qualified nominator. The selection committee will not consider applications by individuals who are applying for the Prize themselves or for an organization within which they are active.
How to submit a candidacy?
Candidacies must be submitted using the electronic form below by 15 February 2012 at the latest.
The Prize has a monetary value of 150,000 euros and will be awarded to the winners during the spring of 2013 at the Royal Palace in Brussels.

2012 Call for Proposals- from the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (deadline Feb 27, 2012)

Call for Proposals from the Open Society Initiative for West Africa

Deadline: 27 Feb 2012

Eligible countries
Benin - Côte d'Ivoire - Ghana - Guinea - Liberia- Niger - Nigeria - Senegal - Sierra Leone.

The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) is a grant making and ad Foundations Network. OSIWA works to see the creation of open societies in west Africa.The OSIWA strategy focuses on three broad outcomes Strong Strong governance institutions, processes and structures transparent, accountable, and intolerant of impunity, Vigorous capacity of civil society organizations and inclusive participation in decision-making; and Robust protection of fundamental rights and citizensh exposed to discrimination. The country programs will be implemented in: Benin, Cote Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

Planned Country Interventions for 2011 - Issues to be addressed - OSIWA seeks proposals in the following countries under the objectives: Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
Outcome 1 - Strong governance institutions, processes and structures are transparent, accountable, and intolerant of impunity. . . . . .

Outcome 2- Vigorous capacity of civil society organizations citizen participation in decision-making including but not limited NGO and CSO participation in constitutional, electoral, judic reforms; strengthen the capacity of civil society; suppo participation in local government decision making; en access to public information and the enactment of access to inf conducting regional and international advocacy

Eligibility
OSIWA primarily awards grants to local organizations based in the nine countries in West Africa in which OSIWA works. In rare and limited circumstances commitment to transfer knowledge to local groups they partner with.

OSIWA requires all organizations seeking funding to submit a completed application form, budget and a Monitoring Evaluation plan

Submission and deadlines
For further details go to the Open Society Initiative Website

2012 Job opportunites in NGOs- Regional IT Officer Save the Children (UK)

Regional IT Officer

Posted: 21 December 2011 Deadline: 15 January 2012
Job type: Permanent Salary: TBD
Location: Turkey
Organisation: Save the Children UK
Save the Children is a global child rights organisation with a dual mandate to deliver world-class, quality programming in health, education and child protect and to be the leading INGO for children in emergencies.
Save the Children:
• reaches 50 million children every year
• raises $1.4 billion for children every year
• has 29 national organizations in North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia
• works in more than 90 countries and has over 15,000 employees


The role
To directly support the agency’s strategic IT initiatives by working with Save the Children International Regional Management, Country Management, country based IT staff and Save the Children members as needed to complete IT projects and support work. To assist, train and provide higher level support to field office IT support staff of offices located in the geographical region. To act as the liaison between the field office IT staff and HQ. To enforce IT guidelines and policies through the region. To lead the region’s IT Support Staff and country offices as it pertains to IT related issues.


Required skills and experience
• Significant experience in a Level 2 or Level 3 IT help desk/technical support role, supporting a user base that is not in the same physical location.
• Advanced knowledge of Windows and MS Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access).
• Must have a thorough understanding and knowledge of Outlook and email related products and concepts.
• Good working knowledge of LAN/WAN infrastructures (routers, modems, switches, etc)
• Solid experience in maintaining, trouble shooting and administering a Microsoft Windows based network (LAN) and servers.
• Good working knowledge of Windows server and domain system configuration.
• Extensive working experience with antivirus software for workstations and servers.
• Good working knowledge with MS Exchange Server.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to work with minimum supervision and willingness to work in a team environment.
• Strong ability to be detailed and provide detailed documentation.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Previous experience in NGOs or private sector is an added advantage.
• Experience and/or familiarity with routers and routing systems.
• Demonstrate ability and aptitude to train other technical staff.
• Ability to work with outside vendors (hardware, software, services, IPS’s, Telecommunications, etc)
• Commitment to Save the Children values

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10 years experience enhancing donor-funded partner organizations’ capacities in strategic planning, financial, administrative, organizational and programming management. Skilled in donor partner organizational assessments and partner capacity building. A 10 years experience in managing development donor-funded projects in the thematic areas of poverty-reduction, governance and democracy, conflict transformation and integration of Gender, Justice and Peace issues into mainstream programs (HIV/AIDS, Agriculture, Water and Sanitation, Emergency)

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