Aga Khan Foundation Employment Opportunity 2012

The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) is a private, non-denominational development agency promoting creative and effective solutions to selected problems that impede social development in developing countries.

AKF East Africa invites applications for this senior position based at its Regional Office in Nairobi.

Regional Finance Manager

The position will report to the Regional Chief Operating Officer and will provide strategic leadership and ensure effective development of financial processes and procedures as well as implementation of sound internal controls, budgeting, financial management and reporting.

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the regional finance team in accomplishing strategic objectives
• Develop, strengthen and implement systems and procedures that enhance efficiency, effectiveness and accountability
• Ensure high quality management reports, budgets and analysis
• Ensure policies and procedures in financial management, grant management; and donor compliance
• Monitor and track budgetary allocations and expenditures from various donors
• Lead and provide support to country offices and programmes
• Consolidate programme funding requests, projections and treasury management across the region
• Manage internal, external and donor financial audits
• Ensure submission of accurate quality reports to external donors

Qualifications & Competencies required:

Applicants for this key role should have a Bachelor’s degree in finance or equivalent and professional accounting qualification.

The applicant should have 10 years of relevant experience, good communication skills, strong analytical skills and be proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

This position entails travelling locally and regionally.

Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, CV and names and contact information of three professional referees before Friday, 30th April, 2012 to the

Regional Human Resource Manager,
Aga Khan Foundation, East Africa,
by e-mail to. recruitment-akfea@akdn.org

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

The Aga Khan Foundation is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (www.akdn.org).

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UNDP / GOK Livelihoods Specialist Career Opportunity

Kenya faced severe drought in 2011 whose impacts are still being felt, following successive rain failures.

The drought described as one of the worst in 60 years affected three quarters of the country especially in the North Eastern, Rift Valley, Eastern and Coast provinces. 3.75million people mainly the pastoralists, farmers in marginal agricultural areas as well as the urban poor were affected.

The drought caused crop failure, depleted pasture, water and led to loss of livestock contributing to a sharp deterioration of household food security.

Turkana and Garissa districts are often exposed and are among the worst affected districts.

They suffer from repeated natural disasters, conflict and are among the poorest regions in Kenya.

Additional pressure from the burden of refugees on existing natural resources such as water and pasture, fire-wood which are at the bare minimum due to drought and mainly overburdens women’s lives, often increase tension and could lead to conflict between refugees and communities hosting them.

To address this, UNDP together with GOK have developed a project as a medium term measure to support recovery as well as build resilience of communities especially youth and women’s groups affected by the drought and to strengthen institutions responsible for recovery and disaster risk reduction work.

The intervention will address short term livelihoods economic recovery needs of youth and women while establishing in the process the capacities and building blocks of sustainable local long-term development.

The project will combine temporary employment (labor intensive community infrastructure development or rehabilitation), business counseling (mentoring and coaching) and skills training aimed at income generation activities which are in high demand in local markets, access to start-up capital for business oriented production or service provision.

Importantly, a saving component will be introduced during the temporary employment and will be accompanied by financial literacy training.

The project takes a dual approach of building capacities from the bottom up through the empowerment of communities in particular women’s groups to initiate and manage their own recovery while at the same time building the capacities of local governments to interact, partner with and support these community efforts and their longer term development goals.

Job Profile

The livelihoods specialist will provide advisory and technical support in livelihoods and economic recovery.

Specifically, the Livelihoods Specialist will perform the following duties:

1. Provide advisory and technical support to the Restoration and Stabilization of Livelihoods for Drought affected and Host Communities project with special emphasis on quality assurance;

2. Provide technical and programme expertise for developing and implementing innovative approaches to promote sustainable livelihoods and/or enterprise development, food security and employment creation;

3. Plan and implement strategic activities to improve livelihoods development, key enterprises and other rapid employment generation for drought affected communities in Turkana and Garissa through institutional development and technical support to relevant UNDP and government agencies;

4. Provide policy advice on post-crisis livelihoods and economic recovery (i.e. documenting best practices, use evidence based project results to influence policy, capacity development of UNDP staff and partners on livelihoods and economic recovery, pro-active knowledge management and dissemination, etc.);

5. Lead on UNDP’s livelihoods and economic recovery practice within the Disaster Risk Reduction & Recovery unit;

6. Contribute to the Disaster Risk Reduction & Recovery Unit’s advocacy, partnership and resource mobilization strategies.

7. Ensure coordination and synergy with initiatives/projects of other UNDP Kenya programme units practice areas;

8. Represent UNDP in national level fora (i.e. Early Recovery cluster and other livelihoods working groups);

9. Establish partnerships with government, UN agencies, international and national NGOs, private sector and academia and influence initiatives undertaken in partnership with government and these stakeholders

Education

1. A master’s degree in a livelihood development field (development studies, agriculture, livestock, agricultural economics) or other related fields.

Experience

1. At least 7 years of professional experience in programme management and coordination with government and / or UN Agencies or NGOs with emphasis on managing livelihoods and economic recovery projects, enterprise development and value chains.

2. Substantive experience in policy development and the provision of policy advice in the field of Livelihoods and private sector development.

3. Extensive experience designing, implementing and evaluating projects that are focused on promotion of sustainable livelihoods and enterprise development, food security, youth livelihoods development and women economic empowerment, integration with value chains, utilization of cash transfer modalities (cash for work, cash grants, etc.) and access to microfinance (savings, loans, etc.).

4. Experience in community based disaster risk reduction and community peace building an asset.

5. Proven experience in developing and implementing innovative approaches for these technical areas.

6. Working experience in Turkana and Garissa districts desirable.

7. Extensive experience of results oriented M&E systems and procedures, strategic planning, quality control and data analysis.

8. Sound leadership, management and mentoring skills and experience.

Application Procedure

Interested and qualified persons should apply on the UNDP Kenya e-Recruitment portal located on the UNDP Kenya website - http://www.ke.undp.org on or before 2 May 2012. Select “e-Recruitment Portal” under “Operations/Human Resources”.

Applicants are required to fill and sign a Personal History Form (P11) Form and submit it together with their online application Applications received via other means will not be accepted.

Additional considerations

1. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

2. UNDP will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is further interest.

“UNDP is an equal opportunity employer which strives to achieve overall balance in its staffing patterns”.

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Save the Children in Somalia Consultancy Opportunity

Save the Children (SC) is an international organization with 27 member organizations across the globe. It is united by a common mission and brand but, to some extent, has until now been working independently from country to country and within countries.

With the decision by all Save the Children organizations to create an International Programmes Unit (IPU) taken in 2010, Save the Children aims to create a stronger voice for children by unifying the operations in all countries.

This will result in one organisation at the national level in each country and a unified programme delivery structure for all Save the Children International Members.

Assessment

General Scope of the Assignment:

Save the Children in Somalia/Somaliland (SCiSOM) is seeking a subject matter expert, consultant or agency to produce a concise, well crafted, intelligent, critically constructive examination of SCiSOM security procedures at the field, operational and strategic level.

It should clearly outline practices to be sustained, improved and replaced as part of a considered action plan which will allow SCiSOM to create a security bench-mark and provide guidance for future security development.

Whilst bearing in mind the report is for an organisation with deeply held humanitarian principles and values; it should draw upon current best practice from NGO, corporate and security force operations as well as high-risk environments such as Afghanistan, Yemen and Iraq.

The assessment must follow a holistic, humanist approach in which IT, HR, logistics, novel technology/innovation and vitally; our staff should be considered alongside more traditional security practices.

Those that prioritise protective measures and think along traditional lines (fortified mentality) need not apply.

Individuals or agencies are invited to submit proposals as to how they would conduct such an assessment.

As a minimum the proposal should include originality of thought in the following areas:

• Methodology to be employed
• Activities and the Timeframe
• Details of the Itinerary
• Costs to be involved
• Resources/Access required
• CVs & references of consultants to be involved
• How the report will be presented
• How will this process be kept confidential

Child Safeguarding Policy:

Any employee, consultant, contractor or the supplier undertaking an activity on behalf of SC UK must sign the Child Safeguarding - Declaration of Acceptance Form] and comply with the SC UK’s Child Safeguarding Policy which is a statement of SC UK’s commitment to preventing abuse and protecting children with whom it comes into contact.

This extends not only to children with whom SC and its partners work directly, but also includes children whom staff are responsible for. SC UK believes that the situation of children must be improved through the promotion of their rights supported and demonstrated by all members of staff.

Save the Children’s Code of Conduct sets out the standards which all staff members must adhere to.

Applications should be forwarded to: vacancies@scsom.org.

Application Closing Date: Friday 11th May 2012.

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MEDAIR Nutritionist Job in South Sudan

MEDAIR is a Christian humanitarian international NGO founded in 1988, with its HQ in Switzerland.

MEDAIR’s mission is to respond to human suffering in emergency and disaster situations by implementing multi-sectoral relief and rehabilitation projects, in a compassionate and serving attitude inspired by its Christian ethos.

The organisation’s consistent focus ensures maximum efficiency and accountability, with ISO 9001:2000 certification worldwide. Medair’s unswerving commitment continues to bring hope to the world’s most vulnerable.

Nutritionist

Applications are hereby invited from qualified persons to fill the position mentioned above.

Based in South Sudan, Medair is looking for a Nutritionist for its Emergency Response Programme.

Responsibilities include:

• Assessment of nutrition needs in remote areas, making recommendations and coming up with intervention strategies
• Implementing and interpreting nutrition surveys and assessments
• Coordinating and carrying out nutrition responses regarding nutritional emergencies
• Checking inventory to ensure accurate nutritional inventory as well as preparation of nutritional part of field trip, check that inventories are kept in field locations
• Ensuring adequate stocks and timely requests of nutrition equipment
• Ensuring timely nutritional equipment supplies requests are submitted to the Project Manager
• Responsible for diagnosis of nutrition patients and ensuring the correct treatment is prescribed
• Provision and coordination of appropriate nutritional education at household and clinic levels
• Review assessment and management of malnutrition in health facilities
• Assist with capacity building of County Health Departments in managing and supervising nutrition programmes
• Training and supervision of local MoH health staff or staff from partner NGO using the GoSS MoH guidelines
• Giving input to Medair’s and South Sudan nutrition policy and guidelines
• Ensuring accurate and timely reporting of activities
• Liaison with partner NGO’s, local authorities and MoH
• Management of local staff

The suitable candidate should have the following attributes:

• Bsc degree in Nutrition or related field
• At least 2 years working experience in nutrition in humanitarian relief programmes and South Sudan
• Excellent communication skills (oral & written), Fluent in English, Arabic an added advantage
• High sense of responsibility, good organisational, coordination and time management skills
• Flexibility and willingness to work extended and irregular hours due to emergencies
• Team player and able to work in a diverse cultural environment
• Excellent computer skills, Microsoft Word and Excel, computer programmes for statistic analysis

Applications to be submitted to jobs-sds@southsudan.medair.org

Deadline for applications is 7th May, 2012

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted

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