Family Health International Vacancies

FHI is among the largest and most established nonprofit organizations active in international public health with a mission to improve lives worldwide through research, education, and services in family health.

We are seeking qualified Uganda nationals for an upcoming regional HIV/TB program based in Mbarara, Uganda.

1. Associate Director

The Associate Director for the HIV/TB program will be responsible for project management of a team that will design and implement activities for the HIV/TB projects.

The Deputy Chief of Party will report to the Chief of Party.

Responsibilities

• Overall project management of a team of advisors, IT and operations staff
• Set up operational management systems and procedures for Project staff and consortium partners
• Project results reporting
• Provides technical leadership and management of the project’s technical teams.
• Supports the Chief of Party in the overall management and implementation of the program

Position Requirements:

• Masters’ degree in public health, or a related advanced degree;
• 7-10 years experience managing staff to implement large scale public health programs and setting up operational systems and procedures for HIV/TB programs
• Technical experience in areas of TB and HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment
• Developing country work experience
• Prior experience in a leadership role on USAID-funded projects
• Excellent communication skills, demonstrated leadership, and the ability to work collaboratively across management and technical disciplines.

2. Finance and Administration Director

The Finance and Administration (F&A) Director will provide financial leadership to ensure efficient oversight of financial operations, including life of project and core activity budget, and provide ongoing capacity development needs.

The F&A Director will report to the Country Director and interface with USAID/Uganda and program partners as required.

Responsibilities

• Prepares monthly and annual financial reports, including financial status of account activities, with accompanying bank documentation and receipts.
• Interpret and apply funding regulations to ensure that all FHI policies and procedures and federal procurement and contracting requirements are met for sub-agreement and subcontracting activities.
• Maintain detailed accounting records and ensure accurate book-keeping for the project.
• Provide support with the internal audit functions, and provide responses and/or training consistent with the external audit recommendations.
• Contribute to the development and review of the FHI overall project budget and the sub-partners’ subagreement budgets.
• Maintain financial spreadsheets and databases to track sub-partner obligations and spending.
• Participate in financial analysis exercises to determine project burn rates, assess sub-partner spending, and complete the quarterly pipeline tool.
• Interface with project sub-partners on pre-award reviews, banking and reimbursement issues, and financial closeouts, including review and (as necessary) provision of guidance to correct their Recipient Monthly Financial Reports
• Participate in the preparation of monthly cash flow requests and financial reports for submission to the donor and/or FHI headquarters.

Position Requirements:

• BS/BA in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field and 9 - 11 years relevant work experience; or MBA/MS/MA/MPH and 7 - 9 years of relevant experience
• Experience with USAID-funded projects will be an added advantage
• Proven skills in management, supervision and leadership
• Knowledge of basic accounting including general ledger and automated accounting systems with the use of database spreadsheets
• Skills in interpreting financial information and analyzing financial reports.

3. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer

The M&E Officer will provide technical leadership in M&E systems design and implementation, and develop appropriate guidelines to support USAID/Uganda and its Implementing Partners in conducting M&E and reporting results.

Additionally, the M&E Advisor will deliver M&E training, and interface with USAID/Uganda as required. The M&E Advisor will report to the Chief of Party.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on M&E support to USAID/Uganda and its consortium partners
• Develop M&E tools and guidelines
• Conduct data quality assessments
• Conduct M&E capacity building training
• Coordinate data gathering and aggregation
• Analyze data and prepare sector-specific and crosscutting M&E reports

Position Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience designing and implementing M&E systems
• Significant experience working with HIV/TB programs, including HMIS. Expertise in Lot Quality Assurance Surveys an added advantage
• Experience with USAID-funded projects
• Management skills
• Proven leadership skills
• Experience with capacity building activities for M&E
• Experience with data quality assessment

FHI has a competitive compensation package and is an equal opportunity employer.

Interested candidates please submit cover letter, resume including salary requirements via email to: Fkitaka @ fhi.org or may register online through FHI’s Global Staffing Database at https://recruiting.fhi.org. or mail to:

Country Director,
Plot 15 Kitante Close,
P.O Box 5768 Kampala,
Uganda

to be received not later than February 08, 2010.

Kindly note that only shortlisted persons will be contacted.

Handwritten applications will be disqualified.

Please quote Ref Number indicated alongside the position while sending your application.

No phone calls please!

* Offers are contingent upon awarded proposal

African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) Jobs

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), an international conservation organization
headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, invites applications from suitably qualified Tanzanians for the following positions:

1. Grants Manager

The successful candidate will be an integral member of AWF’s program management team, ensuring successful oversight, monitoring and reporting of the 4-year grant for AWF work in the Maasai Steppe and Kilimanjaro Heartlands in Tanzania.

This position will also carry out grant management activities for other grants being implemented in the Masaai Steppe Heartland.

The position reports to the Maasai Steppe Heartland Director and will be based in Arusha, Tanzania.

The successful candidate would:

• Support Maasai Steppe and Kilimanjaro Heartland in managing overall grant implementation, tracking activities and outputs against the agreed budgets
• Work with Heartland management to ensure that program staff and systems work effectively to deliver sound Program management and implementation
• Provides overall support to Heartland teams to develop and implement annual program implementation plans agree
• Establish the necessary financial tracking processes to ensure full compliance with donor requirements among others

Qualifications

• Masters’ degree in Business Administration, Project Management or related field; or
• At least 5 years relevant working experience, 2 years within a donor funded program in a conservation or development setting.
• Demonstrated knowledge of grant management principles, including U.S. government funding
• Experience in communicating complex financial information to a non-financial audience

2. Enterprise Officer

The successful candidate will support enterprise management activities for ongoing enterprises in Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) being implemented in the Maasai Steppe and Kilimanjaro Heartland Programs.

The position reports to the Maasai Steppe Heartland Director and will be based in Arusha, Tanzania.

The successful candidate would:

• Develop and help implement Heartland Enterprise Strategy, monitor the performance and evaluate the effectiveness and impacts of AWF’s support to community conservation enterprises
• Identify new conservation enterprise projects through developing and testing a range of enterprise options aimed at improving the economic returns to enable communities
• Execute all due diligence and business planning processes for new enterprises.
• Develop and structure all approved conservation enterprise projects
• Manage and monitors all established conservation enterprise projects
• Ensure timely reporting to the relevant officers and donors
• Performs other additional enterprise management and project implementation activities as requested by Heartland Director.

Qualifications

• Masters degree in Business Administration, Enterprise Development, Project Management, Economics or related field or
• Bachelors’ degree in the above mentioned fields with at least 5 years direct experience in Enterprise development
• At least 3-5 years expertise in enterprise development in remote areas, and proven experience in implementing successful enterprise activities in challenging conditions
• Demonstrated experience in project management including delivering on tight deadlines
• Demonstrated experience working in the field with communities and private sector operators
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide group of collaborators, including proactive sharing of information and reporting
• Proficiency in both Kiswahili and English (spoken and written) is required
• As this position is heavily anchored in AWF’s conservation programs, the successful candidate must have a strong interest in and understanding of conservation.

A full job description is available on www.awf.org

Candidates who fully meet the above requirements should submit a cover letter, a detailed CV, including a daytime telephone contact and three referees to HumanResources @ awfke.org by January 31, 2009.

Only short-listed candidates shall be contacted.

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), an international conservation organization
headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, invites applications from suitably qualified Tanzanians for the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) Project to be implemented in the Kolo Forests in Kondoa District, Maasai Steppe Heartland as follows;

1. Project Coordinator

The successful candidate will be an integral member of AWF’s program management team, ensuring the overall, day-to-day supervision and management of a 3-year grant to advance AWF on Climate Change.

The position reports to the Maasai Steppe Heartland Director and will be based in Arusha, Tanzania with frequent travel to the field.

The successful candidate would:

• Support the overall, day-to-day supervision and management of the project
• Prepare project work plans and reports
• Serve as the lead relationship manager with partners including local, national and regional levels
• Manage staff associated with the project
• Prepare and submit expense reports, working with AWF’s Finance and Administration team in Arusha to ensure proper accounting of project funds
• Lead the implementation of targeted actions within the annual work plan to ensure the project outputs are met and within the allowable budgets
• Facilitate the production and dissemination of communications material to partners
• Perform other additional management and project implementation activities as requested by Heartland Director.

Qualifications

• Masters’ degree in Climate Change, Forestry , Natural Resource Management (NRM), Ecological monitoring or related field
• Demonstrated knowledge on climate change, particularly on mitigation, with specific reference to REDD
• At least 5 years relevant working experience, 2 years within a donor funded program in a conservation or development setting
• Demonstrated knowledge of project management
• Experience in communicating complex project information to varied audience
• Strong technical skills in report writing and using computer applications for data management
• Must be flexible, culturally sensitive, and exude a “team” attitude
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact professionally with communities, staff, partners and donors
• Self-driven with high attention to detail and ability to meet strict deadlines
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Strong interest in and understanding of conservation.
• Willingness to travel to the field.

2. Community Development Officer

The successful candidate will mobilize the target beneficiary communities. The position reports to the Project Coordinator and will be based in Kondoa, Tanzania.

The successful candidate would:

• Mobilize participating communities in Kondoa District
• Support implementation of community focused project outputs
• Ensure a regular flow of information to partners
• Liaise with AWF staff and partners on technical issues
• Provide follow up support on capacity building exercises and Joint Forest Management implementation
• Perform other functions as requested by Heartland Director and Project Coordinator.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Community Development, Forestry, Natural Resource Management (NRM) , Conservation, Ecological monitoring or related field
• At least 2 years relevant working experience, 1 year within a donor funded program in a conservation or development setting
• Demonstrated knowledge of community facilitation
• Strong skills in community mobilization, report writing and use of computer applications
• Must be flexible, culturally sensitive, and exude a “team” attitude
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact professionally with local communities, staff, partners and donors
• Self-driven with high attention to detail.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Strong interest in and understanding of conservation
• Knowledge of Climate Change will be an added advantage

Candidates who fully meet the above requirements should submit a cover letter, a detailed CV, including a daytime telephone contact and three referees to HumanResources @ awfke.org by January 31, 2010.

Only short-listed candidates shall be contacted.

AWF is an equal opportunity employer and female candidates are encouraged to apply.