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Office Administrator (OA): Sport 4 Socialisation (S4S)
Deadline: 7 December 2012 (5pm)

S4S Zimbabwe is voluntary based non-profit organisation and has the aim to improve the quality of life and promote social inclusion of youth and children living with disabilities and their families in Zimbabwe. S4S Zimbabwe implements the holistic and family orientated Social Inclusion Programme.

Some of the activities within this programme are: adapted and inclusive physical activities, Parent Support Groups, livelihood development projects, physiotherapy and direct child assistance.

Location: Mutare, Zimbabwe

Key task and responsibilities
The Office Administrator (OA) shall in general be responsible for the financial management of the organisation’s activities and related tasks.

Therefore the OA shall
-Contribute to the development and implementation of the organisation’s financial policy and internal financial control mechanism
-Establish and maintain procedures, guidelines and work instructions concerning administration within the organization
-Carrying out general accounting tasks
-Checking and consolidating data, preparing monthly, quarterly and annual budgets and administrative reports and monitor progress and exhaustion on monthly basis
-Manage logistics and purchasing for the Mutare office and payment to suppliers and monitoring actual delivery
-Be responsible for the organisation’s payroll
-Controlling budgets as per donor specifications
-Be responsible for the office and vehicle insurances
-Develop and manage the asset register
-Undertake any other activity that could be considered a task of the Office Administrator

Qualifications and experience Education
-Diploma (preferably Bachelor) in Business Administration and /or Accounting
-Professional accounting qualifications (Pastel and/or Twinfield).

Software knowledge
Pastel and Belina Payroll

Work experience and knowledge
-Minimum of 1 year relevant work experience in a similar position
-Fluency in written and spoken English
-Computer literate, excellent with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Pastel, Belina
-Having a valid and clean driver’s licence class 4 is an added advantage.

Personality
-Proactive
-Good and open communicator who is a critical thinker and has a strong personality
-A professional orientation to work
-Impeccable integrity

Duration of contract
1-year contract (possibility to renew). Start date 1 January 2013.

Remuneration
Start remuneration depends on qualifications and experience (US$600-US$650)

Applications
Cover letter and CV only via email to: office [at] sport4socialisation [dot] com with “OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR” in the subject line.

Only applications with both a cover letter and CV (2 separate documents) will be taken into consideration. The cover letter must clearly state why the candidate is interested in this position within the organisation.

Project Coordinator: Zimbabwe Aids Prevention Project-University of Zimbabwe (ZAPP-UZ)
Deadline: 7 December 2012 (1630 hours)

Zimbabwe Aids Prevention Project-University of Zimbabwe (ZAPP-UZ), a project under the Department of Community Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe is inviting applications from qualified persons with relevant experience to fill the position of Project Coordinator/Trial Manager for the Friendship Bench Project : A cluster randomised controlled trial of a brief psychological intervention delivered by lay health workers in Harare.

Reports to: Principal Investigator

Summary of job: Provide technical support, coordinate and supervise an integrated and comprehensive Mental Health Programme within 20 City Health Clinics in Harare.

Key Duties
-To lead in the facilitation of all ethics applications together with study team.
-Provide technical support to all sites in the city of Harare for the expansion of the friendship Bench Project.
-Supervise the Friendship Bench Project senior counselors and community health workers.
-Ensure accurate documentation and compilation of all data generated from Friendship Bench Project.
-Assist the Principal Investigator and Study Team to document and disseminate program implementation experiences and lessons learnt to all stakeholders.
-Plan, organize and facilitate workshops and meetings for Friendship Bench Project activities.
-Participate in developing work plans, program budgets and reports.

Qualifications
-A relevant Masters Degree programme
-At least 4 years experience in Project Management
-At least 2 years experience in program planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation
-A good team player with the ability to work well with a wide variety of people with minimum supervision
-Good interpersonal, communication skills and fluency in local languages
-Good writing skills and computer literacy
-Holder of a clean class 4 driver’s license

Please send your application including detailed CV, copies of qualifications to the Principal Investigator Friendship Bench Project, by post at the following address:

ZAPP-UZ (Friendship Bench)
92 Prince Edward Road
Milton Park
Harare

Or email on the following address: hr [at] zappuz [dot] co [dot] zw

The Tree of Life had its last partners meeting of 2012
Representatives came from each of our 15 different community partners
from neighboring Chisawasha and Chitungweza, and as far as Buhera, Murehwa and Motoko
over 60 old friends meeting from across the country after a years of dedicated work
gay colours and gay voices echo through the trees

Over this last year, three of these rural communities are now established as locally approved and licensed organizations
five more are in the process of setting theirs up
the others are still doing facilitator training and getting organized for next year

the roots are in the ground

rural workshops have taken place in communities in widening circles
run on a minimal budget (transport and food and cell phone air time)
and are being welcomed by the local authorities across political divide.
they have included teachers and headmen and war veterans and rape victims
and perpetrators and pastors and counselors  and grandmothers and children
we have trained 50 new facilitators
there have been football matches between communities
and monthly circles
and facilitators sharing responsibility for running healing circles between communities

The work of connecting to all the structures, to individuals in different communities and maintaining the circles has been unending

This year the Tree of Life facilitators – the core team and a number of our community facilitators
conducted a research study lead by CVT (the Centre for Victims of Torture)
with 144 participants in rural communities  (some a 14 km walk from the bus stop)
we compared our workshop with an alternative (Psychology Education) intervention and a group with no intervention
double blind/pre and post interviews/ 2months and 5 months follow ups etc.etc.
The results are amazing

They show beyond any doubt
that Zimbabweans (even as the conflict continues) have the ability to heal themselves
that survivor-to-victim facilitation in community circles carries incredible power
that communities have the ability to transform
that connections can be made across the country and the political divide

The power of this realization is immense . . .

from those early seeds sewn in those first circles over 8 years ago
we find ourselves standing in a growing forest

Over these years – as we have struggled with funding
small groups of people across the planet have sent us life-saving pocket money
we call it ‘Love Money’ and keep it in the Circle Fund
it has been these acts of trust and generosity from these small groups that has kept these rural people going

It is now Christmas

We received a donation from our friends at WHEAT in Canada which arrived just before our closing circle
and with it we were able to answer a call we have had from a number of our rural partners
– a bike to reach one another in the communities!
So we handed out ‘the-price-of-a-bike’ Christmas tokens (about $70) to each of our Tree of Life partners
for them to choose how it can best be spent in their area
and acknowledged them all for the contribution they have given to the healing and holding of their communities

It has been a good, hard, real year
thank you all

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is a global event dedicated to end gender-based violence. As part of the commemorations to mark this event in Zimbabwe on Friday 30 November 2012 Pamberi Trust together with Media Alliance held a media round table discussion at The Book Café. The theme of the discussion was “The Media Against Gender-Based Violence” and it took the form of an open discussion between members of the public, media practitioners and civil society representatives in trying to unpack the role of the media in covering gender based violence (GBV) in the country.

It was noted that media is doing very little in playing its role as a mirror of society when reporting on gender-based violence. In a presentation by Mrs. Veremu a Mass Communications lecturer at Polytechnic, it was noted that media plays a critical role in shaping the discourse on gender based violence through awareness raising, setting the agenda and helping to change attitudes. Mrs. Veremu highlighted that media should play a leading role in dispelling the stigma centered around gender-based violence so that it becomes an encompassing human rights issue, including both men and boys.

In a study carried out by Gender Links in 2010 it was found that regardless of the high prevalence of gender based violence in Zimbabwe only 3 percent of the stories in the media was on gender based violence. The same study found out that television coverage of gender violence was only 1 percent. Media was blamed for sensationalizing articles on gender-based violence only to push sales foregoing the seriousness the issue deserves.

Media should not relegate gender-based violence to the periphery of social discourse.

In helping set the agenda, media has a responsibly in influencing the discourse concerning gender based violence and media coverage should happen all year round, not just during the 16 Days Campaign.

Media houses and organizations that work on gender issues were urged not only to rely on old media but also to embrace new technology like social media so that they reach out to a wide audience.

They say you do not kick a man when he is down, yet sometimes you feel you do need to push your boot right up the ass of a man lying prostrate.

Why the hell did we not see some folks violating a lifeless Gaddafi? But that’s story for another day.

I couldn’t help but have a belly laugh when I read the story of Kunonga as posted online by the Herald newspaper. The headline read: “Kunonga evicted, six bouncers arrested.”

This for a man, supposedly of the cloth, to hog news headlines as a perpetrator of violence against fellow Christians? You of course have to ask where the “communion” he purports to represent fits into that degenerate agenda.

What is of concern of course is that the history of Christianity is littered with Kunonga types who subvert the Gospels but still insist theirs is a fight for the good of the Faith.

He is not likely to accept his irrelevance (not to mention his irreverence!) anytime soon and because he has been fed a false sense of invincibility by virtue of his political affiliations, his still remains a fight for the greater good never mind the glaring contradictions therein.

For a long time Zimbabwe has been subjected to focus on Church/State relations, with clergy who pander to the political tunes strummed by nationalists being allowed to flourish by the political elites.

We all know the fate of priests who decided to stand with the people and took these ruling elites to task about such things as good governance and human rights.

A guy like Kunonga makes you quickly forget the call to the magnanimity of the heart, goodwill of man, forgiveness and other such Christian and ubuntuism virtues.

You do indeed get that orgasmic of moment of “gotcha” and actually enjoy seeing him in the mud. And why not, you even want to stick foot right there and not regret it.

We continue to watch where he goes from here, but because lawyers are there to earn a living, he has already set into motion a court challenge of the decision that seeks to bring sanity to the good Church.

So much for the Christmas spirit, you have to feel sorry for the legal counsels hired by this man.