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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

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