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2 (Two) vacancies: Mercy Corps
Deadline: 24 May 2012

1. WASH/Information Officer (Harare based)

With funding from OFDA, Joint Initiative (JI) will be implementing an urban WASH program that mainly focuses on environmental health, hygiene promotion/behaviors, sanitation and water supply. The broad aim of the program is to build community resilience to WASH disease shocks through capacity building, public-private partnership approaches and promoting cost effective water and sanitation technological innovations. The program will work closely with the Local Authorities and the Environmental and Health Alliance (EHA) members.

This position is a key team player who will be responsible for assisting in the implementation of the WASH activities as well as supporting the information management and research component of the JI program. Implementation responsibilities will include assisting the Mutare-based team in community mobilization, selection and training of health promoters and community and school health club facilitators and monitoring the applied aspect of health club learning. In addition, the position will assist with implementation of targeted WASH hardware interventions (rooftop rainwater harvesting, solid waste disposal), income generating activities and social marketing for access to household water treatment products. The incumbent will work closely with the JI partners and target communities to improve community knowledge, behavior and promote best practices in water, sanitation, health and hygiene. Information management and research responsibilities will be focused on WASH as well, including identifying and compiling best practices in the sector, as well as monitoring partners’ performance, training partners on WASH related issues and ensuring that program is implemented according to sub grant agreements. The WASH information officer, in liaison with the program manager and the M&E officer, will lead the consortium in baseline, mid-term and end of project surveys as well as program report writing.

2. WASH Officer (Mutare Based)

This position is a key team player who will be responsible for community mobilization, selection of health promoters and community and school health club facilitators and monitoring the applied aspect of health club learning. The program requires active engagement with retailers in the roll out of social marketing programs for household water treatment products. The WASH officer will also be responsible for implementing targeted hardware interventions around solid waste management and rooftop rainwater harvesting. The incumbent will work closely with the local authorities and target communities to improve community knowledge, behavior and promote best practices in water, sanitation, health and hygiene. In addition to supporting rehabilitative works, access to household water treatment and health and hygiene promotion, this position will assist with the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for the project.

Qualifications required
-Minimum 3 years’ field experience in water and sanitation program, experience in urban contexts preferred
-Minimum 5 years field experience in project management, research and information management
-Degree in development work or water and sanitation related studies
-Market development and/or private sector experience preferred
-Strong knowledge of community approaches (PRA, PHAST, and PHHE)
-Good writing and research skills
-Strong computer skills especially MS Word and Excel

To apply, please send a covering letter describing your interest, qualifications, salary requirements, references and all official documents including your CV to Mercy Corps Human Resources at hr [at] zw [dot] mercycorps [dot] org or drop off your application to Mercy Corps, 73 Harare Drive, Mt Pleasant, Harare. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Senior Manager/Engineer: GIZ
Deadline: 28 May 2012 (12 noon)

The Government of Australia and the Federal Republic of Germany are jointly funding the Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Support Programme under implementation through GIZ. In this context GIZ seeks to recruit a Senior Manager/Engineer for a fixed term contract of approximately 2 years starting in August 2012. Duty station: Bulawayo. Regular trips to Harare and other duty stations for meetings with other members of the GIZ-team will be required.

Reporting to the Programme Manager and in cooperation with the City of Bulawayo, the Manager/Engineer will be tasked with the design, coordination, implementation, and monitoring of GIZ-intervention measures in Bulawayo.

Job description/responsibilities
-Coordinate and align GIZ-interventions with the interventions of the City of Bulawayo and the interventions of other partners of the City of Bulawayo.
-Prepare and coordinate a work programme in close cooperation with the Programme Manager and the Heads of the Technical Team and the Finance Team, and monitor performance of interventions in technical as well as financial and institutional areas against the work programme.
-In close cooperation with the Head of the Technical Team (GIZ) regularly review the repair, rehabilitation and replacement needs, and define the timing and scope of interventions.
-In close cooperation with the Head of the Finance Team (GIZ) regularly review the need, timing and scope of interventions in the areas of accounting, billing, collection, customer care etc.
-Identify needed equipment and supplies and coordinate procurements with the City of Bulawayo and GIZ.
-Prepare Terms of Reference for contractors, consultants, NGOs and supervise their work.
-Support Capacity Development in the City of Bulawayo in technical and financial areas and support interventions in operation and maintenance, process design and management.
-Supervise, manage and direct other GIZ-staff at the duty station.
-Maintain regular contact and dialogue between the GIZ-team and other stakeholders.
-Report regularly on interventions and progress to both the City of Bulawayo and the Programme Manager.

The ideal applicant holds a university degree in engineering with a post graduate qualification in water supply, sanitation and management. Holding both, an engineering degree and a MBA will be of advantage. He or she has at least 10 years of professional working experience in engineering and management, and in municipal water supply, sanitation, and solid waste management in particular. He or she has held management positions, has at least three years working experience in the private sector and at least five years working experience in Zimbabwe. And of course, he or she has experience with Capacity Development in water sector organisations, good leadership skills, an excellent command of the English language as well as proficiency in MS Office. Applicants are requested to submit electronic copies of their CV and application letter in PDF-format to: GIZ-zimbabwe [at] giz [dot] de

The subject of your email application must read: Senior Manager/Engineer Water. Applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered, and only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Logistics Officer: UNICEF
Deadline: 3 June 2012

Vacancy Notice No. Zim/2012:23
NOB Level
(Fixed Term Post)

Purpose of the Job
The successful candidate will be under the supervision of the Logistics Specialist, and will be responsible for the management of the UNICEF Distribution Center (DC) and distribution of supplies for the UNICEF assisted Programs in Zimbabwe. He or She will supervise the daily management of the DC and other incoming supplies for in country distributions in line with the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) rules and regulations.  The incumbent will provide technical and operational support to the Programmes Sections, Government counterparts and take initiative in management improvements for logistics functions that are mainly related to warehousing and distribution.

The incumbent will supervise the DC in organizing receipts and timely dispatch of supplies to end users as per distribution plans, supervise Warehouse Assistants and prepare weekly reports on fleet and supplies movements. The incumbent will work closely with the government counterparts to ensure that UNICEF assisted supplies are being dispatched in a timely manner.

He or she will also monitor the contingency stocks carefully and advise program sections on a monthly basis on the stock status for either replacement or reordering, and manage the periodic inventory counting; ensuring stock is managed and accounted for as per IPSAS (FIFO) standards. There will other quality assurance activities as well.

The role also liaises with storage and transport providers and provides quality oversight over conditions of contractual agreement.

Qualifications and Competencies
-Degree in commercial field with specialization in SCM- Logistics & transport or related field.
-At least five years of relevant professional work experience in supply/logistics operations.
-Initiative, passion and commitment to UNICEF’s mission and professional values.
-Ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment

If you have experience of working in a similar capacity, meet the above profile and want to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better world for children, send your application quoting vacancy notice number to the following address:

Human Resources Manager
(Vacancy Notice No. 23: Zim-2012)
UNICEF, 6 Fairbridge Avenue,
P O Box 1250
Belgravia, Harare

Or email: hararevacancies [at] gmail [dot] com

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Senior Programme Officer Governance (full time): Hivos
Deadline: 8 June 2012

The job
The Hivos Project on strengthening accountable governance aims to strengthen citizen agency to improve governance and to defend basic human rights. As a senior member of the project team, and reporting to the Principal Adviser, the programme officer contributes constructively and positively to Hivos policies in this field; initiates and coordinates innovative and creative programmes and initiatives that contribute to Hivos objectives, forges strong relationships and builds supportive networks with relevant stakeholders, notably in civil society.

The person
You are a qualified individual with strong analytic skill and an ability to translate analysis into meaningful interventions. You are passionate about human rights and good governance without being dogmatic. You have a creative outlook on how human rights can be protected and good governance stimulated in a non-confrontational manner. You are entrepreneurial and not afraid to try something new. You have strong communication skills, both orally as in writing. You are a good networker with a proven ability to mobilize your network in support of the project’s objectives.

Qualifications
-An academic background, with a Master’s degree in a relevant field.
-Verifiable experience in governance, rights and citizenship.
-Experience in downstream accountability is an asset.
-A minimum of ten years of relevant work experience.
-Strong networking skills, ability to mobilize networks in support of the programme objectives.
-Proven experience in project management and implementation.
-Track record in programme development in the field of good governance and human rights.
-Affinity with developmental, political and socio-economic issues.
-Preparedness and ability to travel.

Hivos offers a challenging position in an international environment.

The post is based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Hivos welcomes applications from citizens from South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia but only with a valid work permit for Zimbabwe and can only offer employment on local terms and conditions.

If you meet the above-mentioned qualifications (please look carefully), send a letter explaining your motivation and your CV to: chuma [at] hivos [dot] co [dot] zw

Or deliver to:
Hivos
20 Phillips Avenue
Belgravia
Harare

Please note that only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Programme Assistant (full time): Hivos
Deadline: 8 June 2012

The job
The Hivos Project on strengthening accountable governance aims to strengthen citizen agency to improve governance and to defend basic human rights. As a member of the project team, and reporting to the Principal Adviser, the Programme Assistant provides administrative, financial, logistical and secretarial support to enable the efficient and effective implementation of the project. This includes collecting information, maintaining records, preparing documentation and correspondence and performing a variety of information gathering, monitoring, technical and administrative services of moderate scope and difficulty, pertaining to, and in support of, the project’s activities.

The person
You are a disciplined and organized individual with at least five years of relevant experience in programme work, including financial reporting. You have had previous experience with an international NGO and have strong communication skills, both orally and in writing. You have strong drafting and analytical skills and the ability to work in a concise and organized manner. You have excellent knowledge of MS Office, database and Internet use.

Qualifications
-An academic background, preferably with degree or diploma in a relevant field.
-Verifiable experience in working on governance, rights and citizenship programmers.
-Experience in downstream accountability is an asset.
-A minimum of five years of relevant work experience.
-Proven experience in project administration, management and implementation.
-Track record in programme development in the field of good governance and human rights.
-Affinity with developmental, political and socio-economic issues.
-Preparedness and ability to travel.

Hivos offers a challenging position in an international environment.

The post is based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Hivos welcomes applications from citizens from South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia but only with a valid work permit for Zimbabwe and can only offer employment on local terms and conditions.

If you meet the above-mentioned qualifications (please look carefully), send a letter explaining your motivation and your CV to: chuma [at] hivos [dot] co [dot] zw

Or deliver to:
Hivos
20 Phillips Avenue
Belgravia
Harare

Please note that only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (full time): Hivos
Deadline: 8 June 2012

The job
The Hivos Project on strengthening accountable governance aims to strengthen citizen agency to improve governance and to defend basic human rights. As a member of the project team, and reporting to the Principal Adviser, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer is responsible for guiding the overall M&E strategy and implementation of related activities within the project and via partners, as well as providing timely and relevant information to programme stakeholders. The M&E Officer will set up the M&E system and ensure it is implemented effectively by the key stakeholders and implementing partners.

The person
You are a qualified individual with strong analytic skills and an ability to translate analysis into meaningful interventions. You are passionate about human rights and good governance without being dogmatic. You have a creative outlook on how human rights can be protected and good governance stimulated in a non-confrontational manner. You are entrepreneurial and not afraid to try something new. You have strong communication skills, both orally as in writing. You are a good networker with a proven ability to mobilize your network in support of the project’s objectives.

Qualifications
-A degree in a field related to development and/or management and experience in field research.
-At least 5 to10 years’ experience in the field.
-Proven experience with the logical framework approach and other strategic planning approaches.
-Proven experience in M&E methods and approaches (including quantitative, qualitative and participatory).
-Proven experience in planning and implementation of M&E systems. ‘
-Proven experience in training in M&E development and implementation.
-Proven experience in facilitating learning-oriented analysis sessions of M&E data with multiple stakeholders.
-Proven experience in information analysis and report writing.
-A solid understanding of development, with a focus on participatory processes, joint management, and gender issues.
-Advanced computer skills.

Hivos offers a challenging position in an international environment.

The post is based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Hivos welcomes applications from citizens from South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia but only with a valid work permit for Zimbabwe and can only offer employment on local terms and conditions.

The post is based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Hivos welcomes applications from citizens from South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia but only with a valid work permit for Zimbabwe and can only offer employment on local terms and conditions.

If you meet the above-mentioned qualifications (please look carefully), send a letter explaining your motivation and your CV to: chuma [at] hivos [dot] co [dot] zw

Or deliver to:
Hivos
20 Phillips Avenue
Belgravia
Harare

Please note that only short listed candidates will be contacted.

I stumbled into one of Harare’s 24 hour emergency clinics early on Monday morning. I arrived clutching a hot water bottle, hair like an aged rocker. I looked like a slightly upmarket boozer tramp. I was called through fairly swiftly. Then I waited awhile until a man came in. He looked quite cheery given the early hour. He asked me how I was and I said not very well and he said I can see that. So why ask, dumbnuts, I thought. Anyway he stuck a thermometer in my ear for a quick second and yanked it out again. No cleaning or anything. We’re cool and groovy sharing earwax here in the Sunshine City. Then he took my blood pressure. In the meantime I gave him a long and involved rundown of how I was feeling and what my body was doing (be afraid). And he nodded and grimaced in all the right places. Then he said, the doctor will be with you shortly. I’d been telling my life story to the orderly.

After about ten minutes the doctor came in and we went through the whole splurb again. I got two injections and there was an attempt at a drip which didn’t work out too well. The needle wasn’t in straight apparently. I’d had to give the doctor the low down on my “stool formation” (sadly lacking any hint of shape or form) so I was a bit surprised when he gave me a tiny container in which to place a stool sample. A bit like asking an old age pensioner with bad fitting dentures out to a lunch of biltong. Nevertheless I accepted this mission impossible and went off clutching my small receptacle.

In my hour in the clinic I’d probably spent about ten minutes being attended to by a “medical professional”. All the other time was spent waiting and wondering whether someone had remembered me in my fluffy slippers in cubicle number 1.

The next morning I went off to see a homeopath who spent an hour and a half with me, and who actually spoke. I forgot to mention that the emergency clinic doctor could barely muster a mumble. She heard me out and came up with a suggestion of what I might have – a viral infection – and sent me home with some remedies. The emergency clinic is covered by my medical aid but my homeopath isn’t. Who gave me the best treatment is undisputed.

In the meantime I’d managed the impossible and the unformed stool was captured and secured. I won’t say how. For a couple of days its been smouldering like some form of biological warfare in the corner of my bedroom. Now that I’m feeling better, and with the said stool dating back to Monday, I’m wondering if its beyond testing. So now what? I’m not keen on anyone doing juju on my poo so I’ll have to return it to the loo. A sharp reminder of how levelling it is dealing with your own shit.

I wrote to the Mayor of Harare last year about my concerns regarding the flagrant abuse of zoning regulations for businesses in suburban areas in Harare. No response. No big surprise. Everywhere you look there’s a creche, or a cafe, or a restaurant, or a clinic, or a security firm … it’s just not acceptable. I can only think that the authorities in the City of Harare are just plain incompetent, powerless or corrupt. Years ago people operating businesses from residential properties used to duck and dive to avoid The Law. But these days in Zimbabwe, the rule of law, along with any kind of rules and regulations, are flouted with impunity. Do the authorities in the City of Harare honestly think that it is fair and just for home owners to have the value of their property plummet, along with their quality of living, on the back of second hand car dealers et al getting to operate businesses illegally?

Here’s Mr Dube from Eastlea who shares similar concerns. In the meantime, Mr Mayor, please Wake Up, or get the hell out ….

Open Letter to the Mayor of Harare

We, the residents of Wheeler Avenue, Eastlea, Harare, wish to register our strong objection to the granting of consent for the setting up of car sales or any other type of business along this road.

Previous experience has shown that areas zoned for car sales businesses along Robert Mugabe Road/Glenara Avenue are de-greened in order to create parking space. We do not want this environmental damage to happen again in our area. Trees are central to our existence and we know why they are important. We value most of the great natural beauty and the charm of the treed area than the current piece-meal planning. Let us build the environment, instead of destroying it.

Whatever the merits of that decision may have been at the time, conditions have since changed so much since then that is no longer relevant. Already, there are a lot of car sales in the area; we do not see the need for more! The hard practical truth, in our opinion (although we are not experts in traffic engineering or town planning), is that the zoning for car sales ignores the absolute necessity of widening this access road to the city centre. To serve the material increase in population in Harare, Goromonzi and Ruwa as well as traffic from the entire route (Mutare-Harare), Robert Mugabe Road now requires extra road space equivalent to a six-way freeway with separate levels of crossing traffic to remove congestion. The current developments will cause Robert Mugabe Road to remain at its present abnormally low width. The blossoming car sales in our area engender traffic problems. Public and private vehicles are now using the roads on both sides of Robert Mugabe Road which is supposed to be an arterial transportation route, to avoid congestion at the Chiremba road traffic lights.

At least your good offices should have had the courtesy of asking residents if they had any objections to the zoning of our neighbourhood for car sales or any other business. This raises questions about the professional conduct of business and accountability at the Harare City Council offices. We call upon those with the requisite expertise on environmental governance to cause the city fathers to reverse irrational decisions that have a negative impact on the environment, let alone a residential area.

We hope this matter merits serious consideration.

Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Yours Sincerely

G. Dube
CHRA Member (Eastlea)

Being too tired (and too full) to move last night, I found myself watching last night’s 8 ‘O’ Clock news broadcast on ZBC. For the most part I try to avoid watching the news, it long ago abandoned its analytical, investigative and informational functions, and now merely serves to justify ZANU PFs existing position.

In an in-depth report, the bulletin featured unabashed condemnation, badly disguised as analysis, of the Pretoria High Court Ruling passed on Tuesday obliging South Africa to investigate Zimbabwean torture allegations. It then moved on to discuss the issue of the lack of coin change from retailers, a cold news item that had been publicly discussed last year; and as a coup de grace a feature report on the lack of innovation in the tourism sector.  I quite doubt that the programmes producers appreciate the irony of their levelling this charge when they are lacking in innovation themselves. Chris Mutsvangwa ZBC’s newly favourite public intellectual was quoted in at least three stories, in his multiple capacities as a legal expert, economic analyst and government representative. One might assume that he was the only person in all of Zimbabwe with any kind of education or opinion.

There’s an hour of my life that I will never get back. The entire bulletin was poorly constructed and superficial in it’s coverage. Zimbabweans are not stupid, their response has been to access paid and free to air channels from South Africa. It’s no wonder that the Zimbabwe All Media Products Survey has consistently reported a decline in viewership. I wonder how Zimbabwe Broadcasting holdings management can doggedly continue to create programming that few can access and even fewer care to watch. Surely they cannot be so deluded as to call what I witnessed last night journalism? Thankfully ZBC’s reception is limited to an 80km radius around Harare, leaving the rest of the nation unaffected. I can’t say it’s a loss to Zimbabwe’s media-scape.

On my way out after a show last night a young man spotted the camera around my neck and demanded (in a nice way) that I take his picture, pretty soon a couple of his friends wanted their pictures too. Now, usually I’m wary of being alone with three young men in the dark, but HIFA has a way with people. We had a lot of laughs taking the photos and they even took down our web address to see them live on the internet.

…’what is HIFA?’

Yesterday during the First street performances I asked some people in the crowd if they knew that HIFA had begun. None of the people I asked knew about HIFA. There were just happy to see a different kind of entertainment on First Street.