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Northern Regional Case Management Coordinator: World Education Inc
Deadline: 25 February 2013

Background to the Position
World Education Inc has been selected to work with the Ministry of Labour and Social Services (MoLSS) under the thematic area of National case management system development and practice .The overall purpose of this thematic area is to review and update the current national case management system together with MoLSS, Department of Social Services (DSS) and deliver innovative community based services nationally, that ensures that children and families who are identified as vulnerable are supported within a continuum of care. The program will be implemented within the ten cash transfer districts of Epworth, Goromonzi, Rushinga, Makoni, Kariba,  Zvishavane, Bulawayo Urban, Umguza, Chivi and Mangwe.The posts will be based in Harare with frequent travel to  the mentioned districts

Job Summary
Reporting to the Project Manager, the main role of the NR  Coordinator is to oversee the implementation of the Case management project in 6 districts. The NR coordinator will support the case management officers and DSS offices to implement the case management system in their respective district.

The NR Coordinator will assume the following responsibilities:

Key Functions of the post
-Oversee the Implementation of the National case management system project in their regions
-Design and develop case management tools for the project
-Coordinate and support activities of Case Management Officers
-Coordinate and spearhead the development of appropriate child protection tools, and share with CMOs
-Train, mentor and supervise Case management Officers and DSSOs
-Write monthly, Quarterly, annual progress reports using district feedback and reports
-Network and represent WEI at various child protection forums/stakeholders meetings
-Technical backstopping for consultants on delivery based contracts/grants.

Applicants are encouraged to meet the following criteria
-Primary university degree in Social Work
-Good Presentation skills
-Excellent communication skills
-At least 4 years experience working with vulnerable people and one year must be at middle management level supervising people
-Ability to work with little or no supervision
-Results oriented and able to work under pressure
-Knowledge of capacity building initiatives
-Experience working within a multi stakeholder project

Applicants with the relevant experience are encouraged to apply to recruitment@worlded.co.zw

Female candidates are encouraged to apply.

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Finance and Administration Officer: Gender Links Zimbabwe
Deadline: 22 February 2013 (Close of business)

Gender Links, a Southern African NGO based in Johannesburg specialising in gender, media, women’s rights and governance, seeks the services of experienced individual to serve as Administrative Officer for its Country Offices in Zimbabwe. The main task of the incumbent will be to provide accounting and administrative support to the Gender Links Country Office.

Tasks
-Preparation and administration of all program budgets
-Proper control of the supporting documents for payments and financial reports ensuring that all authorisations are done accordingly
-Procurement: Sourcing quotations and ensuring that the procurement policies are adhered to at all times
-Processing payments of all goods and services
-Managing and reconcile petty cash
-Processing of all statutory requirement payments
-Checking program cash expenditure reconciliations
-Cashbook management, including uploading of all documents on sharepoint and performing monthly bank reconciliations
-Banking including liaising with suppliers in relation to payment queries
-General administration, including follow up with suppliers on outstanding issues and attending to queries
-Ensuring that all staff complete timesheets and upload them on HR sharepoint folder
-Filing of all finance and admin documents
-Assisting with managing the incoming and outgoing phone calls
-Performing daily and monthly backups for all the office data
-Assisting with compiling documents for workshops, researches as required by the country office
-Assisting the Country Manager at all times as required

Skills
-Tertiary education with specialised certification in accounting or finance
-At least three years experience in accounting in the NGO sector
-Experience in Pastel accounting software, Microsoft office programmes and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet
-Ability to administer and execute financial processes and transactions
-Good administrative and inter personal skills
-IT proficiency
-Able to handle pressure and is dynamic to change

General conditions
The above post is for an initial period of one year, based in Harare. Competitive remuneration packages will be offered, commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the successful candidates. Applications must be submitted by close of business (COB) Friday 22 February 2013. A letter of motivation, CVs and references should be sent to: hr [at] genderlinks [dot] org [dot] za

Or fax +27 11 622 4732. For further enquiries phone +27 11 622 2877.

Only short listed and successful candidates will be contacted for interviews.

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Deputy Country Director: Oxfam
Deadline: 17 February 2013

1 Year contract (with possibility of renewal) based in Harare

Oxfam is a confederation of 14 affiliates located across the world and working in 99 countries. There has been a recent change in the confederation’s architecture, with a move towards single management structures (SMS) in each country focussed on enhancing program impact. In Zimbabwe, the Oxfams have began to implement the joint strategy under SMS, that is expected to result in an improved Oxfam brand, sustained impact through our work and increased cost-effectiveness through cost sharing and ultimately reducing duplications in our work.

The role
Deputy Country Director role is applicable under SMS, where Oxfam has greater impact through multiple implementing affiliates. The Deputy Country Director will drive the delivery of the relevant parts of the program strategy within the Managing Affiliate. The Deputy Country Director will work alongside the Country Director, support the delivery of the Country Strategy through the Managing Affiliate’s program and will be accountable for progress on their part of the Strategy and Operational Plan. The Deputy Country Director will also be responsible for building and leading a dynamic team of programme staff; establishing positive working relationships with various stakeholders, have major budget and management responsibility for delivering these program responsibilities under SMS.

This role requires
-Senior management experience in leading the development and delivery of development, humanitarian and advocacy program strategies
-Experience in leading and motivating multi-disciplinary teams, a high degree of self awareness and an understanding of how to drive and support excellent team performance and individual development
-Experience managing complex organisational transformation processes and relationships with internal and external multi-cultural stakeholders
-Strong financial and analytical skills and the ability to think strategically, including to think beyond the country program context and act within a regional and global framework

To find out more about this role and to apply online, visit www.oxfam.org.uk/jobs and quote ref:INT5833.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization.  Women and under represented groups are encouraged to apply.

This is an urgent recruitment and short-listing will commence soon.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Note: Those who applied before for the Associate Country Director position need not to apply.

Public Health Engineer: Oxfam
Deadline: 17 February 2013

5 months contract
Location: Gweru

Oxfam is a confederation of 14 affiliates located across the world and working in 99 countries. There has been a recent change in the confederation’s architecture, with a move towards single management structures (SMS) in each country focussed on enhancing program impact. In Zimbabwe, the Oxfams have began to implement the joint strategy under SMS, that is expected to result in an improved Oxfam brand, sustained impact through our work and increased cost-effectiveness through cost sharing and ultimately reducing duplications in our work.

We are urgently looking for dynamic team player for our Humanitarian programme in Gweru.

-You will support and lead in designing appropriate and acceptable water supply and sanitation facilities in selected wards and contribute to the calculation and completion of bill of quantities, drawings and specifications related to the engineering activities. As part of the Humanitarian Capacity Building Plan, you will help to develop and implement a detailed plan for building the capacity of partner organisations and local institutions in undertaking water, sanitation and hygiene technical and engineering related activities.
-The ideal candidate will have a suitable qualification in any discipline relating to Civil Engineering, Environmental Health and/or Construction Engineering. The candidates will also have strong knowledge of and significant practical field-based experience in either/both water management or sanitation management, particularly of poor rural and urban communities.

The candidate needs to be physically fit for travel, able and willing to travel regularly, at times at short notice locally. You will have strong organization skills, able to work effectively in a difficult environment and be flexible in demanding situations. You will be proficient in English and have good interpersonal and team working skills. Demonstrate a commitment to the overall aims, values, policies and experience of promoting gender equity and diversity and the interests of marginalized people in all aspects of Oxfam’s work.

How to apply
To find out more about this role and to apply online, visit www.oxfam.org.uk/jobs and quote ref: INT5984.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization.  Women and under represented groups are encouraged to apply.

Baseline assessment: Community mobilization for PMTCT and Pediatric HIV in Zimbabwe: SAfAIDS

Introduction
SAfAIDS is a partner in the FACE-Pediatric HIV Consortium, which is implementing a five-year national program to eliminate new HIV infections in children and improve the survival of mothers and children in line with the national strategic plan. SAfAIDS’ principal role in the partnership is to strengthen community participation and engagement in integrated PMTCT and Pediatric HIV Care.

The Assignment
The PMTCT Community Mobilisation Baseline Assessment
The consultant is expected to undertake a baseline assessment of community mobilization initiatives supporting increased uptake of integrated PMTCT services baseline assessment. The assessment will gather baseline data to facilitate project monitoring and evaluation.

Purpose of the Baseline Assessment
The purpose of this assessment is to gather baseline data that will inform SAfAIDS and the FACE Pediatric HIV Consortium with the design, implementation and evaluation of community mobilization approaches.

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Committee of the Peoples Charter (CPC) Press Statement on Proposed Government Exit Packages:

‘Say No to the Inclusive Government’s Politics of the Belly’

Issue Date: February 08 2013

The Committee of the Peoples Charter (CPC) is gravely disappointed with the departure lounge intentions of the inclusive government’s ministers and the current Parliament to award themselves ‘exit’ packages in the form of luxury vehicles and houses, as reported in the February 8-14 edition of the Zimbabwe Independent. Such an intention is grossly hypocritical as well as thoroughly unjustified and undeserved.

In a year where the country is facing a major drought as well as deplorable social services where there is lack of clean drinking water, affordable health care and a crisis in our education system, awarding these policy makers these ridiculous exit packages would be the height of political insensitivity.

These leaders would do well to be reminded that being in government is a service to the people of Zimbabwe and not a mechanism through which they must seek to enrich themselves.  Unfortunately this latest intention is only but the latest indication of the warped thinking that informs the inclusive government where and when it comes to matters of allowances and perks for its officials.

Against better advice, the inclusive government has over the last four years had a ridiculously high foreign travel bill, a penchant for purchasing luxury vehicles for ministers and their deputies while simultaneously claiming that the country has a mere US$217,00 in its bank account. That MPs and ministers now want ‘exit packages’  is akin to severance packages in a country where unemployment is reportedly as high as 80%, can only be viewed as a demonstration of utter contempt for the suffering of the ordinary people.

The CPC strongly advises the inclusive government and parliament to show contrition and sensitivity to the people that elected them into office by not seeking to loot the national purse for personal aggrandizement.

Zimbabwe is neither their personal tuck-shop nor theirs to treat as an ‘endgame takes all you can’ country.  Where the inclusive government decides to proceed with dishing out exit packages to itself, the CPC shall mobilize all Zimbabweans against such extravagance.

Consultancy: Translation of the Advocacy Toolkit  from English to Shona and Ndebele

Voluntary Service Overseas is an international development charity organization that works through and with people (volunteers) to fight global poverty.VSO has been in Zimbabwe since the 1980′s and initially its mandate was sourcing and delivering human capital to government and other institutions. VSO Zimbabwe is registered under the PVO Act of 2003(PVO 27/2010).

VSO Zimbabwe is part of an international organization that operates in more than 40 countries and has over 90 years of experience in development work. During that period, VSO International has placed over 40,000 professional volunteers into different professions globally. As a result of these efforts, over 14 million children are receiving a better education and almost five million people are accessing better quality HIV and AIDS services, and over a million disabled people are better able to enforce their rights to education and health services.

VSO is always looking for new ways to turn human energy and ingenuity into lasting change. VSO Zimbabwe has send professionals to share their skills with their local counterparts as one aspect of our vibrant National Volunteering Programme. The programme is also working towards enhancing national professional volunteerism in Zimbabwe.VSO work is demand driven. We embrace a range of development methods that allow us to provide whatever kind of help is needed most, including promoting international strategies and action, knowledge brokering and youth exchanges. We no longer exclusively recruit from the developed world as over 30 per cent of our volunteers come from within the country their nationality. VSO has just initiated a South to South fellowship programme where professionals from southern countries exchange knowledge and ideas through a 60 day exchange programme. At a global level, VSO is working very closely with the Commonwealth in promoting international learning exchange visits. (Commonwealth Fellowship Programme)

Purpose of the consultancy
VSO would like to recruit a consultant / consultancy firm / company or organization to translate the Advocacy Toolkit from English to Shona and Ndebele.

Criteria for selection
-Professional knowledge in Advocacy, Governance and law.
-Professional experience of at least 3 years in translation of community interventions material to shona and Ndebele.
-Strong analytical skills and good Shona and Ndebele writing skills.
-Experience and familiarity with communication for advocacy.
-Good appreciation of effective communication and facilitation skills, with readily available examples of translated work particularly on community interventions in Zimbabwe.
-An understanding of community interventions in Zimbabwe and interpersonal communication issues is an added advantage.

TORs for the consultancy may be requested from: peter.mutoredzanwa [at] vsoint [dot] org

Please submit applications including a proposal in a sealed envelope marked “Translation – Advocacy Toolkit” no later than 12 noon on 8 February 2013 to:
The Country Director, Voluntary service Overseas, Ref: Translation – Advocacy Toolkit, Room 14 Cambitzis Building, King George Rd, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe, P.O. Box CY 1836 Causeway, Harare; or by e-mail to peter.mutoredzanwa [at] vsoint [dot] org