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Income Generating Activities (IGA) Supervisor: Action Contre la Faim
Deadline: close of business 17 May 2013

Contract: Currently up to December 2013 for further possible renewal

ACF is a registered charity, founded in 1979. Action Contre la Faim operates in 41 countries. The international network of Action Contre la Faim is represented in Paris, London, Madrid, New York and Montreal. Teams in the field combat hunger on four fronts: nutrition, food security, health, water and sanitation.

In Zimbabwe, ACF is seeking for one Incoming Generating Activities Supervisor for WASH Programme being implemented in the districts of Gutu and Mberengwa.

Main Objectives
-Definition of activities for the 154 Income Generating Activities in collaboration with the Programme Manager/Deputy Programme Manager and Field Coordinator
-Team supervision
-Supervision of the implementation of the Income Generating Activities
-Monitoring and evaluation with coordination with M&E team
-Coordination with the Programme Technical Partner, WASH, M&E, Admin and Log Teams
-Reporting

Level of studies and experience
Degree/Diploma in Civil Engineering/Agriculture/Economics/Marketing/Business Studies, Minimum of two years professional experience in Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) in NGO environment with experience in Income generating Activities & Community Based Management Approach & focus on Micro Economy

Required skills
-Experience in running Income Generating activities with communities
-Marketing Skills
-Management Skills
-Excellent technical aptitudes
-Analysing ability
-Organizational competence
-Relational qualities
-Experience in training
-Computer skills
-Good knowledge of Micro Economy
-Competence in trainings organisation and implementing participative approaches
-Scheduling of activities
-Strong analytical skills
-Dynamism
-Flexibility
-High Communication skills and a diplomat good team player able to motivate a team of professional
-Ability to interact and work with Government Departments at District Level

Applicants should clearly indicate the post applied for on the envelope or subject line (for email). Cover letters with up-to-date detailed CVs should be forwarded to the undersigned not later than the Friday 17 May 2013 at close of business.

Please note that the successful candidates will be required to start immediately.

Email applications to: hrdpm@zw.missions-acf.org

Or

The Deputy Human Resources HOD
Action Contre La Faim (ACF)
29 Golden Stairs, Mount Pleasant, Harare
Zimbabwe

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Wash Emergency Program Manager: Action Contre la Faim
Deadline: close of business 17 May 2013

Contract: 4 months

ACF is a registered charity, founded in 1979. Action Contre la Faim operates in 41 countries. The international network of Action Contre la Faim is represented in Paris, London, Madrid, New York and Montreal. Teams in the field combat hunger on four fronts: nutrition, food security, health, water and sanitation.

ACF is seeking to fill the vacancy of Wash Emergency Program Manager based Masvingo. The WASH E PM is expected to have an understanding and knowledge of the WASH sector within the Zimbabwean context; experience in management of WASH works, bidding and contracting process; and exceptional ability to influence in an advisory capacity to ensure good quality implementation for beneficiaries and donors, organizational learning and contribute to broader policy analysis. Additionally the candidate must have excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.

The Main objectives of the position will be
- Program Management, Program Monitoring & Technical Backstopping
- Team Capacity Building and Human Resource Management
- Internal and external (with Authorities/NGOs/partners/EHA) coordination
- Program Design & Development
- Planning, reporting and context analysis
- Ensure quality standards of works are met consistently
- Ensure in collaboration with the logistics department that items are procured in time, at optimal cost and to the required quality standard.

Education and Experience
- A University degree in Water Technology, Hydrology or Civil Engineering or other – WASH related topic (Engineering, Public Health, Water Resource Management etc.)
- A Masters Degree an added advantage
- Previous Project management experience with ACF WASH
- Previous experience in an international humanitarian organisation
- Emergency WASH experience essential, in Cholera a plus
- Urban WASH experience a strong plus

Required skills
- High capacity programme manager (proven management experience) able to manage multiple programs simultaneously
- Emergency WASH experience, particularly in Cholera a strong plus, or at least strong understanding of key aspects of emergency WASH response
- Engineering background – Urban WASH engineering experience a strong plus; or at least good technical understanding peri-urban-urban WASH technologies/systems – motor pumps, sewerage systems, pipeline networks, water treatment
- Good reporting and English language skills
- Able to work under stressful conditions, responsive, quick to react in emergencies, flexible regarding travel and stay in the field (Ability to live alone for weeks at a time)
- Good control of personal stress, and good diplomacy skills
- Able to maintain good relations with local authorities and national staff
- Commitment to training and developing capacity of staff
- Good organizational skills
- Previous Project management experience with ACF WASH a strong plus

Applicants should clearly indicate the post applied for on the envelope or subject line (for email). Cover letters with up-to-date detailed CVs should be forwarded to the undersigned not later than the Friday 17 May 2013 at close of business.

Please note that the successful candidates will be required to start immediately.

Email applications to: hrdpm@zw.missions-acf.org

Or

The Deputy Human Resources HOD
Action Contre La Faim (ACF)
29 Golden Stairs, Mount Pleasant, Harare
Zimbabwe

It is always refreshing to read “news” from a different perspective and not just the traditional reliance on “traditional” news gatherers and writers informing us about what is making the world turn or burn.

In the age of information clutter with the rapid rise of the so-called information society where anyone with a mobile phone can access hundreds and hundreds of news websites, getting stories from a “street” perspective can not only be attractive for readers seeking a shift from our prosaic and predictable political stories, but could well give fresh insights for citizen journalism theorists.

This is what kalabashmedia.com sets out to do.

In their blurb, Kalabash Media, which launches today 13 May at 1500hrs, says its work is a collaborative effort of “social media enthusiasts” who “write the news from their different perspectives,” and as we already know about Zimbabwean journalism, the polarisation that emerged in the past decade has only seen citizens frown at some news outlets.

And journalists themselves from different stables have fashioned themselves as not kindred spirits but rather virtual adversaries.

Virtual adversaries indeed, what with the polarisation being taken to cyberspace bulletin boards!

So, an initiative like kalabashmedia.com could be refreshing despite what some critics would readily say putting journalism practice in the hands of untrained practitioners and only spells disaster.

But as the blurb has it, theirs is “a group of urbanite contributors with a knack for telling their stories and reporting on events with a fresh twist. From the Streets to the Web.”

It reminds of the Rising Voices project run by Global Voices online where communities pushed to the periphery of dominant news agendas are given a chance to tell their own stories.

kalabashmedia.com could just be another cousin of the weblog where folks post their musings about virtually anything, yet the very idea that they are fashioning it as a news site only ups their relevance especially at a time when dozens of news websites on Zimbabwe can be found with some purported to be hosted by professional journalists rather reading like products of chaps who took in generous amounts of calabashes!

kalabashmedia.com promises that “You will think, you will laugh…and if not….Frowning faces make for good headlines!” and in a country where there is a lot of anger issues, kalabashmedia.com seeks to make light of these circumstances albeit in a rather “newsy” sort of way.

It could well be something that will provide space for locally relevant crowd sourced content, moreso as the country heads for another “watershed” election. We will sure need the “people’s voice.” (Pun intended!)

There is always something of a culture shock each time you move to a new city, whether it’s a bustling metropolis or a small city the kind where everyone knows everyone.

And for me returning to Harare after having lived here a decade ago is something that I am treating with a little trepidation.

After all, so much has changed in the past decade, from the growing population to the deluge of ex-Japanese vehicles clogging the streets.

Nothing has changed in the form of government and governance, but this is an obvious story that has been rehashed for so long it has become tedious because apparently the more you curse the oligarchs, the more they dig in, so why give yourself an ulcer.

I travelled in a kombi from Westlea to the city centre and felt choked by the traffic gridlock and watched as the kombi driver assumed a Formula One persona and I could only ask a friend how the motorists escaped the wrath of road rage.

Yet it seemed to me everyone here has accepted this – albeit grudgingly – as a part of their daily grind as they attempt to navigate these mean streets during the morning rush to get to work.

It’s something terrible nativising yourself to a life of misery, yet you still have to live with it, after all, there is nothing you can do about it.

I saw a single lane street turned into a four lane autobahn as motorists and kombis competed for space, and the question to ask came naturally for me, perhaps as someone just coming in from another city where the ubiquity of traffic cops cannot be escaped: “Are there no cops along the way?”

And all the way from Westlea to the CBD no green arms waving, signaling the motorists to stop and perhaps try and create order out this chaos. Or in fact fleece a few greenbacks from already enraged motorists.

Yet it is perhaps something to be expected in a big city where a vehicle census would produce numbers that show a rapid growth of cars per capita but very little or nothing in the form of developing the road network to accommodate all these carbon expelling beasts.

I want to imagine that it is not just transport that will keep me in awe in my first week here, because anything else would be a no-no, and as a virtual outsider trying to learn the ways of this host city, it is inevitable to make comparisons with my native Bulawayo and in the process make prejudiced judgments about the big city and its people.

Zimbabwe’s sole power utility hopes to save electricity by influencing behavior change in electricity consumption through pre-paid meters. Pre-paid meters could be a solution to the billing shambles consumers had to face from ZESA but in the long run demand is already surpassing supply – something which is not going to be solved with energy saver bulbs and pre-paid meters. Giving energy saver bulbs to consumers will work only if there is electricity to save otherwise it’s a waste of resources. The nation needs to work on alternative sources of energy and allow the private sector to venture into power generation and stop relying on imports. The recent passing of a statutory instrument allowing high-end electricity consumers to purchase their own prepaid meters will ease the burden of procuring pre-paid meters by the nation’s struggling sole power utility, ZESA. The company has been enjoying a huge monopoly over electricity distribution in the country and it is failing to meet the increasing electricity demands, which has resulted in massive blackouts nationwide.