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Programme Officer Transformative Justice Department: Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association
Deadline: 10th December 2012

Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association (ZWLA) is seeking to recruit a Programme Officer for the Transformative Justice Department.

Organisation
ZWLA is a membership organization of women lawyers. It was founded in 1992 to enable women lawyers to contribute towards women’s rights in general whilst addressing the professional interests of women lawyers.
ZWLA has grown over the years to a full-fledged woman’s organisation implementing programmes with the aim of facilitating women’s access to justice. ZWLA’s vision is justice and equality for all in society where women are empowered and assert their rights within a justice delivery system that treats women and men equally.

Job summary
Reporting to the National Director, The Programme Officer is responsible for overall implementation and management of the Transformative Justice Department programmes. She/he leads the day to day operations of ZWLA’s advocacy,legal education, policy and law reform programmes. Ensures the implementation of ZWLA’S advocacy strategy, coordinates and manages ZWLA’s communication strategy. Drafts legal documents and gives legal advice to government departments and other agencies and CSOs on the interpretation of  regional and International Human Rights Instruments related to women and children. Facilitates transformation of laws, policies, practices, institutions and attitudes. Oversees the department’s annual budgeting, programmatic planning, maintenance and development of key partners and relationships to ensure the effectiveness and impact of the organisation.

The Programme Officer, Transformative Justice is accountable to the Director for the performance of the organisation. She/he must build upon ZWLA’s accomplishments to date and further strengthen the relevance and profile of the organisation.

Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate will have demonstrated competencies and passion for women and children’s rights. Fund raising experience and exposure to the work of non-governmental organisations is a plus.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

1. Leadership
-Excellent communication skills including public speaking and media capabilities
-Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills; ability to work effectively with and lead executives and professionals at all levels of the organisation.

2. Strategy and Vision
-Experience formulating innovative strategies from concept through funding and execution.
-Strong facilitator and negotiator.
-Excellent networking in the field of women and children’s rights.

3. External relationships
-Experience forging relationships with funding partners, civil society organisations, private sector entities and government officials.
-Experience managing stakeholder relationships.

4. Understanding of Finance
-Experience and strong understanding of financial management
-Experience in managing budget, financial planning and project control,

5. Results-Oriented Change Leadership
-Demonstrated effective management skills with a track record of successfully tackling challenging projects.

6. Influencing and Interpersonal Skills
-Strong communication capabilities and a broad team orientation. She/he must have the ability to influence and work effectively with professionals and other levels of society.
-A self-motivated, enthusiastic individual who demonstrates a high degree of personal integrity, honesty, and respect for others as shown through strong personal values as well as consistency between words and actions.

Education and Experience
Ideal candidate should be a lawyer with at least 5 years of relevant experience. A relevant Master’s degree will be an added advantage.

Application procedure
Applications should be submitted to the Director of ZWLA on the following addresses: emilia [at] zwla [dot] co [dot] zw and copied to the HR Committee Chairperson on szhou [at] citybyo [dot] co [dot] zw and clearly titled “Programme Officer Transformative Justice ZWLA”

Finance Officer: Local NGO
Deadline: 15 December 2012

Only Women will be considered.
Bulawayo residents an advantage!

Basic Requirements
-At least five years working experience in a similar field; computer literate; English-speaking; education qualifications commensurate with the position being applied for.
-Have the ability to balance conflicting priorities and work calmly and effectively under pressure.
-Must be able to work without supervision.
-The applicant should be able to adapt easily to a dynamic working environment.
-Experience with budget preparation.
-Outstanding oral and written English communication skills and second language proficiency.
-Familiarity with MS Word, Excel, and Power Point, and Adobe Acrobat.
-Excellent organizational skills with a willingness to assume responsibilities and take initiative.
-Ability to be a team player.
-Strong time management skills, especially when facing tight deadlines.
-Applicants must possess the ability to think outside the box/creatively and possess demonstrable networking and communication skills at various levels.

Duties and Responsibilities
-The post holder will establish financial systems for the organisation and maintain and monitor these. As well as keeping all accounting records necessary as the organisation prepares financial procedures for audit.
-Set up and manage financial systems, procedures and controls.
-Maintenance of accounting records on a daily and monthly basis.
-Preparation of accounts for audit.
-Managing petty cash

Application Process
Please read this section carefully and follow the instructions closely. This is a short-term opening, as the position must be filled by first week of January 2013 so the deadline is 15 December 2012.

Please send a cover letter and resume to sisterhoodzimbabwe [at] yahoo [dot] com with the subject line as follows: your name and application for FINANCE position.

1.  An application letter, detailing how the applicant meets the above minimum qualifications and salary range expected.
2.  Please also respond to the following requirements.
3.  A current resume relevant to the position (no more than 2 pages of plain text please)
4.  A web link or a short example of the applicant’s written work.
5.  Relevant documentation supporting the minimum requirements listed above should be available during the interview process, please do not attach them.
6.  The selection process will be on 16 December and only short listed candidates will be invited for an interview.  During the interview an oral, and/or written exercises may be conducted so as to test practical knowledge and skills.
7.  We will not be in a position to notify all applicants of the result.

A press release just received; get their music Now!

Mann Friday have been holed up most of this year recording their fifth studio album in the UK – Trainrides and Radio Play – and as it launches this weekend on iTunes and other download portals, the Zim-linked rockers have thought of a Christmas treat for their fans back home. Up until Christmas Day, the entire album will be downloadable, for free, from http://mannfriday.com/zimbo – a distinct address that will only let you access the album if you are browsing from a Zimbabwean IP Address.

Catching up with frontman Rob Burrell on the giveaway – “We’ve been working pretty hard on this record and are so excited for people to hear it. As we gear up for releases online and in retail stores in Europe and South Africa in 2013 we felt it would be really great to let Zimbabweans have easy access to these new tracks. Zim has poured a huge amount of inspiration into all our songs, and we’d love to give something back this Christmas.”

Download the full album now: http://www.mannfriday.com/zimbo

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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

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.