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Area Development Programme Learning and Development Coordinator – World Vision
Deadline: 8 April 2011 (5pm)

Southern Africa Regional Office
Location: South Africa – Johannesburg

World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. Inspired by our Christian values, we are dedicated to working with the world’s most vulnerable people. We serve all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender.

Purpose:

To coordinate and manage the Pan-African delivery of a suite of inter-related learning and professional development programs linked to strengthening overall Program and Project Management in the field, particularly of World Vision staff (ADPs and grant-funded projects) and key Partner organizations.

Key responsibilities:

- Conduct periodic consultations of learning and development needs of customers through job analysis and regular consultations with national offices in collaboration with the Capacity & Leadership Advisor.
- Coordinate the design and development of learning and development activities and programs using WV staff competency frameworks (incl. asynchronous courses) and project manage its implementation, including outsourcing of activities and training of trainers/ learning facilitators.
- Manage the development and production of training materials for in-house courses (i.e. ADP Leadership & Program Mgt Course, Volunteer Management).
- Provide periodic project and management reports to the PMU Director and work with Finance and Logistics staff concerned for overall management and coordination of training activities (including the UNISA enrolments) as well as consider cost effective means for program delivery (blended approaches, including e-learning), budget development and management, and assessing the return on investment to the learner and the organization.
- Provide input to the Capacity and Leadership Development Advisor in devising the learning and capacity development strategy for WV-SAR.
- Administer the WVSAR Learning Management System and provide monitoring and review support on the progress of learners and facilitating discussions/change measurement with managers/supervisors, as needed.
- Ensure that statutory training requirements are met.
- Supervise the conduct of periodic evaluations of in-house learning programs, provide recommendations for revisions (as appropriate) to adapt to changes that occur in the work environment.
- Participate in communities of practice (internal and external) and network with peers/fellow practitioners, subscribe to relevant journals, etc.

Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Expertise:

- University Degree in Social Sciences or equivalent degree with specialization in Project Management or Adult Learning
- Minimum 5 years experience in developing, managing, and delivering training and learning programs, especially in an Adult Learning environment and specifically to the Not-for-profit and NGO sectors
- Minimum 5 years experience in training and proven track record in managing successful learning and development programs/projects with international participants/learners
- Minimum 5 years experience in instructional design, research and course development
- Strong learning facilitation and presentation skills
- Experience working in multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary and multi-faith environments
- Good organizational and planning skills specific to learning programs, ability to meet deadlines/objectives
- Excellent computer and Internet skills

Competencies and attributes:

- Ability to lead projects and activities under his/her portfolio
- Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities
- Highly self-motivated
- Able to work well with little or no supervision
- Ability to motivate others and change people’s attitudes when necessary
- An understanding of and appreciation for Community Development, collaboration with partners, and approaches to Capacity Building.

For further details and how to apply please visit our website at www.wvi.org and go to International Employment. No late applications will be accepted. Only suitable candidates will be contacted.

2 Junior Consultants (Harare and Mutare) – SNV
Deadline: 10 April 2011

Background

SNV Netherlands Development Organisation is an international capacity development organisation working in Zimbabwe. The organisation has a number of Agriculture programmes aimed at increasing production, incomes and employment.

SNV seeks 2 suitable Junior Consultants based in Harare and Mutare with frequent travel to the field.

Major responsibilities:

- To develop a monitoring and evaluation system for value chains that includes tea, coffee, vegetables and bananas
- To organise training activities for clients, partners and Local Capacity Builders
- To assist wholesalers in expanding their network of rural agro-dealers n the following areas: Mutare (Manicaland and Masvingo Provinces) and Harare (Mashonaland East, West and Central provinces)
- To Assist in value chain and market studies
- To contribute to the development and quality of SNV economic development training products
- To write reports
- To monitor field activities, evaluate reports from local capacity builders and submit well-written reports.

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

- University degree in Agriculture or Agribusiness
- At least two years of professional experience with a strong background in Monitoring and Evaluation
- Good analytical skills
- Ability to produce quality results
- Ability to use MS Office and email
- Ability to work independently
- Proactively identify and solve problems

Duration of contract: 1 year

Application: Qualified and interested candidates can submit a statement of interest along with Curriculum Vitae to Zimbabwe [at] snvworld [dot] org

Health Adviser (Consultancy Post): Merlin
Deadline: 14 April 2011

Starting Date: ASAP

Only short-listed applicants will be contacted. Due to the urgency of this position, applications will be short listed on a regular basis and we may offer this post before the closing date.

Overall Objectives (scope)
- Ensure the qualitative implementation of Merlin health programming in line with approved program proposals and budgets
- Provide technical support to the program
- Represent Merlin to national Health authorities

Responsibilities
- Monitor the health and humanitarian situation in the region and advise the Country Director and London based staff, on appropriate course(s) of action
- Coordinate/undertake needs assessment in line with evolving humanitarian priorities in coordination with Country Management Team, Regional Health Advisor and Regional Program Manager / Officer and formulate future plans for possible program extension
- Develop and implement appropriate health care program in close consultation and coordination with the Country Management Team (CMT) and HQ based Health Advisor
- Assist in preparing accurate and timely proposals in collaboration with CMT, relevant field teams and Regional Health Advisor
- Support Country Director in designing, drafting and negotiating new programs with the representatives of existing and new financial donors
- Liaise closely with the Merlin London Health Department on policy/strategy development when required
- Play an active role in the development and maintenance of a coherent program strategy that contributes to Merlin’s aims in collaboration with the operational field staff and technical teams
- Coordinate and technically manage the overall planning and direction of Merlin’s health activities
- Ensure effective communication with and information exchange between the medical team members
- Play a leading role in the creation of a shared vision among all staff of Merlin’s program staff and their role in achieving these
- Maintain constructive working relationships with MoH counterparts and senior members of the MoHCW District Health Executives in the Districts of operation
- Ensure appropriate systems and plans are in place for dealing with health emergencies and provide leadership for staff during emergencies
- Represent Merlin’s work to the MoH (at all levels) and coordination with Country Director to international donors, UN agencies and (I)NGOs, through formal and informal contacts/meetings
- Contribute towards the dissemination of Merlin’s work through publications (general, health sector, academic) in consultation with the field technical teams, the London Health Department and the London PR Department
- Advocate at District, Provincial and National level for adequate responses towards unmet health needs in Zimbabwe
- Assume the technical lead in drafting monthly reports and periodic reports to donors in collaboration with field teams, CMT and regional desk
- Ensure that communication and updates to MoH and other health partners are timely and accurate

Person Specification

Qualifications, experience and competences
- Medical doctor or qualified nurse with Master in Public Health or equivalent degree
- Substantial post qualification experience in managing public health services within developing countries with proven knowledge of HIV AIDS interventions, and MCH services
- Previous responsibility for health project management in emergency and transitional / development settings
- Strong experience of Primary Health Care, Epidemiology, HIV and AIDS and Reproductive Health and Strengthening of Rural Health programs
- Successful experience of representation at national and local levels
- Ability to analyse and write clear and concise reports/proposals
- Substantial experience of training staff and a commitment to national  staff capacity development
- Strong communication skills, with excellent written and spoken English
- Experience of establishing strong working relationships with colleagues from different functions and cultures and an ability to work well with local authorities and other humanitarian actors
- Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritising a high workload and multiple tasks in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines
- Experience of proactively identifying and addressing issues
- Experience in epidemiological data analysis, interpretation and qualitative/quantitative assessments and program development

Application form should be emailed to vacancy.merlin.zw [at] gmail [dot] com

Please check our website www.merlin.org.uk  for more information

Outreach Worker: Zimbabwe AIDS Prevention Project Department Of Community Medicine University Of Zimbabwe
Deadline: 15 April 2011

Location: Bulawayo

The Zimbabwe AIDS Prevention Project, a Department of Community Medicine University of Zimbabwe project has funding to expand a Sex Worker programme aimed at improving the reduction of HIV acquisition among sex workers thereby reducing HIV transmission to their clients. Sex workers are included in the main population currently being targeted through the National Behavior Change Strategy. Targeting sex workers is in line with the recommendations of the Zimbabwe National HIV Strategic Plan.

We are looking for a community outreach worker to start working with the team immediately. The person will be based in Bulawayo with a lot of extensive travel to rural communities along the, Beitbridge, Victoria Falls and Ngundu highway. The position is funded by UNFPA and it’s expected to last on 31st December 2011 with possibility of extension.

Reporting to the Programme Coordinator, the outreach worker’s main duties will include: Communication with communities:  The post holder will be responsible for ensuring good communication with rural programme communities.  This will involve working closely with the communities, district and provincial officials to introduce the programme and keeping them well informed about the programme’s progress.

Assist in coordinating the programme intervention: The outreach worker will assist the Programme Coordinator in working with the communities to identify, recruit and train suitable Sex workers as peer educators.  The outreach worker will also be directly working with groups of peer educators from various communities. Dissemination of programme related information.

Qualifications

The applicant must have demonstrable experience and interest in community outreach work, ability to do community mobilization, create rapport with personnel from collaborating or associate institutions and work independently but within a team framework. The applicant must have 5 “O” Levels, a counseling qualification and at least a professional Diploma in a relevant field, preferably teaching, social sciences or nursing. They should be mature, well organized and be fluent in English, Ndebele and Shona. Experience working with vulnerable populations (sex workers), training experience; clean class four driver’s license and experience working in a reproductive research environment is an added advantage.

Please send your application including detailed CV, copies of qualifications to the Zimbabwe Aids Prevention Project-University of Zimbabwe, by post, e-mail or hand delivery using the following contact details:

The Programme Coordinator (The Sex Worker Programme) ZAPP-UZ
21 Rowland Square Milton Park Harare
Email: admin.rds [at] gmail [dot] com

Please note that only short listed candidates will be notified.

Programme Analyst: Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV Linkages: UNFPA
Deadline: 15 April 2011 (12 noon)

Vacancy No.: VA-2011-03-05
Duty Station: Harare, Zimbabwe
Service Contract Post (SCB4)

Under the direct supervision of the Reproductive Health programme Specialist, and in close collaboration with the HIV Programme Specialist, the incumbent will provide technical support to national institutions and civil society in integrating SRH and HIV programme delivery wherever possible.

Major duties and responsibilities
- Develop in consultation with MOHCW, ZNFPC, NAC and other partner practical approaches for strengthening SRH/HIV integration in the context of existing programmes on PMTCT, family planning, condom promotion, STI control, maternal health, HIV prevention, treatment and care
- Facilitate implementation of the identified approaches contributing to more integrated service delivery
- Participate in capacity development of health service providers in delivering integrated SRH/HIV services
- Support the mainstreaming of SRH and HIV linkages in national health and development plans, systems and service delivery
- Collaborate with the One UN HIV team and other agencies involved in SRH in operationalizing SRH/HIV linkages
- Communicate with partners and provide appropriate support to overcome bottlenecks, support exchange of information and joint learning among others
- Support government to mobilize resources and dialogue with major funding organizations and development partners
- Carry out monitoring and donor reporting activities in accordance with set procedures as required
- Facilitate documentation of best practices and approaches

Only candidates satisfying all the following should apply
- Advanced university degree in public health, medicine, demography, social sciences or related field
- 7 years’ experience in development, design, and implementation of HIV and AIDS and/or sexual reproductive health (SRH) programmes in developing countries
- Experience in working with international donor and the UN system is an asset
- Fluency in English and Shona or Ndebele
- Good writing, analysis and communication skills

Please send your CV and cover letter to: The UNFPA Representative, Ref: NPO SRH and HIV Linkages, Block 7, 1st Floor, Arundel Office Park, Mount Pleasant, P. O. Box 4775, Harare.

Or by email to mailzwe [at] unfpa [dot] org

Applicants are requested to also fill out and submit a Personal History form (P11) available at http://mirror.undp.org/angola/LinkRtf/p11.doc or from the Operations Unit, UNFPA, Arundel Office Park, Mt Pleasant, Harare along with their applications.

Notice: there is no application, processing or other fee at any stage of the application process. UNFPA does not solicit or screen for information in respect of HIV or AIDS and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status. UNFPA offers attractive compensation package commensurate with experience but reserves the right to appoint at the indicated or lower grade. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

N.B. UNFPA Zimbabwe reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying for this post for other positions within UNFPA Zimbabwe at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and education requirements.

Administrator: Rokpa Trust of Zimbabwe (RTZ)
Deadline: 30 April 2011

RTZ is a registered charitable trust and is run according to the Buddhist principles of compassion and respect for all beings.

RTZ operates under a Board of Trustees and has four main activity areas:

* Spiritual practice
* Charitable works
* A self help therapy programme; and
* Care for the environment

We are looking for an Administrator, reporting to the Chairperson of the Management Committee, to carry out the following functions:

a) Organising member services and managing member relationships
b) Office management, electronic backups, virus updates, filing, paying bills, supplies purchases, etc
c) Bookkeeping and accounting: receipts cash, prepares reconciliations, does banking, Pastel accounting, pays salaries, collects property rentals, maintains petty cash, prepares monthly income and expenditure accounts
d) Staff supervision of 6 staff; contract renewals, performance management, etc
e) Arranges and organises events: publicity, venues, refreshments, logistics
f) Building management: safety, oversees repairs and maintenance; liaison with tenants and municipal and other suppliers
g) Maintains and updates membership database
h) Manages the library.
i) Takes minutes at meetings and submits monthly reports

The ideal candidate will have:

a) A minimum of 5 O Levels including passes in English Language and Maths or Accounts
b) Computer skills – excellent skills in Word, Excel, Pastel, Outlook, Internet
c) A secretarial or administrative qualification
d) A bookkeeping qualification
e) 5 years or more experience in running an office, supervising staff, keeping accounts,
f) Experience in organising functions and events
g) Excellent communication skills and able to work in different cultural environments, be self motivated and able to work with little supervision
h) The following values and attitudes: people person, service orientated, ‘can do’ approach, trustworthy and responsible, meets deadlines, honest.

Salary: $500/month

To apply, send a cover letter outlining how you meet the above criteria a) to i), what you will bring to the position and your CV with three contactable references of previous employers to: Rokpazimbabwe [at] gmail [dot] com

Econet is celebrated in Zimbabwe as one of THE brands that have made a permanent presence in people’s everyday life, every businessman’s dream no doubt. But the service we are getting is only serving to give that Strive guy a very bad name as  many know him as the face of Econet from the days when the now VP Joice Mujuru was one of many opposing the late VP Joshua “Father Zimbabwe” Nkomo to give the young man [Strive] an operating license.

Ever since subscribers rushed to buy those simcards after Econet hit the nation with broadband excitement and then the demand to register the lines by POTRAZ, there has been a lot of furious anger aimed at Econet and with good reason. I bought a line a few months ago, had it registered as demanded based on the threat that failure to do so I would be switched off on the 31st of March 2011. But what do you know, despite having registered the “line,” the morning of April 1 found me without any form of communication as I had been switched off. Thinking this was an April Fools gag, I made my way to the Econet offices only to find hordes of fuming subscribers who all had the same story to tell: they had been switched off despite having registered their lines as duly demanded. And the arrogant people that Strive employs have not been very helpful, you just have to ask if that man knows this is what Zimbabweans who have given his wealth are going through.

Zimbabwe being a land of conspiracy theories, whispers galore that this is no inadvertent glitch: some dark forces have interfered with people’s only communication tool through these mass disconnections which are causing mass hysteria as every Nhamo, Themba and Sihle is now on Facebook thanks to Econet broadband. And the dark forces, only being too aware of what social media has wrecked in the Maghreb, well, one cannot be too careful!

The haughty types at Econet told us on Friday 1 April 2011 we would be reconnected by the end of the day, and we were not. Monday 4 April 2011 we were again told we would be connected by the end of the day, we were not. Are these people taking our peace loving nature for granted, someone in the crowd wondered aloud? I am not sure whether this was directed at Econet or the dark forces! Elsewhere there would be a mass public campaign to boycott Econet the company Strive built.

From Nawal El Saadawi’s Prison Memoir:

Over the ground, my fingers sketch letters and interlacing circles. My hand trembles with anger, and my heart quickens. If my fingers had not come to know the pen, perhaps they would have known the hoe. The pen is the most valuable thing in my life. More valuable than my children, more than my husband, more than my freedom.

I prefer my place in prison to writing something which has not originated in my mind. The sincere word demands a courage akin to that needed to kill and perhaps more.

My fingers chisel letters in the dirt…To this moment, I don’t know why I am in prison. I have seen no investigator or prosecuting attorney or lawyer. I heard the shawisha say that she heard they were saying I entered prison because of my writings…my crime, therefore, comes under the rubric of crimes of opinion.

Is free opinion a crime? Then let prison be my only refuge and my final fate!

Source: Newsweek

I had a lengthy chat the other day with a senior female politician about wide ranging issues and wondered why the country is in such a mess when there are people like her – and no doubt many others – whose passion for a better Zimbabwe is up there with ordinary men and women of goodwill who toil each day wondering where the kcuf we are going thirty one years on. She went beyond the usual calls for women’s empowerment, gender parity, the usual stuff one would hear from politicians and some such types.

The 21st century is full of gender-bending/gender-mending cliches and contradictions, and I heard it even from Zanu PF’s Aeneus Chigwedere on national television the other night: educate a woman and you have empowered the nation, and sure the women in the audience clapped till their palms hurt. But then with some folks, you know they don’t always mean what they say: three decades is long enough to know someone, ask folks married for that long.

From the despair of the female politician about the long tortuous journey not only to break the glass ceiling but also good governance, better, cheaper sanitary hygiene it struck me she mentioned that if women’s progress in Zimbabwe is to leave a lasting imprint for generations to come, why not start this enlightenment, empowerment, future female politician, gender parity crusade in centres of higher learning; that is, the university and tertiary institutions where young bright females can be encouraged to take up issues that will prepare them for future participation in shaping national policy and issues of governance.

While some female politicians cut their teeth in the bush before independence and others in trade unionism after independence, what contemporary social circumstances and institutions present that opportunity for the continuity of female political participation on a national level? Tertiary institutions right?  Of course it made sense. And then I read on these pages a sad if not bitter letter from a female student in one of the country’s tertiary institutions about her experience with sanitary hygiene.

This is an issue the female politician spoke passionately about concerning how women in Zimbabwe continue being humiliated, as Neanderthal male politicians still dismiss it as an issue that does do not demand street protests! This is exactly what that obviously bright young woman – the letter writer referred to here – was raising in her ire that she says almost saw her leaving a used sanitary pad outside the principal’s office as a form protest.

In the end one has to ask: how do the policy czars balance their calls for women’s participation in portfolios of national relevance when the same young women are denied the conditions that will prepare them for that ascendance? The world – and indeed Zimbabwe – is full of contradictions. One has to wonder what it will take to take anyone who stands on a pedestal and purports to speak for humankind’s greater good. Some would say it is such appalling conditions that will spur them into politics as they are driven to change and better women’s lot not from the couch but from the trenches like their sisters in the bush and later in the trade unions. But then that could well be empty theorizing.

As said by the female politician, young females who have an opportunity to go to university will forever be interested in getting their degrees, then a job with some NGO and just say “kcuf politics” as long as there is no seriousness in addressing issues like what she [and that student and many others] remains passionate about: sanitary hygiene.

I’ve just discovered Afrographique, a site of useful, interesting, attractive and easy to understand images depicting data about Africa – There’s a map of Facebook users, a graph of African mobile subscriptions, a map of foreign investment in Africa, a look at LinkedIn users, amongst other graphics.

It’s exciting because the images are so well presented – they’re clear and accessible and simple to view. But it’s also impressive because they give you at a glance powerfully displayed information about Africa. And, assuming you think that things like investment, mobile phone penentration and social networking usage are good things, they’re images of Positive developments in Africa.

According to the website:

Afrographique is Ivan Colic’s small contribution to assist the changing perception of Africa and it’s people – hopefully you will be able to learn something as well. This blog aims to collect as much data as possible with the aim of presenting the information in an exciting and digestible format to all.

From the looks of it, Ivan regularly adds new maps and graphics to the site – so it’s worth flagging the site or subscribing to his RSS feed so you know when he’s added something new. I’m really looking forward to seeing what he depicts next.

This video shows 3000 that joined MSF in New Delhi in protesting against the EU-India Free Trade Agreement.

In the past decade India has earned the moniker ‘pharmacy of the developing world’, through the manufacture of cheap generic drugs which have gone to save countless millions of people who would otherwise be unable to afford life-saving medicines. In particular Anti-Retroviral Therapy for HIV has come down from $10 000 per year in 2000, to $70 per year today because of Indian generics. It is estimated that roughly two and a half million people rely on Indian manufactured generics for their HIV therapies. All this could come to an end with a proposed free trade agreement being negotiated between India and the European Union.  Certain hidden clauses in the agreement could prevent the registration of Indian drugs.

For several months now activists around the world have joined global health organizations like Oxfam, MSF and the WHO in expressing their deep concern about the impact of the agreement on people living with HIV around the world.

It is estimated that Zimbabwe has 2 million people who are living with HIV, with 300 000 people on the free national Anti-Retroviral Programme.

Find out more and join the global protest  here.