Job Title: Assistant Accountant

Agri- industrial Security Guards Ltd is a private security company licensed under PSFs category A, and subsidiary of both.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Prepare credit control & debtor control ledgers
• The Assistant Accountant will prepare bank reconciliations, staff payrolls
• Perform any other assigned duty from time to time.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The Assistant Accountant should ideally be a graduate of Business Administration/ BCom with Accounting option
• Three or more years’ experience in a related role

Age: 25-45

How to Apply for the job: 

All candidates should submit their hand written applications with detailed CV, academic documents and experience record to the office of chief executive officer at IGARA growers’ tea factory, Bushenyi. Uganda.

Deadline: 3rd October 2014

Job Title:  Education Project Coordinator

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water, sanitation and hygiene sectors.

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has been present in Somalia since early 2004 and has since expanded its Horn of Africa Programme to Kenya in 2006 and later to Ethiopia, Yemen, Djibouti, Eritrea and incorporated Uganda. The Regional Office is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has been implementing projects for internally displaced people and Refugees in Northern Uganda and West Nile respectively, since 1987. Having smoothly phased-out these projects, NRC is currently making all the necessary preparations to begin new interventions in Education and Food Security to address the needs and rights of refugees in West Nile, mainly in Adjumani and Arua districts.  NRC has established its office in Adjumani/Parkelle to support its project activities and liaise with Government, UN and implementing partners operating in Adjumani and Arua refugee settlements.

Job Summary: The Education Project Coordinator will be responsible for start up of Education activities in the refugee camps in West Nile.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Actively coordinate and implement the Education project according to strategy, proposals and plans
• Ensure adherence to NRC policies and donor requirements
• Develop annual activity and work plans
• Mentoring, training and development of Education staff
• Promote and share ideas for improvement and necessary changes in the activities
• Cooperate with relevant partners and local authorities
• Organize trainings for the Education team, relevant partners and beneficiaries
• Compile and produce monthly activity/project reports and other reporting as required
• Ensure proper filing of all project documents
• Take overall responsibility for the running of ALP activities in Adjumani/Arua
• Steer and participate in actual ALP design, inception and implementation.
• Ensure the quality, direction and consistency of the ALP.
• Take lead in the running of YEP activities in Adjumani/Arua
• Initiate and oversee the recruitment of learners and teachers for YEP centers
• Ensure high quality of the teaching process, IGAs and the YEP products
• Ensure that detailed work plans for all YEP activities are prepared by programme staff in a coordinated and timely manner

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The candidate should possess a good Bachelor of Arts in Education/Social Sciences/Development Studies
• Five or more years’ experience from working as a Education Project Coordinator in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Previous experience from working in refugee contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
• Fluency in both written and verbalEnglish
• Knowledge of the context in Adjumani/Arua
• Knowledge of the local language Arabic
• Past experience with start-up, exit or similar
• Ability to ride motorcycle
• Manage performance to optimize results

How to Apply for the job:

All candidates who wish to join one of the world’s leading relief organisations, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) should Apply by visiting the web link below.

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Deadline: 27^th September 2014.

Job Title:   Management Trainee – Marketing

The National Information Technology Authority-Uganda (NITA-U) was established as a statutory body under the National Information Technology Authority, Uganda Act, 2009 as one of the key players in the Information and Communications Technology Sector. Its mandated is to coordinate, promote and monitor IT development within the context of national social and economic development, with a vision as “a facilitator of a knowledge-based, globally competitive ganda where social transformation and economic development is supported through IT enabled services.”

Job Summary: The Management Trainee – Marketing will assist the marketing Officer in conducting market research, product development, and sales promotions.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Support in conducting market research and surveys
• Assist in corporate and or products/services branding and communications;
• Offering technical support in establishing and maintaining a responsive Call Centre systems;
• Assist in developing marketing, promotional briefs and messages for implementation.
• Assist in monitoring and evaluation of a marketing campaign’s and sales promotion progress and impacts.

 Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The ideal candidate should hold a BCom/BBA/BSc (Marketing Option) from a recognized University is a requirement.
• At least one year working experience in marketing with a reputable public, private commercial organization
• Computer literacy skills (Preferably Microsoft office Applications);
• Hands-on marketing skills;
• Possess the ability to work on own initiative as well as in a team;
• Capacity to establish credibility, and trust and partnership;
• Possess excellent communication and report writing skills;
• Be a person of integrity and honesty;

Personal Competencies:

Client Orientation: Considers all those to whom services are provided to be “clients” and seeks to see things from clients’ point of view. Establishes and maintains productive partnerships with clients by gaining their trust and respect

Communication: Speaks and writes clearly and effectively. Listens to others, correctly interprets messages from others and responds appropriately. Asks questions to clarify, and exhibits interest in having two-way communication. Tailors language, tone, style and format to match the audience.

How to Apply for the job: 

All candidates who meet the job requirements/specifications and with the right personal attributes are invited to complete and submit their application form, download here,  with a cover letter, supported by curriculum vitae, copies of certificates and testimonials, and must specify day time telephone contact, postal and email addresses of both the applicant and three referees, to the address below.

The Executive Director,

National Information Technology

Authority – UGANDA (NITA-U),

Palm Courts, Plot 7A, Rotary Avenue (former lugogo bypass)

P.O. Box 33151, Kampala-Uganda

Tel: 0417 801 038

Or via email: hr@nita.go.ug (application must not exceed 10MBs)

Applicants must also submit with their application verifiable evidence supporting previous relevant appointments such as appointment letters and employment contracts.

Deadline: 26th September, 2014 (Not later than 17.00 hrs. Local Time).

NB: No application will be accepted without a duly completed and signed standard application form (referred to above).

Job Title:   Retail Programme Officer

Bridge International Academies is revolutionizing the way families across the developing world access quality education through our innovative ‘Academy-in-a-Box’ model of schooling. As of September 2014 Bridge is operating over 350 academies throughout Kenya serving over 100,000 pupils. As one of the fastest growing education companies in the world, Bridge will expand into Uganda in 2015 with plans for expansion into Nigeria and India on the horizon. Bridge International Academies is transforming education by attacking one of the emerging world’s biggest problems: inadequate access to and quality of education for the children of families living on less than $2/day.

Job Summary: The Retail Programme Officer will be providing educational instruction to our customers to ensure their needs are adequately resolved. In order to help pupils with improved attention spans, energy levels and learning capabilities, we operate a healthy and affordable lunch programme that involves selling meals to our pupils.   We also sell our school uniforms.

In the future, we envision even more services as this is also a large potential revenue generating business for the business.

The Programme Officer will work closely with the Business Manager – Retail (located in Kenya) to ensure the uniform and feeding programmes are effectively set up in Uganda and will be responsible for driving sales and attaining profitability across these programmes.  This is a key revenue driving role with a company that has huge growth plans for Uganda and is looking for exceptional talent to join us at our inception in Uganda.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Conducting field research to better understand the needs of the consumer, current offerings in the marketplace and potential product specifications that would suit Uganda (e.g. menu choices)
• Working with the Business Manager – Retail to effectively set up both the feeding and uniform programmes in Uganda
• Training and Supporting Academy Managers in their day-to-day Feeding Programme related activities
• Responsible for training and Supporting Academy Managers in selling uniforms
• Working with the Business Manager – Retail to implement new marketing strategies to ensure a higher take-rate by pupils
• Conducting parent and community meetings as required to educate, sell and communicate the feeding and uniform programme

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The applicant should hold a good University graduate
• A minimum of two years’ professional experience
• Willingness to work beyond regular working hours, including evenings, weekends, and/or holidays if and when needed (work beyond normal hours to be compensated appropriately in accordance with the governing laws of Uganda)
• Willingness to travel within Uganda when required (15% of the time)
• Highly organized and detail-oriented
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Comfortable juggling multiple tasks
• Able to work with large amounts of data and comfort with Microsoft Excel
• Past experience working in the field

How to Apply for the job:

All suitably qualified candidates should visit the web link below and create a profile on the NFT Consult website by entering their e-mail addresses. Please visit web link below and click Apply now if convinced you have the job requirements. The applications/CVs should be prepared in English and submitted in either MS Word or PDF format will be considered.

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