Jobs – Trade Promotion Officers at Uganda Export Promotion Board
Job Title:Â Trade Promotion Officer (3 Job Vacancies)
The Uganda Export Promotion Board (UEPB) is a public agency set up by an Act of Parliament: The Uganda Export Promotion Board Act. The Board, supervised by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, was set up with the main objective of facilitating the development, promotion and coordination of all export-related activities that lead to export growth on a sustainable basis.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:Â
- Supporting the Senior Trade Promotion Officer in preparing Medium Term Plans and Annual Strategic work plans and budgets; and implementation thereof
- Collecting, synthesizing, and disseminating trade information in line with the statutory functions of the Board
- Regularly interacting with the private sector with a view to fostering robust performance of the export sector
- Offer export promotion services, including counseling, issuance of Export Certificates and Certificates of Origin, to exporters and potential exporters
- Perform any other duties assigned by superiors
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:Â
- The Trade Promotion Officers must possess an honors degree from a recognized University in any of the following disciplines: Economics, International Trade, Law, Statistics, or Business Administration/Management/Studies.
- At least (1) year of relevant professional experience gained from a reputable trade or private sector development institution.
 How to Apply for the job:Â
All candidates should send their applications, including detailed CV – must have a day time telephone contact and three referees – and copies of academic documents, should be addressed to The Chairperson, UEPB Board of Directors, P.O Box 5045 Kampala and submitted to Office of the Executive Director, Floor 5, Conrad Plaza, Plot 22 Entebbe Road (either by registered mail or hand delivered).
Electronic applications should be sent to emutahunga@mtic.go.ug.
 Please indicate on top of the envelope the position you are applying for.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Note: An attractive remuneration package will be paid to successful applicants.
Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
Deadline: 3rd October 2014 by 5:00 PM
Jobs – Deputy Chief of Party at USAID OVC WEI Project
Job Title:Â Deputy Chief of Party
WEI/Bantwana Initiative is a Non-Governmental Organization that helps families and children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS to access the comprehensive support and care they need to grow into healthy adults.
About USAID Project:
The Bantwana Initiative of World Education seeks a candidate for this position subject to award of USAID’s Better Outcomes for Children and Youth in Eastern and Northern Uganda program—a $24.5 million program with a large sub grant component.
Job Summary: The USAID Project Deputy Chief of Party will be responsible for overseeing project implementation and ensuring high quality programming.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:Â
- Work closely with the COP to ensure that project objectives and targets are met in accordance with project indicators.
- Manage and ensure coordination and program integration between senior and technical staff and program partners.
- Work in consultation with the COP to identify and respond to partner needs for training, technical assistance, and capacity strengthening and facilitate systems strengthening and capacity building initiatives.
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- Stay abreast with the technical developments and new research in the OVC sector to inform an integrated program strategy
- Ensure that gender is fully considered all aspects of program design and implementation
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the USAID Project DCOP job should hold a Master’s Degree or higher in international development, social sciences, public health or closely relatedfeld.
- Five or more years’ experience designing, implementing and managing large projects involving multiple partners.
- Demonstrated strong analytical, managerial,, leadership, communications and interpersonal skills.
- Past exposure and experience with child protection and child welfare programs, systems strengthening, capacity building, economic strengthening, OVC service delivery, quality improvement or policy development.
- Significant experience with programming to address gender concerns and programming for very young children and youth.
- Excellent English writing, oral presentation and communication skills required.
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- Fluency in Luo (North) or Lusoga/Luganda (East) strongly preferred.
How to Apply for the job:Â
All candidates are strongly encouraged to send their application letters with detailed CV indicating three professional references should be submitted to the Human Resource at bantwana@worldeduganda.org or hand deliver to the WEI/Bantwana Country Office at Rot 30, Nizam Road, Nile Garden, Jinja. Uganda
Deadline: Friday, September 26, 2014 before 05:00pm.
Students can apply for Student Media Grants Program and win $5,000 funding for research and international travel
Apply for the Student Media Grants Program and win funding of up to $5,000 for research and international travel.
The Student Media Grants Program is an annual photojournalism grant awarded to students interested in using innovative methods to research and chronicle issues facing fragile and conflict-affected areas.
Students are invited to create proposals describing their international travel, research idea, and photographic subjects.
They should choose an international development area that reflects issues of food security, health, education, land tenure, poverty, etc. as the basis for the proposal. Students do not have to be professionals or experienced photographers to apply!
The deadline for submitting applications for the Student Media Grants Program is October 10th, 2014.
The Student Media Grants Program is administered by the Center on Conflict and Development at Texas A&M University through a grant funded by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
Jobs – Assistant Accountant at Agri-Industrial Security Guards Ltd
Job Title:Â 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:Â
- 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:Â
- 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:Â
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
Jobs – Market Systems Team Leader at Mercy Corps International NGO
Job Title:Â Market Systems Team Leader
Mercy Corps is an International NGO that exists to alleviate poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. Mercy Corps has been fully registered in Uganda as an operational NGO. Currently Mercy Corps has an office in Kampala and is implementing Food Security programs which comprises of Water and Sanitation, Livelihood and Agriculture and Conflict Mitigation Management Program in North and North Eastern Uganda. We implement programs in the northern districts of Pader, Kitgum, Agago, Lamwo, Kaabong, Abim and Kotido with funding from USAID, USDA, Walmart Foundation, SDC, DFID as well as other private donations.
Job Summary: The Market Systems Team Leader will be responsible for leading the implementation of facilitation projects that make market dynamics, actors, institutions and services accessible to households within the PROGRESS focus areas. These activities will work through public sector enabling strategies and private sector actors, seeking to crowd in provision rather than displace or replicate private actors with donor-funded services. Facilitation projects increasing access to technical services, improving access to locally appropriate products, developing agent input and aggregator networks, improving service offerings and profitable provision of community animal health services, commercializing access innovative energy products and methods, and expanding the role and relationship of line Ministries in strategic prioritization of investment for economic vitality that contributes to household and community resilience.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:Â
- With support from the PROGRESS Programme Manager and fellow sector-focused Team Leaders, carry out assessments in the target geographic areas to assess current situation, economic opportunities and resources, needs and potential programs as well as obstacles that could be mitigated through PROGRESS engagement with public and private sector actors;
- Recommend program priorities and explore, evaluate and present new opportunities that leverage impact and/ or complement core activities.
- Emphasize the role of, and opportunities for women and girls in the economic realm in both rural roles and in the urban sphere;
- Highlight market-based skills which are emerging with urban growth and work with public, private and development actors on efforts to match skills of people transitioning out of pastoralism and urban poor for urban livelihoods and services;
- Introduce the program to relevant stakeholders including local business owners, local representatives and community members. Foster ongoing positive cooperation with these stakeholders and forge links between market actors, producers, end users, etc.;
- Make sure that there is an integrated approach to program implementation in order to maximize resource utilization and synergy between the staff and different MC programs where relevant and feasible.
- Offer direct and ongoing field supervision to provide quality advise and technical review in areas related to economic development.
- Identify small business activities for seed support through basic improvements or inputs;
- Identify value-addition opportunities that strengthen economic opportunities, especially for rural women and urban poor, in the livestock and agriculture sectors as identified by local and national government as well as independent market studies and needs assessments; these will focus on urbanized areas such as Moroto and Kotido and districts that are heavily engaged in agriculture development;
- Identify opportunities within the long-term plans for Karamoja County that can be fostered through progress, such as activating initiatives in designated livelihoods zones;
- Establish and maintain productive working relationships with sub-county and district leaders and local government departments, representing Mercy Corps in coordination meetings and soliciting their participation in all activities where appropriate and as directed by the line manager;
- Ensure close coordination and sharing of information with relevant stakeholders such as local government departments, NGO’s and local authorities, as appropriate and advised by the line manager; Identify opportunities for social innovation and enterprise that could be launched through catalytic investments from PROGRESS, or public and private sector initiatives;
- Guide Shared Learning Dialogue series that are thematically focused on enabling environment for market activity, including long-term infrastructure strategy and prioritization and identification of potential investors and innovators.
- Steer the planning of Karamoja-based and Kampala-based learning events, exhibits, workshops that bring private and public sector entities together to collectively review and discuss technology developments and innovation and to examine private sector approaches to household and community challenges that can be incubated through public sector incentives;
- Engage with PROGRESS Consortium members such as local civil society and the University of Nairobi around innovation and best practices for new technologies in climate-smart practice, renewable energy and energy saving methods;
- Take primary responsibility for district data gathering and documentation of program activities
- Comply to M&E systems that will be established to measure program impacts and desired results
- Analyze project implementation strategies to identify constraints to program success and provide timely recommendations;
- Compile and submit timely weekly, monthly, and quarterly report that will be indicative of program progress during implementation.
- Where needed support external evaluations by research partner Feinstein International Center and other organizations;
- Work closely with the M &E to ensure accurate and timely flow of information from the field for entry in the database and for preparation of PR materials
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:Â
- The applicant should possess a good University degree, preferably graduate level, in Business Administration, Economics or Finance is required;
- At least five to seven years working for a formal financial institution with orientation to mass markets or within the private sector is required;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Excellent computer skills, specifically in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to complete tasks in a timely manner;
- Excellent teamwork abilities and interpersonal skills;
- Good knowledge and understanding of M&E, information, communications and knowledge sharing technologies and use of innovative approaches on digital financial services
- Exceptional networking and negotiation skills required;
- Excellent analytical and quantitative skills as well as familiarity with financial accounting required;
- Demonstrated flexibility, creativity and enthusiasm as well as a willingness to learn and to be continually adaptive within a dynamic and often self-directed working environment mandatory;
- Possess the ability to focus on day-to-day tasks at hand while also working towards longer-term objectives with an understanding that these will change continuously
- Willingness to spend much time in the field and work closely with program target groups.
- Proven ability to work independently as part of a regional team and with international professionals.
- Excellent analytical and information management skills.
- Good organizational skills and ability to work under stress and in austere contexts of remote locations.
- Highly flexible and creative in planning and problem solving.
- Attention to detail, ability to follow procedures and meet deadlines and work independently and cooperatively with team members.
- Proven excellence maintaining professional internal and external relationships.
- A focus on building staff capacity.
How to Apply for the job:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their applications including a cover letter clearly stating your salary requirements, CV (with 3 referees), and copies of academic qualifications/certificates to the Human Resource Manager via E-mail to: mcuganda@ug.mercycorps.org will also be accepted.
NB:Â Only short-listed candidates will be contacted by Mercy Corps. Female Candidates are encouraged to apply.
Deadline:Â 10th October, 2014
Jobs – Human Resources Clerk (Payroll Liaison) at US Mission Embassy
Job Title:Â Human Resources Clerk (Payroll Liaison), FSN-6, FP-8
Welcome to the United States Embassy in Kampala, Uganda. The United States has enjoyed diplomatic relations with Uganda for over 30 years. Ambassador Scott H. DeLisi currently heads the U.S Mission to Uganda. The Mission is composed of several offices and organizations all working under the auspices of the Embassy and at the direction of the Ambassador.
Among the offices operating under the U.S Mission to Uganda are:
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Centers for Disease Control
- Peace Corps
Job Summary: The US Embassy Human Resources Clerk is the Mission’s main timekeeper and point of contact for all timekeepers. The incumbent verifies timekeeper submissions and assists in providing timekeeper training whenever needed. The jobholder is also responsible for records management within the Human Resources Office. This includes correct filing and storage of both American and Locally Employed Staff personnel records. Job holder performs other duties for American staff, including embassy and host-country government check-in, assists with family member employment programs, including awards, and drafts personnel actions.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:Â
NOTE: All applicants must address each selection criterion detailed below with specific and comprehensive information supporting each item.
- The ideal candidate must have completed secondary school (both “O” and “A” levels) is required.
- At least three years of clerical/administrative experience in Human Resources or Administration is required.
- Level III (good working knowledge, speaking, reading and writing) English is required. Level II (limited) in two local languages (speaking, reading) is also required.
- Possess good working knowledge of general human resources practices and conduct, and the ability to maintain confidentiality is required.
- Must be tactful with good judgment and ability to maintain effective working relationships with employees and supervisors; must be personable and be able to inspire confidence in all staff members; must be discreet and able to handle sensitive information.
- Computer literacy skills i.e. proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office suite, including Word and Excel) is required.
- Keyboarding skills that include moderate speed (30 words per minute) are required.
How to Apply for the jobs:
All those interested in working with the US mission in Kampala should send their applications and strictly adhere to the following:
- Universal Application for Employment as a Locally Employed Staff or Family Member (DS-174) Download it Here.
- A current resume or curriculum vitae.
- Candidates who claim US Veterans preference must provide a copy of their Form DD-214 with their application. Candidates who claim conditional US Veterans preference must submit documentation confirming eligibility for a conditional preference in hiring with their application.
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- Any other documentation (e.g. essays, transcripts/certificates, awards) that addresses the qualification requirements of the position as listed above.
 Submit Application To:
Human Resources Office
By email at KampalaHR@state.gov.
NB: Only electronic submissions will be accepted and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Please clearly indicate the position applied for in the subject area of the email submission.
Please use standard file types such as Microsoft Word (.doc) and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) and please send all documents in one file attachment.
Telephone:Â 0414-306001/259-791/5
Deadline: 1st October, 2014
Jobs – Education Project Coordinator at Norwegian Refugee Council
Job Title:Â 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:Â
- 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:Â
- 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.
Deadline: 27th September 2014.