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Jobs -Refugee Education Officer at Africa Development Corps

Job Title: Refugee Education Officer
Africa Development Corps (ADC), formerly known as Visions in Action, is an international NGO based out of Washington DC, working in relief and development throughout Africa. Over the past 23 years we have been involved in the implementation of a wide range of humanitarian activities in countries such as Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa and Liberia. In particular, ADC has implemented development and relief programs in the areas of HIV/AIDS, education, youth development and food security.
ADC is about to undertake a peace building education programme for both refugee and host communities in two refugee camps in the Western Nile region of Uganda. The program aims to increase access to quality, relevant peace building education for both refugee and host communities.
Job Summary: The Education Officer will be responsible for all management responsibilities as the candidate will directly supervise a team of field officers. The candidate must work closely with all program staff, and provide both donors and the Country Manager with monthly progress reports.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: In particular, the Education Officer’s duties will be to oversee the implementation of ADC’s Peace Building Education Program by;
  • Work closely with the various stakeholders and actors.
  • Building and growing working relationships with other NGOs working within the refugee settlements to ensure coordination and collaboration.
  • Responsible for organizing advocacy and awareness events and campaigns.
  • Planning and organizing large scale academic and recreational events.
  • Taking an active role in all logistic and procurement related activities by working closely with ADC’s Finance and Admin Manager.
  • Maintaining a constant presence within refugee settlement areas where ADC is working.
  • M&E – developing and implementing a monitoring and evaluation strategy for mid-term and final evaluation periods (this will include mid-term case study evaluations). Developing and implementing an initial baseline study survey.
  • Responsible for compiling and reporting to donors and Country Manager on a monthly basis.
  • Attending refugee coordination meetings with UN agencies, INGOs and NGOs working within the settlements.
  • Attending UN security meetings and reporting back to ADC staff on any pertinent security issues within ADC’s areas of operation. Education Officer should also be able to draft security updates based on these meetings for dissemination amongst all ADC staff.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:  
  • The applicant must possess a good University Degree or equivalent experience required, Master’s Degree in development related area is preferred.
  • Ideally, the candidate will should have a background in education and a good knowledge of Peace Building and Emergency Education strategies.
  • Some knowledge and experience in the field of logistics and procurement would be an added advantage.
  • Past exposure and experience in nonprofit setting and/or international NGO setting required; in particular, experience living and working in a development context would be an added advantage.
  • Previous experience establishing M&E systems and conducting M&E activities is required.
  • Possess excellent English communication skills, both written and oral, and be willing to travel to challenging rural environments.
  • Working knowledge and experience in child protection related issues.
  • Past experience in Project Cycle Management (PCM) will also be seen as an added advantage.
How to apply for the job: 
Please express your interest by sending an E-mail application to: uganda@africadevcorps.org.
The email application should include a CV, covering letter stating why you qualify for the position, and three references. Please do not include all of your academic certificates in your application. The subject line of the email should read: Application for the role of Uganda Refugee Education Officer.
Deadline: 22nd July 2014

Jobs – Child Sponsorship Correspondence Assistant at World Vision

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Job Title: Child Sponsorship and Systems Assistant
 
World Vision Uganda is a Christian Relief, Development and Advocacy Non-Government Organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice in over 40 districts of Uganda. World Vision is committed to the protection of children and does not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with children.
All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible. “Our Vision for every child, Life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every Heart, the will to make it so.”
Job Summary:
The Child Sponsorship and Systems Assistant will offer technical support to Child Sponsorship Operations management in the Cluster so as to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in meeting WVU and WVI standards as well as child wellbeing.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
  • Effectively manage child data/information and sponsorship systems in order to support child sponsorship operations and programming in the programme/ADP.
  • Monitor the security and risk management with regard to child information and sponsorship systems. This includes backup of child information/data, production of data backup logs; and physical, logical and soft/hardware security.
  • Effect sponsorship data quality assurance measures in relation with management of child information and sponsorship systems.
  • Responsible for the entry of child sponsorship data/information and SO communications (queries, GN, mails, child monitoring information, etc) through manual entry, scanning forms, editing, verifying, validating and loading child information to STEP and SD systems.
  • Production of all system reports such as STEP1 management, Child Correspondence Forms, Detailed Correspondence report and export of Validation forms for the ADP.
  • Read and create all diskettes for the ADP and regular update of the Diskettes tracking template
  • Perform SD business processes such as printing out variance reports, Child Status Reports, Project reports, etc.
  • Resolve to-do list items and update the Child Sponsorship Facilitator on unresolved to-do list items for management actions.
  • Security of sponsorship data, systems resources and sponsor addresses
  • Carry out STEP decentralized business processes at the ADP on annual reconciliations, setting of APR, Christmas Cards, integration, etc on a daily, weekly, monthly basis as applicable.
  • Perform any other duties as assigned by the Program Manager.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
  • The applicant must have at least a diploma or equivalent.
  • Possession of a Bachelors degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Business Computing with experience in networking, information systems, and databases is an added advantage
  • Other qualifications in networking, information systems, and databases will be an added advantage.
  • A minimum of three years’ experience in child sponsorship operations.
  • Possess the ability to work in a team to achieve excellence in execution, committed, accountable and passionate about the work we do.
  • Commitment to World Vision mission and partnership values and sensitivity to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.
  • Track record demonstrating high integrity, reliable and dependable
  • Good networking and influencing skills
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision
  • All candidates must be mature and committed Christians, able to demonstrate an active involvement with their faith and also able to appreciate and stand above denominational diversities.
How to apply for the job: 
All suitably qualified candidates must send their applications with complete Curriculum Vitae, via email to: wvujobs@wvi.org.  Please address the application to the People and Culture Specialist (Recruitment) and do indicate the post title in the email subject line.
NB: Qualified female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.
Deadline: Wednesday, 9th July, 2014

Uganda Martyrs University’s Sheila Malingu scoops Berkeley Prize

From the look of her face, Sheila Malingu would pass for a shy high school teen. But when she opens up, inside this lady dressed in a white T-shirt and black pants is a calm, yet brilliant and confident persona.

Malingu, 20, is this year’s winner of the Berkeley Prize, a travel fellowship award. She is a second year student at Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi, studying a course in Architecture.

Sheila Malingu is a student at Uganda Martyrs University
Sheila Malingu is a student at Uganda Martyrs University

She emerged the 2nd best among four winners of the essay prize competition organised by University of Berkeley in California, USA.

The first born of three siblings says she wanted to become a computer engineer like her father but her career changed at 12 years when she won the ‘Draw an advert campaign’ in 2005 while still in primary school. Malingu says: “I decided to pursue a career in Architecture after becoming the national winner.

” Born and raised in Kyamugorani, Mbarara District. Malingu is daughter to Mr Charles L. Malingu, an IT specialist, and Ms Miriam Malingu. Malingu attended Kabaterine Memorial School and Mbarara SDA Primary School, and later Mary Hill High School before joining Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi.

The winner

The essay “Adoptable Options for Kampala Capital City Authority,” which has brought her the joy she possess, suggests solutions for improving livelihoods in Kampala slums.

Her proposal highlights the health challenges in Kampala slums like “flying toilets” which are a major cause of disease.

The flying toilets are developed from thin polythene bags inflated with waste normally thrown out at night on streets and water trenches.

“I am inspired by the comfort of everyone in the places we live and stay,” says Malingu.

She says her journey to win the travel fellowship award started while in her first year at university.

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“It was given to us as a class assignment but I didn’t make it on the first test,” says Malingu. However, it was in September last year when she gave it her second shot when she wrote an essay proposal for the ‘Architect and a healthful environment’

At this stage, Malingu’s proposal emerged the 15th out of the 144 competing suggestions. She says only 38 students, including her, made it to the next stage of the competition.

At the second stage, “we wrote the final proposals under the same topic around January 2014, where the finalists were picked for the travel fellowship.

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“I emerged the 2nd globally,” Malingu asserts with a wide smile.

On June 2, 2014, Malingu left for Portland in Oregon, United States to observe the Sustainable City Year Programme (SCYP) at the University of Oregon. She is also expected to participate in the 51st International Making Cities Livable Conference (IMCL) 2014.

“My goal is to become one of the foremost, practising advocates of the environmental and physical architectural planning in East Africa in the next five years, with particular reference to Uganda,” says Malingu as she nods her dreadlocked head.

Upon her return from the one-month trip in the US, Malingu wants to meet the KCCA Executive Director, Ms Jennifer Musisi, and share with her, a wealth of experience and knowledge she will have amassed while at the conference.

Malingu says: “I commend Ms Musisi for the good work she has done for Kampala but I would like to share with her the ideas I will have learnt in Portland and see how we can implement them here for the betterment of our city, Kampala.”

Malingu also wants to bridge the gap between the technocrats and students with proposals like hers.
“I want to organise a conference for Architecture students both at Uganda Martyrs University and Makerere University to disseminate some ideas together with having career guidance from architectural practitioners who will in return learn from us,” she says.

Malingu says she is aware that proper use of the environmental resources is already key in development and a livelihood sustainability issue around the world.

In the coming years, the issue is going to be important particularly for East Africa because of the discovery of commercially exploitable quantities of oil and gas in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

“This will require dynamic and adequately informed environmental architects to deal with soil and water conservation issues,” says Malingu, adding that even the high population growth in the region means that new habitation and civil work designs which will become a major development strategy.

Fees issues
Despite Malingu’s successes, she recounts some challenges encountered like the lack of school fees while in her Primary Four and Five when her father had also gone back to Makerere University to undertake his master’s degree in IT. However, she is quick to say that the father is her role model for having sent her to school together with her two siblings.

Malingu is also proud of herself as a young Ugandan woman who has so far achieved something. “The moment an opportunity presents itself, approach it head-on. Do not think about the outcome because you never know whether it can be positive or negative,” she says in her advice to fellow youth.

Charles Malingu, Sheila’s father, is very proud of her daughter. “My daughter thinks beyond her age and all my children write very well, I keep encouraging them,” says Mr Malingu.

ABOUT THE BERKELEY PRIZE

The winners of the 11th Annual Berkeley Prize Travel fellowship competition were announced by Professor Raymond Lifchez, the chair of the Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence recently.

The essay contest in three stages is open to all current full registered students in the undergraduate Architecture degree programme.

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It also includes diploma students in accredited schools of architecture worldwide.

The competition was established in the department of California, Berkeley in 1998 to promote the investigation of architecture as a social art.

Each year, the prize committee selects a topic important to the understanding and interaction of people and the built world that becomes the focus of the essay competition. This year’s topic is: “The Architect and the Healthful Environment”

The Committee possesses a question on the website: www.berkeleyprize.org and the related topic where architecture students throughout the world are invited to submit a 500-word essay proposal responding to the question.

Malingu becomes the second Architecture student from Uganda Martyrs University to win the prize after Bryans Mukasa won it in 2012.

Busoga university nursing school courses get full accreditation

Busoga University School of Nursing was recently granted full registration by the Ministry of Education and Sports.

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 The Nursing School offers Certificate courses in enrolled Nursing and Midwifery.

The accreditation  was contained in a communication by Sarah Namuli-Tamale, on behalf of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Sports.

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The registration follows an inspection visit to Busoga Nursing School by the Inter-ministerial Inspection Team that was conducted in May 2013 to ascertain compliance to the set standards.

For one to practice as a Nurse or Midwife in Uganda, he or she must have gone to a Nursing School that is accredited by the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council, a statutory body that regulates the Nursing and Midwifery professionals in the Country.

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Busoga university plans to start Diploma and Degree courses in nursing education.

Annual International Cultural Boma opens at Makerere university

Some of the participants at Annual International Cultural Boma at Makerere university
Some of the participants at Annual International Cultural Boma at Makerere university

The annual international cultural ‘Boma’ has opened at the College of Veterinary Medicine Animal Resources and Biosecurity (CoVAB) with over 300 participants from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Germany, Canada, Italy and United States of America.

The 3-day event is a component of the Summer School program organized by CoVAB and her partners. It takes place every June with students from American and regional universities including Makerere University converging at CoVAB for an exciting program designed to equip them with knowledge and skills in animal production, disease surveillance and public health.

The course also exposes the participants to experiential learning with field trips to Eastern and Western Uganda to learn about wildlife and eco-system health management while getting an insight into Ugandan culture and systems.

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This year, the 19 participants of the Summer School program are from United States of America, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Ethiopia involved in veterinary medicine, public health, laboratory diagnosis and related fields.

Students undertaking the Masters of Infectious Diseases Management program at CoVAB are also among the Summer School participants.

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Speaking at the opening of the ‘Boma’ held under the theme“Enhancing North-South Collaborative opportunities for training, Research and Outreach for Development, Prof. David Owiny, Dean School of Biosecurity, Biotechnical and Laboratory Sciences (CoVAB) said that the idea of a summer school started 8 years ago with the first one attracting 3 students compared to this year’s 19 participaticipants.

The Summer school runs for 3 weeks and usually concludes with an International Cultural ‘Boma’ and a scientific conference.

“The word ‘Boma’ is an African word meaning the transfer of knowledge from elders to the young ones and it happens in a relaxed environment by a fireplace when the moon is bright”, explained Prof.

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Owiny.

True to its definition, this year’s ‘Boma’ is characterised by several enriching and exciting presentations from accomplished academicians, practitioners, researchers in various fields ranging from gender, business, communication, disease surveillance and investigations, among others.

All the partnering Universities had an opportunity to present on possible areas of collaborations in their respective universities.

These included; University of Saskatchewan, University of Missouri, Michigan State University, Mississippi State University, Iowa State University, Washington State and Columbus State University as well as the regional Universities of Nairobi, Rwanda, Sokoine University of Agriculture and Mekelle University.

Prof. John David Kabasa, Principal CoVAB gave an enlightening presentation on opportunities for international collaborations within Africa and Makerere University with particular emphasis on CoVAB.

The participating universities are members of the Africa-United States Integrated Diseases Management (AFRUS-IDM) supported by Higher Education for Development.

The AFRUS – IDM network is a strong collaboration of partner Higher Education (HE) institutions both in US and Africa that has been established to advance HED-led Development in Africa.

This network has been built over 4 years of programming and hard work that has borne a successful proposal for planning and now for Higher Education for Development in East and Central Africa funded through USAID. Prof. Owiny thanked the funders and leading partner of the ‘Boma’; USAID-HED and Mississippi State University respectively for making it possible for the ‘Boma’ to take place at CoVAB.

The Summer School will conclude with a 2 day scientific conference aimed at providing an opportunity for dissemination of research outputs in integrated diseases management.

Also present at the ‘Boma’ are local partners such us Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries, Ministry of Health, National Livestock Research Institute, National Agricultural Research Organization, District Local Government officials and the Uganda National Council for Higher Education.

Makerere university signs MoU with Iranian University

Makerere university Vice Chancellor with the president from the Iranian University
Makerere university Vice Chancellor with the president from the Iranian University

Makerere University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Al-zahra University, Tehran-Iran on 30th June 2014.

The MoU will witness the two Universities collaborate in a number of areas including Student and Staff exchanges, Research partnerships and Curricula development.

It is geared towards sharing experiences and knowledge from the two universities and extending their contributions internationally, especially in science disciplines.

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The Vice Chancellor Prof. John Ddumba-Ssentamu, was grateful to the partnership as a fulfillment of Makerere Universitys core functions.

“One of the core functions of Makerere University is knowledge transfer partnerships and networking. The university reaches out to the communities to seek their involvement in coming up with programs that best address the respective needs. I am happy that we are signing an MoU with Al-zahra University,” he said.

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“This partnership will be among the most successful ventures Makerere University has entered. I believe that this MoU in the area of research and development will help improve the science fields in both universities,” he added.

The President of Al-zahra University appreciated the partnership, the first of the kind with Makerere University saying that the mutually beneficial academic collaborations are long overdue.

“Collaborating is extremely important. Through sharing of knowledge, experience and Academic staff, we shall address our local concerns,” Dr. Ensiyeh Khazali remarked.

In explaining the nature of the partnership, the University’s Senior Legal Officer, Mr. Goddy Muhumuza said both parties will be engaged in fundraising for the partnership and the intellectual property rights will be equally shared.

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He explained that the international law, the common law and equity shall apply should the need for arbitration ever arise.

The Iranian Ambassador to Uganda, H.E. Amir Hossein Nik Bin, emphasized that Iran has a good working relationship with Uganda in a number of field including agricultural and several business ventures. He was optimistic that the three year renewable partnership with Makerere University will be highly rewarding.

According to Dr. Ensiyeh Khazali, Al-zahra University chose to partner with Makerere University because of her long history, admirable reputation and undisputable ground breaking research.

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Al-zahra University, exclusively for women, was founded in 1964. It is multidisciplinary in nature, with over 10,000 students. Two thirds of Al-zahra University’s 350 Professors are female.

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