The Benetech Human Rights Program has been supporting the capacity of human rights defenders in the LGBTI space in East and Southern Africa since 2011. The work in which we have engaged aims to train activists and organizations to securely document violations against LGBTI individuals and communities. Using a combination of grants, in-person training, remote support and technology tools, our approach has been comprehensive and multifaceted and we now seek to conduct an evaluation of the first two phases of activity of the work in Uganda.

The Human Rights Program is hiring a consultant to undertake a mid-term evaluation of this project, to be completed by October 1, 2014. Candidates will ideally already be based in Uganda or the region and have some experience or familiarity with the context, issues, and actors included in the project scope as well as experience in conducting project evaluations.

The Benetech Human Rights Program is under no obligation to accept any proposal(s).

Interested applicants can view the full Terms of Reference attached, and if interested send a brief cover letter (no longer than 1 page) and resume to UGevaluation@benetech.org by July 7th. Please use subject line: UG Midterm Evaluation Consultancy. We will follow up with select applicants to ask for a submission of a detailed proposed methodology by July 11th.

Roles & Responsibilities
– The role will require the candidate to plan, execute, and finalize projects according to strict deadlines and within budget. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan.
– Direct and manage project development from beginning to end. Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
- Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents. Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
- Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
- Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals. Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
- Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company. Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.
- Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
- Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel. Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team. Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
- Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools. Track project milestones and deliverables. Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations.
- Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans. Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
- Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements. Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management
Skills & Experience
- Overall 8+ experience in the industry with a minimum 4 years+ of experience covering delivery management for either a large account or a set of multiple accounts.
- Qualification: Post Graduate from a reputed Institution with Computer Science specialization and preferably a PMP certification.
– Experience at customer site as onsite delivery implementer or experience as Project Manager for Horizontal or Industry verticals
– Experience of managing multiple customers across geographies
– Well-versed with quality management processes
– Proven people leadership
– Outstanding communication skills, both oral and written, and both technical and non- technical, and the ability to work with a diverse group of individuals in a professional and service-oriented manner
– Extensive knowledge in developing applications in Microsoft ERP platforms.

Job Title: Associate Area Coordinator, Eastern Uganda
Location: Mbale, with a lot of travel to the field
Reporting To: Area Coordinator, DSW Uganda
Start Date: Immediately, Applications considered on a rolling basis
Deadline: Friday, 4th July, 2014 – 5:00pm EAT

About Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
IPA is an international non-profit research organization. Based in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, with offices in Washington, D.C., USA and worldwide, IPA works with development partners and academic researchers to create and evaluate approaches to solving development problems, to communicate “what works” in development and to scale up successful projects in a variety of fields, including health, education, microfinance, governance and agriculture.

About Evidence Action
Evidence Action is a new organization working in partnership with IPA to scale proven interventions. IPA has played in important role incubating technical assistance and service delivery programs, such as the Dispensers for Safe Water Program and the Deworm the World Initiative, which are currently housed within IPA. The management and further growth of these “scale up” initiatives is transitioning to Evidence Action. IPA will continue to provide support for these programs during their transition period.

About the Dispensers for Safe Water Program
Each year, over 1.8 million children under the age of five die from diarrhea, a leading cause of which is unsafe drinking water. Dispensers for Safe Water (DSW) is an entrepreneurial team tasked with scaling the Chlorine Dispenser System (CDS) – a proven innovation that dramatically expands access to water treatment at an extremely low cost. DSW is growing rapidly: we currently serve over 650,000 people in Uganda. Our goal is to reach 5 million people in the end of 2015 in multiple countries, which will prevent 2.3 million cases of child diarrhea and avert over 2,200 child deaths each year.

About the Position
Reporting to the Area Coordinator for the Dispensers for Safe Water Program – Mbale, Uganda, the Associate Area Coordinator position is a key leadership role for Dispensers for Safe Water Program, assisting in the management of field activities in Eastern Uganda.

As a middle level management position, the Associate Area Coordinator will lead and manage program operations for the dispenser program in a designated area/region.

Key Responsibilities:
• Deputize the Area Coordinator in building and managing the Dispensers for Safe Water program in Eastern Uganda;
• Manage a team of Field Officers to ensure thousands of dispenser installations across Eastern Uganda annually;
• Lead a team of Field Officers in delivering high quality community sensitization and education meetings, community leader meetings and local government meetings;
• Support field team to develop efficient and cost-effective weekly work plans for the dispenser implementation roll out;
• Lead teams to implement dispenser activities through teamwork, training, coaching and mentorship;
• Coordination of various team activities and promote team ownership;
• Effective supervision of the field teams to ensure high quality deliverables for activities;
• Recruit high caliber field staff, with consultation of the Area Coordinator, through a competitive, fair and transparent process;
• Manage the dispenser program in his/her designated area following the laid down financial procedures and in a cost effective manner;
• Conduct staff performance reviews with the consultation of the Area Coordinator and Program Manager;
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Area Coordinator and Program Manager.

External Relationships
The Associate Area Coordinator has an important role in ensuring the program maintains a good brand and reputation within the area under his/her jurisdiction. The Associate Area Coordinator will develop useful relationships with program stakeholders and ensure a good rapport with them. The Associate Area Coordinator is expected to manage communication between the program and stakeholders in consultation with the Area Coordinator and the Program Manager.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills
• Minimum Degree in Management, community work, project management or equivalent from a recognized institution;
• At least 2 years of significant operations and management experience with a non-governmental organization as well as demonstrated experience working in the field;
• Excellent written and spoken English required; Eastern languages desirable
• High level of financial integrity and stewardship;
• Demonstrated experience developing work plans and budgets to execute field activities;
• Excellent organization and coordination skills;
• Good people management and leadership skills and demonstrated experience in leading large field teams;
• Embraces team work and aspires and supports the ideals of working in a team work environment as a team champion;
• Passion to work in a rural community setting in Eastern Uganda;
• Experience with social work and social administration;
• Flexible mindset and willingness to take challenging assignments not within the scope of this position;
• Self driven and highly motivated to deliver results within tight deadlines;
• Ability to communicate effectively within the organization and externally with the rural communities and local leaders;
• Excellent computer skills/data management skills and comfort to advance the skills in a dynamic IT field;
• Proactive and ambitious to support innovation and change in a dynamic working environment;
• A positive attitude to work and to develop in a fast paced work environment.

Project Assignment:

Technical support for scaling up the iCCM programme in Uganda with emphasis on the districts of Abim, Kiruhura, Lyantonde and Rakai and support for the continuity of the iCCM programme implementation in the eight central region districts of Wakiso, Mpigi, Butambala, Gomba, Masaka, Bukomansimbi, Kalungu and Lwengo.

Objectives

Overall objective: To contribute to reduction of under-five mortality and morbidity through implementation of integrated community case management of Malaria, Pneumonia and Diarrhoea in 12 districts in Uganda

Specific objectives:

To plan and carry out sensitization of the district and community leaders on iCCM programme in all the four districts of Abim, Kiruhura, Lyantonde and Rakai by August, 2014

To plan, coordinate, collaborate with, and provide technical support to, the DHOs /DHTs and facility based health workers to ensure that by Feb, 2015 capacity of VHTs is built for iCCM implementation in all the four new districts of Abim, Kiruhura, Lyantonde and Rakai

To provide technical support to DHOs/DHTs and health workers on supply quantification, ordering, distribution and ensuring appropriate utilization and accountability on a quarterly basis for the four new districts and eight central region districts with effect from Jan, 2015

To coordinate and collaborate with the DHOs/DHTs and participate in monitoring, supervision and incentivizing VHTs in quarterly VHT meetings for progress review starting Jan, 2015 for both the four new districts and the eight central region districts after the PCA with Malaria Consortium expires in Dec, 2014

Background

The iCCM strategy was launched in Uganda in 2010 in line with the Uganda Child Survival Strategy, Health Sector Strategic Investment Plan (HSSIP) and Village Health Team (VHT) Strategy. To date, the iCCM programme has been rolled out in a total of 34 districts of which UNICEF is supporting 15 mainly in Karamoja, Central, Western and South-Western regions.

The purpose of the iCCM program is to bring lifesaving treatment to the household level to ensure children under five suffering from malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia receive treatment within 24 hours of onset of the illness to promptly effect cure and or avert/reduce complications. Malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia are jointly responsible for up to 56%[1] of the causes of deaths of children under five years of age. Besides loss of lives, the three major childhood killer diseases also do cause significant economic loss

The evaluation of the ICCM programme after two years of implementation in eight of the UNICEF supported districts showed a 5% reduction in under five mortality compared to 7% increase in mortality in the comparison districts. The VHTs improved access to treatment for the pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria from 44% before the ICCM programme began to 73%. Care seeking behaviour was also significantly improved by the programme from 59% to 81% of caregivers of sick children seeking care in time[1]. During the year 2013, the proportion of malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia cases among the children under five who received timely and appropriate treatment in 14 UNICEF supported districts was 66% and this surpassed the 60% target[2].

Further local evidence of the benefits of the iCCM programme shows that there is increased demand for iCCM, reduction of OPD and in-patient admissions of U5s for malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea, reduced workload at health facilities and positive testimonies from caregivers seeking treatment from VHTs for their U5 children[3].

UNICEF has signed MoU with DFID and will receive £7,583,595 grant (about 12m USD ) to scale up iCCM in 4 new districts (Abim, Kiruhura, Lynatonde, Rakai) and consolidate implementation in 14 districts (the 8 central region and 6 Karamoja districts) for the next three years, 2014–2017. Rolling out iCCM in the new districts entails planning with district and lower level local governments, district and community sensitizations, training VHTs in basic package and iCCM, refresher training of health workers in IMCI and orienting them in iCCM programme, and ensuring commodities are distributed to the VHTs for implementation and thereafter embark on monitoring including end-users monitoring, supervision, data analysis and reporting. Executing these roles requires much more time at district and community levels, and this cannot be adequately covered in the routine staff roles and responsibilities. It is therefore essential that UNICEF hires a consultant to provide technical support to roll out iCCM in the new districts, and further more support continuity of implementation of the iCCM programme in the 8 in central region districts currently implementing the programme. The consultant’s support to the eight central region districts will commence in Jan, 2015 when PCA with Malaria Consortium will have expired in Dec, 2014.

Purpose of Assignment and Scope of work: Specific issues to be addressed, including expected boundaries of the assignment.

To provide technical support in rolling out iCCM in the districts of Abim, Kiruhura, Lyantonde and Rakai from July 2014 and with effect from January 2015 provide technical support to the eight central region districts to sustain implementation of the iCCM programme (Wakiso, Mpigi, Butambala, Gomba, Masaka, Bukomansimbi, Kalungu and Lwengo).

Deliverables:

Tasks

The consultant will:Plan, organize and orient the four district leaderships on VHT and iCCM programme; then plan with the respective DHOs/DHTs implementation schedules.

Collaborate with the DHOs/DHTs and MOH National iCCM Trainers in building capacity of the VHTs in basic VHT package and iCCM

Collaborate with DHOs/DHTs and participate in some of the district and community sensitizations to raise awareness and generate demand for the iCCM programme

Support the district and health workers in iCCM commodity quantification, ordering from UNICEF/NMS and ensure distribution to the VHTs in each facility catchment area

Coordinate with UNICEF Health Specialist -iCCM / Supervisor to plan, quantify and follow up procurement of iCCM commodities and logistics; prepares distribution list and ensure timely delivery of iCCM commodities to the four new districts and subsequently include all the 8 central region districts

Support implementation through monitoring and supervision of the district, health facility and community level activities

Collaborate with the DHOs/DHTs to establish a strong support supervision framework at district, HSD, S/C and community level defining clear roles and responsibilities for all the different players including DHT members, HSD team, health assistants, health unit in -charges, and peer supervisors

Coordinate with, and support the DHOs/DHTs, to ensure that district level monthly/quarterly VHT review meetings are conducted to review VHT performance by analyzing data, interpreting and sharing the information with stakeholders through DHIS2

Monitor funds utilization and accountability at district and community level for VHT roll out in the four districts and ensure value for money in all programme activity implementation

Overall, support the national scale up of the iCCM programme through capacity building (trainings, etc) and support continuity of implementation in the 8 central region districts and to some extent, participate in upstream activities

End Product/ deliverables

Four District Rreports on orientation showing number and cadres of district officials oriented on the VHT and iCCM programme. Availability of implementation schedules for the four districts of Abim Kiruhura, Lyantonde and Rakai.

Availability of Training reports from the four districts on Basic VHT package and iCCM

District and community level VHT and iCCM sensitization reports for all 12 districts

Monthly reports indicating availability of iCCM commodities with VHTs and stock outs reduced to less than 5%

Quarterly reports on iCCM commodities procured, distributed and delivered to the end-users at health facilities and community level (VHTs)

Monthly and quarterly supervision reports including VHT monthly performance review / meetings reports

Supervision Framework with clear roles and responsibilities available and being used for supervision at all levels in each district

Analyzed data showing VHT Performance in each of the four districts in treatment of Malaria, Pneumonia and Diarrhoea within 24 hours

Timely utilisation and accountability of the funds and to ensure no outstanding accountability with the four districts for more than 6 months

Quarterly Reports on the scale up of iCCM programme in any other new districts, reports on technical support to continuity of implementation in the 8 central region districts and various upstream activities

Supervision:

The Health Specialist–iCCM, based in Kampala, will provide oversight management of the programme and will be responsible for amongst others; planning with the consultant the implementation of the scale up activities, coordinate upstream activities with MOH and other national and sub-national stakeholders, ensures disbursement and accountability of funds, ensures commodities are quantified, ordered, received, distributed, accounted for and replenished; monitor activity implementation, approving consultant’s activity reports against TOR deliverables, reviewing and providing guidance on tools for the various parts of the overall assignment and updating Alive team and stakeholders on progress of the programme.

Reporting requirements:

The consultant will be required to submit monthly, quarterly and annual progress reports and minutes of meetings for activities conducted at community, district and national levels. The consultant will follow the UNICEF reporting format in Dev Trac when sharing information from the field for purposes of follow up by recommended UNICEFstaff. Using electronic or hard copies, the consultant will share the reports with stakeholders more especially with other Alive team members, DHOs/DHTs, VHTs, MOH-Child Health Division, etc.

Qualification Requirements:

The following are the basic minimum requirements: At least two years of progressively responsible experience in ICCM programming
Medical degree and experience in public health
Should command respect from district officials and should have experience in community based health programmes
Should have a good understanding of the power related dynamics at district and community levels
Should have good logic and analytical skills
Should have good writing and reporting skills
Should have the ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

The consultant will be provided with a contract of 11 months at NOB level. He/ She will be expected to spend at least 85% of his/her time working in the 4 new districts and the eight central region districts, while 15% of the time will be spent in Kampala for upstream activities with supervisor, MOH / Child Health Division and other stakeholders.

The consultant will be paid monthly salary through direct transfer to his/her account on condition that the deliverables are satisfactory and in line with the TOR.

Duty Station: UNICEF Kampala Head Office with frequent field travels to the 4 new districts and 8 central region districts.

To apply, send a letter of interest accompanied by P11, CV and two of your most recent performance evaluations to ugderecruit@unicef.org , by 30 June 2014.

· UNICEF is committed to gender equality in its mandate and its staff; qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

· Applications will be considered only if accompanied by an updated CV and P11 form, as well as the most recent performance evaluation reports.

· If applications are sent by email, please clearly indicate the position applied for and use this order to name your file attachments: Firstname_Lastname followed by document e.g. Gold_MukasaP11 or Gold_MukasaCV or Gold_MukasaApplication.

· UNICEF is a smoke free environment.

· Only Short listed candidates will be contacted.

Location (Country & Base): Uganda, Gulu

Contract duration: 12 months

Starting date in-country: 15/07/2014

Through the financial support from the Royal Norwegian Embassy (RNE), ACF has been implementing the ‘Combating Gender Based Violence and Enhancing Economic Empowerment of Women in Northern Uganda’ project since 2011. Recognizing the positive impacts on the lives of women, RNE and ACF agreed for the programme to continue with greater focus on gender and capacity development aspects.

Reporting to the Technical Coordinator, the Food security & Livelihoods Program Manager is responsible for carrying out the following objectives:

Direct Line Manager: Technical coordinator

Objective 1: Ensure ongoing analysis of the local socio-economic and development context and contribute to the definition of ACF technical positioning

Objective 2: Ensure effective FSL project management according to ACF strategy and technical protocols

Objective 3: Ensure effective management of FSL staff and oversight of local partners

Objective 4: Ensure FSL program quality and accountability

Objective 5: Represent ACF externally with local authorities, donors and partner agencies

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