Uganda: Partnerships and Fundraising Coordinator Fellowship - 2015

Organization: Global Health Corps

Country: Uganda

Closing date: 03 Feb 2015

About the Global Health Corps Fellowship:Global Health Corps is a one-year paid fellowship that pairs young professionals with organizations (fellowship placement organizations) that require new thinking and innovative solutions. Global Health Corps is uniting emerging leaders across disciplines and backgrounds to work towards a common goal – health equity for all. We believe real progress in global health will only be achieved with the skills and passion of a diverse community of talented individuals. Join us!

The fellowship begins in July 2015 and extends through August 2016. Fellows engage in professional development training, mentorship and thoughtful community-building, and continue to draw upon their fellowship experience and the GHC alumni network as they build careers of lasting impact.

Applicants can apply for up to 3 different fellowship positions that match their interests and skills, from project management to monitoring and evaluation, supply chain management, logistics, communications and more. We are looking for people from a broad range of sectors and backgrounds.

Global Health Corps believes that great ideas don’t change the world, great PEOPLE do! Fellows are selected based on their ability to fit the job description for the positions they apply to, and their fit with the GHC leadership practices. To learn more about the GHC leadership practices, visit: http://ghcorps.org/apply/

Fellows are placed in organizations in pairs – one international fellow and one local fellow from the placement country – creating a fellowship team that is a central part of the fellowship experience.

About the Fellowship Placement Organization:Uganda Village Project (UVP) is a nonprofit organization working with the people of Iganga to promote public health and sustainable development in the rural communities of this marginalized district in southeast Uganda. UVP facilitates community health and well-being in rural Uganda through improved access, education, and prevention. The organization’s flagship effort is the “Healthy Villages” program; an innovative, grassroots approach where Uganda Village Project works at a village-by-village level to address the most pressing healthcare concerns of each community, including malaria, HIV and STIs, household sanitation and hygiene, and family planning access. UVP also works with obstetric fistula awareness and repair and provision of clean water through shallow wells. Uganda Village Project has been working in Iganga District for 10 years, and we have committed to a recent period of robust evaluation to ensure our projects are having the intended impact. In 2015, we will be building off the work done by 2014 GHC fellows and continue evaluation covering our current priority areas of:

• Malaria


• HIV/AIDS and STIs


• Family planning


• Sanitation and hygiene


• Obstetric fistula


• Community-constructed shallow wells

Position Overview:The fellow will work to strengthen relationships with organizations and individuals who support UVP, including grant makers, NGO colleagues, and Ugandan and international interns. This position will identify and steward institutional funders; support the UVP grant committee to submit proposals; liaise with NGO colleagues to form partnerships and strengthen program work; and improve the viability of the annual summer internship program by overhauling orientation, creating materials, and supporting interns during their time in Iganga.

Responsibilities:

• Create landscape analysis of regional NGOs working in similar programs to UVP and creating partnership strategies


• Identify funding opportunities within Uganda and internationally, resulting in a strategy and timeline for proposal submission


• Proactively seek out partnership opportunities and build and strengthen relationships with implementing agencies, local CBOs, international NGOs, and funders


• Promote UVP’s work on social media and blogs


• Work with the M&E Officer (GHC Co-Fellow) to create communication strategies to share UVP’s impact with external audiences


• Assist with strengthening the annual internship program


• Create materials and documents for the internship program


• Review internship evaluations and feedback to inform changes to pre-departure systems, orientation, and on-the-ground support


• Create orientation outline and content and support staff to improve orientation delivery


• Work closely with UVP’s Managing Director to supervise interns during the annual internship program (note: This could include an optional one-month extension with UVP to live near internship sites and do daily visits to project sites)

Required Skills and Experience:

• Comfort communicating with external audiences


• Willingness to be pro-active about building relationships with partners


• Conflict management skills


• Understanding of cross-cultural issues and respect for local staff, partners, and interns


• Comfortable working closely with colleagues


• Self-starter and self-disciplined

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience with volunteer management


• Experience leading trainings and creating training materials


• Grant writing or grant identification skills


• Program planning and design and project management experience

Fellows receive the following benefits:

• Monthly living stipend


• Housing


• Utilities stipend


• Health insurance


• A professional development grant of $600


• A completion award of $1500


• An advising program that pairs each fellow with an advisor in his/her area of work or interest


• A two-week Training Institute at Yale University in the United States to begin the fellowship


• A five-day End-of-Year retreat in East Africa to finish the fellowship


• Three multi-day trainings during the year


• Travel to and from placement site, all trainings, and retreats


• Professional development and personal support from a dedicated in-country program manager


• Personal development and accompaniment program led by Still Harbor

To apply to this position go to:http://ghcorps.org/fellows/apply/application/

To see the full list of fellowship positions, go to: http://ghcorps.org/fellows/apply/through-placements/

How to apply:

To apply, please visit http://ghcorps.org/fellows/apply/application/