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.

Corporate Operations Associate – Uganda – Heifer International

Heifer International’s mission is to work with communities to end world hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth.
Job Description
We are looking for someone to provide operations support to a single country program initially, and eventually across all organization Africa programs.
This is a wonderful opportunity to take on a challenging management role. You will be responsible for operational management (including areas such as expansion, security, donor relations, and support staff management), operational systems innovation, and staff development and capacity building:
Corporate operational management: You will be responsible for managing our program operational support in one of our countries of operation. You will have immediate management of the corporate operations team, and will be responsible for the below areas:
• Donor & visitor relations: Arrange all logistics of donor & interview candidate visits including hosting donors in the field. You will be the outward face of the organization, and will be responsible for hosting influential world–thinkers as well as multinational donors.
• Operations expansion: Our staff numbers are growing by 30% each year. There is a huge need to build new offices and residential houses – you will be in charge of managing these projects.
• Support staff management: We have a strong team of operations support staff that forms the backbone of our operations. Qualified staff may be managing each of the following departments: vehicle fleet management, property maintenance, administration, construction, security and housekeeping.
• Each of these departments may in turn have a large team of staff – for example, in Uganda there may be 50 construction staff working at any one time, 20 security guards, etc.
• You will be responsible for directing and mentoring these department managers and ensuring an excellent quality of service across the department.
• Corporate culture: We have an amazing and unique team who live a fulfilling life in rural areas. You will be responsible for ensuring the wellbeing of all staff, and promoting a positive working culture that everyone is proud to work in.
• Operational systems innovation: You will be responsible for improving and innovating our operations systems and processes to become more efficient and impactful.
• Staff development: We have fantastic local staff. You will be responsible for further training of our staff, and building the team capacity to run a smooth and sustainable operation. This will include staff training, constant mentorship, and feedback.

Requirements
We are seeking exceptional professionals at least 2 years of work experience, and a demonstrated long–term passion for international development. They will serve in a career–track position that combines both field and management experience.
We are looking for truly extraordinary candidates that will help take our organization to the next levels of impact and scale. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:
• Strong work experiences. Examples include a demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial experience (e.g. starting a field program, leading a conference, starting a business, solid Peace Corps accomplishments).
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
• Prior administration/operations/management experience is ideal, but mostly we are looking for a smart generalist.
• Humility and personal stability. We have a fantastic and likeable team. We are looking for passionate professionals that combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service.

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: Starts very modest. However, this is a career–track role with fast raises for performance, paying a meaningful salary for long–term placement in developing nations.
Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board.

Career Development
Twice annual management consulting–style career reviews, and constant feedback. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.

•    Facilitate the formation of the learning alliance, including identification of the relevant policy actors, organizing and facilitating learning alliance meetings and joint development of policy actions for further engagement;•    Spearhead the learning alliance processes (policy engagement actions and capacity building initiatives) to ensure that evidence-based policy engagement actions translate into changes in existing government policies.•    Engage with key public and private policy stakeholders to promote implementation of policy actions, including capacity strengthening and joint learning activities.•    Document learning alliance processes, workshop/ event proceedings, and lessons learnt along the way and feed them back to the research teams;•    With support from the Communication Specialist, develop a communication mechanism that brings together different project outputs/activities, package messages and feed them into the learning alliance;•             The candidate should have an MSc Degree with relevance to policy action in the agricultural sector (e.g. development management, rural sociology, community development, political sciences) with a minimum of five years of related work experience.•    Practical experience in facilitating multi-stakeholder platforms•    Ability to stimulate and foster cooperation between various stakeholders (government ministries, research, CSOs, public and private sector agencies) and drive the process that advocates for enabling policies for climate change adaptation.•    Ability to document, synthesize and present findings to different audiences, including learning alliance actors and the scientific community.• Ability to work independently, take initiative and deliver under minimum supervisionApplications must include a covering letter, curriculum vitae, and names and addresses of three professional referees. Applications should be addressed to:International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) - Uganda,Please indicate the following on the envelope: East Africa Flagship 4 application.

Bioversity International is a research-for-development organization working with partners worldwide to use and conserve agricultural and tree biodiversity for improved livelihoods, nutrition, sustainability and productive and resilient ecosystems. Bioversity International is a member of the CGIAR Consortium, a global research partnership for a food secure future. Bioversity International has more than 300 staff and scientists’ worldwide working with almost 700 partners.

For further information on Bioversity International, consult the Web page.

Purpose of Role

As part of Bioversity’s Agrobiodiversity and Ecosystem Services Programme, the incumbent will conduct research on agroecological intensification and risk management through the use of agrobiodiversity operating from Bioversity’s Uganda. The majority of the work conducted will take place in the context of CGIAR Research Program on “Humid tropics” farming systems[1]. Collaborations are also expected with parallel research programs on Aquatic Agriculture Systems[2], Dryland Systems[3] and Roots Tubers and Bananas[4] which use system based approaches to improve food and nutritional security and overall productivity, and transform the lives of rural poor in the humid tropics. Building on Bioversity’s strengths and collaboration with the Commodities, and the Nutrition & Markets Programmes, research will include a focus on livelihood systems that include important banana and cacao cropping system components. The Bioversity office in Uganda enjoys close collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of scientists from Wageningen University and IITA. Though based in East Africa, the candidate will also be working in collaboration with the Bioversity’s team and partners across the regions of Africa, Latin America, and South East Asia.

Key responsibilities

Reporting directly to the Agrobiodiversity and Ecosystem Services Programme Leader, the position will be based on the Bioversity Office in Uganda or Burundi and managed by Bioversity’s regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa. The incumbent will have interdisciplinary skills and an understanding of how to integrate field-based methods with advanced systems modeling and team based approaches cutting across disciplines.

The appointee will have the following responsibilities:

Qualifications and competencies:

Essential qualifications & competencies:

Desirable qualifications and competencies:

Terms and Conditions:

This is an internationally recruited position. Bioversity International offers an attractive remuneration package including a competitive salary, non-contributory retirement plan, medical insurance, housing allowance and leave provisions. All benefits are denominated and paid in US Dollars.

The initial contract will be for a period of three years subject to a probationary periodof one year.

For further information on Humid Tropics Farming Systems: http://humidtropics.cgiar.org

For further information on the Aquatic Agriculture Systems, consult the Web page at: http://aas.cgiar.org/

For further information on the Dryland Systems, consult the Web page at: http://drylandsystems.cgiar.org/

For further information on the Roots, Tubers and Bananas, consult the Web page at: http://www.rtb.cgiar.org/

Please apply online through Bioversity Job Opportunities web page by clicking the Apply button, completing the online application and attaching the required information, no later than 31 March 2014. Please note that in the application you are required to provide the contact details (address, telephone number and e-mail address) of at least three referees, which Bioversity will contact for short listed applicants.

Bioversity is an equal opportunity employer and strives for staff diversity.

Job title: Project Associate, The Impact of Solar Power and Financing (Uganda)

    Location: Uganda
Desired Start Date and Duration: July 2013, 1 year, 3 months commitment

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), is an international non-profit research organization. Based in New Haven, CT, with offices in Washington, D.C. 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.

Position Summary

Innovations for Poverty Action seeks a qualified Project Associate to lead a study that evaluates a pay-as-you go solar system in Uganda. The position offers an opportunity to gain first-hand field management experience in an organization undertaking cutting-edge development research. The work will stretch your analytical and management skills to the limit and will require your full commitment in a challenging environment. This position will be based in Kampala with extensive travel in rural areas of the country.

Project Description:

Access to clean, safe, affordable light and power is one of the obstacles to – or enabler of – economic and social development.  Approximately 1.3 billion people globally—590 million in Africa alone—live without electricity and rely predominantly on kerosene lanterns and other non-electric energy sources. Kerosene is not only more costly and lower quality per unit of service, it is also unhealthy and unsafe, inhibiting quality of life attainments and constraining productive potential.

d.light, in partnership with M-KOPA, will pilot the marketing and distribution of the "Pay-GO" home system in Uganda. This product combines two innovations into one offering: 1) an upgradeable solar power system, and 2) pay-as-you-go consumer financing. Upgradability enables consumers to buy only as much light as they need and can afford initially, then allows them to add light to their initial system when they need and can afford more, without obsoleting their initial outlay. Pay-as-you-go financing can make this product more affordable for consumers, with a low initial outlay and monthly payments amounting to what consumers would otherwise spend on fuel and mobile charging. This study will measure the effect of Pay-GO usage on lighting and mobile-charging expenditure and productive time, as well as a more qualitative measure on perception of living standards.

The Principal Investigators are Hunt Allcott (New York University) and Dean Karlan (Yale University).

Responsibilities

The Project Associate will be responsibility for a variety of tasks including, but not limited to:

    Developing and piloting the survey instruments, including programming questions onto a mobile phone and managing the translation of the survey into the local languages.
Hiring, training, and managing the groups of field teams who will conduct the interviews.
Managing all field logistics, procuring equipment, and ensuring the study has approvals from local authorities.
Helping to inform the project design based on the results of a pilot; overseeing the baseline and endline data collection exercises.
Ensuring all data quality protocols are followed including auditing enumerators and performing daily checks of the incoming data; correcting the errors of staff iteratively to ensure the data is of the highest quality.
Managing the data from collection at the household to delivery of a final, cleaned dataset.
Managing the budget including helping IPA management to inform the initial budget decisions and tracking all expenses to ensure costs are within project funds.
Writing regular progress reports and leading project meetings to ensure deadlines are met.
Monitoring the intervention to ensure it is carried out correctly and consistently—ensuring there is no spillover between treatment and control.
Working closely with NGO partners running the program and liaising between all stakeholders to ensure all interests are aligned and accounted for.

Desired Qualifications and Experience

    A Bachelor's or Master’s degree in economics, public policy, international development, public health or related fields.
Excellent project management and organizational skills; meticulous attention to detail
Strong quantitative skills and knowledge of Stata required; programming and other technical knowledge a strong plus.
Demonstrated ability to lead staff efficiently to achieve project goals.
Flexible, self-motivating, able to manage multiple tasks efficiently and a team player.
Experience working or living in developing countries.
Familiarity with randomized controlled trials.

How to Apply

Please follow the application instructions below.  Any applications or CVs submitted outside this process will not be considered.  Note, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview. Applicants will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

1) Send an email to jobs-uganda@poverty-action.organd jobs@poverty-action.org, following the instructions below:

    In the subject line:  Copy exactly the following position line: 100922IPA, PA Solar Power and Financing
Attachments:  Please attach ONLY your CV and cover letter.
In the email body: Put your full name, first (given) name followed by last (family) name

Please do not include any text besides the position line(s) in the body of the e-mail. Adding extra text will interfere with the processing of your application.

2) Complete the J-PAL/IPA common application indicating that you are interested in applying for a "Type 1: Research Analyst or Project Associate" position.  Please note: you are not required to include transcripts or letters of recommendation upon initial submission. After submitting, you can edit your application at any time and may add these.

Deadline:30/06/2013

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