Our partner is a relatively new organisation registered in 2012, and focus primarily on the rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners. Prisons in Uganda have a high rate of overcrowding, largely made up of young people on remand for petty crime committed through a lack of education or economic opportunity. Many young people reoffend after release. The prisons themselves do not have rehabilitation resources, so our partner has formed a partnership with several prisons, whereby they give training to inmates and wardens in entrepreneurship and finance. Once inmates are released, they are supported in setting up small businesses, giving them an alternative income, away from crime.

They also works with the government on a project based on youth unemployment, ensuring that a current government programme in entrepreneurship training is offered to all young people, regardless of their gender, location, tribe or political affiliation. In Gulu, they are working with local women, offering those cooking skills and again entrepreneurship training, enabling them to make and sell stoves for an income.

You will be the first AfID volunteer with them, and your role will include undertaking a general assessment of their financial controls and procedures, identifying any weaknesses, and recommending and implementing any changes which you deem necessary. As the organisation is still quite young, the Director feels there are many areas in which they are still clumsy, or under developed. This includes budgeting, reporting and general bookkeeping. They have created some policies, but they would like you to make sure they are correct and working efficiently. They have particular difficulty writing the financial parts of reports, and ideally wants a system that is robust and can be understood by all staff, and written policies which can be easily passed on in case of a change of staff.

They are also due to be audited in February, so depending on your arrival date, would appreciate help in either preparing for this, or implementing any issues raised by the auditors.

Although the volunteer would be based in Kampala, they would facilitate travel to Gulu for you as well, so that you could see all of their projects in the field.

We envision this to be a 2-3 months placement. Accommodation is provided free of cost by our partner.

For more information feel free to contact us on +442087417000 or email on volunteer@afid.org.uk

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Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children and has program presence in over 120 countries in the world. Save the Children envisions a Uganda in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We strive to create impact for children by delivering our Programmes through partnerships, by being innovative, by acting as the voice for and of children, and by achieving results at scale. In Uganda, we implement programmes in six thematic programme areas of Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Education, Livelihoods & Food Security, Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS in development and emergency contexts. Save the Children delivers programs in over 36 districts in the North, Rwenzori, North-Eastern and Central regions of Uganda, Currently, Save the Children has a staff complement of over 200 persons. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. In 2013, we reached over 143 million children through our work around 52m directly and 91 million indirectly around the world.

Save the Children seeks to fill the following vacant positions and applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced Persons for the operations.

Senior Officer, Community Health (2 Positions); Bundibugyo, & Kasese

Job Purpose:

The Senior Officer Community Health is primarily responsible for planning and ensuring quality and timely delivery of community based services of the MNCH program; including leading and coordination in collaboration with the District Health Team Leadership-mapping and training of VHTs in ICCM and community newborn care; integrated outreach mobile outreach MNCH clinics; child health days ; support supervision and mentorship of VHTs; and accurate documentation and reporting of community based activities The Senior Officer may be called upon as and when necessary to support the emergency team in cases of humanitarian crisis and to coordinate district level activities on behalf of the MNCH program manager.

Academic back ground, Experience & Person Specifications;

General specifications applicable to all positions;

Application information;

Please refer to the detailed description of the jobs and the key selection criteria by visiting our website:www.savethechildren.ug

Application letters with detailed CVs indicating 3 referees, two of whom should have been direct supervisors should be submitted to:

The Director of Human Resources & Administration

Save the Children

Plot68/70, Kira Road

P O Box 12018

Kampala

Or on email:uganda.recruitment@savethechildren.org

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EXCITING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children and has program presence in over 120 countries in the world. Save the Children envisions a Uganda in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We strive to create impact for children by delivering our Programmes through partnerships, by being innovative, by acting as the voice for and of children, and by achieving results at scale. In Uganda, we implement programmes in six thematic programme areas of Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Education, Livelihoods & Food Security, Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS in development and emergency contexts. Save the Children delivers programs in over 36 districts in the North, Rwenzori, North-Eastern and Central regions of Uganda, Currently, Save the Children has a staff complement of over 200 persons. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. In 2013, we reached over 143 million children through our work around 52m directly and 91 million indirectly around the world.

Save the Children seeks to fill the following vacant positions and applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced Persons for the operations.

Senior Officer Fertility Awareness and Community Transformation (FACT) Project (1 Position); Kampala

Job Purpose:

The Senior Officer – FACT contributes to Save the Children’s capacity to implement the FACT project as a means of improving fertility awareness and access to fertility awareness methods using existing program SCI platforms in Northern Uganda and Karamoja region. S/he is responsible for ensuring proper coordination of FACT activities with those of existing program platforms used for implementation of the FACT project; coordinating and providing guidance on mobilization activities to ensure effective participation in FACT activities of communities within selected program platforms; supporting the training of facility and community based providers about fertility awareness, fertility awareness based family planning methods and other family planning methods; leading on monitoring and documentation of project activities and contributing to writing of project reports. The Senior Officer may be called upon as and when necessary to support the emergency team in cases of humanitarian crisis.

Academic back ground, Experience & Person Specifications;

General specifications applicable to all positions;

Application information;

Please refer to the detailed description of the jobs and the key selection criteria by visiting our website:www.savethechildren.ug

Application letters with detailed CVs indicating 3 referees, two of whom should have been direct supervisors should be submitted to:

The Director of Human Resources & Administration

Save the Children

Plot68/70, Kira Road

P O Box 12018

Kampala

Or on email:uganda.recruitment@savethechildren.org

Important to note: