Programme Assistant for Disaster Risk Reduction
DanChurchAidDanChurch Aid (DCA) is a faith-based Danish NGO working closely with church-based as well as secular NGOs in Uganda and the East Africa region. Support is under three programme types: HIV/AIDS with focus on prevention and social support to people living with HIV/Aids; Active Citizenship with focus on democratic space for citizen participation in governance; Food Security with focus on food production and productivity by empowering marginalised people to claim and uphold their right to food and livelihood sustainability, as well as humanitarian and transitional responses to conflict and natural disasters.
DCA has supported emergency relief and development programmes in Uganda since 1979. Its current areas of operation in Uganda are the Karamoja and Teso sub-regions, Rakai and Lyatonde districts. DCA also has projects in the Kagera zone in northern Tanzania as well as in eastern Burundi. DCA is committed to a gender-inclusive rights based approach to programming and works to strengthen these aspects both internally and externally. DCA is a member or the ACT Alliance and is HAP certified.
For further information on DCA please visit: www.danchurchaid.org
Country: Uganda
City / Location: Kampala
Min. years of experience: 2 years
Minimum degree: Bachelors degree
Closing date: March 20, 2013 - 5pm
The Programme Assistant’s primary function is to support to the DCA DRRAP Consortium Coordinator and the Uganda Programme team. The Programme Assistant reports to the Programme Coordinator.
Main tasks
• Research and information collection related to cross border, dry lands, pastoral and drought risk reduction advocacy and related issues
• Documentation and information dissemination
• Organize administrative and logistical needs for symposiums, meetings, workshops and media briefings
• Prepare supplements for newspapers
• Assist with networking with stakeholders involved in similar work.
• Create and follow budgets
• Support DCA programme team and partner projects
Key qualifications / Experience
- University degree in a relevant field
- Strong technical background in the field of research and information with at least 2 years experience in research and documentation.
- Good working knowledge of the Karamoja cluster, dry lands and pastoralism would be an advantage
- Exposure to programme and project management in marginalised areas and feel for policy work
- Commitment to quality work, efficiency, timeliness to deadlines and being solution-orientated
- Able, interested and willing to multi-task (e.g. from networking to administration)
- Very good analytical skills and capacity for understanding and synthesizing large volumes of reading material
- Very good interpersonal and communication skills, and capacity to work in a diverse and multicultural environment
- Flexible, pro-active, self-motivated and able to organise work independently as well as be willing to work within a team
- Computer literacy and fluent command of verbal and written English is a must.
Contact/How to apply:
To apply please e-mail CV and cover letter explaining your suitability for the post and how they meet the above competencies, incl. 3 work related referees and copies of certificates to the address below. Clearly mark in subject field or on envelope, the position you are applying for. Attachments may not fill more than 2 MB.
Closing date is 5 PM on the 20th March 2013
While we thank all applicants for your interest, only those selected for interviews will be contacted. Any form of lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification. Note that all interested candidates are encouraged to apply, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, marital status and religious, political or ethnic affiliation. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
People Performance Group
Plot 8 Kitante Close, Kitante
P.O. Box 12405, Kampala
Uganda
Attn.: The Director
E-mail: application@ppg.co.ug
Web: www.ppg.co.ug
