DanChurch Aid Social Work Jobs – PROGRAMME ASSISTANT: Disaster Risk Reduction

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Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About DanChurch Aid (DCA):
Our client, DanChurch 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. DCA is a member or the ACT Alliance and is HAP certified.
For further information on DCA please visit: www.danchurchaid.org
Job Summary: 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.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
·         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
Qualifications, Skills and 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.
How to Apply:
Please email 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.
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 affi liation. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
People Performance Group
Plot 8 Kitante Close, Kitante
P.O. Box 12405, Kampala – Uganda
Deadline:   20th March 2013 5:00PM

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