The Ugandan Jobline

• Strengthen EAMT region’s response to
  community health programming in East Africa by providing technical advice,
  coaching, and training to the staff of partner organizations such that
  World Renew’s response will:
• Improve quality of health
  programming to ensure alignment with accepted best practices in the field
  of global public health, as well as national health policy and
  strategies.
• Utilize a Christian
  transformational educational approach
• Be culturally sensitive while
  challenging communities to address unhealthy cultural practices within
  each context
• Be economically sustainable
  by local communities to the greatest degree possible
• Strengthen the ability of
  local churches, World Renew partner organizations and local community
  development organizations to address current health issues including the
  development of their organizational capacity (OCI) and community capacity
  (CCI)
• Encourage good project
  management, proposal / grant writing, monitoring, evaluation and
  reporting to assure the best possible decision making by communities,
  churches, partner organizations, and World Renew
• Scaling up of the regional
  health strategy and the broader primary and community-based health care
  approach in programming.
• The jobholder will represent
  EAMT/ at health program cluster meetings, technical working group
  meetings, Ministry of Health meetings, and other relevant forums for
  providing support to staff and partners
• Provide expertise, experience and guidance
  to staff and partners agencies in the region to ensure the best practices
  in gender analysis and gender- sensitive program approaches are used.
• Guiding staff and partners on
  gender analysis and program design in the planning stages of the project
  cycle.
• Improve quality of gender
  programming by providing training, resources, and technical advice.
• Tasked with promoting
  in-depth behavior change especially in addressing worldviews, values and
  cultural practices that affect gender justice and health- related issues
• Actively participate in the
  World Renew gender working group activities and meetings
• Represent EAMT/ at gender
  program cluster meetings, technical working group meetings, Ministry of
  Gender meetings, and other relevant forums for providing support to staff
  and partners
• Prepare annual work plans with outcomes
  and impacts based on priorities of this position and World Renew’s
  regional and overall strategies. This will be done in consultation with
  the EAMT team leader and Country Consultants and DELTA team members as
  appropriate.
• Assist to identify high value and high
  potential fundraising and mobilization opportunities for health and gender
  programs working in close collaboration with country teams, to ensure that
  new funding proposals are in accordance with country and global strategies
  and policies as well as donor requirements.
• Evaluate and monitor progress of gender
  and health- related programs including indicators of success in
  collaboration with field staff and the development team
• Team Duties:
• Actively participate in
  ministry team meetings to help the team develop its strategy and policies
  and to represent ministry team decisions and strategies in consultation
  relationships with other international and local partner organizations
• Significantly contribute to
  the refinement and growth of the MT strategy, encouraging alignment with
  the agency’s long range plan

• The Program Coordinator, Gender and Health
  East Africa Ministry Teams (EAMT) must hold a Master’s in Public Health
  (MPH) with a gender bias (or a related field) preferred
• At least two to three years’ experience in
  community health development or organizational consultation experience
• Previous exposure and experience with
  integrated community-based health development programs and cross-cultural
  experience.
• Experience with training, coaching and
  advising.
• Demonstrated understanding and ability to
  work within the cultural context in East Africa
• Demonstrated ability to implement, improve
  and integrate sustainable community development programs through
  consultation, coaching and training
• Proven ability to work professionally with
  community processes and linking agricultural, nutrition, health
  livelihood, WASH and gender issues
• Competency in the use of internet/email
  and can produce documents (including spreadsheets), power point
  presentations, knowledge in Statistical Packages for Social Sciences
  (SPSS) is an asset
• Excellent English verbal and written
  skills necessary for communicating well with stakeholders (donors,
  partners, staff, constituents, and research institutions) and writing
  grant proposal.
• Be a mature Christian commitment and
  ability to work respectfully with various church denominations
• Knowledge of or willingness to learn
  Swahili is an asset.

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