Spark MicroGrants NGO Careers – Health Project Coordinator

Job Title:  UG03-Int: Health Project Coordinator
Organisation: Global Health Corps (GHC)
Placement Organisation: Spark MicroGrants
Duty Station: Mbale, Uganda
Salary: Monthly Stipend of 550 dollars per month
About GHC:
Global Health
Corps pairs intelligent and passionate fellows with organizations that require
new thinking and innovative solutions. We provide these young leaders with the
tools to remain connected after their fellowship year finishes, deepening their
ability to enact change through heightened skills and strong partnerships. We
currently place fellows in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the United States,
and Zambia.
About Spark MicroGrants: 
Spark MicroGrants launched in Rwanda in 2010 and in Uganda in late 2011 with a
mission is to catalyze rural, poor communities into action. Spark has developed
the first proactive, group based micro-granting model. The model consists of a
five month project planning process, a $2,000-$10,000 micro-grant and two years
of management support and follow-up. Spark enrolls recent graduates from local
universities in a two-year Fellowship in facilitation where the fellow scouts
up to eight villages and takes each one through the Spark process.
Fellows
assist villages in the design, implementation and management of their own
social impact projects. Projects vary across all sectors from health,
education, infrastructure, income generation to women’s empowerment, depending
on what the community chooses as their project. Spark’s priority areas are
promoting a ‘locally-led, expert-supported’ model for development, where local
communities are the primary drivers of social change, but have the support and
advice of global development experts.
Job Summary: The Global Health Corps Health Project Coordinator will work hand in
hand with the communities identifying the key areas of need, gaps in knowledge
and skillset. Based on these needs, the fellows will design and implement
trainings and systems in order to ensure that the communities are in a position
to operate, manage and sustain the clinics on their own at the end of the
12-month fellowship. Several of the rural communities with whom we are working
with have chosen healthcare as their priority problem and as a result are
constructing small health clinics and maternal health centers. Since these are
community-run facilities, considerable amount of support, skills training and
capacity building will be needed to ensure the smooth running of the clinics.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Offer teaching assistance to health
    clinic staff, health clinic committee and volunteer health technicians
    (VHTs) to improve functionality and performance, build capacity and
    strengthen their management skills
  • Assess current operations and financial
    management of the clinics and determine best practices for replication in
    other community health clinics
  • Identify and build partnerships with
    local, regional, and national non-governmental organizations to support
    clinics
  • Coordinate with local, district and
    national government stakeholders on a variety of projects
  • Fellow will receive volunteer health
    technician (VHT) certification during the course of fellowship
  • Strengthen communities’ capacity by
    providing trainings on leadership, management, finance, best practices
    accounting, HR, sustainability, etc.
  • Assist in monitoring and evaluation
    design, including collection and analysis of field data for monitoring and
    evaluation purposes
  • Lead and develop Spark’s health-focused
    micro-grant track and design supplemental trainings for health-care
    focused projects
  • Perform any
    other responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
  • The applicant must possess post graduate
    training or experience in public health and /or project planning and
    management may be an added advantage
  • The GHC fellow should have potential to
    build out the operational capacity of a small team.
  • The candidate must be able to design and
    implement systems in a resource-limited setting. 
  • Superb English oral and written
    communications skills
  • Willingness to work and travel to rural
    communities in the mountains
  • Computer Literacy skills
  • Past experience in program coordination
  • Ability to work independently and
    collaboratively
  • Excellent communication and leadership
    skills relevant to project work
  • Highly creative and flexible in
    planning, implementing activities and problem solving
  • Possess willingness to learn and adapt
    to other cultures
  • Excellent organizational ability and
    effective management skills with a good sense of judgment
  • A strong interest in community
    development and empowerment, particularly in poverty stricken communities
  • Highly trustworthy and dependable in
    handling resources
  • Strong collaborative and interpersonal
    skills
  • Prior experience designing operational
    systems, and/or implementing new systems in a startup environment
  • Past experience designing/conducting
    trainings
  • Experience and background in delivering
    technical assistance and financial management an added advantage
  • Good report-writing and evaluation
    experience
  • Exhibit patience, resiliency and
    community spirit
  • Fluency in Lugisu and Swahili an added
    advantage
Age:
Below 30 Years
Job Terms and Conditions: Fellows will be provided with housing,
health insurance and a living stipend of $550/month. Additionally, fellows will
receive an award of $1500 upon successful completion of the fellowship
year. Flights to and from the placement site and all other costs associated
with GHC programming are included, including $600 in professional development
funds. Housing is located on the same compound as the Spark office, a couple of
kilometers outside of Mbale in Eastern Uganda.
Note:
The living stipend and completion award may be paid out in USD or local
currency, as determined by the placement organization.
How to Apply:
All
applicants who desire to be placed by the Global Health Corps in the
aforementioned organization should express interest by clearly following the instructions
at the web page below.
Deadline: 26th January, 2014

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