Organisation: Global Health Corps (GHC)
Placement Organisation: Spark MicroGrants
Job Location: Mbale, Uganda
Deadline: 26th January, 2014
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.
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