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USAID/Uganda is seeking qualified candidates for the Personal Services Contractor (PSC) – Senior Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) Advisor – GS-15, position.
ELIGIBLE OFFERORS: United States **(**US) citizens – offshore or resident in Uganda.
Opening date: October 14, 2022
Closing date: November 14, 2022

USAID/Uganda is seeking a qualified individual to serve as the Senior Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) Advisor.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Office Director of USAID/Uganda’s Office of Health and HIV/AIDS (OHH) or designee, the Senior GHSA Advisorwill provide staff management and senior technical expertise to ensure the well‐coordinated and effective implementation of the USG GHSA portfolio in Uganda. The Senior GHSA Advisor will manage a complex multi‐sectoral portfolio, providing administrative, technical, and representational leadership within the United States Government Inter-agency space. The Senior GHSA Advisorwill work closely with senior-level experts with USAID/Washington, USAID/East Africa, and the USG Interagency in Uganda as key stakeholders to oversee USAID GHSA investments in Uganda. The Senior GHSA Advisor will provide senior-level expertise to the USG GHSA team in Uganda and help manage GHSA staff and implementing partners on the ground. Placement of a Senior GHSA Advisor in Uganda will fill a critical role for USAID to meet the expectations of the White House and Congress for rapid, effective, and coordinated implementation of the GHSA. The Senior GHSA Advisor will work closely with other USG partners to ensure effective interagency coordination, particularly with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Defense (DoD) offices providing support for GHSA implementation (DTRA’s Regional Cooperative Engagement Officer), and the State Department.
The Senior GHSA Advisor will provide well-informed and appropriate technical expertise and representation at meetings and events, both within the embassy and the broader interagency, and with external audiences, including the GOU Ministries and the Prime Minister’s office, Ugandan and international academia, the UN, other embassies, development partners, civil society, and the humanitarian assistance community.
The Senior GHSA Advisor will serve on the USG interagency health team in Uganda, particularly as part of the GHSA Technical Working Group, and will liaise with other USG department and agency programs and activities in Uganda that align with and/or support Uganda’s five-year GHSA Roadmap. The Senior GHSA Advisor will support the USAID GHSA project activities with a combined life of projects budget of $22 million. Additional responsibilities will include participation in GHSA Interagency Steering Committee meetings/teleconferences.

The Senior GHSA Advisor will represent USAID in all relevant interagency and other donor GHSA coordinating mechanisms in country to ensure USAID programming is fully aligned with Uganda’s GHSA Roadmap and annual work plan; is contributing to the advancement of building in-country capacity; and is responsive to the country’s context.
The Senior GHSA Advisor will liaise with USAID Washington teams, specifically the USAID Bureau for Global Health; the GHSA Lead, and the Africa Bureau Office of Sustainable Development’s Health Division. The Senior GHSA Advisor will ensure that the Mission’s planning, response, and reporting on GHSA is carried out in accordance with USAID, CDC, DoD, and State Department directives.
The Senior GHSA Advisor will communicate with USAID/Washington to share lessons learned and will ensure those lessons are adapted into existing programs. This position will be the main point of contact between USAID/Uganda and USAID/Washington regarding GHSA activities, progress reporting and information requests.

Required professional qualifications include the following and offerors must address all the elements as part of their offer in response to this PSC solicitation.

EDUCATION
A doctoral degree in public health, public policy, epidemiology, infectious disease, or similar related discipline is required.

PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE
• From ten (10) years of experience in public health, animal health, One Health, epidemiology, or a related field, of which five years must be working in or with developing countries is required.
• A minimum of five (5) years’ experience with a government agency or other international/local organization working on zoonotic or emerging infectious diseases, or global health security is required.
• Senior-level experience related to infectious disease prevention, detection and control in the public health sector is required.
• Working experience of technical and programmatic principles underlying emerging infectious diseases and/or GHSA activities or implementation is required.
• Previous experience with an international agency, organization, academic institution, or NGO is required.
• Experience working in Uganda is required.

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Job Summary
Provide strategic and operational leadership support to Baylor-Uganda to develop, implement and monitor quality and performance improvement and promote a culture of continuous improvement to meet the needs of our clients.

Overall Responsibilities
Program Development:
• Identify and analyze opportunities for improvement in the Baylor-Uganda programs
• Annually develop and implement the Baylor Uganda’s total quality management strategy with policies, programs, and initiatives

Quality Systems:
• Develop and implement a total quality management strategy with relevant initiatives
• Engage and collaborate with the senior leadership and staff to institute a culture of improvement in the implementation of all Baylor Programmes and activities
• Provide input to strategic decisions and build QI capacity of the support the staff to design and implement QI activities on a continuous basis
• Support the administration and finance staff to ensure understanding and compliance with established administrative processes among staff.
• Provide ongoing input and direction to continuous improvement of work planning and execution, office procedures and internal controls.

Data Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting:
• In collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation team, facilitate and conduct monitoring of measures for improvement
• Evaluate trend data and share innovative data visualization to effectively communicate performance
• Support development of the dashboards for the significant performance indicators
• Ensures that Activity milestones goals are met and adhering to the approved budget
• Oversee development of new tools, and measurement methods and systems to ensure the implementation meets the quality standards

Change Management:
• Lead training and other development efforts to build quality into processes.
• Ensure that changes are supported through implementation and sustainable practice.

Required Qualification, Experience and Competencies:
• Master’s degree in Public Health, public administration, project management, health policy and management or other relevant discipline
• Over 10 years progressive experience in managing multimillion-dollar projects with expertise and skills in financial management and performance monitoring
• 10 Years Relevant Experience

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CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda, a Private-Not-For-Profit (PNFP) Christian hospital specialized in pediatric neurosurgery and integrated spiritual ministry, is seeking experienced Ugandan Nationals for the full-time position of CUREkids Coordinator.
The individual in this role will be responsible for collecting, authoring, and uploading content and media to support the CUREkids program as well as other communications meant for use on the website, social media, and in print both. The CUREkids coordinator is essentially the eyes and ears of CURE, documenting the lives of those the organization serves and the people serving them. This content will support CURE International’s Mission Support Center (MSC) and the local hospital’s marketing and donor support needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Capture before images and media for each child undergoing treatment at CURE Hospitals
• In conjunction with the communications manager, select the highest priority stories and capture during patient visits at CURE
• Effectively document compelling stories that communicate the overall experience of children who are undergoing treatment at a CURE hospital.
• Provide quality content for the CUREkids program by creating CUREkids profiles and keeping all profile data updated with the most recent information.
• Collaborate cross-departmentally at the local hospital for a variety of content regarding the child or child’s family that can be added in order to develop a holistic and robust story during their stay and updates for the future.
• Complete regular check-ins with your direct supervisor at the local hospital in order to assess the hospital’s internal communications, marketing, and/or donor support needs.
• Communicate with the Communications Manager through regular teleconferences and email.
• Provide communications support to the Mission Support Center’s Advancement team through donor thank you videos.
• Be an active participant in helping to host and represent CURE to individuals who visit the hospital

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
• Minimum of 1-2 years experience with photography, videography, and photojournalism.
• Fluent in English and able to speak local languages.
• Ability to communicate effectively in written English
• Experience with Internet social media tools including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, blogs, and email.
• Experience using, or exposure to, Adobe Lightroom or related software.
• Experience using, or exposure to, Mac OS X.
• Passionate about the mission of CURE.
• Love for children and their families.
• Comfortable working in a medical setting.
• Advanced photography and video competence regarding DSLR and/or mirrorless cameras, lighting, composition, editing, etc.
• Excellent ability to write and communicate in short form for a western audience.

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The purpose of the Member Care position in Uganda is to prepare, welcome, equip, strengthen and empower Amazima Ministries staff for an effective life and service with Amazima, as well as to promote individual spiritual health and corporate fellowship with all Amazima Staff to further the Gospel and extend Amazima’s mission.

Qualifications
• Couple with a strong, Christ-centered marriage
• Willingness to raise funds for personal and ministry support
• Ability to engage staff in a participatory and collaborative manner
• Experienced leadership that is characterized by integrity, honesty, and speaking the truth in love
• Ability to develop positive and trusting cross cultural and interdenominational relationships
• Administratively gifted with willingness to assist missionaries and Ugandan nationals
• Clear written and verbal communication skills in English
• A growing Christian that is active in ministry in a local church/ or missions
• Teachable/ Adaptable/ Able to accept difficult circumstances/ Spiritually Mature
• Basic computer skills (Gmail, Calendar, etc.)
• Minimum three-year commitment preferred

Responsibilities
• Develop relationships with all Amazima faculty and staff in Uganda
• Help to acclimate new staff to the Jinja area and to prepare housing, if needed, upon arrival
• Be a confidential place for staff to engage in dialog to address stress and personal challenges related to well being
• Offer consistent support and prayer to foreign national and national staff
• Coach and track (using Sola software) foreign national staff in Ministry Partner Development (ongoing support raising)
• Participate with leadership in handling of situations that are emotionally charged (e.g. grief, discipline, death, etc.)
• Be a liason and connector for staff who have furthering needs (ie counseling/trauma)

Desired Characteristics
• Spiritually mature
• Pastoral/shepherd’s heart
• Extensive familiarity with support raising
• Responsible
• Committed to excellence / attention to detail
• Exemplary communication skills
• Self-motivated / strong work ethic
• Teachable
• Works well with people
• Good listener
• Passion to connect with people
• Exercises a high level of discretion when working with confidential information

experience required
• B.A. preferred or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of three (3) to five (5) years of experience in equivalent profession relating to human resource, counseling, and/or mentoring.
• Progressively responsible experience in a Christian non-profit or para-church organization preferred.
• Have attended seminars and/or workshops having to do with mission’s perspectives or cross-cultural experience preferred
• Demonstrated success working as a member of a team and developing effective relationships with key leaders and colleagues
• Minimum three years of experience living abroad preferred

JOB DETAILS:

Reporting to the Country Director, the Executive Assistant provides high-level administrative and secretarial support to the Country Director to ensure that the Director can efficiently accomplish key tasks and organization initiatives.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Act as the main point of contact between the Country Director and the rest of organization
• Manage the calendar of Country Director and ensure that all events and meetings are up-to-date and accurate
• Coordinate meetings with various stakeholders
• Participate in meetings with the Country Director and take detailed minutes
• Screen and direct phone calls and distribute correspondence to Country Director
• Make travel and accommodation arrangements for Country Director
• Prepare daily expenses and prepare weekly, monthly, and/or quarterly reports
• Any other tasks as requested by the Country Director

REQUIREMENTS
• Must be a committed Christian who is in full agreement with the Statement of Faith of The Amazima School
• Must have a bachelor’s degree
• Highly organized, motivated individual
• Desire to serve others and organization
• Outstanding time management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Ability to maintain a high level of integrity and discretion in handling confidential information
• Proactive and show initiative
• Ability to complete a high volume of tasks and projects with little or no guidance
• Ability to react with appropriate levels of urgency to situations and events that require quick response or turnaround
• Expert proficiency with Microsoft Office
• Ability to be flexible and switch gears at a moment’s notice

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It's hard to believe that today 844 million people do not have clean water and 2.3 billion do not have a decent toilet - around one in three of the world's population. Every two minutes, a child under five dies from diarrheal diseases caused by poor water and sanitation.
WaterAid is looking for a Project Coordinator to play a vital role in our vision to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere by 2030. We're looking for people who share a commitment to our vision.

Key Responsibilities Include:
• The Project Coordinator shall be responsible for efficiently and effectively manage and oversee the phases of the hand pump improvement project, working and engaging with different stakeholders, partners, consultants and the global support teams.
• The position holder will be responsible for delivering advocacy results through collaboration with the Agenda for Change members.
• He/she will lead planning, implementation of interventions aimed at improving WASH coordination, monitoring, governance and accountability systems as well as demonstrating sustainable WASH service delivery models in the selected districts and communities.
• He/She will support the Project Officer in coordinating operational project activities with district partners including sites selection, stakeholder identification at community level, technical assessments, installations documentation of lessons, progress monitoring and reporting.

To be Successful, you will need the following:
• Master's Degree in Civil and/ or Water resources Engineering, or any other relevant or applicable studies
• Experience and knowledge on WASH sector/ issues is desirable with proven ability in effective grant management Experience working in rural water supply especially borehole technologies
• Advanced Research Skills At least 5-8 years of demonstrated work experience in project planning and management with an NGO or government
• Use a high level of communication skills to communicate project implementation issues effectively with the ability to adapt styles to the needs of different audiences both tactfully and diplomatically
• Produce clear and concise reports, drawing out and communicating key findings from complex data Work accurately and efficiently to deadlines and targets managing a wide and varied workload
• Experience in conducting applied research is an added advantage Good public relation especially when dealing with external partners
• Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, influencing and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to build and maintain effective partnerships with WaterAid partners, government, donors, CSOs and with a wide range of other stakeholders
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
• Commitment to Water Aid's values and working style

JOB DETAILS:

Project Officer
It's hard to believe that today 844 million people do not have clean water and 2.3 billion do not have a decent toilet - around one in three of the world's population. Every two minutes, a child under five dies from diarrheal diseases caused by poor water and sanitation.
WaterAid is looking for a Project Officer to play a vital role in our vision to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere by 2030. We're looking for people who share a commitment to our vision.

Key Responsibilities Include:
• The Project Officer shall be responsible for the facilitation of project planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation in collaboration with local communities and government authorities at national and sub-national levels.
• The position holder shall ensure efficient and cost-effective operations of all the project deliverables (sector support-influencing, service delivery, capacity building, research, learning and documentation) and operations towards the fulfilment of strategic objectives of the organization and the local governments.
• He/she shall provide technical support during the implementation of the project.

To be Successful, you will need the following:
• B.Sc. degree in Hydraulic Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, or related fields
• Minimum of 4 years of proven and progressive work experience, preferably with NGOs implementing similar initiatives.
• Track record of successful work experience and results in the area of program or project study and design, study and implementation of WASH projects, preferably in NGOs
• Demonstrated technical ability, sound judgment, and ability to work effectively with others at all levels
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, e.g. government officials at different levels, partners, other NGOs and networks
• Firm belief in teamwork, equity and inclusion, sensitivity to HIV/AIDS, application of participatory approaches and sustainable development
• Commitment to values and working styles of Water Aid Uganda.
• Proficient in computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Power Point)
• Good written and spoken English language
• Ability to communicate information accurately

JOB DETAILS:
Senior Project Assistant G6

Core Functions / Responsibilities:
The candidate will perform the following duties.
• Assist in the planning, coordination, implementation, and monitoring of ECHO project activities.
• Compile, summarize, analyze, and present information/data on specific project topics, highlighting noteworthy issues for the consideration of appropriate parties.
• Support in monitoring budget implementation and propose adjustments as necessary.
• Act as focal point for administrative coordination of ECHO project implementation, involving extensive liaison with diverse organizational units and external parties to initiate requests, obtain necessary clearances, follow-up on administrative actions, etc.
• Draft ECHO status reports: identify shortfalls in delivery, bring them to the attention of the supervisor and suggest corrective measures.
• Draft correspondence on project issues; prepare and update reports, briefing notes, graphics, statistical tables, and other forms of documentation.
• Organize meetings, workshops, and training sessions; prepare training materials and participate in the delivering of capacity building workshops.
• Respond to complex information requests and inquiries; set up and maintain files/records.
• Participate in ECHO co-partners, IP meetings; maintain effective liaison and coordination with local authorities, partners, United Nation agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, relevant to the project in coordination with project manager.
• Monitor work of implementing partner and report any non-compliance to the supervisor.
• Provide inputs for the development of Standard Operations Procedures (SOP) and concept papers and provide general support for the development of new DRR projects.
• Provide guidance/training and assist in coordinating and monitoring work of other staff in the unit- may supervise other staff as assigned.
• Perform other related duties as may be assigned.

Required Qualifications and Experience
Education
• Bachelor’s degree in Political or Social Sciences, International Relations, Development Studies, Migration Studies, Human Rights, Law or related fields from an accredited academic institution with four years of relevant professional experience OR
• High School Diploma with six years of relevant experience.

Experience
• Experience in managing projects in the humanitarian sector.
• Experience in liaising with governmental authorities, national/international institutions, United Nations agencies and non- governmental organizations.
• Experience in working with migrants, refugees, internally displaced persons, victims of trafficking and other vulnerable groups; and,
• Prior work experience with international humanitarian organizations, non-government or government institutions/organization in a multi- cultural setting is an advantage.
• Data Management, Monitoring and Evaluation experience is an advantage.
• Ability to prepare clear and concise reports.
• Knowledge and experience working with IOM’s administrative procedures is a distinct advantage.
• Excellent, writing and communication skills.

Skills
• In depth knowledge of the broad range of migration related subject areas dealt with by the Organization; and,
• Knowledge of UN and bilateral donor programming.
• Knowledge of financial rules and regulations

Languages
• Fluent in English.
• Working knowledge of Arabic, French or Spanish an advantage