The Feminist Leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
The sixth Feminist Leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute is a week-long course, 23–31 October 2014, designed to strengthen feminist leadership, strategies and collective power for social transformation in Africa. The Institute will combine reflection on the current political landscape as well as past organising strategies for women’s rights in Africa by using a trans-movement-building approach. Looking at diverse movements in Africa and globally, participants will be able to relate some of the experiences and lessons from these movements to their own contexts, countries, and regions. This Institute will be held in collaboration with Women’s Empowerment Link.
DEADLINE: 31 August 2014
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Programme Coordinator, Think Impact, South Africa or Rwanda
Program Coordinators are full time yearlong positions based in Africa or Latin America. Each Program Coordinator reports to the Country Coordinator, the dedicated local staff member based in the country where they work, while also working closely with each other and the Global Operations Director. Program Coordinators are passionate about working in a multicultural team to setup and manage programs for students, young professionals, and rural community members. Their role is comprised of four main components: 1) operations, 2) curriculum, 3) partnerships, and 4) community relations and M&E.
Responsibilities: – Assist in set up and management of all ThinkImpact programs; – Facilitate Institute programs, living fulltime in the rural communities where ThinkImpact works during programs; – Grow ThinkImpact’s presence and network; – Travel to ThinkImpact’s site locations as needed; – Take pictures and videos, and write blogs to capture the Program Coordinator experience; – Document ThinkImpact’s operations and write country specific operations handbooks to retain internal memory; – Train the next group of Program Coordinators.
Qualifications: – Bachelor’s Degree Required, Masters Preferred (3.3 or better GPA); – 5+ years living in the United States; – 10+ months living/working in non-OECD country; – 2 years work experience required; – Highly organized and detail oriented; – Excellent written and oral communication skills; – Project management skills; – Experience leading student teams; – High level of comfort living, working, and traveling in Africa/Latin America preferred; – Fluent in English; – Requires close working relationship with American travellers and an understanding of American culture is essential.
DEADLINE: 1 September 2014
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Deputy Director General, Nigeria TV Project, Equal Access Nigeria
Equal Access (EA) is an international not for profit organization (501c3), headquartered in San Francisco and working throughout Asia, Africa and the Middle East. A communications for social change organization that combines the power of media with community mobilization, Equal Access creates customized communications strategies and outreach solutions that foster peace building and social cohesion, women & girls’ empowerment, youth life skills & livelihoods, human rights, health, as well as civic participation and good governance in the developing world. EA has launched a satellite TV project focused on Hausa speakers in northern Nigeria and seeks a Deputy Director General to help manage the growth of its Nigeria program.
The Deputy Director General will be responsible for supporting the Director General to oversee and manage television production, company and community outreach and the development of select partnerships for EA-Nigeria and the AREWA24 channel. S/he will ensure that AREWA24 is delivering quality content to audiences across Northern Nigeria and the Hausa-speaking sub-region. S/he will liaise with potential business partners and sponsors to drive EA’s commercialization strategy for AREWA24.
DEADLINE: 15 September 2014
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Field Volunteer, Peace Brigades International, Nairobi, Kenya
Peace Brigades International (PBI) is an international non-governmental organization that has promoted non-violence and protected human rights defenders since 1981. In response to the needs of human rights defenders, we provide unarmed protective accompaniment and other support on the ground through trained field volunteers and a broad network of international support. Protective accompaniment deters attacks against human rights defenders by sending a powerful message that the world is watching and prepared to act. Integral to PBI’s protection strategy are political support networks set up and activated by 16 country groups in North America and South America, Europe, and Australia, who are also responsible for volunteer recruitment, outreach, publicity and fundraising. PBI is an independent, egalitarian, volunteer-based organization not affiliated to any religious or political institution. PBI has established a new project in Kenya in 2013 to provide protection and support to human rights defenders (HRDs) on request.
PBI’s field volunteers provide protective accompaniment to human rights defenders on the ground. This is carried out through physical presence, dialogue with authorities, advocacy with the international community in country and information distribution.
DEADLINE: 12 September 2014
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Does your organization work to advance the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) in Africa? Can its results be an example of what the Post 2015 MDGs should achieve at scale? If answers to both questions are yes, then the ONE Award is looking for you.
ONE Africa is pleased to invite applications for the ONE Africa Award 2014. The award celebrates concrete African efforts to drive towards the achievement of the MDGs the world’s blueprint for a better future, ranging from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education.
The ONE Africa Award 2014 will recognize Africa-driven; Africa led advocacy efforts that have demonstrated success at community, national or regional level. The ONE Africa Award aims to recognize, reward, and advance the exceptional work of organizations, founded by Africans and based in Africa, dedicated to helping Africa achieve the MDGs. The $100,000 award will bring recognition to innovative African efforts to fight poverty and will incentivize more of such efforts.
DEADLINE: 12 September 2014
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Technical Specialist, Social Cohesion and Reconciliation, UNDP, Central African Republic
In response to the developments in CAR and to the need to ensure a robust UNDP response to the crisis, the UNDP Executive Team discussed the Central African Republic and agreed to endorse a plan to provide additional financial and technical support to the Country Office at this critical time, in order to: reposition the country programme to focus on: (1) community protection, Early Recovery and resilience; (2) community based re-integration/re-insertion of eligible ex-rebels in areas of origin in CAR; and (3) strengthening of the strategic planning and partnership development capacities of key transitional institutions; provide targeted financial support to the Country Office to ensure financial sustainability; agree on a SURGE deployment of several positions in programme and operations to support the CO team to deliver on immediate needs; and endorse the relocation of the Country Office.
As part of the response, UNDP has designed a national reconciliation support project that is premised on the need to start intervening from the ground-up, instead of at central levels as has been done in the past. This critical community based response that encourages dialogue and brings together opposing sides and experiences is the only way to begin healing the wounds of the violence of the past months. Of critical importance will also be the need to ensure that national players and institutions are also equipped to manage and deliver the kind of social cohesion support that will continue to be required in the medium and long term. This means not only providing the financial means but also the technical know-how to facilitate this work being done by national stakeholders. The main objective of the project is to promote intercommunity mediation to reduce violence, ease tensions and start a dialogue between communities in order to set the country on the path of national reconciliation and lasting peace.
DEADLINE: 31 August 2014
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Global Technical Consultation on Social Services, UN Women
At policy levels, few countries in the world have national strategies that include explicit prioritization of improved and expanded access to quality multisectoral services for all women and girls victims/survivors of violence. The Joint Global Programme on Essential Services for Women and Girls subject to Violence (‘the Joint Programme’) co-managed by UN Women and UNFPA in partnership with UNDP, UNODC and WHO is aimed at responding to these critical gaps and challenges, with a particular focus on developing countries. It aims to achieve greater access for all women and girls who have experienced gender-based violence to a set of essential quality and coordinated multisectoral services.
The consultant will prepare background materials including a technical background paper for a global technical consultation to identify the essential social services, their core elements as well as the development and/or adaptation of standards and guidelines for the provision of social services to violence against women. The consultant will be expected to lead and facilitate the process for the consultation together with nominated representatives from UN Women, UNFPA, and other relevant UN entities.
DEADLINE: 10 September 2014