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Research Associate position with Amend, in East Africa. Position begins January 2014
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One Acre Fund Information Session November 14th 5-5:50 in R108
Farmers are the solution to poverty and hunger. They make up the majority of the population in the world’s developing countries. And they are some of the hardest-working people on the planet.
One Acre Fund is a growing NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania that invests in farmers to generate a permanent gain in farm income. We currently provide 135,000 farmers with a “market bundle” that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market access.
One Acre Fund puts Farmers First in everything that we do. By listening to our farmer clients, we created a simple new way to help double farm income on every planted acre. We are now more than 1,500 staff strong, and growing fast.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about One Acre Fund’s mission, work culture, and career opportunities.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 5:00-5:50 pm
LOCATION: Medical School Building, Room R108
RVSP: SPH CareerLink (Under Events/Info Sessions)
Co-sponsored by the Career Services Office and the International Health Department.
Grand Gedeh Partnerships Officer at Last Mile Health/Tiyatien Health
Grand Gedeh Partnerships Officer
Commitment: Six month term starting immediately, with the possibility of renewal and an initial three-month probation
Location: Zwedru, Grand Gedeh, Liberia, and Monrovia, Liberia
Compensation: Living Stipend, with access to TH guest housing and reimbursement of travel expenses to and from Liberia deployment (including visa, vaccinations, and evacuation insurance)
Apply: Applications accepted on a rolling basis, open until filled
About Tiyatien Health:
Africa faces a shortage of 1.5 million health workers. The continent suffers 33% of the world’s maternal and child disease yet has only 3% of the global health workforce. Nowhere is the crisis worse than in rural areas of Liberia, which was left with just 51 doctors after its 14-year civil war. Today, people in remote villages of southeastern Liberia have to walk up to 17 hours to reach a clinic.
Founded by survivors of Liberia’s civil war, Tiyatien Health (known in the US as Last Mile Health) is a Liberian NGO that is redefining how post-conflict nations rebuild rural public health services. Filling the massive health worker shortage in rural post-conflict areas, we recruit and train villagers to serve as frontline health workers, delivering comprehensive home-based medical and social services in villages previously thought unreachable.
We are growing quickly. Our initial cadre of frontline health workers delivers more than 2,000 home patients a month and has made HIV, epilepsy, and depression treatment available for a rural population of 23,000 people. This year, TH will be expanding our services to a population of 34,000 people in Liberia's remote Konobo District.
Tiyatien Health closely partners with the Liberian Ministry of Health, Partners In Health, Clinton Global Initiative, and Harvard Medical School, amongst others. Our frontline health worker model has been recognized by Echoing Green, PopTech, and the Mulago Foundation.
Overview – Grand Gedeh Partnerships Officer
The Grand Gedeh Partnerships Officer is a critical component of both TH’s effort to solicit new support from donors internationally and our commitment to integrating our model with local government and NGO partners. This position will be the point person at both our Zwedru and Monrovia sites for maintaining TH’s relationship with Liberia-based and international donors. This will include collecting and communicating information about our work, communicating grant commitments to the Liberia team and ensuring proper execution of our promises, and identifying potential new opportunities for support.
In addition to the communications and development role, the Grand Gedeh Partnerships Officer will serve as the steward of TH’s relationships with local government and NGO partners, including the Grand Gedeh County Health Team, Zwedru’s Martha Tubman Memorial Hospital, and Grand Gedeh County Administration. The position will report to Tiyatien Health’s Director of National Partnerships.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the US-based Director of Development and Monrovia-based Director of National Partnerships to collect necessary information and draft content for donor reports, grant proposals, and other fundraising collateral.
- Working with the Zwedru and Konobo program teams, build communication pathways and systems to ensure that the right information about TH’s work in Grand Gedeh County gets to the right people in a timely and consistent fashion (including donors, board members, senior TH executives, and other stakeholders).
- With guidance from the cross-site development team and in partnership with senior leadership in Liberia, coordinate TH’s fulfillment of all commitments made in grant proposals by tracking progress, communicating gaps, and supporting program staff in creating work plans to execute on our commitments.
- Under the supervision of the Program Director, serve as TH’s representative to local government entities, including the Grand Gedeh County Health Team, Grand Gedeh County Development Team, and various UN and other security agencies.
- Support the rest of the TH team in drafting, editing, and finalizing all grant reports for in-country donors.
- Take the lead in building new partnerships with NGOs and other humanitarian entities operating in Zwedru, exploring ways to align and amplify our work in concert with other organizations.
- Adhere to Tiyatien Health’s financial, behavior and ethics policies.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant research- or writing-intensive field required;
- Experience in development, partnerships, or communications strongly preferred
- Excellent writing and communication skills required
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Demonstrated experience in roles requiring communication, diplomacy, and teamwork
- Flexibility and ability to handle multiple tasks at one time
- Demonstrated commitment to health equity and social justice
- Experience living and working in a resource-poor or post-conflict setting preferred
- Ability to work independently in alignment with a broader team
- Comfort in an informal, start-up organization a plus
Application process:
Please submit all of the following materials with your application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
- Cover letter, including an expression of interest: In your own words, explain why you want to work with Tiyatien Health. What is it about the position that interests you? Why are you the right person for the role? Minimum of 150 words.
- Curriculum Vitae, including three professional references (should be current or former employers or, if necessary, former professors)
Please submit all materials via Tiyatien Health’s online submission platform at: http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/tiyatienhealth
Several job openings with One Acre Fund
One Acre Fund is a rapidly-growing NGO that helps smallholder farmers grow their own way out of poverty. We currently serve 135,000 farmers in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania, with plans to reach more than 1.5 million by 2020. We have more than 40 job openings for positions based in a variety of locations.
We are especially looking for candidates to fill our finance roles. Operations and Finance Associates will manage the growth of finance teams in Burundi and Tanzania. Finance Analysts will support the finance team through analysis and reporting in order to help us shape our strategy and achieve financial sustainability. Members of the Finance Leadership Training Program will participate in a one-year leadership training program, followed by an 18-month leadership position at One Acre Fund.
For complete job descriptions and to apply, please visit http://www.oneacrefund.org/careers/job-openings.
About One Acre Fund
One Acre Fund serves subsistence farmers, who make up 75 percent of the world’s poor. It provides farmers with a “market bundle” of services – including farm inputs, finance, education, and market facilitation – and is repaid for those services. One Acre Fund currently serves 135,000 farm families in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania, with more than 540,000 beneficiaries living in those families. Founded only seven years ago, One Acre Fund has been recognized by prestigious early-stage grant-makers such as the Echoing Green, Draper Richards, and Skoll Foundations. In 2010 and 2011, One Acre Fund received the FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Award for Achievement in Basic Needs Financing. Website: www.oneacrefund.org.
Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Communications Associate based in DC
http://theglobalfight.org/communications-associate/
COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE
LOCATION: Washington, D.C.
REPORTS TO: Director of Communications
Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an advocacy organization that works to increase public awareness and understanding of the Global Fund as well as knowledge about HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The Communications Associate position is an integral part of the team. Working with the Director of Communications, and the Associate Director of Communications, this individual will support outreach to audiences including Members of Congress, the media and partner organizations both in the U.S. and globally.
Communications Objectives
The communications team works to further Friends of the Global Fight’s policy objectives via:
- Relationships with key journalists
- Relevant, timely and accurate collateral materials and thought leadership pieces
- Executive visibility (speaking engagements, events, authored pieces)
- Effective use of digital media
- Close collaboration with the Global Fund
- Engagement with advocacy partners
Duties
- Conduct extensive research to drive content development.
- Manage social media efforts.
- Oversee daily monitoring of Twitter, Facebook and other relevant social media platforms.
- Develop and post content for social networking sites.
- Manage implementation of media relations program.
- Writing & editing media materials (press releases, pitches, talking points, backgrounders and interview briefings)
- Conduct proactive media outreach
- Responding to media inquiries
- Developing and maintaining relationships with target journalists
- Support Deputy Communications Director in maintaining Web site.
- Support Friends’ presence at key events and conferences.
- Develop and manage the graphic collateral capabilities within the department and overall organization.
- Support the Deputy Director with quarterly newsletters and monthly Board updates.
- Draft press releases, op-eds, blogs and letters to the editor, as needed.
- Manage distribution of materials to appropriate audiences.
- Manage intern program.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communications skills
- Strong research skills; ability to use open source and scholarly research as well as social media sources
- Strong project management capabilities
- Ability to make complex policy ideas accessible to various audiences
- Knowledge of software programs including Adobe Creative Suite (particularly Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign), Constant Contact and content management systems
- Capacity to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to take initiative and be flexible
- Knowledge of public policy and legislative matters, international health care issues or international development a plus
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 1-3 years of professional work experience
How to Apply
Please send a cover letter, resume and writing sample to: Jobs@TheGlobalFight.org.
Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive, we are only able to respond to those applicants whose qualifications closely matches the job description. No phone calls please.
Equal opportunity employer.
Global Health Corps Program Associate Job
Program Associate Job Description
Global Health Corps
The extreme disparity in health outcomes and access to healthcare that exists today between the world’s rich and the world’s poor is unjust and unsustainable. To change this unacceptable status quo will require a new generation of leaders with diverse skills and backgrounds. Emerging leaders need opportunities to build their skills and build meaningful connections with other young leaders who share a vision for transformative change.
Global Health Corps is mobilizing a global community of emerging leaders to build the movement for health equity. We do this by:
• Increasing the impact of great organizations today: Fellows work with high-impact organizations in year-long paid positions. During their fellowship year, fellows make a significant and measurable contribution to the partner organization and the target population.
• Training and supporting the leaders of tomorrow: Over the course of the fellowship year, fellows participate in a wide range of activities aimed at increasing their effectiveness as practitioners and their development as leaders.
• Building a global community of change-makers: Fellows build a set of shared values, commitment and skills that they carry well beyond the fellowship year. The GHC community and alumni program serve as a source of opportunity and strength throughout fellows’ lives and careers.
Fellows work in teams of 2—one international fellow, one in-country fellow—in a wide range of areas to support our partners in improving healthcare access and health outcomes for the poor. Fellows have built financial management systems for grassroots HIV organizations in Uganda, counseled homeless teenagers in New Jersey, supported district pharmacies in Rwanda in rolling out new supply chain management tools, and conducted policy research in Washington DC.
The Candidate
The Global Health Corps is seeking a well-organized, hard-working Program Associate to join our small, entrepreneurial team in November 2013. The ideal candidate will thrive in an informal, fast-paced, start-up environment and will be excited to support, strengthen and build out fellow and alumni programming at GHC. The ideal candidate will:
-Be an innovator – able to design systems and think outside the box
-Enjoy solving problems
-Be a self-starter
-Enjoy working collaboratively in a team
-Demonstrate excellent attention to detail
The Work
The Program Associate will report to the Vice President of Programs and fill a pivotal role in a small, dynamic team that is spread across six countries. Because the team is small and innovative thinking is valued, there will be many opportunities to grow and experiment. The role includes supporting the range of program activities, such as the Placement Organization selection process, GHC’s Advising Program, Alumni events and the various US and Africa-based workshops and retreats, including the two-week training for incoming fellows at Yale University. This role will provide many opportunities to connect and liaise with leading health organizations in Africa and the US and support a wide network of emerging leaders from around the world. This is the perfect role for someone who wants to understand how a small nonprofit operates and is excited to dive in and gain experience managing a range of functions. Specific responsibilities include:
-Assist with preparations for fellow workshops and retreats throughout the year, including Training Institute at Yale University
-Track partnership application process for renewing and new placement organizations
-Support GHC’s Advising Program and identify strategies to cultivate advisor and fellow relationships
-Research leadership development approaches and learnings that can inform GHC’s programming
-Assist with alumni planning and coordination of events and activities
-Support and liaise with Program Managers in all GHC countries, including Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and the US
-Update and maintain all program-related materials
-Support a range of other program activities as needed throughout the year
Skills/Experience
-Great organizational skills and top-notch attention to details
-Experience working in cross-cultural communities
-Ability to communicate and interact professionally with a variety of stakeholders, both in person and written
-Skilled in using Excel and ability to design presentations in Powerpoint
-Tech savviness and interest in new technologies; ability to use Google tools and other online platforms to streamline work
-Passion for global health, social justice and service programs
-Previous experience in nonprofit settings a plus
How to Apply
To apply, please submit resume and cover letter to apply@ghcorps.org. Please indicate Program Associate in the email subject. Feel free to submit any other writing or work sample that will help us get to know you better.
HSN Analyst position in Boston
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Partnership officer for Tiyatien Health in Liberia
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