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69 Coaches Needed at AVSI - NGO Jobs
Location: Jobs in Uganda 2024 - 2025
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
UGX
No. of vacancies: 69
Deadline: 30 August 2024
Hiring Organization: AVSI
Job Details:
Designation: Coaches (69 positions)
Duty Station: Palabek Refugee Settlement
Organizational Description:
AVSI is an international NGO with headquarters in Italy, which has been active in Uganda since 1984. Its current activities are focused on education, health, livelihoods, protection, nutrition, and refugee programs in Uganda.
Programme Background:
AVSI is implementing the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Early Recovery, Risk Reduction, and Resilience (ER4) funded Graduating to Resilience Scale Activity in Lamwo District in Northern Uganda, targeting refugees and surrounding host communities in Palabek Refugee Settlements.
Job Purpose:
AVSI is seeking to recruit suitably qualified personnel for the position of Coach, to contribute to the implementation of the Graduating to Resilience Scale Activity interventions targeting refugees and host populations in and around Palabek Refugee Settlements. Reporting to the Program Officer, the successful candidates will be based in Palabek Refugee Settlements in Lamwo District, with movements within the project’s implementation area.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Create awareness about the project and mobilize community members to participate.
- Participate in identification of participants using standard assessment guidelines and tools.
- Support participants in the development of social contracts, graduation maps, and track the implementation of the plans.
- Conduct coaching for participant households based on the prevailing needs of the participants, utilizing the project’s standard coaching curriculum.
- Support Early Childhood Development (ECD) for children, parenting, and psychosocial activities as part of the coaching modules.
- Participate in household level visits and activity follow-ups as guided by the group coaching model.
- Participate in mapping of service points within Palabek refugee settlement and the neighboring sub-counties.
- Conduct referral of participants for critical services within and outside the settlement.
- Participate in routine (monthly, quarterly, and annual) data collection activities for the Activity.
- In collaboration with other service providers, plan and conduct community-level outreaches on critical issues, like gender, mental health, HIV/AIDS, WASH, nutrition education, and ECD dialogues.
- Monitor the utilization of consumption support and asset transfer by participant households.
- Attend various training of trainers’ workshops on different themes and also participate in case management meetings organized by AVSI.
- Report on household progress and new challenges facing participants.
- Monitor the utilization of Activity inputs and structures in the communities.
- Respond to the immediate queries raised by the communities as feasible.
- Perform other duties as requested by the supervisor.
Requirements:
- A minimum of a Diploma in Social Sciences, Community Development, Social Work, Agriculture, Education and Social Administration, or Law.
- Experience in community work, preferably within an NGO or government, is highly desired.
- Demonstrable ability to coach, mentor, and build the capacity of participant households and groups in identification and addressing of their needs.
- Experience working with refugees and host communities is desirable.
- Flexibility to work both in a team and independently.
- MUST be a current resident of Palabek refugee settlement or neighboring villages.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to write reports.
- Cultural sensitivity, patience, and flexibility.
Required Language:
English fluency with excellent oral and writing skills is required. Knowledge of Acholi, Arabic, and other languages spoken by refugees and host communities in Palabek is a MUST.
Application procedure
Handwritten and/or typed application letters, accompanied with an updated Curriculum Vitae indicating 3 work-related referees, a letter from your village of residence’s LC I Chairperson/ RWC I, plus copies of relevant certificates, should be addressed to:
The AVSI Country Representative,
AVSI Foundation,
P.O. Box 6785, Kampala, Uganda
Deadline: Wednesday, 30th August 2024 (5.00 pm)
Applications can also be submitted to the field offices of Palabek, Kitgum, or the AVSI Foundation Gulu Office.
Note: Ensure that your application is received and duly registered in the AVSI application registration book by a fully identified AVSI staff. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
AVSI Foundation is an equal opportunities employer and has a functional Child Protection Policy by which all AVSI staff and Associates must abide.
Date Posted: 2024-08-28
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