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Organisational Development Advisor-CEASOP    Volunteer Job

Position Title:Organisational Development Advisor

Duty Station: Lira, Uganda

Organization:CEASOP (Uganda)

Employment Type:Full Time Permanent

Application Deadline:23 Mar 2015

Organizational Profile:

VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.

Role overview:

In December 2012 VSO entered into an agreement with the European Commission to deliver a 4 year project entitled ‘Consolidating non-formal skills and vocational training for job creation and poverty alleviation in Northern Uganda’. This project aims to contribute to the Peace, Recovery and Development Plan for Northern Uganda by supporting economic recovery of 2,800 vulnerable youth (1,400 females, 1,400 males) aged between 14-35 years. The project will be implemented in four districts: Kole and Oyam districts in Lango sub region and Kitgum and Lamwo districts in the Acholi Sub region.

The project is implemented in partnership with Collaborative Efforts to Alleviate Social Problems (CEASOP) and Agoro International Vocational Training Institute (AIVI). VSO’s role in this partnership is to coordinate delivery of this project and lead on activities to strengthen the management systems and organizational capacity of these partners to implement project activities.

The main purpose of the placement is to:

• Objective 1: Support the development of organisational capacity of CEASOP, a vocational training institution, to effectively deliver services that meet the needs of youth to access employment;

• Objective 2: Support the development of programme/delivery capacity of CEASOP to deliver relevant non-formal skills and vocational training to 1,400 youth to help them to access employment;

• Objective 3: Work with CEASOP to develop employment, business and further training opportunities for trained youth with various public and private actors

Skills, qualifications and experience required

• Organisational development experience

• People management / capacity building / training experience

• Communication skills – networking, IT, reporting, actively participating in workshops

• Project planning

• Experience of working with teams of varied capacity

• Must be a self-starter

• Motorbike experience or willingness to learn

Desirable

• Enterprise development skills, particularly in a developing country context

• Data analysis and reporting skills

Professional qualifications and experience:

Essential

• Degree in relevant field

• 5+ years of relevant experience

Mode of application:

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23 Mar 2015