{USAID/USDA,Accra,Full-Time, GH,N/A, N/A,30 Jul-2014};

The five year USAID/USDA West Africa Analytical Support Services and Evaluations for Sustainable Systems (ASSESS) program is responsible for program evaluations in the Regional Economic Growth portfolio of the US Government’s foreign assistance programs to the region. This portfolio includes programs in agriculture, trade, environment, and the energy in 21 countries of West and Central Africa. The program currently has, but is not limited to, four components:

•   Program Evaluation (including both impact and performance evaluations)
•   Capacity Building of local institutions in M&E
•   Knowledge and Information Dissemination,
•   The African Center of Excellence (ACE), a regional training center. The ACE will serve as a focal point for the Mission’s convening power that brings together USAID colleagues and development partners to promote Agency priorities in foreign affairs. The facility will act as a center for knowledge management and exchange that advances USAID Forward reform initiatives through learning and collaboration.

Job Summary

Major Roles and Responsibilities:

•   This is a senior position which will coordinate and oversee implementation of ASSESS, capacity building and knowledge and information. Dissemination activities.
•   Assist the Chief of Party and ASSESS partner institutions in preparing, developing & implementing ASSESS annual work plans and budgets.
•   Assist in the timely submission of required quarterly progress reports as per agreed protocols and regular updates.
•   Assist the Chief of Party to prepare, plan and implement the USAID/West Africa Commissioned Activities (CA) and provide technical and logistic support to the fielded team members.

Qualification Required & Experience

•   Minimum Master’s degree in applied Economics, Business, Social Sciences, Program Management.
•   Minimum of five (5) years of relevant, progressively responsible work experience.
•   High proficiency in spoken and written English and French.
•   Understanding of Program Management within the context of development projects in West Africa.
•   Familiarity with USAID projects in the Agriculture, Environment, Trade and Energy sectors strongly preferred.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Qualified and interested candidates with the minimum qualifications may apply by sending a CV and cover letter with contact details to the attention of the Search Consultant, indicating the position applied for:

By email to: assess.search@gmail.com

By hand/courier to: c/o ShawbellConsulting Limited, No 9 Klottey Crescent, Labone Junction By Pass, Ring Road East, North Labone, Accra

By post to: P.O. Box KIA9022, Airport Accra, GHANA

Closing Date: 22 July, 2014

{USAID/USDA,Accra,Full-Time, GH,N/A, N/A,30 Jul-2014};

The five year USAID/USDA West Africa Analytical Support Services and Evaluations for Sustainable Systems (ASSESS) program is responsible for program evaluations in the Regional Economic Growth portfolio of the US Government’s foreign assistance programs to the region. This portfolio includes programs in agriculture, trade, environment, and the energy in 21 countries of West and Central Africa. The program currently has, but is not limited to, four components:

•   Program Evaluation (including both impact and performance evaluations)
•   Capacity Building of local institutions in M&E
•   Knowledge and Information Dissemination,
•   The African Center of Excellence (ACE), a regional training center. The ACE will serve as a focal point for the Mission’s convening power that brings together USAID colleagues and development partners to promote Agency priorities in foreign affairs. The facility will act as a center for knowledge management and exchange that advances USAID Forward reform initiatives through learning and collaboration.

Job Summary

Major Roles and Responsibilities:

•   Supervisory responsibilities
•   Overall responsibility for preparation, planning and carrying out training sessions and maintaining professional environment at the ACE and primary point of contact with USAID EXO’s Training Coordinator.
•   Responsible for developing the annual workplan and budget for ACE in Coordination with USAID’s EXO Training Coordinator.
•   Proper functioning of all electronic equipment, computer audio/visual, translation and other equipment arrangement required for classrooms instruction.
•   Assistance to training participants and instructors with computer audio/visual, translation and other equipment arrangements required for classroom instruction.

Qualification Required & Experience

•   Minimum Master’s degree in Business Management, Social Sciences or related field.
•   Minimum of seven years of relevant, progressively responsible work experience managing training programs in West Africa.
•   High proficiency in spoken and written English and French.
•   Demonstrated high level of capacity in writing technical and administrative documents in English and French.
•   West African Nationals are encouraged to apply

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Qualified and interested candidates with the minimum qualifications may apply by sending a CV and cover letter with contact details to the attention of the Search Consultant, indicating the position applied for

By email to: assess.search@gmail.com

By hand/courier to: c/o ShawbellConsulting Limited, No 9 Klottey Crescent, Labone Junction By Pass, Ring Road East, North Labone, Accra

By post to: P.O. Box KIA9022, Airport Accra, GHANA

Closing Date: 22 July, 2014

{Chemonics International,Accra,Full-Time, GH,N/A, N/A,30 Jul-2014};

In the Service of Development: Owned entirely by employees, Chemonics is an ISO-9001 certified international development company. For more than 37 years, we have partnered with local and international organizations to promote social and economic change around the world.

Job Summary

Chemonics International, a U.S.-based international development consulting firm, seeks technical experts for a five-year USAID-funded rule of law project in Liberia, the Legal Professional Development and Anti-Corruption Activity (“LPAC”). This project, which is anticipated to start this fall, will provide capacity building expertise to Liberia’s Judicial Institute, Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law, Liberian Legal Information Institute, and Liberia National Bar Association. It also will provide technical assistance and support to the Liberian Anti-Corruption Commission and associated Government of Liberia entities in their efforts to prosecute corruption and educate the public about fighting corruption.

We seek candidates for long-term and short-term positions who have expertise in the following technical areas:

•   Judicial training
•   Bar association/legal profession development
•   Legal education reform, including clinical legal education
•   Anticorruption investigation
•   Legal information management
•   Human and Institutional Capacity Development (HICD) methodologies
•   Training or curricula development
•   Organizational development
•   Development of civil society organizations
•   Monitoring and evaluation specialist

Qualification Required & Experience

•   Relevant university degree
•   Minimum 5 years of experience working on an international development project
•   Prior experience working on a donor-funded project, USAID experience preferred
•   Previous experience with Liberian justice sector, preferred
•   Willingness to travel to and/or relocate to Liberia, depending on type of position
•   Proficient computer skills
•   Excellent written, verbal, cross-cultural communication, and interpersonal skills

Location: Liberia

How To Apply For The Job

Interested candidates should send CV’s and cover letters to:-

chemonicsliberia@gmail.com

Closing Date: 30 June, 2014

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only finalists will be contacted. Please include in the subject line your name and the technical area you are applying for. Finalists will be contacted on a rolling-basis.

{OrphanAid Africa,Accra,Full-Time, GH,N/A, N/A,30 Jul-2014};

OrphanAid Africa is a non-profit, non-governmental organization. Its aim is to support orphans and vulnerable children in Ghana through programs in Care Reform, family support, education and development.

Its goal is to ensure that children grow up in safe and permanent family settings with appropriate care and protection.

Job Summary

The new Career & Entrepreneurship Manager will be sorely and exclusively responsible for the donor Career & Entrepreneurship Center topics and tasks

He/ she will be doing business and career consulting as well as entrepreneurship classes in personal dialogue with beneficiaries and in group sessions

Furthermore, the Career & Entrepreneurship Manager shall be generating business ideas   for beneficiaries and will be building a network of contacts of possible employers

He/ She also will be responsible for requesting funds from the Career and Entrepreneurship Center bank Account by a detailed budget for each beneficiary that requires approval from the donor

In addition to that, he shall report to the donor on a monthly basis, summarizing achievement and development

Furthermore, he/ she will generate a data base, keeping records of beneficiaries’ careers and development. These profiles will be representing the Career & Entrepreneurship and will be used for marketing purposes

Moreover he/ she shall stay in contact with all beneficiaries, also former ones, organizing meetings and get-togethers

Qualification Required & Experience

•   Communicative competence
•   Working autonomously
•   Should have/ be able to see what beneficiaries or young people in general are interested in/ aim for.
•   Good at approaching beneficiaries
•   Based in Accra
•   Should know different business opportunities in Accra
•   Good organizational skills
•   Open, able to approach NGOs / Professionals/ people who might help him
•   Good at convincing others
•   Good motivation skills
•   Patient
•   Self Confident
•   An HND/ Bachelors degree

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Interested qualified applicants should kindly send in their CV and Cover letter via email:

positionvacant14@gmail.com

Closing Date: 19 July, 2014

Remember, only short Listed Applicants will be contacted

{Abt Associates,Accra,Full-Time, GH,N/A, N/A,30 Jun-2014};

Abt Associates is a mission-driven, global leader in research and programme implementation in the fields of health, social and environmental policy and international development. The International Economic Growth Division manages projects that are pioneering new approaches to agriculture, food security, climate change, and competitiveness – as well as monitoring and evaluating projects within these sectors. The Trade Hub and African Partners Network is a USAID project that will help West African farmers and firms compete, attract investment to the region, and boost regional trade and global trade with the rest of the world. Based in Accra, Ghana – with satellite offices in Dakar, Senegal and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso – the trade hub works throughout the West Africa region.

Position Summary

The MEDA Specilist for the Trade Hub Network Project will work with the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist and other members of the THN project and will be responsible for following the project’s M&E plan and systems and preparing data for USAID portfolio review. He/She will also oversee special duties studies and be responsible for project and study reports and provide direct assistance to build clients capabilities in M&E and act as a trainer of other technical assistance providers as needed.

Duties And Responsibilities

Under the supervision to the Senior M&E Specialist, the MEDA is responsible for:

•   Following up the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) document for the project staff and local experts.
•   Conducting rapid surveys and other data collection to establish baseline information
•   Establishing regular data collection plan for indicators in the PMP.
•   Designing and implementing M&E systems that will generate timely information and feedback to project counterparts at all levels, and to the client.
•   Assisting the project technical leadership teams to design appropriate M&E process instruments for planning programme activities.
•   Continually monitoring the availability of data, (inputs and data sources), the flow of data and the uses of that data in the Project’s area of responsibility
•   Assisting in annaul work plan development
•   Any other duties as assigned

Qualification Required & Experience

•   A Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics or the Social Sciences
•   5 years minimum experience in monitoring, evaluation and analysis with field experience
•   Experience with USAID funded projects or other international NGO’s / Donor organisations
•   Experience with trade promotion programmes and activities preferred
•   Computer literate with excellent skills in  the Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel and Access and must be proficient in STATA.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Submit your application together with a CV, three references and a letter of motivation to:-

sadio_coulibaly@abtassoc.com

Closing Date: 30 June, 2014

{World Vision International,Accra,Full-Time, GH,N/A, N/A,30 Jun-2014};

World Vision International is a Christian Relief, Development and Advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. For over three decades, World Vision has been working with rural communities in all 10 Administrative Regions of Ghana to provide portable water, promote sanitation and hygiene practices, quality education and enhance food security.

Job Summary

To develop and integrate initiatives that nurture the spiritual formation of staff of World Vision Ghana, facilitate the development of partnerships with churches and para-church organizations for the faithful expression of holistic Christian witness which contribute to the flourishing of children, their families and communities so that they are equipped for sustained transformational development.

The Package

•   The position is based in Accra with some level of domestic/international travel.
•   The position comes with an attractive salary package.
•   S/He reports to Programmes Quality Director.

Key Responsibilities  

•   Facilitate the  strategic integration of Christian Commitment and Transformational Development
•   Coordinate efforts to build the capacity of staff and church leaders for effective “Witness to Jesus Christ through life, word, deed and signs”
•   Contribute to the sustenance of the ethos and culture in World Vision Ghana that is consistent with our Vision, Mission Statement, Core Values, Guiding Beliefs and Policies.
•   Organize spiritual retreats, conferences, devotions, prayer sessions and other events that will enhance staff spiritual growth.
•   Provide technical support and coordination to Programme Managers for the effective spiritual nurture of children and youth, through Child Clubs, Young Ambassadors, in alignment with Child Well-being.
•   Facilitate pastoral functions that provide psychosocial support to staff as needed.
•   Facilitate inter-faith engagements and programming, as appropriate, to contribute to child well-being

Qualification Required & Experience

•   At least first Degree in Theology, Christian Education or any relevant social sciences.
•   Post graduate qualification in related discipline preferred.
•   At least 5 years post-qualification experience in a similar position, 2 of which should be in a higher or supervisory role.

Critical Competencies

•   Must have the ability to develop and implement programmes that build staff spiritual formation and Christian Commitment capabilities.
•   Must demonstrate exemplary Christian character.
•   Good understanding of and respect for Christian diversity in the country.
•   Ability to effectively work with different denominations and people of other faiths.
•   Must have commitment to World Vision objectives, ministries and systems, its ethos, philosophy of work.
•   Proven ability to conceptualize, innovate an1d plan as well as transfer knowledge and skills.
•   Must be able to represent World Vision in national and international fora.
•   Must have good interpersonal and communication skills both orally and in writing
•   Must have proven analytical, problem solving skills and ability to work with minimum supervision
•   Have technical competencies to support the organization in Christian related surveys.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Interested applicants who meet the above criteria should send their application letters and CV quoting only the Job Position in the subject line to:-

ghana@wvi.org

Closing Date: 30 June, 2014

As a Child focused organization, World Vision is committed to the protection of children and does not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with children.

All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible.  WV is an equal opportunity employer.

•   We believe in diversity and promote opportunities for all individuals.
•   Qualified women are highly encouraged to apply.

{RTI International,Accra,Full-Time, GH,N/A, N/A,30 Jun-2014};

RTI (www.rti.org)is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to conducting innovative, multidisciplinary research that improves the human condition. With a worldwide staff of more than 4000 people, RTI offers innovative research and development and muilti disciplinary services

Job Summary

Mathematics Specialist will support the early grade mathematic efforts and strategies piloted for improving math insttuction

Qualification Required & Experience

•   Masters degree in education or related field
•   3 years’ experience in professional development and curriculum development related to early grade math
•   Experience using data to revise materials for early grade math instruction and recommending improved standards and content
•   Experience wording with Ministry of Education preferred

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Please send your CV and cover letter to:-

internationaledu@rti.org

•   Please indicate which position you are applying for in the subject line.
•   All positions require fluency in English

Closing Date: 30 June, 2014

{RTI International,Accra,Full-Time, GH,N/A, N/A,30 Jun-2014};

RTI (www.rti.org)is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to conducting innovative, multidisciplinary research that improves the human condition. With a worldwide staff of more than 4000 people, RTI offers innovative research and development and muilti disciplinary services

Job Summary

Senior Capacity Building Advisor will support national and local level capacity building efforts and strengthen the capacity of government education offices, local government, CBOs and NGOs towards the goal of improved learning outcomes.

Qualification Required & Experience

•   Advanced degree in education, organizational development or related field.
•   10 years’ experience in designing and implementing capacity building activities in developing countries in or related to improving educational outcomes.
•   Demonstrated knowledge or understanding of central and local policy and institutional context in Ghana, especially as it related to education management and/or service delivery
•   Extensive experience in assessing capacity needs and measuring progress in building institutional and human capacity over time

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Please send your CV and cover letter to:-

internationaledu@rti.org

•   Please indicate which position you are applying for in the subject line.
•   All positions require fluency in English

Closing Date: 30 June, 2014

{RTI International,Accra,Full-Time, GH,N/A, N/A,30 Jun-2014};

RTI (www.rti.org)is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to conducting innovative, multidisciplinary research that improves the human condition. With a worldwide staff of more than 4000 people, RTI offers innovative research and development and muilti disciplinary services

Job Summary

Deputy Chief Of Party will play an integral role in leading programmatic activities and providing technical direction and managerial supervision for all aspects of the education program. S/he will liaise with senior government officials, community groups, and other stakeholders in representing the program.

Qualification Required & Experience

•   Master s degree in education or related field.
•   10 years experience with increasing responsibilities in management of complex education programs in African countries, including leading large projects of similar size and complexity, guiding policy-level dialogue and/or action and managing a diverse range of expatriate and local staff.
•   5 years’ technical expertise in education reform teacher professional development and/or early grade reading
•   Strong ability and experience to effectively coordinate, collaborate and partner with government, donors, civil society and private business to leverage resources

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Please send your CV and cover letter to:-

internationaledu@rti.org

•   Please indicate which position you are applying for in the subject line.
•   All positions require fluency in English

Closing Date: 30 June, 2014