{Hospitaller Order of St. John of God,Accra,Full-Time,GH,Degree,5 years,15 Mar-2019};

Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons for appointment as Project Coordinator at the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God, Amrahia.

Job Purpose

• To assist in the in the preparation and implementation of policies and projects

Qualification Required & Experience

• Must possess at least a good first degree
• Must have a certificate in Project Management
• Possession of postgraduate degree in business would be added advantage
• 5 years of working experience in Project Management of which at least 3 years should have been at a senior management level
• Must be above reproach
• Must exhibit high leadership qualities and organizational skills
• Must have the capacity to motivate and direct staff
• Demonstrate evidence of high qualities of sound judgement, initiative and professionalism

Remuneration: Salaries and fringe benefits attached to the position are attractive

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Applications should be submitted to:

The Provincial Secretary,
St. Augustine Secretary,
Hospitaller Order of St. John of God
Post Office Box CT 3496,
Accra

Or email to:

augustineprovince2013@gmail.com

Closing Date: 15 March, 2019

{WAPCAS,Accra,Full-Time,GH,Degree,5 years,14 Mar-2019};

To ensure effective implementation of the of the grant, WAPCAS requests applications from qualified and resourceful individuals to be engaged as a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Manager.

The M&E Manager in collaboration with the technical team will ensure that all project activities are implemented according to the specifications in the scope of work and in relation to the agreed indicators. The M&E Manager will also play a key role in the overall management and coordination of the project.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the development of M&E plans and data collection tools for effective monitoring and evaluation of all project activities and timely reporting
• Collate, review and analyse data from implementation sites for improved programming
• Support the capacity building process of SRs and WAPCAS direct officers in data management and reporting.
• Plan and undertake on-site Data verification (OSDV) with the M&E team
• Support the periodic review of implementation strategies for effective programming
• Support the completion and submission of progress update and disbursement request (PUDR) template to the Country Team of the Global Fund
• Represent WAPCAS at M&E and other related meetings
• Plan and undertake periodic data audit as and when necessary
• In collaboration with management identify any M&E related technical assistance needs for project staff and SRs
• Be part of any workshop and conferences as may be necessary
• Be part of the organisation and facilitation of training workshops for field teams and other support teams

Qualification Required & Experience

• Master’s Degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Project Management, Information Management, Statistics or related field. Candidates with statistics background will stand a better chance
• 5 to 10 years of experience in M&E in a comparable organisation
• Good level of proficiency in Windows Excel and quantitative analysis
• Experience in program design and M&E plan development
• Experience in working with a non-governmental organisation (desirable)
• Experience in operational research will be an added advantage

Other Skills

• Demonstrated ability to train and build capacity of others
• Strong interpersonal and analytical skills and managerial capacity

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

All applications should be submitted to:

The Executive Director
Ghana-West Africa Programme to
Combat AIDS and STI (WAPCAS)
Post Office Box AT 1010
Achimota – Accra

Closing Date: 14 March, 2019

{International Justice Mission (IJM),Accra,Full-Time,GH,Degree,N/A,24 Mar-2019};

The Need

International Justice Mission (IJM) is a fast growing international organization working to protect some of the most vulnerable and oppressed people from violent forces of injustice by securing rescue and restoration for victims and ensuring public justice systems work for the poor. IJM is seeking a talented Caseworker to join the Aftercare team to facilitate psycho-social services to child survivors of forced labor trafficking and their primary caregivers.

The position is based in Accra with frequent travels to other parts of the country, including the Volta Region; and reports to the Director of Casework.

Responsibilities

• Provide immediate crisis care, advocacy and assessments for children coming out of forced labor trafficking situations and ensure all victims receive legally mandated government protections.
• Assist IJM multidisciplinary teams and law enforcement officers in conducting child-sensitive interviews with victims and witnesses regarding forced labor trafficking that can be utilized in ongoing investigations, legal proceedings, and aftercare assessments.
• Support victims and witnesses throughout judicial proceedings in partnership with multidisciplinary teams of advocates and care providers.
• Complete comprehensive needs assessments, including family and community assessments, toward the safe reunification of a survivor to his or her family and home community.
• Work with Casework Managers and partner providers to implement treatment plans for the sustained restoration of the child survivor, based on assessed needs of the child and his or her primary caregivers and in accordance with IJM Minimum Standards of Care.
• Facilitate reunification service referrals through a network of partner providers.
• Assist Casework Managers to implement strategies for the provision of direct assistance to survivors and their families in cases where aftercare stakeholders are unable or unwilling to address critical needs.
• Thoroughly document and monitor service provision and progress of participants within IJM’s internal electronic database (CTMS).
• Undertake other duties and responsibilities as required to ensure the sustained restoration of child survivors, in line with IJM’s Minimum Standards of Care.

Qualification Required & Experience

• Graduate with Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology or relevant field.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, especially with children and their caregivers, the indigent and
• otherwise vulnerable individuals.
• Experience in building collaborative partnerships with other social service providers.
• Computer literate with proficiency in MS Word, Outlook and Excel.
• Excellent listening and analytical skills.
• Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English.
• Fluency in any two of the following languages: Ewe, Dangbe and Twi.

Critical Qualities

• Strong result-orientation.
• Passionate commitment to IJM’s mission and values.
• Mature Christian faith.
• Strongly committed to child protection principles against unlawful child labor.
• Attention to detail organized and disciplined with priorities.
• Professional in demeanor, appearance, writing and oral communication.
• Works well under stress with a sustained positive attitude.
• Exceptionally high level of honesty and integrity.
• Intelligent, creative and proactive problem solver.
• Strong value of teamwork and collaboration, particularly within a multidisciplinary
• framework.

The Mission

The mission of International Justice Mission is to protect people from violent forces of injustice by securing rescue and restoration for victims and ensuring public justice systems work for the poor.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Send Cover Letter, Resume, & Statement of Faith* By E-mail :

ghanarecruiting@ijm.org

Closing Date: 24 March, 2019

*What is a statement of faith?

A statement of faith should describe your Christian faith and how you see it as relevant to your involvement with IJM. The statement can either be incorporated into the cover letter or submitted as a separate document and should include, at a minimum, a description of your spiritual disciplines (prayer, study, etc.) and your current fellowship or place of worship.

{GIZ,Accra,Full-Time,GH,Degree,3 years,14 Feb-2019};

Responsibilities

• Support the GIZ Governance Programme’s initiative to provide professional advice and input to the development and implementation of measures which strengthen domestic revenue mobilisation in Ghana
• Manage a work package engaging civil society organisations and professional organisations for taxpayer education eactivities and grassroots community engagement nationwide
• Engage and coordinate with governmental institutions to leverage and build on present activities
• Coordinate and contribute to content development for various target groups and dissemination activities
• Contribute to reporting and knowledge management activities
• Other tasks as required

Qualification Required & Experience

Required qualifications, competences and experience

• Master’s degree in a relevant field, e.g. education, communications, project management
• At least 3 years of professional experience in a comparable position
• Strong networker and communicator. Good knowledge of civil society, traditional authorities, public education system and/or creative arts industry in Ghana
• Interest in public finance topics, in particular revenue collection, budgeting and accountability
• Motivated team player with an organised, independent, proactive, and goal-oriented work approach
• Relevant practical experience in project management, stakeholder engagement and coordination
• Very good working knowledge of MS Office
• Willingness to broaden and deepen skills with regard to the GIZ capacity building approach

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Interested and suitable applicants are to forward their applications with a detailed curriculum vitae and a one page letter addressing the applicant’s motivation by email to:

hr-ghana@giz.de

Closing Date: 14 February, 2019

Kindly note that only shortlisted applicants would be contacted.

{UNDP,Accra,Full-Time,GH,Degree,2 years,28 Feb-2019};

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Horizon scanning and market intelligence for the Ghana Accelerator Lab

• Identify, visualize and communicate emerging development trends, data, technologies and issues with a particular focus on the edges and “below the radar screen” events, opportunities and players, and systemically map their impacts on economy, environment, society, and livelihoods of the poorest.
• Together with the Accelerator lab team, map and assess local solutions and define pathways for their scale up in policies or markets
• Identify new sources of evidence and insights, analyze and visualize patterns in unstructured sources of data, present new insights in accessible and comprehensive ways to enable sensemaking and analysis
• Proactively explore and identify the new methods/approaches and frontier knowledge to tackle development challenges, collaborate with the Experimentation lead to turn these into learning options for addressing specific policy issues in the country
• Contribute to the formulation of the Accelerator Lab service lines to the UNDP Country Programme based on findings from horizon scanning, systems’ mapping, and local knowledge

2. Partnership and resource mobilization

• Map potential partners across the public and private sectors with versatile expertise to strengthen the Lab’s capacities for acceleration thereby expanding the Lab’s distributed network both nationally and internationally
• Explore the diversification of funding and investment sources through proactively mapping potential partners and building value proposition for their investment in the Lab and its portfolio of experiments
• Anticipate the emerging needs, shape the demand from the clients and support the CO to develop a pipeline of emerging projects responding to those
• Coordinate the partnerships and communicate the activities and progresses of relevant projects with partners.

3. Organizational learning and interface with the core business of UNDP

• Support identification of future skills required for the Accelerator Lab, the Country Programme and Lab’s clients
• Design and deliver horizon scanning trainings for partners and UNDP, help embed horizon scanning and attention to the ‘edge’ activities in the CO and with the partners
• Organize and implement knowledge sharing and network events;
• Lead other activities related to the design and operations of the Accelerator Lab

4. Working out loud

• Share findings from the exploration on future trends, new methodologies/approaches, potential partnership, funding opportunities, and others within UNDP and with partners;
• Proactively use blog posts and social media to share insights, attract partners and help position Accelerator Lab at the forefront of the exploration of new trends.

Competencies

• Innovation – Ability to make new and useful ideas work: Adept with complex concepts and challenges convention purposefully. Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise.
• Leadership – Ability to persuade others to follow: Generates commitment, excitement and excellence in others.
• People Management – Ability to improve performance and satisfaction: Models independent thinking and action.
• Communication – Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform: Synthesizes information to communicate independent analysis.
• Delivery – Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement: Meets goals and quality criteria for delivery of products or service.

Qualification Required & Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree in Social sciences, Data science, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, or related field and minimum of 2 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization.

OR

• Bachelor’s degree in Social sciences, Data science, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, or related field and minimum of 4 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization.

Experience:

• Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation;
• Demonstrated capacity in horizon scanning;

Experience in following areas is desirable but not necessary:

• Professional experience in partnership building and engagement (public and private sector) and resource mobilization;
• Proven professional knowledge and experience in at least one of the following: Future thinking and Foresight, research, and Systems Mapping;
• Key awareness of key global and regional trends;
• Demonstrated access to networks of edge innovators.

Language Requirements:

• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

To submit your application, click on the link below and complete all relevant fields on the online application form.

Click Here To Apply Online

Closing Date: 28 February, 2019

{UNDP,Accra,Full-Time,GH,Degree,2 years,28 Feb-2019};

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Lead lab efforts in deep community immersion, collective intelligence and solutions mapping

• Developing and sustaining positive relationships with a range of local community and citizen groups
• Identifying and training local volunteers, recruiting Universities and think tanks for sustaining long term community outreach and engagement and identification of lead users, providing training and mentoring
• Translaton of ethnographic and field research findings into learning and action for the acceleration lab activities
• Design specific field research and participatory methods to focus on the most vulnerable populations and those not usually engaged in public policy debates on development methods
• Explore, document and increase understanding on emerging methods of itapping into collective intelligence for sustainable development

2. Convene the processes of solution intake, assessment and designing prototypes for diffusion

• Designing and implementing methodology for intaking indigenous knowledge and local solutions, consolidating, screening and further describing incoming ideas
• Designing a criteria/metrics for assessing consolidating incoming local solutions
• Conducting field research to determine best methods fo making solutions transferable
• Testing the solutions and potential ideas in real life context to understand potential channels of spreading (including identifying private and public sector venues for uptake)
• Analysis of system level issues that local solutions address (and dont address, therefore exposing gaps)
• Design of ‘things and tools’ needed to successful scale indigenous knowledge, lead user solutions, turning its insights into systemic change
• Ensure that collective intellengence is integrated into UNDP programmes

3. Undertake cultural and behavioral analyses for the accelerator lab portolio of experiments

• Advise on the accelerator lab’s experiment portfolio to ensure experiments are designed based on people’s knowledge, behaviors and peer to peer methods of managing and diffusing knowledge about sustainable development issues.
• Ensure ethics framework is implemented for the lab’s portfolio of experiments
• Design methods to test accelerator ideas for their applicability and diffusion
• Integrate cultural norms, peer to peer methods and behaviorial insights into technology based experiments
• Convene a broad range of new partners with UNDP including artists, community organizers and emergent movements to explore areas for collaboration on sustainable development

4. Work out loud and Organizational Learning

• Lead communication efforts and proactively use blog and social media to share findings from field research
• Ensure UNDP’s communication efforts respect privacy and ethics considerations
• Liaise with the broader Accelerator Lab network and the support team to share learnings and insights from the country-specific experience
• Help embed lsolutions mapping ead user methodology within the CO portfolio, design and provide trainings that include various methodologies and steps to identify and work with lead users

Competencies

Innovation

• Ability to make new and useful ideas work
• Level 4: Adept with complex concepts and challenges convention purposefully

Leadership

• Ability to persuade others to follow
• Level 4: Generates commitment, excitement and excellence in others

People Management

• Ability to improve performance and satisfaction Level 4: Models independent thinking and action

Communication

• Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform Level 4: Synthesizes information to communicate independent analysis

Delivery

• Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement Level 4: Meets goals and quality criteria for delivery of products or services

Innovation

• Ability to manage organizational resources and deployment in pursuit of innovation approaches and initiatives Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise

Qualification Required & Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Design, Communications or related field and minimum of 2 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization

OR

• Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Design, Communications or related field and minimum of 4 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization

Experience:

• Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation.
• Proven professional knowledge and experience in approaches such as Ethnography, behavioral insights, Qualitative and Quantitative User Research, service journeys or human centered design
• Demonstrated ability to work with partners to help surface unarticulated needs
• Demonstrated ability to undertake field research in remote communities
• Demonstrate ability to work in participatory methods, follow the lead of people as experts in their own sustainable development
• Proven ability to design ethical frameworks for managing public sector experiments
• Knowledge and willingness to follow and document ethnographic evidence and honor expertise in usual places

Language Requirements:

• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

To submit your application, click on the link below and complete all relevant fields on the online application form.

Click Here To Apply Online

Closing Date: 28 February, 2019

{UNDP,Accra,Full-Time,GH,Degree,2 years,28 Feb-2019};

Duties and Responsibilities

1.Experiment portfolio design:

• Works with UNDP and partners in mapping the context and nature of development challenges, with a particular focus on understanding systemic issues beyond traditional silos and classifications and identifying drivers of change, and levers for intervention
• Mapping systems and assets, identifying levers and logic for intervention, building hypotheses of change that are a fit to the system level challenges identified
• Identify logic against which to asses fit and coherence of the individual portfolios with the frontier challenges on which they are meant to generate learning.

2. Management of prototype experiments for sustainable development challenges:

• Collaborate with UNDP colleagues and stakeholders on the design of experiments across to validate the hypotheses and test the effectiveness of identified prototypes, including (but not limit to) defining variables, formulating hypotheses, and coordinating experimental protocols
• Develop a framework to capture the learning from the experiments in such a way that it favours critical reflection and rapid adaptation over static reporting
• Provide technical guidance for experiment design, roll-out and validation based on the experiment conditions, resources available, and requirements
• Proactively manage risks within experiments including those related to ethics and privacy
• Examine the results from the testing of prototypes and translate them into proposals informing programmatic decisions on next steps and implications for improvement, spin offs and scaling-up, where warrented.

3. Working out Loud:

• Proactively use blog and social media to ahare findings from the portfolio implementation
• Help UNDP and partners disseminate insights from Accelerator lab experiments via social media platforms as a way to regularly reflect and engage with external audiences.
• Liaise with UNDP’s global Accelerator Lab network and share learnings and insights from the country-specific experience
• Jointly with the CO, support lab partners to develop an emerging pipeline of new initiatives, support other activities related to the design and operation of the Lab
• Design and deliver engaging and meaningful methods for reflection on learning from experiments
• Proactively use blog posts and social media to share insights, attract partners and help position Accelerator Lab at the forefront of the exploration of new trends.
• Lead other activities related to the design and operations of the Accelerator Lab.

4. Organizational learning, working out loud and grafting experimentation onto the core business of UNDP:

• Help embed a portfolio logic in clients’ work including the existing UNDP Country Programme (as determined and agreed with the senior management)
• Working with clients to encourage reflection and capturing of insights from individual experiments, as they related to the overall portfolio logic
• Provide technical consultation and training for national partners and the CO through various phases including asset mapping, developing a strategic portfolio logic, experiment design, prototype testing, and evaluation;

Competencies

• Innovation – Ability to make new and useful ideas work: Adept with complex concepts and challenges convention purposefully. Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise.
• Leadership – Ability to persuade others to follow: Generates commitment, excitement and excellence in others.
• People Management – Ability to improve performance and satisfaction: Models independent thinking and action.
• Communication – Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform: Synthesizes information to communicate independent analysis.
• Delivery – Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement: Meets goals and quality criteria for delivery of products or services.

Qualification Required & Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree in Social Science, International Development, Science, Engineering, Design (eg. industrial or architecture), Psychology or a related area and minimum of 2 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization.

OR

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Science, International Development, Science, Engineering, Design (eg. industrial or architecture), Psychology or related area and minimum of 4 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization.

Experience:

• Demonstrate ability to design experiments, validate hypotheses and test prototypes;
• Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation.

Experience in following areas is desirable but not necessary:

• Proven professional knowledge and experience in social innovation approaches such as Design Thinking, behavioral insights, Qualitative and Quantitative User Research, Experiment Design & Validation, data empowerment, and collective intelligence.
• Demonstrated ability to work with clients to help surface unarticulated needs.
• Demonstrated ability to apply a portfolio logic to experiments.
• Demonstrated ability in running co-design sessions and capacity-building in experimental design, lean iteration and impact evaluation.

Language Requirements:

• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

To submit your application, click on the link below and complete all relevant fields on the online application form.

Click Here To Apply Online

Closing Date: 28 February, 2019

{ActionAid Ghana,Sunyani,Full-Time, GH,Degree,2 years,01 Feb-2019};

ActionAid (AA) is a global movement of people working together to further human rights for all and end poverty.

ActionAid Ghana (AAG), an Affiliate of ActionAid International is looking to employ an experienced and self- motivated individual to fill the position of Documentation, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer.

Role Overview:

• The role exists to provide quality documentation of change and impacts, monitoring and support for the implementation of activities under the Promoting Opportunities for Women’s Empowerment and Rights (POWER) project.

Qualification Required & Experience

• The Candidate must hold a bachelor’s Degree in Development Studies, Statistics, Agriculture or Economics.
• The ideal candidate must have at least 2 years work experience in women’s right and food security.

Job Circumstances:

This is a one (1) year employment contract on national terms and conditions.

Salary: This role is on SM 2 of ActionAid Ghana’s Salary Structure.

Location: Sunyani

How to Apply For the Job

Curriculum Vitae (CVs) are NOT acceptable.

Click Here To Download Application Forms

Completed Application Forms should be emailed to:

jobs.ghana@actionaid.org

or forwarded to:

The Head of HROE
P. O. Box AN 19083,
Accra-North.

Tel: + 233 244 316 392 / +233 28 910 9560

Closing Date: 01 February, 2019

Only short-listed applicants will be contacted and invited for assessment.

“ActionAid Ghana is an equal opportunities employer. Whilst all applicants will be assessed strictly on their individual merits, female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.”