MAYANK Anti-Corruption Coalition Jobs in Uganda

Job Title:Project Assistants (2 positions)

MAYANK Anti-Corruption Coalition (MACCO)


MAYANK Anti-Corruption Coalition (MACCO) is a civil society regional anti-corruption network based in West Nile. MACCO works to enhance transparency, accountability and responsive governance with a view to improve service delivery, human rights and pro-poor policy environment. In our 5 years Strategic Plan (SP), MACCO identifies three focus areas under governance; (1) inclusion and participation of the very poor and marginalized in decision­-making processes, (2) curtailing corruption and misuse of public and private resources, sustainable livelihoods. MACCO has implemented similar governance and human rights interventions in the last three years with support from MS Uganda, Action aid, DANIDA, The Royal Danish’ Embassy in Uganda, Uganda National NGO Forum, and Anti-corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU) and now with Independent Development Fund (IDF, the European Union (EU) and Government of Uganda.

Our partner, Center for Governance and Economic Development (CEGED) is a not-for-profit organisation that was started in 2009 and has founder members that pride themselves of over a decade of active community development work within the West Nile region. The aspiration of CEGED is to be a center of excellence in the promotion of good governance practices and initiatives for economic prosperity, all focusing on poverty reduction in line with the Government of Uganda’s National Development Plan and the Millenium Development Goals (MGDs). The vision of CEGED is “to promote Good Governance as a catalyst for socio-economic development in the West Nile sub-region”. The activities of CEGED aim to result in a simplified accountable Government, a responsible and economically empowered citizenry. CEGED works in partnership with SNV to facilitate sustainable local solutions in Agriculture and Water Sanitation and Hygiene. It takes lead to facilitate CSOs learnings to pursue a vast range of different goals, including promoting voice and accountability in policy development and implementation

We have received funding from the European Union under Democratic Governance and Accountability Programme (DGAP) to implement Community Empowerment for Social Accountabiltty (CESA) project’.. CESA is aimed at building citizens civic competencies to participate in local governance and be able to hold their leaders to account. This is intended to be achieved through an interactive and collaborative process that will have capacity of CSOs in

Adjumani, Moyo, Yumbe and Nebbi districts strengthened and motivate local authorities and leaders to engage with citizens while being accountable and responsive to the needs of the poor and marginalize people in West Nile. CESA shall be implemented in partnership with Centre for Governance and Economic Development (CEGED).

We are now looking for qualified Ugandans to take up job positions in this project as below;

Project Assistants (2 positions)

The purpose of this position is to manage program- support functions at MACCO and CEGED Arua offices. The holder of the position will be responsible for documentation of the accomplishments, Processes and learnings, Manage ICT functions; and provide high quality Project secretarial support functions to our partners and clients. Specifically He/or she will: Provide technical support to all the program officers to organise materials, provide specific written content such as program briefs, success stories, promising practices and lessons learnt, and gather available photographs and videos.

Key Responsibility Area

a) Assist in mobilisation of clients, and prepares workshop and trainings materials

b) Gather program information and condense it into well written web content

c) Ensure that documentation is one medium such as videos is also written for print and web versions

d) Keep track of documents, drafts and ensure that required full rounds of edits and approvals that are required take place

e) Assist with the logistics that are in line with documentation processes

f Assist with procurement processes necessary for hiring services such as writers, designers, photographers, printers etc.

g) Assist with the preparation of reports and any other activities as directed by the supervisor
Requirement:

Qualifications/ Requirements

■ Bachelors degree in Mass Communication, Development Studies or related work experience of minimum 3 years, in similar position, post graduate training or graduate in relevant discipline.

■ Experience in Governance, policy advocacy, Human rights based approach is an added advantage.

■ Excellent organisation environment, and documentation, self driven, computer skills with high sense of quality, strong internet skills, power point presentation working knowledge of data analysis computer applications.

How to apply:

To apply, send a cover letter stating how your qualification and experience match this job and accompanying CV to reach The Executive Director, MAYANK Anti-Corruption Coalition, P. 0. Box 714, Arua, or by email to info@macco.or.ug OR macco@accu.or.ug not later than 5:00pm on 23rd January 2012.

Deadline: 23rd January 2012