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TOR GRANTS INTERN – Kampala

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a private, independent, humanitarian organization working on all aspects of the refugee cause in more than 30 countries throughout the world. The aim of DRC is to protect refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) against persecution and to promote durable solutions to the problems of forced migration, on the basis of humanitarian principles and human rights. DRC works in accordance with the UN Conventions on Refugees and the Code of Conduct for the ICRC and NGOs in Disaster Relief.

In Uganda, DRC works in North, North-Western, South-Western and North-Eastern regions in a range of emergency/development situations offering support to refugees and host communities. The aim is to save lives by providing protection, offering humanitarian assistance, and creating livelihoods (for more information go to www.drc.dk).

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a highly qualified and recently graduated masters student in the fields of Social Sciences, Geography, Geoinformatics to strengthen our Grants Management team in Kampala. We are looking for a candidate with a strong sense of organization and logical order – and with proven skills in editing and quality checking documents (Word, Power Point), strong skills in Microsoft Excel (tabular data management). The objective of this position is to strengthen DRC’s Grants Management capacity in Uganda – through quality checking and general support to the GM team in Kampala.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Ad-hoc practical support

  • Daily ad-hoc practical support to the GM team on tasks including filing, scanning, printing and copying of documents, preparation of meetings, calendar planning etc.
  • Document quality checking – and drafting (Word, Excel, Power Point)
  • Quality checking of key documents in GM team – including narrative reports, proposals, budgets.
  • Support to drafting of budgets and project documents in collaboration with the GM team – as well as DRC colleagues in the field.
  • Formatting of documents (i.e. cleaning up and streamlining fonts, types, spacing etc. in documents).

Grants Management

  • The GM Intern will act as the DRC Uganda focal point for the country wide Grants Management System (GMS) which is used to store and hold key information on all grants in Uganda – including key project documents. The GMS Focal Point role will include tasks as uploading final versions of key documents. Keeping project information up to date at all times.
  • Tracking and maintaining high awareness of the reporting schedule (the Rolling Action Plan, RAP) across all grants in collaboration with DRC Regional Office Grants Team in Nairobi.
  • Support (or lead) weekly updates of Grants & Fundraising Overviews
  • Support the GM team in planning and executing Grants Opening Meetings and other Grants related meetings

Consolidating information

  • Support the GM team on ad-hoc requests to gather information and updates on financial status / implementation rates / spending rates in close collaboration with the DRC Finance team.
  • Coordinating, collecting and consolidating programme information from DRC field teams (e.g. in response to UNHCR request for sectorial information).

Monitoring and Evaluation

  • Support to the Monitoring and Evaluation capacity within the GM team [If Geography/Geoinformatics profile] – Support to map production (GIS)
  • Provided the candidate has a background in Geography and Geoinformatics – and skills in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – the candidate will also be tasked in the first instance with simple ad-hoc map production.
  • Undertake any further duties as the line manager sees fit. The position duties are flexible to a degree to allow the candidate to develop skills they personally identify. This can be arranged in discussions with the line manager.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential:

  • Recently completed Bachelors Degree within Social Sciences, Geography or Geoinformatics
  • Strong and proven computer skills (especially Microsoft Word and Excel – and secondly PowerPoint and Outlook) is a must as these skills will be applied in document quality checking, formatting and drafting;
  • Full proficiency in spoken and written English;
  • Strong sense of logical order and file management – and continuous drive to maintain clear overview.
  • Team worker – interested to learn more about refugee response in Uganda.

Preferable:

  • Demonstrated writing skills (narrative reports, proposal documents);
  • Demonstrated skills in geoinformatics (Geographic Information Systems)

GENERAL

  • Availability: As Soon as possible
  • Duty station: Kampala, with occasional travel to field locations.
  • Reporting: This position reports to Head of Programme Uganda & Tanzania in Kampala.
  • Contract: 6 months contract dependent on both funding and performance. Salary and conditions in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for National Staff.
How to apply:

Applications should be in English and include the following:

  1. A cover letter (1 page) in which you explain why you are interested in the position and how you meet the qualities and qualifications criteria and salary expectations.
  2. Concise and accurate CV (maximum 3 pages). The CV should include information about your qualification, relevant training courses, Work experience, name and contact details of 3 relevant references.

Please send your Cover letter, CV and Academic certificates by email to [email protected] by 25th February 2018 5:00pm clearly indicating position name in the subject line. We thank applicants for their interest in the position however; only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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The Danish Refugee Council is currently implementing a broad range of activities relevant to conflict affected communities and persons. The activities are categorized in ten sectors:

Shelter and Non-food Items, Food Security, Protection, Income Generation, Coordination & Operational Services, Community Infrastructure & Services, Humanitarian Mine Action, Armed Violence Reduction (AVR), Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), and Education.

Here you can read some short exemplifications of what types of activities the respective sectors include:

Shelter and Non-food Items: Provision of emergency shelter, emergency cash grants, rehabilitation of housing, distribution of non-food items (NFIs) and provision of return and repatriation kits.

Food Security: Emergency food provision or food voucher programmes. Training and capacity development in agriculture, agricultural inputs (e.g. tools and seeds), agricultural grants.

Protection: Advocacy for the rights of displaced people in their context of displacement, child protection initiatives, individual protection assistance based on vulnerability, legal aid, land & property rights, sexual and gender-based violence prevention, registration services for the internally displaced and refugees, monitoring of rights and rights awareness-raising, facilitation of return and repatriation processes.

Income Generation: Business training and SME development, business grants, life-skills training, literacy and numeracy training, vocational training, micro-credit loans, savings groups, group enterprise development and facilitation.

Coordination & Operational Services: Coordination and management of refugee and IDP camps, active participation in UN cluster coordination, humanitarian surveys and studies, facilitation of NGO Networks focused on displacement solutions, capacity development, training and support to local NGOs, secondment of experts to UN emergency operations worldwide

Community Infrastructure & Services: Provision of physical infrastructure like roads, bridges, community centres, irrigation systems or other community structures, facilitation and training of infrastructure management groups at community level, facilitation and funding of community development plans, initiatives for disaster risk reduction at community level.

Humanitarian Mine Action: Manual or mechanical mine clearance, clearance of former battle areas, education for affected communities – with special focus on children on how to avoid harm from mines and UXO, surveys of expected and confirmed mined or UXO areas, explosive ordnance disposal and stockpile destruction, capacity building of national demining institutions.

Armed Violence Reduction (AVR): Education in procedures for safe storage and safe handling of small arms and light weapons (SALW), capacity building of institutions for safety, local and community level conflict management and mitigation.

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH): Emergency water supply, hygiene item distribution, hygiene information and education, construction of latrines, installation water points, wells and water storage. Water purification.

Education: Education grants and fee support, school feeding programmes, teacher training and support, school materials provision and construction or rehabilitation of school structures.

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0 USD kampala CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Danish Refugee Council (DRC)

TOR GRANTS INTERN - Kampala

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a private, independent, humanitarian organization working on all aspects of the refugee cause in more than 30 countries throughout the world. The aim of DRC is to protect refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) against persecution and to promote durable solutions to the problems of forced migration, on the basis of humanitarian principles and human rights. DRC works in accordance with the UN Conventions on Refugees and the Code of Conduct for the ICRC and NGOs in Disaster Relief.

In Uganda, DRC works in North, North-Western, South-Western and North-Eastern regions in a range of emergency/development situations offering support to refugees and host communities. The aim is to save lives by providing protection, offering humanitarian assistance, and creating livelihoods (for more information go to www.drc.dk).

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a highly qualified and recently graduated masters student in the fields of Social Sciences, Geography, Geoinformatics to strengthen our Grants Management team in Kampala. We are looking for a candidate with a strong sense of organization and logical order – and with proven skills in editing and quality checking documents (Word, Power Point), strong skills in Microsoft Excel (tabular data management). The objective of this position is to strengthen DRC’s Grants Management capacity in Uganda – through quality checking and general support to the GM team in Kampala.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Ad-hoc practical support

  • Daily ad-hoc practical support to the GM team on tasks including filing, scanning, printing and copying of documents, preparation of meetings, calendar planning etc.
  • Document quality checking – and drafting (Word, Excel, Power Point)
  • Quality checking of key documents in GM team – including narrative reports, proposals, budgets.
  • Support to drafting of budgets and project documents in collaboration with the GM team – as well as DRC colleagues in the field.
  • Formatting of documents (i.e. cleaning up and streamlining fonts, types, spacing etc. in documents).

Grants Management

  • The GM Intern will act as the DRC Uganda focal point for the country wide Grants Management System (GMS) which is used to store and hold key information on all grants in Uganda – including key project documents. The GMS Focal Point role will include tasks as uploading final versions of key documents. Keeping project information up to date at all times.
  • Tracking and maintaining high awareness of the reporting schedule (the Rolling Action Plan, RAP) across all grants in collaboration with DRC Regional Office Grants Team in Nairobi.
  • Support (or lead) weekly updates of Grants & Fundraising Overviews
  • Support the GM team in planning and executing Grants Opening Meetings and other Grants related meetings

Consolidating information

  • Support the GM team on ad-hoc requests to gather information and updates on financial status / implementation rates / spending rates in close collaboration with the DRC Finance team.
  • Coordinating, collecting and consolidating programme information from DRC field teams (e.g. in response to UNHCR request for sectorial information).

Monitoring and Evaluation

  • Support to the Monitoring and Evaluation capacity within the GM team [If Geography/Geoinformatics profile] – Support to map production (GIS)
  • Provided the candidate has a background in Geography and Geoinformatics – and skills in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – the candidate will also be tasked in the first instance with simple ad-hoc map production.
  • Undertake any further duties as the line manager sees fit. The position duties are flexible to a degree to allow the candidate to develop skills they personally identify. This can be arranged in discussions with the line manager.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential:

  • Recently completed Bachelors Degree within Social Sciences, Geography or Geoinformatics
  • Strong and proven computer skills (especially Microsoft Word and Excel – and secondly PowerPoint and Outlook) is a must as these skills will be applied in document quality checking, formatting and drafting;
  • Full proficiency in spoken and written English;
  • Strong sense of logical order and file management – and continuous drive to maintain clear overview.
  • Team worker – interested to learn more about refugee response in Uganda.

Preferable:

  • Demonstrated writing skills (narrative reports, proposal documents);
  • Demonstrated skills in geoinformatics (Geographic Information Systems)

GENERAL

  • Availability: As Soon as possible
  • Duty station: Kampala, with occasional travel to field locations.
  • Reporting: This position reports to Head of Programme Uganda & Tanzania in Kampala.
  • Contract: 6 months contract dependent on both funding and performance. Salary and conditions in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for National Staff.
How to apply:

Applications should be in English and include the following:

  1. A cover letter (1 page) in which you explain why you are interested in the position and how you meet the qualities and qualifications criteria and salary expectations.
  2. Concise and accurate CV (maximum 3 pages). The CV should include information about your qualification, relevant training courses, Work experience, name and contact details of 3 relevant references.

Please send your Cover letter, CV and Academic certificates by email to [email protected] by 25th February 2018 5:00pm clearly indicating position name in the subject line. We thank applicants for their interest in the position however; only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

2018-02-26

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