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South Sudan Job Vacancy; October 3rd, 2011

Oct 5th, 2011

Dear all,

THESO is currently looking for a qualified candidate to fill in its Programme Director position in its head office.

Please help circulate this advert widely even to the rest of Africa.

Kind regards,

Jeff

Dr. Okello Jeff Franz Moses

Chief Executive Director

The Health Support Organisation

Head Office Help Age Compound

Off Ministry  Road opposite ministries complex

Mobile: 0955 065 096

Email: director@thesoworld.org / franzany@gmail.com

Skype: franzany

Website: www.thesoworld.org

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Please help distribute widely.

Mike M. Leju

Admin Officer CDC-South Sudan; US-Embassy Juba, Email: Mleju@usaid.gov, 1-202-216-6279 ext.192; Mob:+249 912114394

Please ensure the widest distribution of the below Vacancy Announcement that has been posted today:

Position

Vacancy Announcement #

Opening Date

Closing Date

Public Health Specialist (Strategic Information) – JUBA

VA-11-46

September 27,2011

October 12, 2011

Public Health Specialist (Prevention)-

JUBA

VA-11-47

September 27,2011

October 12, 2011

 

 

 

 

Internet:   http://sudan.usembassy.gov/job_opportunities.html

Within Embassy Intranet:   http://diplopedia.state.gov/index.php?title=Embassy_Khartoum_HR_Section

Dear All,

Save the Children is the World’s largest independent children’s organization, making immediate and long-lasting improvements to children’s lives in over 120 countries world wide. We work for a world which respects and values each child, which listens to children and learns, and where all children have hope and opportunity. We’re determined to achieve dramatic change for the world’s most vulnerable children and we have a huge sense of pride in what we do.

SCiSS is currently recruiting suitable South Sudanese for the Field Positions of 1- Community Case management Health Officer  and  Health Officer to be based in Kapoeta North – Riwoto.
Pass this Vacancy Positions to your colleagues at large.
Attached are the Posts.

Regards,

Alison John
Human Resources Officer
Save the Children
Juba
South Sudan Program

Skype:  alison200811

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Oct 3rd, 2011

 Dear all                                          

Please directly contact the employer if you have any further questions.

To anyone of interest, please circulate the following job vacancies: -Office Manager with Slage

Thanks,
Reec Akuak
Treasurer

The Southern Sudanese Community
Advocating — Mentoring — Nurturing

202.656.TSSC (8772)
Direct/Cell: 202.596.6009
Fax: 202.280.1007

R.Akuak@TSSC.us
www.TSSC.us

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Performance Management Plan Development Consultant, SUPPORT, Juba, Sudan
Location: South Sudan

Description
Performance Management  Plan Development Consultant, SUPPORT, Juba, Sudan
 

 Project/Proposal Summary: 
MSI was awarded a three-year contract with USAID/Sudan on a project named SUPPORT (Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking), and tasked with the responsibility of executing functions normally associated with USAID’s Program and Communications offices. As a part of the SUPPORT project, MSI hiring technical and support staff, assisting USAID with logistics, and facilitating VIP visits. For more information on our Sudan project
(Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking – SUPPORT) please follow this link: http://www.msiworldwide.com/index.cfm?msiweb=project&p_id=150
 
Position Summary:
The Education component of the USAID/South Sudan Transition Strategy is captured under DO 3: Essential Services Developed and Sustained, which incorporates activities under Health, Education, Nutrition and Water and Sanitation. For post-conflict countries, the Agency’s Education Strategy requires that at the early stages of state reconstruction/recovery, development efforts should be focused on the expansion of education opportunities and establishment of institutions, structures and systems, and human capacity development in order to create the enabling institutional environment and education delivery platform for long-term improved education outcomes. The two evaluators will develop a new Performance Management Plan (PMP) to regulate the monitoring, reporting and evaluation functions related to implementation of the Transition Strategy in South Sudan. This PMP is expected to align the design of new activities, and the reporting of results and evaluation of context and other performance evaluation under ongoing and new activities with the programming and reporting requirements contained in the Agency Education Strategy. The assignment is for approximately 36 LOE days from October – November 2011.
Responsibilities:
The team member will assist in developing for implementation, a Performance Management Plan (PMP) that will support the monitoring and reporting of results and the evaluation of program performance and/or impact and other contextual analysis that could inform evidenced-based programming under the Education component of Development Objective (DO) 3: Essential Services Developed and Sustained of the USAID/South Sudan Transition Strategy. Specifically, the specialists will:
  • Review the Education component of the USAID/South Sudan Transition Strategy and its results reporting framework to determine the extent of alignment with the programming considerations for post-conflict countries as outlined in the Agency’s Education Strategy.
  • Perform an indicator gap analysis between the results framework indicators of the USAID/South Sudan Transition Strategy and the proposed indicators of the Agency’s Education Strategy and advise on how future interventions under the Transition Strategy may be designed to better align with Agency’s Education Strategy.
  • Prepare a graphic results framework that presents the DO and IR statements as well as the proposed indicators on a single sheet.
  • Prepare detailed narratives for the DO and IR level (incorporating relevant outcome and output indicators outlined under Goals 1 and 3 of the Agency’s Education Strategy). The narratives should discuss what result is expected to be achieved and why/how the proposed goal, result and activity level indicators will successfully measure progress toward the achievement of the DO and IR; ensuring that performance indicators are direct, objective, useful for management, adequate and attributable to USAID.
  • For each selected indicator, and as part of development of respective indicator reference sheets, outline appropriate plans for performance data collection and analysis, for performance reviews.
  • Prepare Performance Indicator Reference Sheets for each selected indicator.
  •  Establish baseline data collection and processing framework for each selected indicator.
  • Document data validation and quality assurance processes to enhance the year-on-year integrity of reported performance data.
  • Establish Audit Readiness mechanisms to enhance the maintenance of effective internal controls over data processing and an audit trail to safeguard the integrity of performance data reporting processes.
  • Determine the range of evaluations and other studies required to enhance evidenced-based programming over the life of the Transition Strategy.
  • Package materials/narratives into a draft Performance Management Plan for submission to the DO.
  • Prepare a final draft of the DO PMP that incorporates feedback received from the DO Team for final submission.
Qualifications:
·         Bachelors Degree and minimum of fifteen (15) years of progressively responsible work experience OR Masters Degree and a minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience with a USG foreign affairs agency, large international assistance organization, or non-governmental organization.
·         Strong skills in PMP development, performance indicator measurement and reporting processes of USAID projects (preferably 10 years or more)
·         Experience in the design of development assistance projects in conflict-affected contexts (preferably 5 years or more)
·         Strong skills in descriptive and inferential statistical analysis and data presentation
·         Strong research and writing skills
·         Extensive experience working in East Africa and in South Sudan
·         Facilitation experience, experience leading participatory program strategy designs that include intended program beneficiaries as active participants in the design processes
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

To apply, please visit our website: www.msiworldwide.com

Operations Specialist, Juba, South Sudan
Location: South Sudan

Description
Operations Specialist, Juba, South Sudan
Project/Proposal Summary:
MSI was awarded a three-year contract with USAID/Sudan on a project named SUPPORT (Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking), and tasked with the responsibility of executing functions normally associated with USAID’s Program and Communications offices. As a part of the SUPPORT project, MSI hiring technical and support staff, assisting USAID with logistics, and facilitating VIP visits. For more information on our Sudan project
(Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking – SUPPORT) please follow this link: http://www.msiworldwide.com/index.cfm?msiweb=project&p_id=150Position Summary:
The Operations Specialist will be responsible for all facilities management of the MSI Office, oversight and control of local procurement systems and procedures, and for ensuring smooth systems and operations throughout the MSI office. The Operations Specialist reports to the Chief of Party. The period of Performance is from the end of October through March 2012.Responsibilities:
• Oversight of procedural responsibilities toward national authorities
o Ensure relationship with the Labor Office is smooth and file is appropriately opened and maintained
o Understand and ensure that all MSI systems are in accordance with the Labor Law and all regulatory agencies such as the Taxation and Social Insurance Departments
o Review and assist with the development and updating of the MSI personnel manual, according to local requrements
• Facilities management of MSI Office
o Provide supervisory assistance to the Logistic Manager (LM) to ensure the office facility functions smoothly. (Power, Internet, Cleaning etc)
o Ensure necessary daily supplies are sufficient for the office compound (Fuel, Water, Stationary)
o Deal with local vendors and subcontractors for internet, vehicle rental, vehicle insurance, security, legal assistance and other needs
o Relate to the landlord and obtain necessary action from him, as per the rental agreement
o Ensure smooth vehicle management, including fuel management, vehicle maintenance, and logbook maintenance. Ensure all vehicles are fully equipped with took kits, First Aid kits and other relevant equipment
• Oversight of local procurement systems and procedures
o Create purchase requisitions, upon receipt of requests, for appropriate approvals
o Develop template justifications (or bid matrices), according to the MSI Procurement Manual
o Ensure all local procurement rules are vigorously followed and updated, according to feedback from the COP and DCOP
o Create purchase orders for appropriate approvals
• Feedback and assistance on large procurements
o Review RFP’s for gaps and additions
o Provide estimates of costs, research and analysis for effective RFPs
o Identify vendors for RFP distribution
o Monitor responses to MSI procurement email
• Smooth systems and operations throughout the MSI Office
o Maintain weekly contact list for MSI Sudan staff
o Monitor all contracts with local subcontractors and flag lapsed contracts to MSI Home Office for prompt action
o Track all visa and work permit expiration dates, for the necessary action of the LM
o Suggest policies, for adoption by the COP/DCOP on phone use, procurement, assets distribution and other tracking mechanisms
o
o Along with the COP, monitor Task Order Plans (TOPs) as part of local procurement to assist in ensuring that purchases do not exceed the cost estimates therein and that costs appropriately apportioned
o Track movement of MSI assets, including items issued to visitors and consultants.
o Maintain the MSI inventory list and submit to Finance monthly utilizing FER and procurement documentation
o Maintain logs for phonecard and personal transport use
• Proper security procedures
o Give advice on critical communications components in MSI projects, such as PowerTrack, radios, sat phones and cell phones
• Representation of MSI to other international and national entities, as appropriate
o Liaise with local authorities as appropriate
o Liaise with NGOs, other companies, and vendors, as appropriate

Qualifications:
• Relevant Degree or comparable professional qualification in the related fields of procurement or logistics

• Minimum of five years of relevant professional experience.

• Experience with USAID procurement and contracting essential

• Thorough knowledge of USG rules and regulations required

• Previous East African experience, preferably time spent in Sudan

• Strong Organizational Skills

• Ability to manage several tasks simultaneously and to work effectively under pressure

• Strong operational understanding of word processing and excel is required
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

To apply, please visit our website: www.msiworldwide.com.

M & E Short Term Technical Assistant, Juba, Sudan
Location: South Sudan

Description
M & E Short Term Technical Assistant, Juba, South SudanProject/Proposal Summary:
MSI was awarded a three-year contract with USAID/Sudan on a project named SUPPORT (Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking), and tasked with the responsibility of executing functions normally associated with USAID’s Program and Communications offices. As a part of the SUPPORT project, MSI hiring technical and support staff, assisting USAID with logistics, and facilitating VIP visits. For more information on our Sudan project
(Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking – SUPPORT) please follow this link: http://www.msiworldwide.com/index.cfm?msiweb=project&p_id=150

Position Summary:
USAID/Sudan is seeking a consultant to provide short-term M&E assistance to USAID/South Sudan during the first quarter of 2012. This short-term assignment is for approximately 40 LOE days from approximately October 10, 2011 November 25, 2011.

Responsibilities:
Consultant will provide support and assistance in the following areas:
a. Provide technical guidance to evaluation and assessment teams on the ground (1-3 teams are anticipated) – for example: evaluation/assessment methodologies, framing questions and SOWs, putting reports together
b. Provide management support (liaising with operations and travel/events coordinators) – for example: scheduling meetings/interviews, travel and accommodation arrangements/advances, supplies/materials needed, time management support
c. Provide technical support and guidance to USAID technical offices in:
i. Providing management support in compiling and checking data for USAID/South Sudan’s annual reporting to Washington
ii. Conducting data quality assessments and follow up
iii. Any additional relevant program monitoring tasks/activities that arise

Qualifications:
• Experience with USAID.
• Experience working in South Sudan is preferable but not required.
• Experience working with USAID’s reporting cycle specifically within Monitoring – program management plans, data quality assessments, etc.
• Experience managing evaluation/assessment activities.
• Providing technical guidance and quality control on these activities.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

Lead Strategy Alignment and PMP Development Specialist, SUPPORT, Juba, Sudan
Location: South Sudan

Description
Lead Strategy Alignment and PMP Development Specialist, SUPPORT, Juba, SudanProject/Proposal Summary:
MSI was awarded a three-year contract with USAID/Sudan on a project named SUPPORT (Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking), and tasked with the responsibility of executing functions normally associated with USAID’s Program and Communications offices. As a part of the SUPPORT project, MSI hiring technical and support staff, assisting USAID with logistics, and facilitating VIP visits. For more information on our Sudan project
(Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking – SUPPORT) please follow this link: http://www.msiworldwide.com/index.cfm?msiweb=project&p_id=150

Position Summary:
The Education component of the USAID/South Sudan Transition Strategy is captured under DO 3: Essential Services Developed and Sustained, which incorporates activities under Health, Education, Nutrition and Water and Sanitation. For post-conflict countries, the Agency’s Education Strategy requires that at the early stages of state reconstruction/recovery, development efforts should be focused on the expansion of education opportunities and establishment of institutions, structures and systems, and human capacity development in order to create the enabling institutional environment and education delivery platform for long-term improved education outcomes. The two evaluators will develop a new Performance Management Plan (PMP) to regulate the monitoring, reporting and evaluation functions related to implementation of the Transition Strategy in South Sudan. This PMP is expected to align the design of new activities, and the reporting of results and evaluation of context and other performance evaluation under ongoing and new activities with the programming and reporting requirements contained in the Agency Education Strategy. The assignment is for approximately 36 LOE days from October – November 2011.

Responsibilities:
The Lead Consultant will be responsible for overseeing the team and ultimately responsible for the submission of the final deliverables to the Mission. The objective of assignment is to develop for implementation, a Performance Management Plan (PMP) that will support the monitoring and reporting of results and the evaluation of program performance and/or impact and other contextual analysis that could inform evidenced-based programming under the Education component of Development Objective (DO) 3: Essential Services Developed and Sustained of the USAID/South Sudan Transition Strategy. Specifically, the specialists will:

1) Review the Education component of the USAID/South Sudan Transition Strategy and its results reporting framework to determine the extent of alignment with the programming considerations for post-conflict countries as outlined in the Agency’s Education Strategy.
2) Perform an indicator gap analysis between the results framework indicators of the USAID/South Sudan Transition Strategy and the proposed indicators of the Agency’s Education Strategy and advise on how future interventions under the Transition Strategy may be designed to better align with Agency’s Education Strategy.
3) Prepare a graphic results framework that presents the DO and IR statements as well as the proposed indicators on a single sheet.
4) Prepare detailed narratives for the DO and IR level (incorporating relevant outcome and output indicators outlined under Goals 1 and 3 of the Agency’s Education Strategy). The narratives should discuss what result is expected to be achieved and why/how the proposed goal, result and activity level indicators will successfully measure progress toward the achievement of the DO and IR; ensuring that performance indicators are direct, objective, useful for management, adequate and attributable to USAID.
5) For each selected indicator, and as part of development of respective indicator reference sheets, outline appropriate plans for performance data collection and analysis, for performance reviews.
6) Prepare Performance Indicator Reference Sheets for each selected indicator.
7) Establish baseline data collection and processing framework for each selected indicator.
8) Document data validation and quality assurance processes to enhance the year-on-year integrity of reported performance data.
9) Establish Audit Readiness mechanisms to enhance the maintenance of effective internal controls over data processing and an audit trail to safeguard the integrity of performance data reporting processes.
10) Determine the range of evaluations and other studies required to enhance evidenced-based programming over the life of the Transition Strategy.
11) Package materials/narratives into a draft Performance Management Plan for submission to the DO.
12) Prepare a final draft of the DO PMP that incorporates feedback received from the DO Team for final submission.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of fifteen (15) years of progressively responsible work experience OR Master’s Degree and a minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience with a USG foreign affairs agency, large international assistance organization, or non-governmental organization.
• Strong skills in PMP development, performance indicator measurement and reporting processes of USAID projects (preferably 10 years or more)
• Experience in the design of development assistance projects in conflict-affected contexts (preferably 5 years or more)
• Strong skills in descriptive and inferential statistical analysis and data presentation
• Strong research and writing skills
• Extensive experience working in East Africa and in South Sudan
• Facilitation experience, experience leading participatory program strategy designs that include intended program beneficiaries as active participants in the design processes

Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

 

Travel and Events Assistant, Juba, Sudan
Location: South Sudan

Description
Travel and Events Assistant, SUPPORT, Juba, South SudanProject/Proposal Summary:
MSI was awarded a three-year contract with USAID/Sudan on a project named SUPPORT (Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking), and tasked with the responsibility of executing functions normally associated with USAID’s Program and Communications offices. As a part of the SUPPORT project, MSI hiring technical and support staff, assisting USAID with logistics, and facilitating VIP visits. For more information on our Sudan project
(Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking – SUPPORT) please follow this link: http://www.msiworldwide.com/index.cfm?msiweb=project&p_id=150

Position Summary:
The Travel and Events Assistant will be responsible for planning travel, logistics, and conferences in Sudan and at times may be required to travel with delegations. This is a critical position and the person must be extremely organized, adaptable, and professional. The Travel and Events Assistant reports to the Travel and Events Coordinator.

**Please note: This is a local position. Only Sudanese nationals are eligible to apply**

Responsibilities:
• Plan travel for MSI teams in Sudan, including lodging, ground transportation and flights
• Assist in planning conferences, including preparing checklists, participant lists, nametags, table tents, delivery receipts, etc.;
• Develop relationships with air service providers, travel agents, hotel operators and caterers; obtain quotes for services as required;
• Track conference inventory and be responsible for MSI conference facility functions;
• Track all local hotel reservations, flights, and events;
• Check incoming invoices to ensure accuracy and record against relevant tracker
• Maintain all files related to travel and conferences;
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:
• Prior experience arranging travel and logistics in Sudan required;
• High degree of professionalism, adaptability and organization;
• Strong sense of self-direction and the ability to carry out tasks with little oversight;
• Attention to detail and a willingness to learn;
• English fluency required and Arabic proficiency strongly preferred;
• Strong IT stills including proficiency using Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook required;
• Qualification in a relevant field is required;
• Minimum of three years of experience is required.

Integrated Health Service Delivery Program Design Consultant Juba, Sudan
Location: South Sudan

Description
 Integrated Health Service Delivery Program Design Consultant Juba, Sudan
Project/Proposal Summary:
MSI was awarded a three-year contract with USAID/Sudan on a project named SUPPORT (Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking), and tasked with the responsibility of executing functions normally associated with USAID’s Program and Communications offices. As a part of the SUPPORT project, MSI hiring technical and support staff, assisting USAID with logistics, and facilitating VIP visits. For more information on our Sudan project
(Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking – SUPPORT) please follow this link: http://www.msiworldwide.com/index.cfm?msiweb=project&p_id=150Position Summary:
USAID/Sudan is seeking to support the Government of South Sudan (GoSS) Ministry of Health (MOH) to provide comprehensive primary health care services to southern Sudan in two states, Western Equatoria and the second to still be determined. Currently, USAID supports the bilateral activity, Sudan Health Transformation Project II (SHTP II), in 14 counties across all 10 states of South Sudan. SHTP II is USAID’s flagship bilateral program and a close partner to the GOSS in the provision of essential primary health services at the local and county level and in provision of system strengthening at the central, county and community levels. The consultant will build upon current data and analyses by USAID and the donor community, including a comprehensive SHTP II Mid-term Evaluation and the 2010 South Sudan Household Health Survey to design a new five-year primary health care service delivery and health systems strengthening activity. This short-term assignment is for approximately 34 LOE days from October until November 2011.Responsibilities:
The Lead Consultant will be responsible for overseeing the team and ultimately responsible for the submission of the final deliverables to the Mission. S/he will provide team leadership and plan and coordinate meetings. S/he will lead the preparation and presentation of the deliverables to USAID/Sudan and other major partners. Ideally, the Lead Consultant will have a broad public health technical background including substantial experience in designing integrated service delivery programs and some professional background in implementing and evaluating integrated primary health care (including community-based) programs and health governance.

Qualifications:
• Bachelors Degree and minimum of fifteen (15) years of progressively responsible work experience OR Masters Degree and a minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience with a USG foreign affairs agency, large international assistance organization, or non-governmental organization in at least one area of following (child health, nutrition, malaria, maternal health, family planning, water hygiene and sanitation, and HIV/AIDS).
• Demonstrated knowledge of project design in health systems with a minimum of 15 years of senior-level experience. Extensive experience and knowledge in project design for integrated service delivery.
• Experience designing USAID health programs, policies, and procurement mechanisms.
• Familiar with USAID’s Global Health Initiative, BEST Action Planning, and the USAID Forward Initiative Agenda
• Demonstrated experience working with host-country led initiatives with multiple stakeholders and a variety of financing arrangements.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively cooperate with national governmental, donors and non-governmental agencies in the design, and dissemination of required tasks.
• Demonstrated technical competence to design practicable and feasible integrated health programs.
• Knowledge of Southern Sudan, or familiarity of working in similar low-resource countries and in East/North Africa.

Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

To apply, please visit our website: www.msiworldwide.com

Lead Strategy Alignment and PMP Development Specialist, SUPPORT, Juba, Sudan
Location: South Sudan

Description
Lead Strategy Alignment and PMP Development Specialist, SUPPORT, Juba, SudanProject/Proposal Summary:
MSI was awarded a three-year contract with USAID/Sudan on a project named SUPPORT (Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking), and tasked with the responsibility of executing functions normally associated with USAID’s Program and Communications offices. As a part of the SUPPORT project, MSI hiring technical and support staff, assisting USAID with logistics, and facilitating VIP visits. For more information on our Sudan project
(Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking – SUPPORT) please follow this link: http://www.msiworldwide.com/index.cfm?msiweb=project&p_id=150

Position Summary:
The Education component of the USAID/South Sudan Transition Strategy is captured under DO 3: Essential Services Developed and Sustained, which incorporates activities under Health, Education, Nutrition and Water and Sanitation. For post-conflict countries, the Agency’s Education Strategy requires that at the early stages of state reconstruction/recovery, development efforts should be focused on the expansion of education opportunities and establishment of institutions, structures and systems, and human capacity development in order to create the enabling institutional environment and education delivery platform for long-term improved education outcomes. The two evaluators will develop a new Performance Management Plan (PMP) to regulate the monitoring, reporting and evaluation functions related to implementation of the Transition Strategy in South Sudan. This PMP is expected to align the design of new activities, and the reporting of results and evaluation of context and other performance evaluation under ongoing and new activities with the programming and reporting requirements contained in the Agency Education Strategy. The assignment is for approximately 36 LOE days from October – November 2011.

Responsibilities:
The Lead Consultant will be responsible for overseeing the team and ultimately responsible for the submission of the final deliverables to the Mission. The objective of assignment is to develop for implementation, a Performance Management Plan (PMP) that will support the monitoring and reporting of results and the evaluation of program performance and/or impact and other contextual analysis that could inform evidenced-based programming under the Education component of Development Objective (DO) 3: Essential Services Developed and Sustained of the USAID/South Sudan Transition Strategy. Specifically, the specialists will:

1) Review the Education component of the USAID/South Sudan Transition Strategy and its results reporting framework to determine the extent of alignment with the programming considerations for post-conflict countries as outlined in the Agency’s Education Strategy.
2) Perform an indicator gap analysis between the results framework indicators of the USAID/South Sudan Transition Strategy and the proposed indicators of the Agency’s Education Strategy and advise on how future interventions under the Transition Strategy may be designed to better align with Agency’s Education Strategy.
3) Prepare a graphic results framework that presents the DO and IR statements as well as the proposed indicators on a single sheet.
4) Prepare detailed narratives for the DO and IR level (incorporating relevant outcome and output indicators outlined under Goals 1 and 3 of the Agency’s Education Strategy). The narratives should discuss what result is expected to be achieved and why/how the proposed goal, result and activity level indicators will successfully measure progress toward the achievement of the DO and IR; ensuring that performance indicators are direct, objective, useful for management, adequate and attributable to USAID.
5) For each selected indicator, and as part of development of respective indicator reference sheets, outline appropriate plans for performance data collection and analysis, for performance reviews.
6) Prepare Performance Indicator Reference Sheets for each selected indicator.
7) Establish baseline data collection and processing framework for each selected indicator.
8) Document data validation and quality assurance processes to enhance the year-on-year integrity of reported performance data.
9) Establish Audit Readiness mechanisms to enhance the maintenance of effective internal controls over data processing and an audit trail to safeguard the integrity of performance data reporting processes.
10) Determine the range of evaluations and other studies required to enhance evidenced-based programming over the life of the Transition Strategy.
11) Package materials/narratives into a draft Performance Management Plan for submission to the DO.
12) Prepare a final draft of the DO PMP that incorporates feedback received from the DO Team for final submission.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of fifteen (15) years of progressively responsible work experience OR Master’s Degree and a minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience with a USG foreign affairs agency, large international assistance organization, or non-governmental organization.
• Strong skills in PMP development, performance indicator measurement and reporting processes of USAID projects (preferably 10 years or more)
• Experience in the design of development assistance projects in conflict-affected contexts (preferably 5 years or more)
• Strong skills in descriptive and inferential statistical analysis and data presentation
• Strong research and writing skills
• Extensive experience working in East Africa and in South Sudan
• Facilitation experience, experience leading participatory program strategy designs that include intended program beneficiaries as active participants in the design processes

Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

 

Health Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor (7 mos), Juba, South Sudan
Location: South Sudan

Description

Health Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor (7 mos), Juba, South Sudan

 

Company Profile:  Management Systems International (MSI) is a global international development firm based in Washington, D.C. providing specialized short- and long-term technical assistance. MSI is part of Coffey International Development, a global international development consulting firm. Together with Coffey ID, MSI now has more than 1,500 development professionals worldwide, a corporate presence in 11 countries and manages more than 200 projects worldwide. It currently manages more than 20 long-term projects in countries, including Iraq, Sudan, Colombia and Russia. Broadly, MSI implements a range of analytical and field projects in its core technical areas, including democracy and governance, strategic management and performance improvement, organizational capacity building, human development and natural resource management. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.

Project/Proposal Summary: 

MSI was awarded a three-year contract with USAID/Sudan on a project named SUPPORT (Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking), and tasked with the responsibility of executing functions normally associated with USAID’s Program and Communications offices. As a part of the SUPPORT project, MSI is currently establishing an office compound suitable for USAID and partner meetings in Southern Sudan, hiring technical and support staff and facilitating VIP visits. For more information on our Sudan project (Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking – SUPPORT) please follow this link: http://www.msiworldwide.com/index.cfm?msiweb=project&p_id=150

 

Position Summary:

The USAID/Sudan Health Team is responsible for managing a portfolio that includes HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, reproductive health and family planning, maternal and child health, nutrition, rational pharmaceutical management, and integrated disease surveillance and response.  The Specialist will need to play a significant role in helping to manage and strengthen systems to assess and monitor program performance across the Health portfolio.  S/he will work closely with Health Team technical staff, MSI M&E staff, PEPFAR staff, and implementing partner organizations, as well as the Government of South Sudan (GOSS) Ministry of Health (MOH), multilateral and bilateral donor agencies, and UN technical agencies. This short-term assignment will be based in Juba, Sudan from September 1, 2011 until March 31, 2012.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide leadership in the aggregation, management, and analysis of partner program data.
  • Responsible for accurate representation of indicators, established baselines, targets, data sources, and data quality issues.
  • Backstop and provide interim support for PEPFAR Strategic Information Advisor as needed.
  • Undertake a minimum of monthly monitoring and supervision visits to Health Team project sites.
  • Draft technical narratives and performance reports for multiple audiences.
  • Develop Scopes of Work and management of relevant health team assessments or evaluations.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, International Affairs, Public Administration or a related field and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or a Masters Degree and 6+ years of experience;
  • Prior experience living and working in developing countries;
  • Experience working with local NGOs;
  • Prior experience working in Southern Sudan preferred;
  • Excellent verbal, writing, and communications skills;
  • Demonstrated ability to work in teams;
  • Fluency in English.

Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

Outreach and Communications Officer, Juba, Sudan
Location: South Sudan

Description
 Outreach and Communications Officer, Juba, SudanProject/Proposal Summary:
MSI was awarded a three-year contract with USAID/Sudan on a project named SUPPORT (Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking), and tasked with the responsibility of executing functions normally associated with USAID’s Program and Communications offices. As a part of the SUPPORT project, MSI hiring technical and support staff, assisting USAID with logistics, and facilitating VIP visits. For more information on our Sudan project
(Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking – SUPPORT) please follow this link: http://www.msiworldwide.com/index.cfm?msiweb=project&p_id=150Position Summary:
The Development Outreach and Communications Officer (DOC) for USAID South Sudan reports to the SUPPORT Chief of Party and to the USAID designate in Program Office, as an ICS. The DOC collaborates closely with all USAID technical teams, DOC counterparts in Washington, as well as implementing partners to design, develop and implement USAID’s communications and outreach strategy in South Sudan. The DOC collaborates with the U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Section in Juba to ensure that USAID and State Department messaging are aligned and supportive of USG foreign policy objectives for South Sudan, and that the Embassy is fully apprised of USAID communications activities and projects. .
The DOC will support USAID/South Sudan in the achievement of its objectives by producing and disseminating public information about the Mission’s activities, for South Sudanese and American target audiences, to increase understanding of, and support for, USAID programs. The DOC will manage the collection, production and distribution of information associated with the USAID assistance program in South Sudan.

Responsibilities:
• Implement the Mission’s Communications and Outreach Strategy to increase host country and international external target audiences’ understanding of, and support for, USAID programs.
• Work with communications representatives of Implementing Partners (IP) to ensure appropriate branding and marking of communications materials, products and events sponsored by USAID.
• Conduct USAID’s media relations with representatives of the host country and international media to encourage placement of positive stories in print, broadcast and on-line media. Write and place op-eds in local media.
• Prepare Front Office and staff for interviews and public appearances with talking points to deliver a clear and consistent message.
• Monitor local and international press coverage, awareness and attitudes of USAID programs and monitor effectiveness of the communications strategy. Provide feedback to the Mission to inform ongoing activities and future programming.
• In conjunction with the Embassy, USAID Program Office, technical teams and implementing partners, organize and coordinate press events for USAID projects, such as inaugurations, ribbon-cuttings, and completion of projects. Support includes: writing press releases, organizing background briefings for media, compiling and disseminating press packets and on-site coordination of media. Follow-up with media to ensure coverage of public events.
• Assist in the preparation of briefing materials and scene setters for VIP visits. Participate in VIP activities as appropriate to document with still photographs and videos as well as to work with any media attending the activities.
• Maintain a calendar of USAID program events in close coordination with USAID technical staff and implementing partners.
• Design, develop and disseminate outreach materials to promote USAID programs to target audience and media, including outreach folders and fact sheets, newsletters, brochures, website, photo essays, video for broadcast, print and on-line media.
• Work with technical teams to produce videos and stills showcasing success stories and impact of project on beneficiaries. Videos (mini-documentaries) will be used for broadcast in South Sudan as well as to showcase USAID South Sudan’s work via on-line media (YouTube, links on USAID South Sudan Facebook page, Flicker and Twitter).Monitor comments on all social media and in consultation with the Mission respond to any comments/questions.
• Market and maintain current USAID/South Sudan website.
• Produce weekly reports highlighting program developments and achievements.
• Produce stories that focus on beneficiaries of USAID-funded programs. Develop, produce and disseminate success stories.
• Write articles and produce a monthly newsletter on activities in USAID South Sudan.

Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in the field of public relations, communications or a related development area is preferred.
• Prior experience on international development programs, particularly USAID funded, and in depth knowledge of development issues required.
• Minimum of ten years of professional experience in public relations, or related field is required. Proven track record of producing and disseminating information to a variety of target audiences under tight timeframes is required.
• The successful candidate must be capable of crafting messages in various media formats (press releases, websites, stories, etc.) targeting a variety of audiences.
• Demonstrated coordination and organizational skills within multi-cultural work environment are required.
• Ability to manage several tasks simultaneously and to work effectively under pressure. Take initiative and be creative.
• Knowledge of USAID-funded communications is highly desirable.
• Good written and oral communication skills; strong interpersonal skills and understanding of print, TV and social media are required.
• Knowledge of word processing and excel is required.
• Familiarity with Adobe Photoshop and website development preferred.
• Experience with social media including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Flicker is required.

Additional Considerations Regarding work in South Sudan:

• Position requires travel throughout South Sudan

**Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.**

Food Security Specialist, Juba, the Republic of South Sudan
Location: South Sudan

Description

Food Security Specialist, Juba, the Republic of South Sudan

Position Summary:
The Food Security and Food Aid Monitoring Specialist will ensure effective management and targeting of FFP resources in South Sudan. His/her primary responsibilities are to monitor food security in South Sudan, the need for international food assistance, and the effectiveness and quality of implementation of Title II-funded food aid programs and to prepare reports to inform the USAID Mission, FFP/Washington and the regional FFP Office in Nairobi. Successful candidate will be monitoring both emergency and non-emergency programs being implemented in South Sudan.

** Please note: This is a local position. Only Sudanese citizens are eligible for this position.**

Responsibilities:
• Review, evaluate and apply complex policies and regulations.
• Provide rapid, concise, accurate reporting, both verbally and in writing.
• Grasp and theorize the complexities of food security, the wide variety of dynamic, influencing factors and the potential influence of international food assistance.
• Collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data related to complex concepts of food security and influencing factors.
• Work cooperatively in teams and multicultural environment.
• Willingness to regularly undertake extensive field work assignments for weeks at a time, often in austere conditions, spending approximately 50% of the time away from his/her base of operations.

Required/ Preferred Qualifications:
• Education: Bachelor’s degree is required in a field relevant to food security and food aid program management, such as agriculture, nutrition, international development or economics.
• Experience: At least five years of progressive responsibility in Humanitarian Assistance including experience working in South Sudan and food aid or related field work experience is required.
• Language ability: Must be fluent in English and South Sudan Local Dialect including Speaking, Reading, and Writing. (This will be tested)
• Knowledge of Arabic and additional languages is highly desirable.
• Competency in computer basic skills, to include knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel, e-mail, and internet required. (This will be tested)
• Ability to review, evaluate and apply complex policies and regulations.
• Ability to provide rapid, concise, accurate reporting, both verbally and in writing
• Ability to grasp and theorize the complexities of food security, the wide variety of dynamic, influencing factors and the potential influence of international food assistance
• Experience collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data related to complex concepts of food security and influencing factors
• Ability to work cooperatively in teams and multicultural environment.
• Willingness to regularly undertake extensive field work assignments for weeks at a time, often in austere conditions, spending approximately 50% of the time away from his/her base of operations.
• Good interpersonal communication skills.
• A solution-seeking attitude.

Salary Grade:
This is an FSN 10.

This assignment will be for a period of one year subject to renewal based on availability of funds and satisfactory performance.

Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

To apply, please visit our website: www.msiworldwide.com.

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