No Experience Project Support field Volunteer Swiss Non-profit Jobs – Seeds
Job Title: Project Support field Volunteer (No Experience Jobs)
Organization: Seeds
Duty Station: Uganda
About US:
Seeds is a nonprofit organization based in Switzerland, with presence in Spain and France aimed at improving the living conditions and prospects of families living below the poverty line by enabling access to financial resources and capacity building to village women. Through the formation of community-managed Village Savings and Loans Associations, women are taught to save and lend money to each other at an agreed-upon interest rate, in order to enable them to develop income-generating activities.
Job Summary: The Uganda Project Support field Volunteer works in Mbale, Uganda, under the supervision of the field manager and in cooperation with Seeds various local partners. He/She will be responsible for supporting the partners in the development of their project/business, managing aspects of the projects related to financial records and reporting, and researching partnership expansion possibilities.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Project Management
- Tasked with the development of an income-generating activity (a tailoring business) with a women’s community group:
- Support the project development: coordinating/supervising the tailoring space construction works, the tailoring training and, most importantly, the set-up of the tailoring business
- Provide capacity building on business management, provide advice on the organization of the production and, especially, marketing.
Support & development of Village Savings and Loans Association groups (community based micro-finance approach):
- Support the (4) projects development: supervise the training of our local partners’ staff, supervise the quality of their work, measure the social impact of the developed microfinance groups, evaluate options of program’s growth
- Provide capacity building on records keeping and financial management of the project
Support the creation of a microfinance institution (Credit Cooperative):
- Support the creation during the trainings of the credit cooperative’s board and the implementation of the credit cooperative’s structure.
- Support the development of the credit cooperative through technical, financial, and all other necessary support.
Research
- Project expansion: Explore feasibility of new local partnership possibilities encompassing microfinance solutions.
- Conduct studies and informal audit related to all sections of those potential new partnerships.
- Demographic and geographic data: Collect data about the region such as population, district map, and other useful indicators
- Other activities as required
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: The volunteer would be a highly motivated, flexible self-starter who can successfully work cross-cultural and possess the following qualifications:
- Education in and/or experience with project management
- Knowledge of micro-finance is an advantage
- English fluency
- Ability to work independently and to be proactive
- Strong interpersonal and written communication skills
- Ability to identify needs and priorities and respond accordingly
- Willingness to live in basic living conditions
How to Apply:
Please submit your CV and cover letter to: hr@seeds-ngo.org
Deadline: 10th July 2018
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