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  • Posted: Mar 30, 2022
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    Urgent Action Fund-Africa provides rapid response grants and technical support to women’s rights organisations, women's human rights defenders and activists who identify strategic and time sensitive opportunities to advance women's rights in Africa.
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    Evaluation Consultant

    Overall Purpose & Rational of the Job Evaluation Process

    Urgent Action Fund-Africa seeks an experienced human resources consultancy firm to support and accompany the Fund to carry out an organisation-wide job evaluation (JE) process. Periodically to ensure alignment with market trends, review staff capacity needs and for strategic human resources planning, UAF-Africa engages skilled human resources consultants to carry out this work in an effort to create a pay structure that is fair, equitable, and consistent for all staff at UAF-Africa, in line with market trends. Noting that it is prudent to review existing jobs to access their relative worth and their alignment with the new objectives as spelt out in UAF-Africa’s strategic compass, “**Centering African Womn: Feminist R/evolution in Action”, which runs** from 2021 to 2030. The Fund invites eligible HR consultancy firms to submit their interests latest 22 April 2022.

    UAF-Africa employs job evaluations (JE) as a systematic way of determining the value/worth of each job within the Fund, vis-a-vis the work laid out in the respective strategic compass. This job evaluation will enable a methodical comparison between jobs to assess their relative worth for the purpose of establishing rational job grades and streamlining of roles and responsibilities effectively. It also aims to ensure transparency in the Funds’ policies and practices around job grading, job roles and responsibilities and further upholding consistency with market and industry averages and expectations.

    Therefore, this job evaluation aims to;

    1. Understanding that a robust job evaluation process depends heavily on the job analysis process, the consultants must carry out a systematic job analysis of all jobs at UAF-Africa aimed at providing job specific information to be used to carry out a successful job evaluation.
    2. Using comparative data and information from other similar and like-minded organisations, the consultants should review current jobs to ensure alignment with the objectives and key deliverables of the Fund for the next 3 years (2023 – 2025).
    3. Identify gaps in current staff skills and capacity to meet the demands of the work.
    4. Recommendations on skills/capacity development needs for the current job holders.
    5. Review and project additional staffing needs / if necessary with clear justification in line with the 2021 – 2030 strategic compass.
    6. Systematically review the current grade system and align both current jobs and new jobs accordingly.
    7. Review the peculiarity of the Fund’s structure and its operations vis-à-vis like-minded organisations and access the competitiveness and viability of the Fund and further recommend and offer guidance on best practises and trends that improve the internal workings of the Fund going forward. To make UAF-Africa a competitive employer in the African Global markets.

    Apply before 04/22/2022

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    Communication And Media Engagement Senior Program Officer

    Position Overview
    The purpose of the position is to support the Fund in raising its visibility through deployment of various communications tools, development of communications materials, and liaising with media and service providers. 

    Description of Duties 
    Internal

    • With full understanding of UAF-Africa’s core business, the Officer produces stories, case-studies, news briefings, annual reports, newsletters, grant related articles and other relevant write-ups in English for various fora provided under communications framework. 
    • Lead in the development of gender sensitive tools for communications, knowledge management, and public and donor relations. 
    • The candidate’s style of writing should be reader friendly as well as professional. 
    • Keep abreast of latest tools and trends in social media and strategic communications while  deploying appropriate measures as necessary to reach out to wider audiences. 
    • The Officer is responsible for developing media, communications, and publication strategies. 
    • Provide organisation-wide communications support such as editing, drafting and proof reading of all communications. 
    • Develop standard operating procedures and guidelines for media coordination, placements, press conferences, convenings and media appearances for UAF-Africa staff, board, and grantees where need be.
    • Work with external service providers to coordinate media productions including audio-visuals, illustrations, and graphic designs. 
    • Grant Making Committee- is part of the grant making committee. 
    • Provide coaching to other UAF-Africa staff on the latest trends and tools of social media, communications, and media engagement as necessary.
    • Work as part of communications working groups with UAF-Africa feminist consortia and the UAF-Africa Sister Funds communications team.
    • Perform other Fund’s programming tasks as required from time to time.

    External: 

    • Translators - oversee translation of UAF-Africa IEC materials into French, Swahili, Portuguese, and Arabic.
    • Stakeholders - works with various stakeholders in the field on collaborative issues while maintaining an updated list of key constituencies and partners. 
    • Utilize UAF-Africa’s social media platforms to keep the Fund’s online community informed about our work, events, and topical discussions.
    • Consultants- works with web developers to upgrade and improve content and design of UAF- Africa website. Works with designers on UAF-Africa branding of IEC materials.
    • Works with videographers and documentary producers to produce and orient UAF- Africa’s audio-visual material. 
    • Media personnel- works with various print and electronic media personnel to spotlight UAF-Africa’s activities. 
    • Develop and implement the Fund’s brand strategy and manage the public image of UAF-Africa.

    Qualifications 

    • Master’s degree in social sciences - Gender Studies, Sociology, Social Psychology, Development Studies, and any other related disciplines with a focus on Communications & Media.

    Key Skills 

    • Over 5 years’ experience working on human/womn’s rights and or in communications in private sector or other sectors of the economy. 
    • Demonstrated communications, publishing and knowledge management skills and the ability to multitask using various media techniques. 
    • Sound Information Technology (IT) and media skills. 
    • Must be a feminist with contextual knowledge of the womn’s rights situation on the African continent and commit to adhering to individual and organisational feminist principles and values. 
    • The candidate must have excellent time management skills, enabling them to work quickly and efficiently under pressure especially when facing tight deadlines. 
    • Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team while able to set own work plan, meet deadlines and balance competing priorities. 
    • Must have outstanding oral and written skills in English. Working knowledge of French, Swahili, Portuguese and Arabic will be an added advantage. 
    • Officer should have valid travel documents and be able to travel on short notice.

    Desired Competencies 

    • Communications, knowledge management, public relations and conceptualization skills and ability to network widely. 
    • Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UAF-Africa. 
    • Cultural sensitivity/valuing diversity: demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organisation and the diversity of its staff. 
    • Demonstrating an international outlook and has ability to build effective teams. 
    • Communicating information and ideas: creating and promoting an enabling environment for open communication. 
    • Continuous Learning: sharing research findings across the organisation and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning. 

    Apply before 04/07/2022

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