Social Inclusion Technical Advisor- Nairobi or Kigali

Nairobi or Kigali, Kenya
22000
Fixed Term, 1 year
Full Time, 35 hours per week

About VSO

VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.

Role overview

We are seeking this role to support the development of a regional strategy on social inclusion focusing on rights of People With Disabilities in Horn and east Afica, to enable developemnt of concepts or proposals in the sphere of social inclusion linked to 3 thematic areas of Education, Health and Livelihoods within our national programmes and strengthen national capacity on social inclusion.A technical Adviser whose key tasks will include: 

1) Analysis of social inclusion in the region in regards to persons with disabilities; 

2) the development of regional strategy on social inclusion of persons with disabilities; 

3) design of social inclusion concept /project proposal ; 

4) resource mapping for funding of social inclusion projects; 

5) capacity building of country office staff in social inclusion of persons with disabilities and 

6) participation and representation VSO on a variety of forums/fora on social inclusion. 

Youth Programme Officer- Volunter in Nigeria

Ikorodu, Nigeria
NGN 2,879,207.00 P/A
Fixed Term, 1 year
Full Time, 40 hours per week

About VSO

VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.

Role overview

VSO Nigeria is looking to recruit an experienced, skilled and efficient Youth Programme Officer to provide programmatic and administrative support to the Country Office. This position will be based in Lagos, and reports to the Youth Programmes Manager and South West Cluster Lead. 

The person will be responsible for program delivery of ICS and other Y4D programmes in assigned geographic area. The responsibilities will also include supporting the Cluster Leader (SPO) in effective planning and implementation of Y4D projects in the cluster. 

Responsible for program development and delivery of all youth programs in the assigned geographical areas with support of cluster leads and Youth Program Manager.

VSO- Country Director- Rwanda

Kigali, Rwanda
£33,000 per annum
Permanent
Full Time, 35 hours per week

About VSO

VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.

Role overview

VSO Rwanda’s current programme portfolio focuses on education and inclusion, and an emerging secure livelihoods programme. Working with a range of partners and funders we support education system strengthening and are promoting inclusive education pedagogies. We are also embarking on early childhood development programming. Working together with a highly-motivated team, you will translate our strategy into lasting, meaningful improvements in the lives of the country’s poorest people. You will work with our strategic partners to shape our goals, create national strategy, raise our profile, network with government agencies, donors and other international agencies, and generally be a walking, talking embodiment of our values and vision. You will champion and lead on impact focused programming. You will also provide oversight on how our people are managed, take responsibility for financial and resource management and legal compliance.

Project Officer-ICS Volunter

Unguja, Tanzania
Fixed Term, 12
Full Time, 40 hours per week

About VSO

ICS is a UK government-funded development programme that brings together 18 to 25-year-old from all backgrounds to fight poverty in. Tanzania ICS is implemented by VSO Tanzania in Kagera, Kilimanajaro and Mbeya Region. VSO has worked in this regions to tackle issues in Education, Health and Livelihoods.

Role overview

you will ensure successful delivery of project. You will provide support to a team of 2 volunteer team leaders and 24 youth volunteers. You will be promoting and encouraging appropriate behavior and ensuring safety and security standards procedures are met and understood by the team. You will ensure good partner relationship between VSO and partners we work with and other stake holders. You will represent VSO in meetings at the community.

Head of Programmes- Cambodia

Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Competitive salary and international benefits package for successful candidate and accompanied family
Fixed Term, 2 years
Full Time, 38 hours per week

About VSO

VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place. 

It's an exciting time to join VSO Cambodia, one of the longest standing INGOs in Cambodia.

Role overview

You’ll lead VSO Cambodia’s programme team as we embark on an exciting and ambitious phase of expansion, building on our successful and highly-regarded programmes in Education, Livelihoods, and Good Governance. You will be responsible for ensuring our programming is even more evidence-based, effective, and demonstrative of VSO’s unique contribution to development as captured by our theories of change. You’ll help us to increase the scale of these programmes by networking with development partners to identify and develop significant funding prospects. You’ll help us to increase the influence of these programmes by cultivating a culture of learning, and ensuring this is publicised and shared with others – including through targeted advocacy work. You will be working with a team of dedicated professionals, and building their capacity and confidence to deliver ever-stronger programmes. You’ll be spending a lot of time working with our key partners and our community of international volunteer professionals. But you’ll also be spending considerable time networking with donors, government, businesses, and other INGOs, raising VSO’s visibility and reputation in the right development discussions, and pursuing our policy objectives. Through this exciting and challenging role you will see on a daily basis how you are making a difference to the lives of poor people in Cambodia.

National Volunteering Advisor- Rwanda

Kigali City, Rwanda
The project duration is 12 months with a possibility of extension.
National Itorero Commission

About VSO

VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.

Role overview

Support to strengthen national volunteering management systems, volunteer programme development and management, and to develop a robust monitoring and evaluation system and tools for NIC operating at national and decentralised levels. The M& E tools are required to establish a database for recording and tracking the value and contribution of national volunteering in Rwanda.

VSO- Project Manager

Zanzibar, Tanzania
Fixed Term, 24
Full Time, 40 hours per week

About VSO

VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.

Role overview

• Manage, coordinate and overseer of the overall VNA project implementation. 
• This includes Managing human resource, partners, stakeholders and project deliverables. 
• Financial management and networking. 
• Ensure youth are linked to enterprise and employment opportunities

VSO- Primary Teacher Trainers (Multiple)

Various Locations, Various Countries
Placements are typically 12 to 24 months

About VSO

VSO is the world's leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.

Role overview

Teacher Training Colleges, Education Development Centres, ministries of education will host you as a volunteer. You'll support them in the development of primary education and advise them on the following: coaching tutors on active and child-centred methods, training pre-service teachers, developing curriculum, ensuring resources for training are operational and accessible, monitoring and evaluating input and output of implemented programmes, advising on teacher motivation. The emphasis of your position will depend on the key objectives of the local partner.

Skills, qualifications and experience required

You have a primary teaching qualification and a minimum of 3 years teaching experience in primary education. Experience of teacher training and teacher coaching is not always essential and we will consider applicants without this experience. Together with the above, VSO will assess all candidates against the following competencies, which make up VSO's volunteer competency framework. You're open minded and respectful. You're resilient and adapt well to new situations. You're able to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships. But most of all, as this is the vision of VSO, you're competent to seek and share knowledge.

VSO- Teacher Support Volunteer

Walewale, Ghana
Ghana Education Service, Jirapa (Ghana)

About VSO

VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.

Role overview

As part of the VSO Ghana Tackling Education Needs Inclusively (TENI) project the Teacher Support Volunteer will work with the District Training Officer and District Teacher Support Team (DTST) members to improve the capacity of all basic school teachers in the district in inclusive; child-centred teaching methods to enable them adequately deliver quality teaching in the classroom

VSO-Early Years Adivser

Various Locations, Various Countries
Placements are typically 12 to 24 months

About VSO

VSO is the world's leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.

Role overview

Teacher Training Colleges and Education Development Centres will host you as a volunteer. As a specialist in early years education you'll advise methodology tutors how to train students in active and child-centred methods of teaching. You'll support and offer training to in-service teachers on active methods and resource development. You'll monitor and report the inputs and outputs of programme interventions. The emphasis of your position will depend on the key objectives of the local partner.

VSO- Monitoring and Evaluation Advisers

Various Locations, Various CountriesPlacements are typically 12 to 24 months

About VSO

VSO is the world's leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.

Role overview

The aim of this role is to strengthen current monitoring and evaluation practices and support a partner organisation to develop integrated monitoring and evaluation systems. You'll build the capacity of personnel collecting, collating, analyzing, synthesizing and disseminating data. and introduce effective data collection approaches. You'll support the development of guidelines and tools on monitoring and evaluation and deliver training workshops. The emphasis of your position will depend on the key objectives of the local partner.