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Institutional Capacity Builder with speciality in Visual Impairment
Instituto Boliviano de la Ceguera, Chuquisaca (IBC Ch), Sucre, Bolivia
Instituto Boliviano de la Ceguera, Chuquisaca (IBC Ch), is one of four
organisations supported by Irish Aid through a project promoting the
social inclusion of disabled people into local and national development
processes in Bolivia. Your role at IBC Ch will be to provide guidance in
aspects of institutional strengthening, including developing more
effective tools for planning, implementing and evaluating activities;
awareness raising; training workshops on specific themes (eg Braille,
computers, leadership, basic accounting); developing a virtual library;
strengthening coordination and networking with other institutions; and
liaising with the other three partners of the Irish Aid project. You
should be educated to postgraduate level with qualifications related to
disability and devleopment, with a minimum of three years' work
experience incorporating work with blind/visually impaired individuals,
project management (design, implementation, M & E), facilitation and
training, and, ideally, conflict resolution. You should have solid
spoken/written Spanish skills and a willingness to learn Quechua,
together with proven adaptability/flexibility, and a demonstrable
understanding of/commitment to the situation of disabled people in
Bolivia. (REF: BOL/52)
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Movimiento Laicos para America Latina (MLAL)/Qalauma, El Alto,
Bolivia
(2 posts)
Movimiento Laicos para America Latina (MLAL) is an Italian NGO working
worldwide to promote sustainable change. In Bolivia, it focuses on food
security issues and human rights, including the development of Qalauma,
a new centre for young offenders, which is based on the Brazilian
restorative justice prison model APAC (Association for the Protection
and Assistance to the Condemned). MLAL is responsible for the
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the centre.
Communication and social integration specialist for incarcerated
youth
Your role will focus on awareness raising and building bridges between
youth offenders and the outside community locally and internationally.
Activities will include coordinating and contributing to public
education work, building networks of support for youth offenders with
church, sports, cultural, and other community groups, contributing to
the training of judges and lawyers in rehabilitative justice; exchanging
experiences with other youth justice initiatives internationally
(including writing case studies and articles about Qalauma) and helping
the youth offenders to find their voices. This is a demanding post,
requiring graduate (ideally postgraduate) qualifications in
education/pedagogy/communication (or another related field); a minimum
of 3 years' experience in community awareness raising projects, work
with at risk youth, and conflict resolution and/or group problem solving
techniques; good spoken/written Spanish and willingness to learn basic
Aymara; flexibility and emotional resilience; proven teamwork and
training skills, and a demonstrable understanding of/commitment to youth
offenders. (REF: BOL/50)
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Small and medium enterprise (SME) trainer for incarcerated youth
Your role is in the area of vocational training and small business
development, working directly with young offenders, and supporting
Qalauma's vocational training in carpentry, baking, agriculture,
metalworking, and crafts. Activities will include designing and
delivering training in business planning, bookkeeping, marketing and
other small business skills; supporting the youth in developing ideas
for new businesses and products; implementing a mentorship programme
involving business leaders from outside the centre; negotiating
production contracts with Bolivian and foreign companies to enable youth
to use new skills whilst in prison; coordinating with other educators to
design a labour insertion plan for when youth are released; and
motivating, inspiring and building the self-confidence of the youth
offenders. This is a demanding post and you should be educated to
graduate (ideally postgraduate) level in business
administration/economics or another related field; with at least three
years' experience of managing a small business (ideally in one of the
Qalauma workshop areas) and experience teaching and training at risk
youth, together with good spoken/written Spanish and willingness to
learn basic Aymara, flexibility and emotional resilience, significant
capacities in applying initiative and creativity to resolve problems,
and a demonstrable understanding of/commitment to youth offenders. (REF:
BOL/51)
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Micro-agribusiness and food security specialist
K’anchay, Vila Vila & Cochabamba, Bolivia
Many children in rural communities in Bolivia face a lack of educational
opportunities, including through a scarcity of secondary schools,
distance from school, and a national curriculum that doesn't respond to
local realities. K'anchay ("to illuminate" in Quechua)
manages/co-manages 8 boarding schools that focus on validating Quechua
traditions and agricultural knowledge through experiential learning. The
K'anchay centre in Vila Vila provides training in sustainable
agriculture, soil conservation, reforestation, nutritional crops, small
animal husbandry and preventive health care, as well as preparing young
people for leadership positions within their own community. Your role
will be to support the agricultural/agribusiness training programme at
Vila Vila as well as supporting organisation-wide planning processes at
K'anchay's headquarters in Cochabamba. You will be involved in designing
curricula, delivering training in basic agribusiness skills, helping to
strengthen local agricultural markets, and supporting K'anchay's board
members in planning, monitoring and evaluation and fundraising. You
should have qualifications (ideally to postgraduate level) and
significant experience related to small-scale agriculture, an
understanding of rural markets, solid training skills and experience of
curriculum development, together with an understanding of/commitment to
working in rural Bolivia. Good spoken/written Spanish/willingness to
learn Quechua essential. (REF: BOL/49)
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Environmental Educator
Centro de Habilitação e Apoio ao Pequeno Agricultor do Araripe (CHAPADA),
Ararapina, Pernambuco, Brazil
CHAPADA works with the rural populations of the 10 municapalities of
the Araripe Territory in Northeastern Brazil, promoting agroecology and
agroforestry practices, and sustainable family agriculture, to mitigate
the effects of desertification in this semi-arid region. Your role
within CHAPADA's team will be to strengthen the ecological focus of
activities - assessing and reducing the environmental impact of farming
activities (agroecology systems, goat/sheep rearing, free range
chickens, family horticulture and agriculture), helping to identify new
opportunities with environmental and resource conservation, and
supporting CHAPADA in its negotiations with local industry to reduce
environmental impact. You will also participate in meetings, training
workshops, campaigns, local radio programmes, talks to schools etc as
necessary. You should be educated to degree level
(biology/agronomy/ecology/forestry) with a solid knowledge of key
environmental issues (desertification/biodiversity conservation),
knowledge/experience of organic agriculture, strong IT skills, and
(ideally) fundraising experience, together with proven team working and
communication skills and a highly participative and non-threatening
approach. Knowledge of Portuguese/willingness to learn essential.
(REF: BRA/50)
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STI/HIV/AIDS Programme capacity builder (children and adolescents)
Amazonas State STI/HIV/AIDS Programme, Benjamin Constant, Amazonas, Brazil
The Amazonas State STI/HIV/AIDS Programme, based at the Tropical Medicine
Foundation in Manaus, Brazil, is intended to cover all 62 municipalities of the
State, but due to enormous distances and areas of remote access, in many of the
interior municipalities very limited activities have so far been developed.
Based in Benjamin Constant, your role will be to work with the local and
surrounding municipalities helping to develop services for children and
adolescents including identifying and training peer educators, systematising
data, and responding (where possible) to the training needs of the local team,
project and partners. You should have an academic background in a health related
subject together with experience in STI/HIV/AIDS project administration and/or
organisational development; experience of health education, ideally with
children and adolescents, and of working with people in an empowering capacity;
strong communication skills and a willingness to live and work in the Brazilian
Amazon. (REF: BRA/30). Candidates must have a right to work in Brazil.
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Inclusive education adviser, with a focus
on intellectually disabled children, Institut d’Education Populaire (IEP),
Kati, Mali
IEP is a collective of community
educators working to develop alternative approaches in curriculum,
methodology and materials for grassroots education in Mali. Long before
inclusive education became official government policy in Mali, IEP’s
CIWARA Community School was including disabled children in classes. At a
social level, disabled children have become very well integrated, but at
an academic level, progress has been very limited: none of the teachers
has training related to the needs of disabled children, the government
lacks the resources to provide education for all, and IEP is now looking
for support in developing teaching, animation, support and evaluation in
inclusive schools like CIWARA. Based in Kati (15km from Bamako) and
working closely with a small team, you will provide an input in
developing curriculum and methodology, provide training to staff
members, establish a monitoring and follow-up system, and develop a
training module for the programme of teacher training colleges. IEP is
looking for someone with specialist expertise
(qualifications/experience) related to understanding the needs and
capabilities of mentally disabled children in inclusive environments;
classroom teaching experience is also essential, together with the
capacity to develop materials, a highly flexible, creative and sensitive
approach, and a good knowledge of French. (REF: MAL/34)
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Lobbying adviser
Enda Tiers-Monde, Mopti, Mali
The origins of studying with a Koranic
teacher lie in Muslim tradition. Religious education continues to be
valued highly in Mali, but many children are now sent away to Koranic
schools because their parents are unable to care financially for them.
The majority of Talibé (Koranic students) face a situation of forced
labour, insufficient access to food, hygiene and health care, lack of
affection, and teaching which is not regulated by any state established
norms. Talibe are consquently amongst the most disadvantaged and
marginalised groups of children in Malian society, and their numbers are
visibly increasing (particularly in the cities of Mopti, Segou and
Bamako). Enda’s programme Djami works towards improving the situation of
the Talibé, and your role will be to work with the Mopti team in its
efforts to promote child rights, and particularly to support lobbying
activities towards the inclusion of Koranic schools into the Malian
education system, and the establishment of a legal framework to regulate
their operation. (You will also contribute to the process of drawing up
norms and regulations for the schools). Given the religious context of
this role, demonstrable understanding/openness to religious beliefs and
practices is essential, together with qualifications and experience
related to lobbying and education together with experience of working
with marginalised young people, the capacity to integrate into
semi-rural traditional Malian society, and working knowledge of French.
(REF: MAL/36)
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Internships may be available with IS partner organisations from time to time,
providing opportunities to gain experience and/or undertake research.
They are generally self-financing, although some expenses may be covered by the
organisation.
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Conditions of Service
All posts require candidates with relevant qualifications and at least two
years’ appropriate experience, preferably in a development context. Unless
otherwise stated, appointment is for a minimum of two years, under the
following conditions: monthly living allowance, resettlement grant according to
length of service, medical costs, personal insurance and medical evacuation
cover, travel costs, training costs, 20 days’ annual leave. IS welcomes
applications from non-UK nationals.
Limited costs (flights/insurance/accommodation) may be covered for accompanying
partners (further details available on request). Selection for all posts takes
place over two days at our offices in York, for which accommodation is provided
and travel expenses reimbursed.