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  • Company: Sport in Action
  • Location: Zambia
  • State: Luanshya
  • Job type: Full-Time
  • Job category: Administrative/Secretarial Jobs in Zambia

Sport in Action (SIA) is a Zambian sports non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1998. With sport for development, the use of sport as a tool for social change, as its underlying principle, SIA positively impacts the lives of children, girls and youths throughout its targeted districts in Zambia. Sport In Action, in partnership with Pact Inc. has been implementing USAID’s flagship Zambia Community HIV Prevention Project (Z-CHPP).

SIA will be expanding its reach towards the adolescent girls and young women through the Determined Resilient Empowered Aids-free Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative. DREAMS initiative supports the Government of Zambia’s response to HIV by aiming to reduce HIV transmission among AGYW aged 10–24 years, through educating young people about HIV prevention and supporting families to relieve the negative effects of HIV/AIDS.

Sport In Action invites applications from suitable candidates to fill the positions below for a duration of one year subject to funding from October 2020 to September 2020. All positions are Copperbelt Province based in the district of Luanshya.

Roles

  • Offer support to DREAMS center managers in implementation of day to day DREAMS plans as per budget and ensure reach of all targets
  • Support individual DREAMS centers to organize stakeholder engagement meetings
  • Track work plan activities and deliverables, keeping project leadership updated on program progress on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
  • Provide overall leadership in the implementation of the economic strengthening activity
  • Coordinate and organize trainings or orientations for DREAMS volunteers
  • Monitor all DREAMS activities in each center
  • Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual narrative progress reports including success stories.
  • Collaborate with the district M&E team on performance results analysis and ensuring that accurate data is captured and entered in the monitoring system using the appropriate prescribed monitoring tools.
  • Maintain up to date records of AGYW participating in DREAMS stepping stones curriculum/activities
  • Mentor volunteers implementing activities
  • Any other duties as assigned or as need arises

Required Qualifications

  • Must be Zambian female aged between 25 and 35 years
  • Must have Grade 12 certificate with credits or better in 5 ‘O’ level subjects which must include English and Mathematics
  • Must have a diploma or better in social science, the health-related field is an added advantage
  • Must be knowledgeable in Microsoft office suite (Word, Excel & Power-Point) and online meeting platforms
  • Must not have a criminal record

Work Experience

  • Must have past experience working with adolescents and young women in HIV prevention and service provision

Method of Application

Interested and suitably qualified applicants should submit an application letter and curriculum vitae (CV) with three references in one document to the following email address: [email protected], in copy [email protected]. Certificates are not required at this point. The closing date for applications is Sunday, 20th September 2020. All applications that shall not follow instructions shall not be processed for consideration.

All applicants not responded to within two weeks from 20th September 2020 should consider their applications unsuccessful. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.