Internship Vacancies at Micro-Credit Development in Entebbe, Uganda

Job Title: Intern

Organisation: Micro-Credit Development
Duty Station: Entebbe, Uganda

About Project:
This project offers motivated interns the opportunity to gain hands-on micro-credit and business training experience to kick-start a career in international development. The organisation you will be working for was set up over two years with the aim of encouraging growth in rural communities. Micro business loans are given to single mothers or widows to start income-generating businesses, which helps them rise out of poverty and create positive living conditions for themselves and their families.

The project finds community members who are not working, trains them in basic business management skills and gives them micro-loans to start a business of their choice. The members are put in a group of six who are meant to support each other in finding solutions to the challenges facing their businesses. For the cooperative business projects the members are encouraged to work as a group towards the creation of one product or service, such as a cooperative bakery.

Since its inception the project has assisted over fifteen individual female-led rural households. In addition, over twenty households have benefited from a co-operative piggery project. The organisation is currently working on a 30 member co-operative solar bakery project that will be located on an isolated island in Lake Victoria. This is an ambitious and growing project and your contribution can help make a tangible difference in poor communities.

Job Summary: The Intern will be tasked to work with our local staff to hold meetings with the micro-loan members, visit and assess progress of their businesses, and discuss business challenges and solutions. In addition, he/she will assist in the identification of skills which may be required for the better running of their businesses, assess other women's groups that may benefit from the project, and raise awareness of the projects aims.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

The Intern will be assisting in programmes that provide credit assistance for self-help savings, sound banking policies for the poor, and revolving funds for those in need.
He /she will also be coordinating meetings and training sessions for NGOs which assist poor communities to build up savings, credit and form linkages with banks.
Offering support to village self-help groups to independently develop financial institutions to manage profit-making programs and activities.
The Intern will be creating workshops to introduce the concept of micro-credits and micro-finance to new communities.
Elaborating business plans and facilitate access to micro-credit by working with local communities.
Offering administrative support.

You will also get to share your time with the HIV/AIDS education project. This involves educating the women about the various ways of preventing the spread of HIV, mobilising them for HIV testing, giving out free condoms and encouraging them to pass the information on to their male family members and partners.

You will be met at Entebbe international airport in Kampala by a project representative and taken to the project location to begin your placement, after a full orientation to Kampala.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The applicant should exhibit high enthusiasm and interest in working in the micro finance sector

You will stay in accommodations near to the project, which you will share with other participants during your stay.
You will have access to a fully equipped kitchen and clean bathroom.
The friendly coordinators and staff will do their best to make sure you are comfortable and safe.
Fluency in conversational English
Full travel & medical insurance
Necessary vaccinations
 Necessary flights & visas

Benefits after Internship:

Skills in collaborating with local staff to improve access to micro-credit for entrepreneurs striving to improve their economic well-being
Practical experience in holding meetings, discussing business plans and offering lines of credit
Opportunities for economists, development professionals and students
Opportunities for dissertation research

What's Included: Project Fee includes all food, accommodation, airport pickup, orientation, 24-hour support and integration into the project. We charge a flat, one-off Placement Fee of £295 GBP per person per project. This covers our costs for promoting the project and providing our services. We offer full pre-departure support (for all necessary flights, visas and vaccinations) and on-going assistance throughout your placement.

How to Apply:
If you so desire to seize this internship opportunity, please visit web link below to visit recruitment website

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Deadline: Monday, 10th February 2014.

Accountant Job Vacancy at EngenderHealth in Kampala, Uganda

Job Title: Accountant

Organisation: EngenderHealth
Funding Source: USAID
Project: Fistula Care Plus
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Finance and Operations Manager
Job Code:    591

About Us:
EngenderHealth works to improve the health and well-being of people in the poorest communities of the world. We do this by sharing our expertise in sexual and reproductive health and transforming the quality of health care. We promote gender equity, advocate for sound practices and policies, and inspire people to assert their rights to better, healthier lives. Working in partnership with local organizations, we adapt our work in response to local needs.

About Fistula Care Plus Project:
EngenderHealth Uganda received an award (cooperative agreement) by USAID for a Fistula Care plus project whose objective is to strengthen health system capacity for fistula prevention, detection, treatment and reintegration. The project will strengthen environments to enable for fistula prevention and treatment, increase community awareness and support for women and girls with fistula, reduce barriers to accessing prevention, detection, and care, and improve the evidence base for approaches to improve fistula care in the districts of Hoima, Masaka, Kalungu and Kasese.

Job Summary: The Accountant is expected to offer technical support in the application of accounting principles in analyzing financial information and prepare financial reports for EngenderHealth. She/he will support operations of the office including Human resources.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

=Administration of the country program’s accounting, monitoring and reporting system, including establishing internal control systems in accordance with EngenderHealth standard operating procedures.
=Work with the management to develop and coordinate the annual budgeting process for the country program and the new project proposals.
=Review all payment vouchers for completeness and accuracy  before approval for payment
=Prepare monthly financial reports (Post journals, bank reconciliations) and timey responding to queries form H/O.
=Maintaining a good Cash flow management system and prepare cash advance request to H/O.
=Monthly reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.
=Reviewing the Sage X3 Uganda ledger against the Quick books ledger and reconciling where the two have differences.
=Prepare Budget vs Expense reports and monitor the office project fund balance
(Pipeline report) and other donor reports as required.
=Coordinate the preparation of the office financial year-end procedures, year- end schedules and prepare audit schedule.
=Ability to work with both external and internal audits at the country office
=Responsible for Sub-award management.
=Manage the office staff advances.
=Ensure that all office contracts are well managed and followed up including utilities, insurance for vehicles etc.
=Maintain the staff HR personnel files updated.
=Manage the monthly Payroll process and prepare the payroll allocation.
=Manage the office local statutory returns, by ensuring that returns are submitted and Paid on time (URA, VAT, WHT, NSSF and LST to KCCA).
=Ensure the compliance of the organization Standard Operating Procedure.
=Oversee and provide support to the Accounts Assistant.
=Perform any other comparable duties may be assigned to this position from time to time, in general support of EngenderHealth activities.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

=The applicant should hold a good bachelor’s degree in accounting or a related field from a recognized institution.
=Professional accounting certification of CPA or ACCA.
=At least five years’ experience as an accountant in an Audit Firm or commercial experience.
=Computer literacy skills i.e. excellent use of accounting packages/programs including Excel, Word and QuickBooks would be an advantage.
=Possess high degree of integrity with developed interpersonal skills and people management skills

How to Apply:
All interested job applicants should visit our website’s career page at www.engenderhealth.org or  Click Here  to submit your details online.

Deadline: 7th February 2014.