African Population and Health Research
Center (APHRC)
Job Vacancy: CARTA
Program Administrative Officer
The African Population and Health
Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental
organization that carries out high quality and policy-relevant research on population
and health issues in sub-Saharan Africa.
APHRC’s flagship program, The
Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) is an Africa-based,
Africa-led initiative which seeks to rebuild and strengthen the capacity of
African universities to produce well-trained and skilled researchers and
scholars in Africa by Africans.
The program addresses an important
challenge facing the African academy i.e. the scarcity of a robust research and
training infrastructure capable of offering the type of vibrant and sustained
doctoral training necessary to attract, train and retain the continent’s
brightest minds.
CARTA seeks to recruit a Program
Administrative Officer to provide training and administrative support to CARTA
fellows and institutions.
Duties / Responsibilities:
·
Create, maintain and update training
repositories for Joint Advanced Seminars (JASs), Graduate Workshops while also
overseeing automation of training processes;
·
Support the recruitment of
facilitators for JASs and Graduate Workshops, assisting the facilitators with
interpretation of training documentation and aiding the facilitators to deliver
on teaching methods at the CARTA workshops in line with the curriculum and
philosophy;
·
Provide requisite resources and
material for JASs and Graduate Workshops;
·
Support calls for doctoral,
postdoctoral and senior faculty fellowships as well as coordinating recruitment
of participants for the said fellowships;
·
Conduct evaluation of post-doctoral
opportunities including re-entry grants and post-doctoral fellowships;
·
Support curriculum implementation
through facilitation of review meetings, collation of feedback from fellows and
facilitators and rolling out curriculum review resolutions by Board of
Management and Partners’ Forum;
·
Create and maintain mailing list for
groups within CARTA including fellows, supervisors, funders, focal persons,
Board of Management and Partners’ Forum;
·
Facilitate and manage facilitators’
and fellows’ communication and correspondences;
·
Provide administrative support by
coordinating timely approval and disbursement of contracts, tuition fees,
health insurance, research grants, publication funds, internship funds,
conference funds and stipends of fellows, in liaison with the Program Manager,
Grant/Development Officer, Accounts Officer, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
and Administrative Officer;
·
Support CARTA’s governance activities
by providing the necessary program documentation and reports;
·
Coordinate the implementation of
CARTA’s partner meeting resolutions;
·
Prepare award/ regret letters to
applicants, in liaison with the Program Manager, Finance Office and Development
Office;
·
Support donor engagement by availing
documents required for funding calls, in liaison with the Development Office,
Finance Office and the Program Managers;
·
Identify funding opportunities to
support CARTA and disseminating information on funding opportunities through
relevant media, aid fellows to develop and apply for winning proposals;
·
Lead the internship and visiting
scholars’ programs at APHRC; and
·
Participate in Higher Education
Research activities as well as other Research Capacity Strengthening (RCS)
activities based on need.
Qualifications, experience and
skills:
·
Master’s degree in a relevant field;
·
At least 2 years’ working experience
in administering and implementing training programs in academic and/or research
institutions;
·
Excellent administration and training
skills;
·
Knowledge of, and experience in data
mining and maintenance will be an added advantage;
·
Excellent interpersonal skills and
ability to effectively work with diverse teams; and
·
Excellent writing and presentation
skills.
Interested candidates are encouraged
to apply by email to jobs@aphrc.org with the subject ‘Program Administrative
Officer’ by November 05, 2019.
Only short listed candidates will be
contacted.
Cover letters should be addressed to:
The Human Resources Officer
African Population and Health Research Center, Inc
APHRC Campus, Manga Close, off Kirawa Road, Kitisuru
P. O. Box 10787-GPO, Nairobi
Website: www.aphrc.org
African Population and Health Research Center, Inc
APHRC Campus, Manga Close, off Kirawa Road, Kitisuru
P. O. Box 10787-GPO, Nairobi
Website: www.aphrc.org
APHRC is an equal opportunity
employer and is committed to the protection of children