Intership Progrma
Posted April 24th, 2008 by Maasai Internat...
MICA Internship Position Camp Manager
Internship Position:
Duties:
· Assist with strategic planning
· Ensure adequate project documentation and evaluation
· Conduct necessary research about beneficiary groups
· Coordinate volunteer program
- Maintain email correspondence with volunteers, donors, and other interested persons
- Coordinate volunteer pick up and drop off
- Conduct volunteer orientation
- Facilitate volunteer projects
- Liaise between volunteers and host families
- Liaise between volunteers and MICA staff
· Maintain local and international publicity
- Write weekly article series in the Arusha Times
- Networking with international organisations
- Write quarterly MICA newsletter
- Delegate above tasks to incoming volunteers when possible
· Coordinate sponsor-a-child programme:
- Communicate with sponsors to ensure programme consistency
- Oversee financial details of the programme
- Delegate above tasks to incoming volunteers when possible
· Fundraising
- Research potential donors
- Write, submit, and follow up project proposals
- Send thank you letters to donors
- Coordinate Cultural Tourism Program
- Assist with other income generating activities and fundraisers
- Delegate above tasks to incoming volunteers when possible
· General administration including keeping accounts, maintaining files, maintaining physical assets and supervising staff
· Recruit successor as
Requirements:
· Available to work for at least three 2 Six months.
· Working towards or completed a university level degree in a relevant field of study and/or former work with a non-governmental organisation, preferably including proposal writing, preferably in a developing country
· Management skills, communication skills, teamwork skills as well as the motivation and initiative to work individually and contend with language barriers.
· Flexible, creative and able to coordinate successfully as a key member of the project.
· Computer literate and skill at writing documentation and funding proposals.
· Excellent writing skills
· Should be able to support themselves financially for the duration of their stay time.
· Must believe in, or at least be open to Mica’s Christian tenets
Compensation:
· The position is uncompensated.
Benefits:
· Excellent experience working for a highly successful non-profit charity organisation
· The opportunity to enjoy three 2 six months in Arusha, one of the most unique and beautiful places in the world.
· The chance to learn Tanzanian culture and language.
· Assistance finding a home with a host family or separate apartment.
· Inexpensive living costs compared to the standards of developed countries.
· Daily contact with MICA Linked Orphans center
· Negotiable and flexible vacation time (generally three weeks)
· Free to get involved with research works on Education,culture,Antropology and Environment
Data collection on HIV/AIDS Project
- Focused ground discussion with community leaders and PLWHA (people living with HIV/AIDS) who are on the ARVs programme.
- Interview with a sample of individuals
· Questionnaires distributed to the community and health workers to gather background information on stigma and also on attitudes of ARVs (type of questionnaire)
· Patients VCT centres or hospital testing Records to determine whether there’s been an increase, decrease or no change of HIV testing with the introduction of cost/free ARVs.
· To determine the stigma issues in both communities.
· To determine the ARV up take in these communities
· To observe level of knowledge about the disease and ARV in both the communities
· To assess the quality of the processes involved for ARVs consumption among patients in the selected sites.
· To document challenges and suggestions for reduction of HIV related stigma.
Position Duration and Application Dates:
Application Process:
Please visit our website; www.maasaichallenge.org and fill out our volunteer application indicating that you are interested in MICA’s Internship Position. We will contact you with further instructions if your application is accepted.