ADD Tanzania Country Director

ADD is currently seeking to recruit a Country Director to lead the Tanzania programme based in Dar es Salaam.

• Could you lead and manage a programme supporting disabled people’s organisations?
• Are you a disabled person or do you have experience of disability issues?
• Do you have experience of people’s movements, human rights work, community development and/or work with disabled people?
• Do you have leadership and management abilities?
  
  If so, you may be the person we are looking for.

The post holder will lead a programme of work to contribute to the strengthening of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) as effective advocates for disability rights and s/he will be required to have good leadership skills, an understanding of disability and human rights issues, demonstrable experience in community development and good programme, communication, financial and people management skills. He/s will need to be able to represent an international organisation and establish good relations with organisations of disabled people, government, NGOs, CSOs and other development agencies.

ADD welcomes applications from both women and men who have the appropriate skills. Disabled people with appropriate experience are particularly encouraged to apply. ADD has accessible offices and will make modifications as required to ensure all applicants can realise equal opportunities. Only nationals of Tanzania are invited to apply.

In the first instance, applicants are invited to submit a short statement of no more than 500 words explaining what you think are the main issues facing disabled people and how these can be addressed. Please indicate if you are a disabled person.

Please email the statement together with a CV and covering letter stating why you are appropriate for this job to both:

Karen Andrä, Programme Coordinator: karen.andrea@add.org.uk and Asteria Gwajima, ADD Tanzania Programme Manager: asteria.gwajima@add.or.tz.

Alternatively, you can post the statement and CV to Asteria Gwjima, Action on Disability and Development, PO Box 33659, Mikocheni 'B', Ileje Street, Plot 32B, Dar es Salaam.

You will then immediately be emailed an application pack.

The closing date for submitting a completed application pack is 28th January 2010.

Direct Approach Fundraisers

ADD needs committed people to work as Direct Approach Fundraisers in a sensitive and personal way and will be employed on behalf of ADD by a fundraising agency. For more information about this work please contact Andy Capie on 01373 473064.

ADD's policy

ADD has 8 offices and works in 11 countries with 133 staff (113 overseas, 20 UK), 48% of our staff are disabled people. ADD promotes a positive action policy to help us realise our target of at least 50% women and 50% disabled people in our workforce and governing body. Of our current eight trustees, four are disabled people and four are women. The board also includes three members who are from Africa and Asia.

We usually appoint nationals in the countries in which we work and we do not send volunteers overseas.

The UK's Department for International Development supports the volunteering scheme Platform2.

Platform2 offers young adults (18-25) from less advantaged backgrounds the opportunity to live, work and learn about life in poorer countries