Job Description:
Project Manager/s
Sabina Food and Water Security Project
Sabina Home and Boarding Primary School
Rakai District, Uganda
Nurturing the growth of Sabina Home and School…
You’re already passionate about permaculture as a tool to
effect positive change and create designs for sustainable living and
land use. Now here’s your opportunity to utilise your skills and
enthusiasm to empower and address the real issues confronting
communities in the developing world. We’re looking for a special
person (or couple) to continue work on the permaculture project at
Sabina Home and Boarding Primary School in southern Uganda. Rowe
Morrow of Australia created the initial design and taught workshops to
the local staff and community in June 2008. Implementation of
the design has been going forward since then. If you would enjoy the
opportunity to put your skills to work, share your knowledge and
experiences with, and learn from, an extraordinary community on a
phenomenal site, this position may be for you.
To whet your appetite, let’s share a typical day onsite…
Waking to a sky alive with birds, you walk through the growing
gardens and are greeted by the big smiles and hugs of the children
living onsite. Your newly acquired language skills are met with proud
laughter and prompts from three hundred eager teachers. The day is
rewarding – productive, varied, creative: each activity an
opportunity for you to inspire those in the school and local community
about the project and to learn in return. The heat of the day
encourages you to take rest in the shade of a mango, and reflect on
what’s been achieved to date, and what remains to be done. The sound
of a hundred voices in song fills the soft evening air and the
equatorial sky darkens to reveal a thick blanket of stars. Your head
is filled with plans for planting and propagation, earth works and
energy sources as flickering lamps and soft voices illuminate your
walk to the nearby village for sweet papaya and bananas. You
savour the smiles, songs, stories and the sense of being continually
humbled by the love and generosity shown by people so poor in the
material sense, yet living life so richly. This is life at Sabina!
Job Description
- Implement and improve on the site design at Sabina Home and
Boarding School
- Lead the permaculture team; manage and develop relationships
within the community
- Create and maintain project budgets and reports
- Conduct project monitoring and evaluation
- Teach permaculture-based courses, workshops, and informal
workshops and courses for on-site residents and community, alongside
short-term volunteers, interns and visitors
- Participate in the selection of an Assistant Project Manager and
facilitate the project’s transition to Ugandan management
Qualifications
- Completed a PDC with recognised teacher(s)
- Teaching credentials ideal
Experience
- Practical permaculture design, implementation, and teaching
experience (preferably in tropical climate)
- Cross-cultural work, preferably in developing country
- Hands-on work with chicken systems
- Leading teams
- Working collegially with off-site senior management, residential
staff, and community groups
- Formulation and maintenance of budgets and reporting systems
- Experience working with community groups; leading and managing
volunteers and interns
Personal attributes
- Proven team leadership and ability to work as member of a team
- Mature; adaptable; able to live in simple rural setting
- Enjoy working with children
- Fit & healthy; sense of humour; positive outlook
- Sense of adventure and desire to work altruistically for a small
non-profit organisation
- Eager to take advantage of first-rate opportunity to create
lasting change, including in your own life
Timeframe
Beginning somewhere between November 2009-February 2010, for a
period of six months (minimum) to twelve months (ideal)
Location
Sabina Primary School and Boarding House is located near the
small township/’trading centre’ Ssanje in south-eastern Uganda,
about 4 hours’ drive from Kampala, Uganda’s capital. Sabina School
provides education and housing for 250 orphans and children from
vulnerable situations from the surrounding community.
Project Description
To implement the existing permaculture-based site design to
increase food and water security at the home; to work alongside the
teachers and staff to bring sustainable food production into the home
and school; to improve knowledge of and nutrition of the home
residents; to introduce knowledge of nutrition to the surrounding
community; and to facilitate and teach permaculture-based workshops,
courses, and potentially PDC’s for the community.
Remuneration and resources
Accommodation in a comfortable “banda” (round, thatched-roof,
home) on-site; 3 basic meals a day (typically the staple foods of
Uganda: posho (corn porridge) beans with vegetables; cassava; matoke
(plantain-type bananas); greens; and seasonal fruits with meat
occasionally; modest stipend and monthly budget to support
implementation of the project. Supporters of the project – your
communities and others - raise additional revenues to extend the
project – e.g., to put more land under production to accomplish full
food sovereignty and to build additional composting toilets, etc.
See our blog at www.childrenofuganda-permaculture.blogspot.com
for the work accomplished since the first site design in July
2008.
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