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Niche roles
The roles listed below are highly specialised placements that require specific skills, and fall outside the roles we usually recruit for. These are only a small number of the placements we have available, and you can find out more about the full range of roles that we typically recruit for on our opportunities page.
Animals and natural resources
The Agriculture Irrigation Adviser’s role aims to increase smallholder farmer’s access to land and to increase the productive area for crops such as rice, cocoa, coffee and palm oil.
Community and social development
Support Rwanda National Union of the Deaf (RNUD) to continue to grow as a strong and influential organisation for deaf people in Rwanda.
Work with the Rwanda National Union of the Deaf (RNUD) to support Deaf women in Rwanda to accurately identify their needs to develop and implement solutions.
This is an exciting opportunity to work with RNUD to enable the organisation to deliver and expand access to sign language in Rwanda.
Engineering and Technical
You'll be working at the Ethiopian Institute of Technology, Mekelle University as an industrial engineering MSc thesis adviser and lecturer
You'll be working at the Ethiopian Institute of Technology, Mekelle University as a mechanical engineering MSc thesis adviser and lecturer.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in building the capacity of the Ethiopian government to provide inclusive education across the country.
You'll be teaching at the Bahir Dar Institute of Technology and the Institute of Textile, Garment and Fashion Design.
You'll be teaching at the Bahir Dar Institute of Technology and the Institute of Textile, Garment and Fashion Design
You will work in the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development
You'll be instrumental in propelling the Vocational Training Centre into the future by supporting and training staff and students in researching, developing, teaching and fabricating innovative and practical products for people and organisations in the local community and nearby town of Calabar.
You'll work at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology in Ethiopia as a chemical engineering guest professor.
You'll be teaching at the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development.
You’ll play a vital role in developing young people’s plumbing skills to enable them to become self-employed and earn an income.
You'll work at the Jimma Institute of Technology as a biomedical engineer lecturer.
You'll be working at the Ethiopian Institute of Technology, Mekelle University as a chemical engineering thesis adviser and lecturer.
As biomedical engineer you will work with Mekelle University (MU) and with your professional skills, provide improved use of medical equipment to increase the service to the community.
Based in St. Francis Referral Hospital as Infrastructure Maintenance Specialist you will work in a consultancy capacity closely with the hospital administrator and technical advisory management team to improve the quality of services.
You'll be working at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology as a civil engineer guest professor
You'll be working at the Ethiopian Institute of Technology, Mekelle University as an electrical engineering thesis adviser and lecturer for 12 months. You will work with the institute to develop the programme and build the capacity of staff. This is just one of many engineering higher education roles we currently have, which can all be found in our niche roles section.
You will be working at the Ethiopian Institute of Technology, Mekelle University
You will work at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology as an electrical and computer engineering guest professor
Use your production skills to support a textiles/garment manufacturing unit that provides training and employment for people with disabilities.
You'll be working at the Ethiopian Institute of Technology, Mekelle University as an electrical engineering thesis adviser and lecturer.
This is an exciting opportunity to work with the Ghanaian Ministry of Food and Agriculture to promote sustainable food and income development for poor people and communities in Ghana.
Health
Volunteer and support Banso Baptist Hospital to provide improved clinical care services to people living with HIV and AIDS, in particular children born to HIV positive mothers.
Based in the hospital as the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, you will work closely with the staff to improve quality of healthcare services in a sustainable way.
Based in the hospital as a Research Scientist, you will support hospital management to identify priority areas for research to improve the quality of care.
Based in St. Francis Referral Hospital as Internal Medicine Specialist you will work closely with the medical director, technical adviser of quality of care and head of internal medicine department supporting the department in improving quality of services, delivering training and improving systems and procedures.
As biomedical engineer you will work with Mekelle University (MU) and with your professional skills, provide improved use of medical equipment to increase the service to the community.
Based in St. Francis Referral Hospital as Infrastructure Maintenance Specialist you will work in a consultancy capacity closely with the hospital administrator and technical advisory management team to improve the quality of services.
Based in the hospital as the Technical Advisor for Quality of Care and Services you will work closely with the Medical Director, Head of Nursing and heads of all other departments in the hospital to improve quality of medical care and services.
Based in the St. Francis Referral Hospital as the Emergency Medicine Specialist you will work closely with the staff in the Emergency Medicine Department in the hospital to improve quality of medical care and services.
Strengthen and empower South Sudan's budding health system, by supporting a nursing college to develop it's teaching programme.
Supporting senior theatre nurses to develop and strengthen a strong theatre management nursing team.
Support the implementation of a health service reform programme through your experience working in hospital management.
Supporting St Francis Referral Hospital to establish a pathology unit within the labratory department of the hospital.
Support the pharmacy department of St Francis Referral Hospital as they seek to develop the quality of services in pharmacy across the hospital.
Working with senior nursing staff at St Francis Referral Hospital to strengthen and support leadership, delivery and patient care by nursing staff.
You'll work with Population Services International (PSI), a global NGO on promoting a successful voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programme.
Working with senior hospital management you will support the development of procedures in general, financial and human resource management.
Based in the St. Francis Referral Hospital as the Emergency Medicine Specialist you will work closely with the staff in the Emergency Medicine Department in the hospital to improve quality of medical care and services.
Based in the hospital as the Diagnostic Imaging Advisor you will work closely with the staff in the radiology department in the hospital to improve quality of services.
Based in the hospital as the Medical adviser for care and services you will work closely with the Medical Director, Head of Nursing and heads of all other departments in the hospital to improve quality of medical care and services.
Two volunteer placements available to assist local Family Support Centres as they provide care and treatment for those affected by domestic violence.
HIV and AIDS
Volunteer and support Banso Baptist Hospital to provide improved clinical care services to people living with HIV and AIDS, in particular children born to HIV positive mothers.
You'll work with Population Services International (PSI), a global NGO on promoting a successful voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programme.
Management, business and IT
This opportunity supports the development of primary education in Rwanda through the implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems.
Working as an Enterprise Specialist you will undertake a market assessment of light engineering products and agri-services in northern Uganda.
This is an urgent short term (10 week) placement to start as soon as possible.
Use your skills and experience in investment attraction to improve cross-border market trade and investment in the Tajik Afghan border zone.
Support the implementation of a health service reform programme through your experience working in hospital management.
Use your production skills to support a textiles/garment manufacturing unit that provides training and employment for people with disabilities.
Based in the hospital as the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, you will work closely with the staff to improve quality of healthcare services in a sustainable way.
Working with senior hospital management you will support the development of procedures in general, financial and human resource management.
Teaching and education
You will support project partners by providing training, monitoring and evaluation to help ensure emergent literature and maths tools and modules are effective and context specific.
You'll be working at the Ethiopian Institute of Technology, Mekelle University as an industrial engineering MSc thesis adviser and lecturer
You'll be working at the Ethiopian Institute of Technology, Mekelle University as a mechanical engineering MSc thesis adviser and lecturer.
This important role supports the development of Harare City Library as it seeks to develop its services for the people of Zimbabwe.
You'll be teaching at the Bahir Dar Institute of Technology and the Institute of Textile, Garment and Fashion Design.
Support Rwanda National Union of the Deaf (RNUD) to continue to grow as a strong and influential organisation for deaf people in Rwanda.
You'll be teaching at the Bahir Dar Institute of Technology and the Institute of Textile, Garment and Fashion Design
Working as a vocational training specialist, you will work with vocational trainers to improve the quality of training to the youth in the Northern Ugandan Youth Development Centre.
Work with the Rwanda National Union of the Deaf (RNUD) to support Deaf women in Rwanda to accurately identify their needs to develop and implement solutions.
You'll be teaching at the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development.
Contribute to the development of Deaf Education in Rwanda through improving teaching and learning in schools and centres attended by Deaf children, and through engaging parents and the wider community in promoting access to education for Deaf children.
You'll be working in the Ethiopian Institute of Technology of Mekelle University.
Working as a teaching methodology adviser you will work with trainee teachers in Rwanda to develop their approach in teaching methodology and resource management.
You'll work at the Jimma Institute of Technology as a biomedical engineer lecturer.
Working as an education management adviser, you will help progress the stakeholder engagement, relationship management, resourcing and evaluation skills of school leaders in Rwanda.
Working as an Education Management Advisor, you will help progress the stakeholder engagement, relationship management, resourcing and evaluation skills of school leaders in Rwanda.
You'll be working at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology as a chemical engineering guest professor.
Working as a primary teachers with experience in numeracy and literacy curriculum management, you will support and develop the skills of trainee teachers in Rwanda.
You'll be working at the Ethiopian Institute of Technology, Mekelle University as a chemical engineering thesis adviser and lecturer.
You'll be working at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology as a civil engineer guest professor
As a Guest Professor in Hydraulics/Water Resource Engineering, you’ll help poor communities to reach their potential. By providing young people with the right type of vocational, technical and entrepreneurial skills, they can find a way out of poverty by becoming more employable as well as contributing to a better quality of life in the communities.
In this exciting and challenging role as an Expansion of Writer’s Workshop volunteer, you’ll be supporting VSO’s aim (working in collaboration with USAID) to improve overall educational quality, and specifically improve the quality of teacher education in Rwanda.
You will be working at the Ethiopian Institute of Technology, Mekelle University
You will work at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology as an electrical and computer engineering guest professor
You'll be working at the Ethiopian Institute of Technology, Mekelle University as an electrical engineering thesis adviser and lecturer.
This is an exciting opportunity to work with RNUD to enable the organisation to deliver and expand access to sign language in Rwanda.
You will work in the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development.